* Remain at the cutting edge of electrical and electronic mining technology
* Participate from your home or office through live, interactive webinars
* Learn from world-renowned experts in mining technology
* Join the next generation of mining engineers

WHAT YOU WILL GAIN:

1. Skills and know-how in the latest electrical and instrumentation technologies used in mining operations all over the world
2. Practical guidance from mining experts in the field
3. ‘Hands-on’ knowledge from the extensive experience of the instructors, rather than from only the theoretical information gained from books and college reading
4. Credibility as a technology expert in your firm
5. Networking contacts in the industry
6. Improved career prospects and income
7. An EIT Advanced Diploma of Electrical and Instrumentation Engineering for Mining

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:

This course would be ideal for you if you are seeking to get know-how and expertise in the mining industry and are an: Instrument and process control technician or technologist; Instrument fitter; Mining engineering supervisor; Sales engineer; Chemical, mining or mechanical engineer; Electrical Engineers and Electricians; Maintenance Engineers and Supervisors; Design Engineers; Project Managers; Consulting Engineers, and recent graduate electrical, instrumentation or mechanical engineers.

Even if you are highly experienced you will find this a great way to become familiar with mining technology as quickly as possible.
Introduction

Mining equipment has come a long way since the days of mule-drawn carriages for haulage, and canaries or Davy lamps for safety.

In terms of high-voltage equipment, large AC and DC motors are still at the order of the day, but with increased sophistication. Load-haul-dump trucks operate in hazardous environments without a driver on board. Sophisticated Motor Control Centers now house Variable Speed Drives and soft-starters, and the motor control equipment is often networked via Ethernet.

It is, however, on the low-voltage side where the developments are almost breathtaking. In certain parts of the world all mines in the region are monitored centrally on a SCADA system, with backhauls (fiber and wireless) to all mines in the region, forming a large Wide Area Network.

At the mine sites Ethernet networks, both wired and wireless, are at the order of the day both above and below ground level. Leaky Feeder wireless systems are still to be found, but nowadays they support Ethernet and TCP/IP, making them suitable for voice and data. IEE802.11 wireless (a.k.a. Wi-Fi), suitably adapted for the mining environment, is making vast inroads into mining operations. Wi-Fi-based systems are used for both data and voice (VoIP), and with suitable Radio Frequency ID interfaces they also provide the infrastructure for monitoring personnel and vehicle movement. Some 802.11-based systems can even be configured in mesh topologies, delivering military-grade reliable communications between moving personnel and vehicles in an open mine environment.

Industrial field buses such as HART, AS-i, Profibus, Foundation Fieldbus and DeviceNet are widely used in the mining industry. As is the case with most other electronics, they are increasingly moving towards a co-existence with Ethernet, and augmentation with wireless. And, of course, some of them can perform safety functions as well as operate in intrinsically safe environments.

SCADA and distributed control is at the order of the day, and data from these systems are used as inputs to expert systems. These systems are used for various purposes such as providing data for optimized mine management, safety, and advanced process control. It is, in many cases, not even necessary for control room staff to understand anything about PID control in order to optimize a given control loop; the advanced process control system will heed their ‘operator’ inputs and optimize the process on their behalf.

Personal safety has not lagged behind. For example, ground radar can detect sub-millimeter ground movements, UWB and Wi-Fi systems are teamed up to avoid collisions between people and vehicles, and integrated headlamps for miners not only have built-in radio communications facilities, but also Ultra-Low Frequency ground-to-surface pagers for emergency location.

So, in short, the mining industry is attracting the best of the best cutting-edge commercial and industrial electrical and electronics technologies. The question is…are you capable of dealing with it? Welcome to the EIT Advanced Diploma in Advanced Diploma of Electrical and Instrumentation Engineering for Mining.

COURSE CONTENT

This course is composed of 20 modules, covering 5 main streams: Power Engineering; Communications; Control; Analytics & Management Systems, and Safety. The modules will be completed in the following order;

1. ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING DRAWINGS
2. ELECTRICAL POWER DISTRIBUTION
3. CIRCUIT BREAKERS AND SWITCHGEAR
4. PROJECT MANAGEMENT
5. POWER SYSTEMS PROTECTION
6. MOTOR CONTROL
7. DATA COMMUNICATIONS
8. ETHERNET
9. TCP/IP AND VoIP
10. TERRESTRIAL MICROWAVE AND SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS
11. LEAKY FEEDER SYSTEMS
12. WIRELESS LANs
13. WIRELESS MESH NETWORKS
14. FIELD BUSES
15. SCADA SYSTEMS AND OPC
16. PROCESS CONTROL SYSTEMS
17. PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS
18. DISTRIBUTED CONTROL SYSTEMS
19. ANALYTICAL AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
20. PERSONAL SAFETY SYSTEMS AND DEVICES

For the full course outline, module by module, please visit www.eit.edu.au/advanced-diploma-electrical-and-instrumentation-engineering-mining or email us enquiries@eit.edu.au for more information.