Summer schools are an educational format that combines academic knowledge with real-world industrial practice. Participants undergo intensive training with leading professors and scientists, master skills at research centers and unique testing grounds of the Mining University, visit fuel and energy companies, and develop their own technical solutions as a team. The key value of the program is immersion in a professional environment and preparation for real-world engineering work.
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Technology and techniques of well drilling
Modern mining technologies
Mining machinery and equipment
Digital Mining
Current trends in oil and gas industry
Chemical engineering in oil and gas industry
Petroleum geology
Digital 3D modeling
Energy efficiency and sustainable energy
Modern construction materials
Smart control systems
Management in the mineral resource complex
Essentials of raw material sciences
The programs of International summer schools of Empress Catherine II St. Petersburg Mining University were developed by leading scientists and received high praise from the international expert community. 27 programs have received international accreditation from the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) (UK), one of the world's most respected professional engineering associations, whose certification is an unconditional evidence of a high level of a specialist, company, or project.
The programmes offered are rich and diverse. They include not only the traditional fields of study for Russia's first higher technical educational institution such as mining and oil and gas engineering, mineral processing, but also IT technologies, engineering geoecology and even humanities.
Summer schools include lecturing and practical classes, visits to active enterprises such as "Kirovsky Zavod", "Power Machines", Gavrilovo Deposit, "Vyborg Quarry Administration", to the partners of the university - "Smart House", to Mining university training grounds - geodetic in "Kuzmolovo", drilling in "Sablino", a training center "Kavgolovo" in Leningrad region.
Foreign universities
Belarusian National Technical University
(Belarus)
University of Bologna
(Italy)
Pavel Sukhoi State Technical University of Gomel
(Belarus)
University of Zagreb
(Croatia)
Karaganda technical university
(Kazakhstan)
AGH university of Krakow
(Poland)
Lebanese International university
(Lebanon)
National Polytechnic university of Armenia
(Armenia)
Polotsk state university
(Belarus)
Taiyuan university of technology
(China)
Lanzhou university of technology
(China)
Freiberg University of Mining and Technology (TUBAF)
(Germany)
Hanoi university of mining and technology
(Vietnam)
China university of mining and technology (CUMT)
(China)
China university of Petroleum
(China)
Anhui university of science and technology
(China)
Indian institute of technology
(India)
Higher university of Santo Andre
(Brasil)
State university of Minas Gerais
(Brasil)
Shiraz university
(Iran)
Shahid Beheshti university
(Iran)
Russian universities
Almetyevsk State Technological University «Petroleum Higher School»
Astrakhan State University of Architecture and Engineering
Belgorod State Technological University named after V.G. Shukhov
Voronezh State University
Grozny State Oil Technical University
Dagestan State Technical University
Donetsk National Technical University
Don State Technical University
Ivanovo State University of Chemistry and Technology
Kazan Federal University
Kazan State Power Engineering University
Kazan National Research Technological University
T.F. Gorbachev State Technical University
Sergo Ordzhonikidze Russian State University for Geological Prospecting
National University of Science and Technology "MISIS"
Tomsk Polytechnic University
National University of Oil and Gas "Gubkin University"
Samara State Technical University
Yuri Gagarin State Technical University of Saratov
Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov
Surgut State University
Tyumen State University
Industrial University of Tyumen
Ural State Mining University
Ufa State Petroleum Technological University
Ufa University of Science and Technology
Ukhta State Technical University
Yugra State University
Southwest State University
#Smart control systems
This was a truly valuable experience and an opportunity to learn about machine learning and additive manufacturing, as well as how they are being implemented in many industrial sectors. I would recommend this training to all my colleagues.
St. Petersburg Mining University is a very famous institution that makes a great contribution to the development of mining industry. There is a lot of modern equipment and laboratories. And the acquired knowledge will be useful to our students for a lifetime.
I would like to express my gratitude to our rector, Professor Sukumar Mishre, and the rector of St. Petersburg Mining University, Professor Vladimir Litvinenko. During our training, we studied in detail modern methods of digitalization of the mining sector that attract new employees tas it reduces occupational risks and improves working conditions. This knowledge helps students to prepare psychologically for future work in industry, providing real practical experience so necessary for professional growth.
Summer school is not only lectures and seminars, but also new acquaintances, master classes and a cultural program. We were impressed by the scale of the educational site ("Sablino") that we visited. And, of course, the hospitality of the University, the responsiveness and kindness of our lecturers, as well as the overall atmosphere.
The program was very rich thanks to lectures on automotive engineering, where we gained practical experience working with simulators. In addition to the lectures, we visited the Kartex plant and also took a tour of Vyborg, where we visited an open-pit mining site and analyzed how Russian mines work and what technologies are used there.
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