Underground Mining Engineering Department

The Underground Mining of Solid Minerals Useful Materials Engineering Department was established in 1970 with the aim of educating knowledgeable and experienced specialists in the fields of mining and mineral raw material processing, as an evolving element to the development of the country's industries.
In 2012, the Department of Open Pit Mining Engineering was separated from Underground Mining of Solid Minerals Useful Materials Engineering Department and Underground Mining of Solid Minerals Useful Materials Engineering Department changed its name to the Underground Mining Engineering Department.
The vision of the Underground Mining Engineering Department is to establish a higher education institution for the dissemination of knowledge, creating a research environment, innovation, and developing the extractive industries and scientific planning in the field of extractive industries in Afghanistan. The aim is for graduates of this department to be able to work in the public extractive sectors and private extractive sectors, both internal and external, and to lead the future of the country's extractive industries in a scientific and academic manner.
The mission of the Department of Underground Mining Engineering encompasses not only the enhancement of knowledge for students and engineers in the field of mining engineering in accordance with the laws and regulations of higher education institutions, scientific research in this field and services in the field of mining engineering, but also it aims to equip and enhance the material and spiritual aspects of the department and upgrade the capacity of its academic and administrative staff, all of which are vital responsibilities of this department.
The objectives and purposes of the Department of Underground Mining Engineering are as follows:

1. Enhancing the capacity of professors.
2. Preparing and equipping the department with new technology in teaching and research.
3. Implementing new teaching methods and technologies.
4. Establishing and activating laboratories.
5. Creating a suitable social and ethical environment for teaching and preventing all kinds of biases (political, ethnic, linguistic, religious, and gender).
6. Continuously reviewing and modernizing the department's curriculum, syllabus, and course materials.
7. Preparing an academic catalog for the department.
8. Requesting new books and teaching materials.
9. Completing the academic staff of the department as needed.
10. Executing research projects and engineering services in the field of mining extraction.
11. Seeking for providing relationships, academic collaborations, research, and academic with universities inside and outside the country.
12. Facilitating the training of laboratory assistants and technicians for department laboratories. 13. Providing a suitable and reasonable basis for transitioning from teaching in the local language to teaching in English.
     

The field of work for graduates of this department is extensive, and they are capable of performing professional activities, managing mining and mining-technical affairs, and organizing tasks in the following areas:

1. Planning and design of underground mining operations for solid useful materials.
2. Work in extraction, mine ventilation, underground transport in mines, tunnel construction in government and private national and international sectors.
3. Working in drilling and blasting related activities in the underground and open-pit mining processes, as well as serving as an expert in drilling and blasting activities in road construction and tunnel construction.
4. Performing tasks in mining excavation and tunnel construction.
5. Leading and managing mining projects in the mining sectors.
6. Performing tasks in open-pit mining, especially in drilling and blasting operations and creating transport routes.
7. Economic analysis and evaluation of mining projects.