Study abroad at
Department of Non-Ferrous Metals
and Waste Treatment, Košice,
Slovakia
Dusan Orac
dusan.orac@tuke.sk
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Slovakia
Košice
Technical University of Košice
Faculty of Metallurgy
Department of Non-Ferrous Metals and
Waste Treatment
6. Student life
Aachen – Košice
Aachen – Košice = cca 1400 km
1. Slovakia
• Population: 5,4 mil.
• Capital city: Bratislava
• Currency: Euro
2. Košice
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Population: 239 000 (2nd in Slovakia)
– Aachen: cca 258 000
First mention: 1230
First coat of arms in Europe (King Lodovicus the Great): 1369
2. Košice
• Košice Peace Marathon
– Oldest marathon in Europe
• Košice 2013 – European Capital of Culture
– First city in Slovakia
• Košice 2016 – European City of Sport
– First city in Slovakia
• 2011: World Championship in Ice Hockey
– In 2019 again
3. Technical University of Košice
Founded in: 1952, three establishing faculties
9 Faculties:
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Faculty of Mining, Ecology, Process
Control and Geotechnology (1952)
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Faculty of Metallurgy (1952)
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Faculty of Electrical Engineering
and Informatics (1969)
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Faculty of Civil Engineering (1976)
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (1952)
Faculty of Economics (1992)
Faculty of Manufacturing Technologies (1992)
Faculty of Arts (1998)
Faculty of Aeronautics (2005)
Slovak Winter Universiade 2016
• Organizator: Technical University of Košice
• Date: 15. – 18. 2. 2016
4. Faculty of Metallurgy
• Founded: 1952
• The only one metallurgical faculty in Slovakia
• Faculty builds on the tradition of Academy of Mining of
Banska Stiavnica (the Academia Montanistica
Schemniciensis, founded in 1762 by Maria Theresa)
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Ranking of technical faculties in Slovakia
in year 2014
Study at Faculty of Metallurgy
III. Level
Doctoral degree
I. Level
Bachelor
degree
II. Level
Master
degree
Bachelor degree
Study branches
Study programs
METALLURGY
METALLURGY
THERMAL ENERGY
& GAS TRANSPORT
MATERIALS
MATERIALS
ENVIRONMENTAL
ENGINEERING
WASTE TREATMENT
& RECYCLING
QUALITY of
PRODUCTION
INTEGRATED
MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
Master degree
Study branches
Study programs
METALLURGY
FOUNDRY
METALLURGY
BIOMETALLURGY
THERMAL ENERGY & GAS
TRANSPORT
Master degree
Study branches
MATERIALS
Study programs
MATERIALS ENGINEERING
MATERIALS FORMING
ENVIRONMENTAL
ENGINEERING
WASTE TREATMENT
& RECYCLING
QUALITY of
PRODUCTION
INTEGRATED
MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
5. Department of Non-Ferrous
Metals and Waste Treatment
• From February 1st 2016 = Institute of Recycling
Technologies (I. R. T.)
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Science and Research
material recycling
Municipal wastes processing of:
– printed circuit boards
– mobile phones
– spent portable batteries and accumulators
Industrial wastes processing of:
– steelmaking dusts and sludge
– dusts and sludge from secondary copper production
– foundry sands
– sludge from surface finishing of metals
– wastes from aluminium production
– dross from aluminium melting
Study
• The Department provides education in three levels of
study:
– Bachelor
– Master
– Doctoral
Study branch
ENVIRONMENTAL
ENGINEERING
Study program
WASTE TREATMENT
& RECYCLING
Lectures
Bachelor degree:
2nd year of study
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Fundamentals of Mineral Dressing (Summer semester)
Recycling Technologies (Summer semester)
3rd year of study
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Non-Ferrous Metals (Winter semester)
Influence of Industry on Environment (Winter semester)
Methodology of Sampling (Winter semester)
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Secondary Raw Materials and Wastes (Summer semester)
Waste Disposal (Summer semester)
Hazardous Waste Management (Summer semester)
Master degree:
1st year of study
• Hydrometallurgical Processes (Winter semester)
• Precious and Rare Metals (Winter semester)
• Environmental Aspects of Light Metals Production (Winter
semester)
• Municipal Waste Treatment (Summer semester)
• Environmental Aspects of Heavy Metals Production (Summer
semester)
• Metallic Wastes Treatment (Summer semester)
2nd year of study
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Industrial Waste Processing (Winter semester)
Precious Metals Processing and Utilization (Winter semester)
Hazardous Waste Treatment (Winter semester)
Treatment of Waste Water (Winter semester)
Refining Processes and Preparation of Alloys (Winter semester)
6. Student life
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Excursion to companies
The Student´s scientific conference
Erasmus program
Other activities
Excursions for students
The Student`s scientific conference
Metallurgy
• For students of bachelor and master study
• International participation
• National Technical
University of Athens
• Aristoteleio Panepistimio
Thessalonikis
• Miskolc Egyetem
• University of ĽAquila
• RWTH Aachen Univesity
• Otto von Guericke
Universität Magdeburg
Program
Erasmus
• Univerzita Jana Evangelistu Purkyňe v Usti
nad Labem
• VŠB Technická univerzita Ostrava
• České vysoké učení technické v Praze
• Univerzita Pardubice
• Technická univerzita v Liberci
• Uniwersytet Jagiellonski,
Krakow
• Akademia GórniczoHutnicza Krakow
• Politechnika Czestochowska
• Akademia im. Jana Dlugosza
w Czestochowie
• Aalto University Helsinki
• Yildirim Beyazit University Ankara
Other Activities
The Salamander procession
• In city Banská Štiavnica
• Meeting of Miners and Metalurgists from Slovakia and
abroad
• Tradition from Mining Academy of Banska Štiavnica
• Every second September Friday
Šachťák
• Faculty celebration
• Students of 1st year of Bachelor study are accepted into the
METALLURGICAL guild
• Jump from the barrel over the leather
Cechovácia
• Department´s celebration
• Students of 1st year of
Master study are accepted
into the Environmental guild
Other activities
Christmas celebration
St. Nicholas day
Bowling day
Department´s meeting
Thank you for your attention
dusan.orac@tuke.sk
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