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Chair of mine surveying and geodesy



The chair is created in 1953 in connection with the students’ studying of mining, and then building profile of general engineering disciplines: geodesy and mine surveying. The chair trains engineers-mine surveyors and engineers - geodesists in specialities: "Mine surveying" (since 1957) and “Applied geodesy” (since 1999) at the day time and correspondence faculties. The training has been conducted in the state language since 1999. Due to great demand in engineers - mine surveyors since 2001 the chair has been training experts at the faculty of urgent education to get the second high education.
In 2003 in the chair staff there were 2 doctors of engineering science, a professor, 2 candidates of engineering science, 7 senior teachers, 4 junior members of the teaching staff, post-graduate students, trainees-researchers and 2 undergraduates. All the teachers have base education: the engineer-mine surveyor and engineer - geodesist in specialities «Mine surveying» and «Applied geodesy».
The chair is situated in the mining (II) building on the fourth floor and has four equipped subject classes, educational laboratories and auxiliary rooms of the total area 435sq.m.
From 1953 to 1960 the first enrollment of the students in speciality "Mine surveying" was realized, the teaching-methodical and material base of the chair became stronger. Realization of research operations together with mines and the first defence of the candidate dissertations began.
Teaching work at the chair is multi-side and directed to increase the quality of experts training. It is based on the creation of teaching-methodical and technical base and selection of staff, and also in the creative approach to working out of typical and working curriculums of specialities and working programs in special disciplines.
The basic educational, methodical work falls at the period of work of the chair head, Corresponding Member of the State Science Academy I.I.Popov, when mine surveying-geodetic devices, goniometers, compasses, theodolites and gradiometers of various accuracy, telescopic alidades and plane tables, gyro-theodolites, gyrocompasses, long-measures, laser indexes of direction, light- and radio range-finder, laths and measuring tapes and tape-lines were got. On disciplines of speciality "Mine surveying" alongside with the purchase of textbooks for the library there were worked out methodical instructions for laboratory and practical work, teaching aids for basic disciplines: geodesy, mine surveying in underground extraction, mine surveying in mine construction, rocks shifting, mining geometry and mathematical statistics in mining and mine surveying.
To increase training quality software of the programmable training system with game modeling of problem situations has been developed and introduced into the teaching of basic disciplines. This system is marked by the diploma the USSR Ministry of Higher Education (1988).
On the base of sports-and-health camp "«Politechnic" (Karkaralinsk) the geodetic training ground for passing practice is created.
The chair worked out I and II generation of the state and educational standard in speciality "Mine surveying". Training laboratory «Automation of mine surveying-geodetic measurements », equipped with computers, electronic tacheometer (3Та5), geo-information systems and stereo-photogrammetric equipment has been created, the branch of the chair has been organized on the basis of the Kazakh research surveying institute and state enterprise "«Centermarkshederia". Subject auditoriums of the chair are decorated with the special posters, surveying-geodetic devices and demonstration drawings. Two textbooks have been issued: « Mine surveying at underground mining» and «Surveying at mined-land reclamation ».
The scientific activity of the chair is carried out in close connection with design and research organizations and manufacture. Complex experimental researches of the analysis of physical-and-mechanical properties of rocks and structure of edge masses, working out calculating schemes of stability of quarry slopes, substantiation of rational parameters of quarry's slopes, benches both edges and working out measures for maintenance slope stability at the design contour were realized. The results of the researches are included in technical projects and are introduced in quarries in the opencast mining of mineral deposits. Now at the chair a research laboratory works « Mine surveying, geo-mechanics and geometrization of entrails » with the annual volume of contracts of the sum 5,0 million tenge, and also UNPC «S and G» for the improvement of professional skill of the mine surveyors and geodesists successfully.
The basic scientific directions of the chair are: estimation steadiness of quarries and open-cast mining slopes, benches and edges, rocks shifting, analysis of rock pressure, estimation of losses and dilution of mineral resources, and also analysis and intrusion of geo-information systems at mining deposits of mineral resources.
The chair students actively participate in the activity of scientific circles on the analysis of mine surveying-geodetic devices, calculating methods of steadiness of quarry slopes, geo-information systems in the mining and ground cadastre. The chair staff participates in republican and international conferences, annually in April carries out scientific-and-practical conference devoted to the memory of Corresponding Member of the State Science Academy I.I.Popov, has close connections with related chairs of the countries of CIS: in Russia with the Moscow State Mining University, Ekaterinburg State Mining-and-Geologic Academy, Magnitogorsk State Mining-and-Metallurgical Academy; in Uzbekistan with the Tashkent State Technical University, in Kirghizia with the Russian-Kirghiz University, Mining Company «Kumtor».
A great contribution to the development of scientific researches of the chair in different periods of time was made by doctors of engineering science, professor Popov I.I., Popov V.N.., Okatov R.P., Shpakov P.S.., Poklad G.G., Nizametdinov F.K. and candidates of engineering science, senior teachers: Jumadildina B.I., Yunakov Y. L., Lyagina O.I.
The training of the scientific-and-pedagogical staff at the chair has been conducted since 1964 by the defence of the candidates’ and doctors’ dissertations in speciality: "«Mine surveying" in the specialized Councils in the following cities: Leningrad (LSI), Moscow (MSI), Sverdlovsk (SSI), Magnitogorsk (МГМИ), Alma-Ata (KazPTI) and Karaganda (KSTU).
The results of the educational-methodical and research work of the chair are published in scientific and technical journals and in the proceedings, in the 3 textbooks, in the manuals (24), monographies (9), the brochures (12) and are confirmed by the copyright certificates (5).
For the period of existence of the chair 917 mining geologists-surveyors have been trained. Many of them became doctors of sciences and professors. Among the graduates there are heads of enterprises.
For the achieved success in science and for high efficiency of carrying out scientific-research work and projects in the field of stability of quarry slopes control in 1988 the creative collective received I and II degree diplomas at the exhibitions HANE Kaz.SSR and USSR and was marked by silver medals. And in 1989 diplomas of the Winners of the premium of Ministry Council of the Kazakh Republic in the field of science and engineering were awarded to I.I.Popov, R.P. Okatov, P.S. Shpakov, G.G. Poklad, F.K. Nizametdinov.
For the introduction of the system of programming students training with game modeling of problem situations on basic special disciplines (geodesy, mine surveying, rocks displacement and mathematical statistics) into the educational process professors Popov I.I. and Pokladov G.G. got diploma of Ministry of Higher Educational Institution of the USSR (1988).
In 1990 diploma with presentation of a memorial medal for the results of regional competition «The Engineer of a Year » in the field of science and engineering was awarded to Nizametdinov F.K.
Modern level of the development of science and mining manufacture requires realization of mine surveying - geodetic operations in the electronic-automated mode. Therefore in training experts significant attention is given to the analysis of new electronic mine surveying-geodetic devices and personal computers with use of geo-information systems.
Prospects of the chair development consist in the completion of its material base with the equipment, with modern computers, colour plotter, laser roulette and a special geodetic device GPS, permitting to define coordinates of points by a satellite navigation system, that will permit to conduct qualitatively the training of experts in two specialities: «Mine surveying» and «Applied geodesy».