Mining Transportation and Equipment

Engineering education is confronted at the beginning of the 21st century with numerous challenges. Some are of intrinsic nature, several derive from the transformations intervened in the technological environment to which they relate. Numerous studies performed in the recent decades approach one or the other of the numerous facets of this problem area. Although more and more frequently lectures, as teaching method in technical higher education are questioned, at the present stage of development and accessibility of information technology and communication means, besides the professor¿s personal qualities, the presentation methods and their contents are decisive in making this didactic demarche efficient. Moreover, and not in the least, it is important to have the experience of a lecture support adapted in form and contents to the teaching method. The present material endeavours ¿ and succeeds in my opinion ¿ to respond to this requirement. This lecture support is innovative from several points of view.