Seminar in Metallurgical Engineering

At the end of this course, the students should be able to: 1. discuss critical issues in metallurgical engineering as outlined in the

; 2. make presentations on critical metallurgical topics; 3. interact freely with senior engineers in metallurgical positions and indeed the general public on cognate issues; and 4. explain the primary concepts in metallurgical engineering. Course Contents Restricted special topics to be covered include the following: Heat Treatment of Metals: Emphasis on iron and steel. Definition of heat treatment, various types of heat treatments and applications of the various heat treatment in the Metallurgical Industry. Sustainable Mineral Resources Development: Seeing the big picture: Mineral exploration, mining engineering, mineral processing technology, and extractive metallurgical engineering as a relay race. The ‘what’, the ‘why’, the ‘how’, the ‘who’, the ‘when’, the ‘where’, and the ‘which’ of the four programmes and allied fields. Leadership Skills: Vision, mission, and strategy in leadership. Definition of Leadership: The fact that leadership can be caught (natural attributes) and taught (leadership training). What it means to be transformational leaders; forms of leadership. Academic leadership, entrepreneurial leadership, professional leadership and political leadership. Visionary and strategic leadership. Machine Design and Fabrication Mineral Processing Equipment: List of equipment used for gravity separation, flotation of minerals such as shaking table, air float, magnetic separator, electrostatic separator, flotation cell, and design principle of selected machines. Machine/Equipment Design and Fabrication (based on need-driveness): Equipment used design and fabrication of equipment used in ferrous and non-ferrous extractive metallurgy. Different type of furnaces: Furnace Design and fabrication. Geometallurgy: Interface between geosciences and metallurgy, emerging, need-driven and multidisciplinary scientific field. Geostatistic: Critical tool for mine design among other purposes towards sustainable mineral resources development. Rare Earth Elements: Definition, extraction process route for this rare and expensive metals for specialised industrial applications.