Prof. dr hab. inż. Krystian Probierz Faculty of Mining and Geology Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice Faculty of Mining and Geology Silesian University of Technology Gliwice, Poland Oulu, 15 May 2014 Lake district Lowland SILESIA Upland ▲ Mountains ▲ 2015-04-13 2 Thirty Year’s War 1618-1648 ← Gliwice Swedish Soldiers Siege Curtain wall 2015-04-13 Silesia coat of arms 3 Katowice 44km 33’ Kraków 95km 1h Ostrawa 113km 1h 20’ Wrocław 170km 1h 33’ 2015-04-13 4 2015-04-13 5 Town hall larch wooden tower brass screw 118 m height Gliwice Post office 2013 population ~185 000 2015-04-13 6 Old square 2015-04-13 Beside Beer gardens in Gliwice: 7 Castle, „Wall street” Town Hall Villa Caro- museum 2015-04-13 8 Main Street from Station Building to Old square 2015-04-13 9 2015-04-13 10 Historic GUIDO Coal Mine Gliwice Zabrze Katowice Rybnik 2015-04-13 11 Faculty of Mining and Geology The Faculty employs 35 professors and associate professors as well as 114 PhDs. The Faculty runs the scope of researches concerning modern mining which covers appropriate geological identification of mineral deposits, economically effective extraction of raw materials, use of energy-saving and fail-save machines, meeting requirements of safety and environmental protection 2015-04-13 12 Structure: Institutes of Mining Mechanisation Mining, Mineral Processing and Waste Utilization Applied Geology Departments of Electrical Engineering and Control in Mining Mining Management and Safety Engineering Geomechanics, Underground Construction and Management of Mining Areas Surface Protection Museum of Deposit Geology 2015-04-13 13 Powered roof support Longwall Mining 2015-04-13 14 Shale gas drilling 2015-04-13 15 Part of our Mineralogical Collection from ….. 1802 2015-04-13 16 2015-04-13 17 2015-04-13 Mining tradition 18 Student swear an oath Alumnus 2015-04-13 19 Yearly Beer Meeting The Faculty cooperates with numerous foreign centers all over the world: Germany with universities (Aachen, Freiburg, Munster, Bochum, Tübingen, Darmstadt, Bielefeld, Clausthal, Wuppertal, Dresden, Magdeburg, Braunschweig, Munich, Freiberg, Chemnitz, Hanover, Barbara Day 2013 Jouko Saarela Bielefeld, Trier), SYKE Czech Republic (Ostrava, Brno), Helsinki Russia (St. Petersburg, Moscow), Spain (Madrid, Vigo, Oviedo), Portugal (Lisbon, Porto) Sweden (Stockholm, Lulea, Göteborg), Turkey (Pammukale), Ukraine (Donetsk), Slovakia (Kosice), China (Qingdao, Beijing, Sichuan, Jiaozuo), Japan (Tsukuba, Osaka, Matsuyama), India (Kharagpur, Dhanbad), Vietnam (Hanoi, Ha-Long) 2015-04-13 20 and in Chile (Antofagasta, La Serena, Coquimbo) Thank you for attention 2015-04-13 Kiitos 21