Basic competencies
Basic competencies or skils developed by students in this module are the following: CB6, CB7, CB8, CB9, CB10.
CB6: To have and to understand the necessary knowledge to be original for developing and applying ideas usually in a researching context.
CB7: Students must be able to apply their acquired knowledge as well as to apply their capability to solve problems in new and unknown contexts in a wider (or multidisciplinary) frame related to their study area.
CB8: Students must be able to synthetize knowledge as well as to face the difficulties of formulating statements based on limited or incomplete information, including a reflexion about ethics and social responsibilities related to the application of knowledge and these statements.
CB9: Students must be able to communicate in a clear and non-vague way their conclusions (as well as knowledge and reasons which support them) both to specialised and general public.
CB10: Students must have learning capacities or skills which allow them to continue studying, especially in an autonomous way under their own guidelines.
General competencies
General competencies or skils developed by students in this module are the following: CG1, CG2, CG3, CG4 and CG16.
CG1: To have scientific, technical and methodologic capabilities to acquire a continuous knowledge recycling as well as to fulfil professional functions in their activity fields, such as consulting, analysis, design, calculations, project execution, planning, management, maintenance, preservation, and exploitation.
CG2: Students have to understand multiple technical, legal and/or ownership related requirements, which will found in a project for an installation or plant. They have to take capability to stablish different allowable alternatives, to choice the optimum or best one, and to adequately implement it, foreseeing problems derived from its development and using more adequate methods and technologies, both traditional and innovating ones, in order to get the highest efficiency and to make possible a sustainable and environment-friendly society progress.
CG3: Knowledge, understanding and capability to apply necessary laws and regulations in the exercise of Mining Engineer profession.
CG4: Knowledge about Mining Engineer profession and activities which can be developed in the framework of this profession.
CG16: Capability to project, to manage and to lead the manufacture, transport, storage, handle and use of explosives and pyrotechnic materials.
Transversal competencies
CT1 – Capability to analyse and to synthesize
CT2 – Capability for organization and planning
CT3 – Oral and written communication in tongue language
CT5 – Computing knowledge related to the study area
CT6 – Capability for information management
CT7 – Capability to solve complex problems
CT8 – Decision making
CT9 – Capability for teamworking
CT11 – Capability to stablish interpersonal relationships and for communication
CT12 – Criticist reasoning and capability to analyse data and use complex concepts
CT13 - Corporate Social Responsibility. Ethical commitment
CT14 – Autonomous learning and capability to update knowledge
CT15 – Adaptation to new and diverse international scenarios
CT16 – Motivation for the quality and capability to manage and develop rules and guides of good practices
CT17 – Awareness about Environment, Social and Sustainability related topics
CT18 – Motivation for occupational health and safety
CT19 – Managerial skills
CT20 – Skills to use new acommunication and information technologies and to look for new knowledge
CT21 – Capability to relate different knowledge and to develop new skills to carry oyut experimental research
CT22 - Initiative and entrepreneurial spirit
CT23 – Creativity and innovation
CT24 – Capability to manage optimally the working and to organize the available resources
Specific competencies
Specific competencies, or skils, developed by students in this module are CE1 and CE12.
CE1: capability to study and solve advanced mathematical problems in Engineering, from problem formulation to solution proposal and implementation of a computer program. Specifically, capability to stablish, develop and/or apply advanced analytical and numerical methods, capability to plan and manage a project, and capability to understand and analyze the results in the context of Mining Engineering.
CE12: Capability to project, to manage and to lead the manufacture, transport, storage, handle and use of explosives and pyrotechnic materials.
Learning results
Competencies developed leads to the following learning results:
RA22.01: To know the different special blasting and their specific characteristics, based on competencies CB6, CB7, CB8, CB9, CB10, CG1 CG2, CG3, CG4, CG16 and CE12, CT1, CT2, CT3, CT5, CT6, CT7, CT8, CT9, CT11, CT12, CT13, CT14, CT15, CT16, CT17, CT18, CT19, CT20, CT21, CT22, CT23, CT24.
RA22.02: To be able to carry out basic designs of special blasting, based on competencies CB8, CB9, CB10, CG3, CG4, CG16 and CE12, CT1, CT2, CT3, CT5, CT6, CT7, CT8, CT9, CT11, CT12, CT13, CT14, CT15, CT16, CT17, CT18, CT19, CT20, CT21, CT22, CT23, CT24.
RA22.03: to know the phenomenon of ground vibrations due to blasting and to be able to properly design a blasting in order to diminish their effects, based on competencies CB8, CB9, CB10, CG3, CG4, CG16, CE1, CE12, CT1, CT2, CT3, CT5, CT6, CT7, CT8, CT9, CT11, CT12, CT13, CT14, CT15, CT16, CT17, CT18, CT19, CT20, CT21, CT22, CT23, CT24.
RA22.04: to know what the ‘airblast wave’ is and to be able to properly design a blasting in order to diminish its magnitude, based on competencies CB8, CB9, CB10, CG3, CG4, CG16, CE1, CE12, CT1, CT2, CT3, CT5, CT6, CT7, CT8, CT9, CT11, CT12, CT13, CT14, CT15, CT16, CT17, CT18, CT19, CT20, CT21, CT22, CT23, CT24.
RA22.05: to know how to estimate the volume of gasses produced in a blasting and their effect over the ventilation or environment, based on competencies CB8, CB9, CB10, CG3, CG4, CG16, CE1, CE12, CT1, CT2, CT3, CT5, CT6, CT7, CT8, CT9, CT11, CT12, CT13, CT14, CT15, CT16, CT17, CT18, CT19, CT20, CT21, CT22, CT23, CT24.
RA22.06: Planning and execution of blasting in urban areas, demolition of concrete structures, blasting of large mass of rock, subaquatic blasting and other complementary blasting, based on competencies CB8, CB9, CB10, CG3, CG4, CG16, CE12, CT1, CT2, CT3, CT5, CT6, CT7, CT8, CT9, CT11, CT12, CT13, CT14, CT15, CT16, CT17, CT18, CT19, CT20, CT21, CT22, CT23, CT24.