The general objective of the academic program in Geological Engineering is the development of skills based on the knowledge acquired in branches of geological knowledge such as Geohydrology, Petroleum, Mining, Geotechnical, Environmental Geology, and Geological Risk, among others, in addition to teaching and research to perform the exploration, quantification, evaluation, and exploitation of renewable and non-renewable natural resources such as hydrological, mining, petroleum and geothermal.

KNOWLEDGE

Applicants to enter the Geological Engineering Academic Program must have the following knowledge:

• Solid academic foundation in Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Biology, Drawing, and Computers, of a level corresponding to upper secondary level studies - baccalaureate, preferably in the area of Physical-Mathematical Sciences.

KNOW-HOW

Applicants to the career must also have the following skills:

• Observation, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation of information. Integration and application of acquired knowledge.

KNOW HOW TO BE AND LIVE TOGETHER

Applicants to enter the Geological Engineering career must have the following attitudes and values:

• Discipline, order, and constancy in the study.
• Willingness to work in a team with other students.
• Ethics.
• Willingness to learn.
• Critical, reflective, and open-minded.

Graduates of the academic program in Geological Engineering have solid comprehensive training to develop the following functions and tasks:

• Perform and direct the exploration, quantification, evaluation, and exploitation of renewable and non-renewable natural resources such as water, oil, mining, and geothermal.
• Perform geotechnical studies required in the construction of civil engineering works.
• Establish the criteria for human settlements planning.
• Characterize the types of contamination in soils and water bodies.
• Establish the selection of sites for the confinement of solid and industrial waste, pollutants, and hazardous materials.
• Conduct geological studies to evaluate risks: volcanic, seismic, landslides, subsidence, and landslides, as well as evaluate coastal processes and disasters.
• Manage human and financial resources in the projects under their charge.
• To have vision and business management, as well as to carry out research and teaching activities in the area of Earth Sciences.

The competencies have been defined, that is, the behaviors that individuals show in the performance to carry out their tasks and functions efficiently, being the following: knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values that will serve as orientation and guide in the selection of the curricular contents).

KNOWLEDGE

• The origin, structure, and evolution of the Earth.
• Characteristics, evolution, and geographic distribution of organisms through geologic time.
• The processes that give rise to depositional environments and their classification.
• The formation and evolution of Earth's surface feature such as continents, ocean basins, mountain ranges, ocean ridges, and volcanoes, among others.
• The processes that form the relief of the earth's upper crust.
• Geometric description and origin of geological structures such as faults, fractures, folds, unconformities, intrusive bodies, etc.
• Characteristics, mode of occurrence, associations, and economic importance of minerals and rocks.
• The formation of aquifers and geohydrological basins.
• The formation of petroleum and oil reservoirs.
• The formation of minerals and mineral deposits.
• The formation of volcanic processes and geothermal reservoirs.
• Petrophysical properties of rocks.
• Geomechanical behavior of soils and rocks.

KNOW HOW

• Elaborate technical-economic feasibility studies to manage investment projects in the exploration, exploitation, conservation, and management of hydrological and energy resources.
• Classify and differentiate rocks through geochemical and petrophysical analysis and establish their economic feasibility in the execution of exploration and exploitation projects of the earth's natural resources.
• Have the analytical ability to describe the environment to distinguish geological phenomena.
• Relate the characteristics of the environment to distinguish geological phenomena.
• Elaborate maps to carry out geological exploration through their interpretation.
• Elaborate geological sections to interpret geological phenomena.
• Determine the geological age of rocks through the fundamentals of Paleontology to differentiate lithostratigraphic units.
• Generate deposit models of sedimentary rocks to know their paleogeographic position and thus establish their economic potential.
• Perform stratigraphic interpretations to correlate formational units and/or rock sequences.
• Elaborate geological cartography and refer them to the satellite positioning system using aerial photographs and satellite images.
• Generate models of structural evolution, validate the information and interpret the structural geological features.
• Elaborate structural plans of different geological horizons to define their geotechnical characteristics using structural deformation styles.
• Interpret the evolution and sequence of geological events through the relationships between the elements present in the rocks.
• Conceptualize three-dimensionally the structures and geological environments, from geological plans and sections.
• Classify igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks through geochemical parameters.
• Classify the types of soil and aquifer contamination by applying geochemical parameters.
• Define sites for the storage of municipal and hazardous waste using geological studies.
• Locate geological risk zones.
• Establish the best conditions in the evaluation of surface and subway hydrological resources.
• Manage and interpret databases with a geostatistical approach.
• Possess the criteria to select qualitative and quantitative techniques for the construction of geological models.
• Handling specific computational tools with application to geosciences.

TO KNOW HOW TO BE AND LIVE TOGETHER

• Be critical and open-minded.
• To have leadership skills.
• Know how to work in disciplinary and multidisciplinary teams.
• Be enterprising, creative, and proactive.
• Be willing to keep professionally updated.
• Perform their work responsibly and ethically.
• Possess social commitment.

The requirements to become a student at the Institute are:

1. To comply with the academic background and other requirements indicated in the respective call for applications.
2. To take the admission exam for the higher level.
3. To be selected for admission.

The Geological Engineer works in the private, public and academic sectors, as well as in the free practice of the profession.

The Geological Engineer works in the private, public, and academic sectors, as well as in the free practice of the profession.

Private Sector:

They work as field geological engineers, data analysts, and data interpreters and perform geological modeling and interpretations of renewable and non-renewable natural resources, in national and international service companies at all levels.

Public Sector:

They work as field geologists, data analysts, and data interpreters and perform modeling and interpretations of natural resources, in addition to developing as project managers at various levels of government at both the federal and state level.

Academic Sector:

They are incorporated in national and international institutions of higher education and/or higher education as teachers and researchers.

Free Practice of the Profession:

They independently provide their professional services to the private, public, and academic sectors. They constitute formal companies that provide geological services both nationally and internationally.

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