APPLIED SCIENCE FUNDED PROJECTS FY 2006

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APPLIED SCIENCE FUNDED PROJECTS FY 2006
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• Technical Innovation and
• Professional Services

Technology With A Purpose
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Customers

• 23 States
• 3 Tribes
• 13 OSM Field/Regional Offices
• 96 Offices
• Users w/TIPS software- 700

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What Do We Deliver?

• 27 TIPS Core Software Packages
• GIS
• Remote Sensing
• Geology Engineering
• Mobile Computing-GPS
• Hydrology

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2006 TIPS Training

• 362 Students in 33 Instructor-led Classes
• GIS/GPS/Mobile Computing courses
• Engineering/CAD courses
• Hydrology courses
• 51 Students Completed E-Training Classes
• Blasting Log Evaluation Program (In-house course)
• Galena Slope Stability (In-house course)
• ESRI Online Training Courses and Workshops

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Mobile Computing-AML Design
Goal obtain data for reclamation designUsed
RTK GPS-Tablet
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Results

• 14 hours of data collection
• Enough data to generate contours on 240 acres
• Site design was successful

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Remote Sensing
Violation at WA Mine
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Thank You
For more info go to www.tips.osmre.gov www.wrcc.o
smre.gov
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OFFICE OF SURFACE MINING
NATIONAL TECHNICAL TRAINING PROGRAM
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Meeting Customer Needs
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National Technical Training Program Courses
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Engineering
Representatives Lou Hamm, Kewal Kohli

• Applied Engineering
• Bond Cost-Estimation
• Excess Spoil Handling
• Subsidence
• Underground Mining
• TIPS Engineering

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Coalfield Communications How to Get it Right!

• Building Trust through Effective
• Communication
• Managing the Media
• Effective Meetings
• Educational Outreach

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FY 2007 PLANS

• SMCRA Oral History Video
• ITC (1-2 sessions)
• Pilot Master Instructor Forum
• Development Reforestation Course
• On-line Registration through LMS
• Make course references and other materials
  available on-line
• 57 course sessions are scheduled for FY07

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NTTP/TIPS Five Year Program Planning Survey

• Purpose Identify changes in workforce over the
  next 5
• years and plan to meet training needs
• Respondents Program Directors
• Results
• Q 1 Changes in Workforce
• Very significant turnover (35-75) over 5 years
• Most programs will stay the same size
• Trend is slight decrease in program size
• Exception OSM technical offices
• Training Needs
• Inspection, Permitting, Bonding, Remote Sensing,
  Electronic Permitting

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