Training of specialists in engineering geology and hydrogeology at the Ural State Mining and Geological Academy

Abstract

In the USMA the training of specialists in the field of hydrogeology and engineering geology is carried out at the department of hydrogeology, engineering geology and geoecology according to a three-stage variant on the curriculum close to the standard one. In the process of training much attention is paid to educational and industrial practices. Geological practice after the 1st year is carried out in the vicinity of Yekaterinburg in the Pervouralsk and Kamenny districts of the Sverdlovsk region. The second academic practice takes place at the Academy of Sciences in Sukhoy Log. After completion of the 3rd year students have educational practice on the basis of USTGA in Verkhnyaya Sysert village. Work practice takes place in the 4th year, and the production in the 10th semester. Students - masters have the opportunity to take two field practices and in the 11th semester pedagogical practice.