 Hey everyone, my name is Kwan and this is Moriya. So today we're going to be talking about mining and civil engineering and we'll be talking more about our student experiences, internship experiences, our full-time jobs and just tips and advice to help people who are deciding between these two disciplines and even if you've decided just general tips and advice to help you succeed in your career. So to start things off we'll just tell us, sorry we'll introduce ourselves a little bit more. So start off with what we do for work, where we studied and perhaps anything interesting about your engineering career. But before we start don't forget to like this video, give it a thumbs up and comment down below anything that you want and give us feedback about what you think about the video or if you have any further questions or if you want us to make more related videos about it just don't forget to let us know in the comments down below. So tell us a little bit about where you work, what you do for work, where and what you studied and anything else relevant about your engineering career. Yeah well I attended the University of Alberta where I achieved my bachelor's in engineering in civil engineering last year and the experience was really good at the University of Alberta. Upon graduating I got a job also in this field right now I'm doing a lot of municipal infrastructure jobs more of like a civil rehabilitation jobs as well. So those core civil projects that's what I'm currently working on with the hopes of you know getting exposure to other components such as structural engineering just to really become a well-rounded civil engineering training so when I actually get to apply for my professional engineering I kind of have like an overall knowledge of many things. Cool and about myself I graduated from UBC in mining engineering in 2019 so I started school in 2013 I graduated six years afterwards because I did two years of co-op, did 12 months at Shell in long-range tailings planning and then I did 60 months at Suncor in short and mid-range mining planning. I'm not working full-time back at Suncor I'm currently working as a short-range course tailings planner so mainly in charge of creating deposition plans for our course tailings and just making sure that we have a stable structure and just enough containment for our course tailings to go into. I've also done some student teams when I was in school so I did Canadian mining games also did a competition called move mining did that in 2019 so me and our friends submitted a idea to change the public's perception of mining using animated infographic videos and then we won that competition so we're working through those videos now it's called mining to me so feel free to check that out. We're gonna leave you the link in the description box below for you to check that out but you know how cool like something cool though is that I noticed that you did the co-op program. Yes. I didn't do the co-op program so my program was only four years in length and I had so basically I had schooling from September until early May or like late April and then from there on my summer work on my summer terms I was able to actually obtain several engineering jobs related like to my field which I found truly valuable because it kind of gave me that co-op experience without being fully in co-op but I find that a lot of my classmates kind of struggle with this so it's really important to early on on your career for you to start doing that networking and you know connecting with people within your field even on like this own school like on any events that you have there's always going to be people from the industry that come and visit make sure you start developing those connections because that's that's how I got the job that I have right now from those connections. Yeah absolutely networking and work experience two crucial keys for you guys to get a full-time job. So next question is just a little bit about our industry so we'll just talk about what is civil engineering and what is mining engineering. So I'll go first because you went first last time. So mining engineering is a discipline that deals with extracting valuable minerals from the ground using the best practices so whatever technology you have and doing it in the most economical and environmentally responsive way and so because there's open-pit mining there's underground mining there's a lot of I guess criteria that goes into being a successful mining engineer. Yeah there's a lot more to it but that's just the overview of mining engineering. And civil engineering it's basically a field of engineering where we do a lot of work it could be maintenance or it could be design and construction of road it could also be pipelines like there's a lot for civil engineering from environmental to you know actually you know rehabilitating bridges or constructing new bridges rehabilitating structures or building new building new buildings so there is a lot of things within civil engineering that you can actually um work with and experience. Personally I no I don't know where I'm going with it. Okay that's all right. Uh next question is so why did you choose that discipline and you can go first this time? Okay so curious like when I was in my first year so basically in the first year is that it's when you actually get to choose what you want to do or what you want to focus on your second, third, fourth, fifth years etc but basically first year is the year where you do like a little bit of everything to kind of get a taste of what those things are and going into first year I was so determined to you know pursue mechanical engineering just because I can't really I could go off on the aeronautical engineering just because of our pilot's background so I was like you know what mechanical is the way to go that's what I'm gonna do but then statics came along and it was challenging for me at least like the concepts were challenging but I was like so hooked with that that I'm like yeah like that I'm like you know what civil is the way to go like civil is cool because it has so many like options like if I don't like doing municipal engineering I could do bridges I could do like buildings like so many options and it really allowed me like freedom in that sense and also move whatever I want to go because there's always going to be that need for engineers to you know do road rehabilitation or you know all that stuff so that's what like really really hooked me into civil engineering kind of going from a concept like something on a paper to an actual tangible thing that you can see you can touch you can like you know you can go and like you can do some anything so that's that's one that hooked me with civil yeah so I totally relate to that last point you're all like designing something that you can physically see in the field that's pretty relevant to mining and I think you're the first person that first person that said you're hooked on statics I've never heard that before so for myself um so similar story um first year engineering is sort of like the time when you sort of see your options and sort of decide what you're going to personally I've actually uh didn't want to pursue mining just because one I didn't know much about it and two it didn't really um I guess it didn't just really click to me at that time but I guess some more I dive into it I just realized that it's a very complicated and integrated discipline um it deals a lot with sort of looking at using that technology available available to the industry and there's a lot of growth in terms of the technology that could be used within the industry I just thought it was a super like complex and an interesting problem to do to look at just like how do you get some like valuable rocks out of the ground like uh the more I look into it there's like so many I guess like constraints that go into it it's just this like giant piece of puzzle that involves like geotechnical engineering mining engineering a little bit of finance that goes into it and so I think it was because of the complexity of this industry and I guess mining engineering in specific that sort of drew me into it but also actually like when I was in grade 11 I know it's actually because of Eric that's I went to a fuel trip in uh so this is the aircraft maintenance course uh north bay Ontario and then we actually went to a fuel trip to the um I always forget the name but I just call it the big nickel word um they had this like giant underground mine um some museum that you could go into uh and when I went into it uh I was just perplexed by how they took like built this like big opening underground but I was also curious as to like why they designed it the way they did how do they know where to put this like big giant opening um so it's just something that the more I looked into it the more curious I got about and that's how I chose mining engineering yeah and I find like you know having that curiosity of why things work the way they do or why this was designed the way they did like that I find like a common trade on all engineers so if you find yourself that you're like very inquisitive or like you kind of want to know why the why of things engineering it's the way to go definitely and I also find that even though I'm several and you're mining like we work with so many like engineers and like many disciplines for a job site that it kind of like gives you like a taste of everything and for sure and you kind of like you know get the overall picture which I find that it's really like really cool because you learn a lot from different disciplines and yeah yeah totally that's the next question so now I have a question for you sure what are some of those courses that you took for mining engineering and which one was your favorite okay um at least favorite we'll do two one one um yeah there's actually quite a few interesting courses um I guess like the core fundamental courses would be like surface mine design and underground mine design what else there's some like mineral processing course even though I didn't end up going to the mineral processing stream I still kind of found it interesting just to sort of give me the whole picture of how a mining process works from the ground all the way to the end of the mill uh some of my favorite courses were obviously like the mine design classes it's sort of I finally like understood like how how they design the mines I also really enjoyed the mineral economics course just this whole like finance side of mining that I didn't know about but I got really into it I also liked the mining and environmental courses um and that course is not only dealt with like the environmental aspects of mining but also dealt with the social implications just because whenever you develop a mine you always have to I guess communicate with the stakeholders and get them involved and understand what impacts your mind has around the community um and this sort of gave me like a I guess like a less technical look on mining but sort of this like more social component that I found really interesting as well so those are some of my favorite courses yeah and and that's actually a good point because engineering is not only about you know the the design and like the crunching numbers like there's more to it it's also about you know how this project is going to impact citizens or how it's going to impact you know the animals or like wildlife so like have to look at it from different kind of points of view and see like how you are like impacting everything for civil so we do a range of um courses so we do we do courses on transportation as well as construction methods so like you know kind of thinking about how you're gonna build something and the economics section like part of it like how you're gonna do quantity takeoff and all that stuff so it's very like we do a little bit of everything um but in the last year we do like our capstone which is basically you focus on two courses that you kind of really want to you know continue developing throughout your career so for me my favorite one was um the structural course because we got to kind of design a building from like you know it's parquet to its third floor so it's gonna cool to go through the process and kind of be in help with the professors um and I find that my least favorite course was survey and why is that because for survey we had to do survey school and survey school is in the middle of nowhere and it hailed it rained it was like we got how long was it because I've heard I think mining kids does it too at u of a yeah um but how long was that survey it was a one very long week that was enough but no no it was it's cool like kind of getting the experience and because it's honestly you use it a lot in the field but oh my gosh like the experience was a little bit challenging with like the changing seasons throughout the day but anyway so it's kind of it was a good experience we have a lot of like memories from it but it was rough um and I forgot to mention like my least favorite course um my least favorite would probably probably be flotation course um so flotation it sounds weird for those who doesn't know um flotation is how you after you process the minerals and you have to recover the minerals there's a process called flotation where you selectively use chemical compounds to sort of extract the valuable minerals from your mixture okay so there's a lot of chemistry involved and I guess chemistry is not my strong suit so that was my least favorite course yeah we all have we all have one that is not our strongest suit but it's totally okay you get you're gonna make it through don't worry well next question is so that was it for part one of this video if you want to see part two make sure you go to Maria's channel which is at Maria Carolina and I'm gonna leave it linked down below or maybe on the cards up here yeah so we just either click the cards or click the link to see part two we'll see you guys there bye until the next one