Mining engineering is a really flexible degree.
It allows you to pursue a career in operations,
in technical but you can expand it to the
finances, to economics, to leadership, to
research, to development.
You can build, develop and grow your skillset
and direct your career wherever you like.
From the point of UWA, having a mining engineering
/ data science degree makes a lot of sense
because I think they're complimentary disciplines.
There's an enormous amount of data generated
with mining activities including autonomous
systems and fleet management systems.
Mining companies need to understand this data
and understand how to improve their performance.
My current job is pretty exciting.
I've got to admit.
Day in day out of, I'll come in and someone's
coded up something that in yesterday's era
would be beyond our wildest dreams of completing.
So understanding coding more than the language
would be the key to a bright future in data
science and engineering.
You'll have a rewarding career that I think
out of all the engineering disciplines has
the most breadth.
The world is your oyster.
You'll end up working on a number of different
mine sites.
It's a very portable degree.
Mining engineering is a great platform to
build, develop and grow into the future.
There's an increasing capital spend in mining
projects.
We simply don't have enough mining engineers
graduating for the number of roles available.
