 Alright, hello everyone. So welcome back to another video. So today we'll be doing a Q&A of some of the most commonly asked questions I get regarding school career just things in general about mining engineering So let's get started. I will have eight questions today and the first question is What type of projects have you worked on? So I won't be able to go into all the details, but let's start off with the capstone project that I did for graduating from my UPC mining engineering program So the capstone project was on seasonal thermal energy storage or STES for short So basically we looked at modeling the heat transfer in and out of mine waste rock stockpiles And so essentially the idea is in northern Climates where it's very cold. Heating is very expensive and we want to model to see if it's possible to store the exhaust heat from mine equipment, so like haul trucks, etc into those waste rock stockpiles We store that During the summer and then we extract the heat during the winter when it's cold and we use it to heat the mines So we actually use a program called FU and ANSYS to do the modeling of the thermal heat transfer So that was our graduation project that took around eight months But then throughout my career I've worked on different projects ranging from designing a closure drainage surface by changing tailing step decision For an oil science mine, I've did dump designs, type designs, scheduling Poor plans for a course tailing structure Hullage system designs, so that's basically just roads and ramps And yeah, so those are some of the projects that I've worked on Okay, next question. Which of the project was your favorite or which one of the projects was your favorite? So it's really hard for me to pay just one, but I would say that in general My favorite projects have a few things in common. So number one, they're all multidisciplinary So that basically means it's not just a project of mining engineering, but usually there are some other aspects involved. It could be for example, costs, environmental benefits Things related to mechanical engineering, maybe even some like chemistry stuff And then the second aspect is that they're very intellectually stimulating And so like a lot of the projects that the ones that I like the most They didn't have like one straightforward answer. Usually they involve some trade-off of some sorts And that involves talking with the different stakeholders, understanding what the concern is Before arriving at a conclusion and deciding which one we think is the best for the mine So those two factors Interdisciplinary and Intellectually stimulating often they tie together, but those are two things that are common to my favorite projects Okay Number three, how did you become interested in this particular engineering discipline? So if I had to answer that question with one word, it would be curiosity So I became curious about how to prospect and develop At first it was just an underground mine because I visited that underground test mine in Southbury, Ontario and became very curious, but eventually that curiosity expanded to open pit mines and I was just very curious and just wanted to learn more about everything it takes to finance a mine to Exploration to develop a mine how to close a mine So there's lots to learn and curiosity was one thing that brought me to mining question number five Sorry number four What different roles have you had in your career? So most of my experience was in the Canadian oil sands and currently I am a junior mining engineer at a consultancy. So starting on my first role, I was a long-range tail and center A second role was a tactical planning and scheduling students Third role was a core stainless planer fourth role was tactical placement scheduler And now my current role junior mining engineer consultant So the first four roles was all at the end and oil sands mine My fifth role now, I'm not tied to one specific mine I get exposure to a lot of different projects Which I think it's going to benefit me Okay, number five What's this one you said you break out of high school or did you start with another degree? So yes, just do us my first choice Going into UBC engineering. You do have to take a The first year is all like Your foundational courses, but then your second year is when you get to choose And then my my first choice of program was in mining engineering and I'm very happy that I got selected for that Okay, number six. What was your degree program like? So it's a four-year program and like I mentioned the first year is all the all your foundational like math physics chemistry There's a program in course involved to the all your foundational engineering course Second year still some physics and some math if I remember correctly And then that's when you have your specialization. So I had a little bit of like core introductory mining courses third year was More mining courses, maybe one or two like foundational engineering course And the fourth year was mostly mining courses some core mining courses and then some mining electives Yeah, and then so that was four years just not strictly the academic side of things But I also did two years of co-op work experiences And then so all in all that's around six years for the program I do highly recommend that you do internships or co-ops even if it delays your graduation Because co-op is co-op and work experience are probably the most important things you could get out of your degree So I started in 2013 and I graduated in 2019 Let's see Number seven. What was the process like to get to where you are today? With a focus on getting license Okay, so This to answer this question it made the fur Differ slightly between whether you're out which province you're in. So currently I'm in the province of Alberta And then I did make a video on how to become a professional engineer and how basically how to get that designation But I'll summarize in short In short, you need four years of work experience You also need to ensure that your work experience meets the 22 competencies that they have to set out And so that involves technical stuff Cost management project management Teamwork, I think a little bit of leadership Ethics professionalism. So you're going to meet those 22 competencies And then so that's some work experience parts You also need to do a professional practice exam that focuses on law ethics And professionalism And so this is a two and a half hour exam all multiple choice 110 questions and you need 60 percent to pass So between those two things those are the main things that you need to Get your designation, but there are more I guess some more things that you need to check off before you submit your application And again, I'll have that and I'll talk about more talk more about that in in the video That I've made previously Okay So we're on to our last question question number eight What's mining engineering what you expected to be? So I would say yes in general Although I came into mining engineering thinking I was going to do hard rock mining. So like I don't know Goal copper or whatever But instead I got into oil sands, but all in all I would say it's what I've been expected You get some very challenging I guess like assignments tasks to do There's a mix between a few work and office work and there is A such an interdisciplinary I guess discipline that there's always going to be costs and challenges lots of things for you to learn um I would say it's been an adventure and I think it's just beginning for me because I I spent quite a few years or I guess like four or five years In the oil sands, but now with this consulting role I got to explore a lot more different commodities locations Um different tasks. So there's definitely so much for you to explore within the world of mining engineering And I personally look forward to a lot of the challenges that are going to come Okay, so I think this wraps up this video for the q&a As always you get some questions comments feel free to leave them down in the comments below Or if you want to ask it on Instagram feel free to shoot me a message at my handle at coin underscore f v n g All right, so that's it for this video and we'll see you on the next one All right