Jozef Szymanski, PhD, PEng

Professor
School of Mining & Petroleum Engineering
University of Alberta
3-047 Markin/CNRL Natural Resources
Engineering Facility
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2W2
Phone: (780) 492-9770
Fax: (780) 492-0249
E-mail: jozef.szymanski@ualberta.ca

Research Interests

• Intelligent Dipper Concept
• Blade curvature modeling of oil sands dozers
• Evaluation method of the ore dilution in underground mines
• Novel excavation technologies for efficient and economic surface mining
• Intelligent surface mine design engineering

Research Currently in Progreess

• Novel excavation technologies for efficient and economic surface mining; this phase will provide of the research will produce on intelligent platform for which oil sands excavation will interact selectively and productively with oil sands formation
• The oil sands dozer’s undercarriage behavior study; this research project is aimed to advanced knowledge of the behavior of undercarriage elements of heavy duty earth moving equipment operating in tar sand environment
• Intelligent Dipper Concept: this study will incorporate the development of optimum shape of the bucket analytically in the first phase and will be followed by experimental observation in labs as well as field
• The novel ore dilution evaluation method: A new ore dilution evaluation methodology has been developed, replacing the ten different analytical methods by only two.
• Blade curvature modeling of oil sands dozers; this research work leads to development of analysis model for determination of optimum curvature of dozer blade