The Deparment of Mining Engineering, as part of the Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, University of Chile, offers the Caving-Engineering Diploma 2025 (CED) to the community.

The CED seeks to train specialist professionals in all aspects of Caving engineering from geology to mine project management.
The current Diploma has been delivered 10 times, graduating almost 100 professionals.

The CED seeks to train specialized professionals through academic activities such as lectures, technical presentations, personal study and other activities.
Due to the deepning of mining activities around the world and the need for low-cost and high-productive mining methods, cave mining is profiled as the most viable mining method for the future.

Cave mining, as a highly complex mining method, requires specialized professionals with technical competencias in several áreas, such as preconditioning, mine design, mine planning, mine ventilation and automation.