Name of qualification Name of qualification: Metalurg / metalurginjaAdd to comparison
Translated title (no legal status) Translated title: Metallurgist
Type of qualification Type of qualification: Upper secondary vocational education
Category of qualification Category of qualification: Educational Qualification
Type of education Type of education: Upper secondary vocational education
Duration Duration of education:
3 years
Credits Credits: 180 credits
Admission requirements Entry conditions:
  • Elementary school education or
  • lower vocational education, or
  • equivalent education under previous regulations.
ISCED field Field:
Engineering, manufacturing and construction
ISCED subfield subfield: mechanics and metal trades
Qualification level

SQF Level: SQF 4
EQF Level: EQF 4

Learning outcomes:

The holder of the certificate is qualified to:

  • treat thermally, provide for deep and surface consolidation, convert and cast metals and alloys in the light of product and technology documentation;
  • manage, control and prepare machines, appliances, tools and aids for the management of metallurgical and processing activities;
  • provide for preventive maintenance of furnaces, devices and tools as well as cooperate in repair and maintenance of the smelting equipment;
  • identify and remedy causes for the emergence of errors and disorders in metallurgical and processing procedures;
  • complete requisite records of hours worked, work and technology documentation as well as documents about the state of furnaces and devices for smelting;
  • employ measurement and control devices, tools and machines as well as control the process of material analysis;
  • check and prepare transport and manipulation devices and secondary installations;  elaborate, read and understand simple technical documentation;
  • carry out protection measures for safe work and actively care for one’s health;
  • be positively disposed towards the measures aimed at pollution reduction, environment protection and rational use of energy and materials;
  • employ modern IT and user programmes in the occupational field (word and chart processor, e-mail, programmes for machine management, diagnostic devices, production or work monitoring);
  • understand the role of entrepreneurship, cost and calculation management. 

Optional:

  • select, manage and control appropriate metallurgical procedures for metal and alloy conversion in the light of product and documentation requirements.
  • manage and control melting and foundry casting processes of ferrous and non-ferrous metals and alloys, prepare melt for foundry casting, manufacture of forms and cores as well as keep appropriate technology documentation.
  • select appropriate thermal treatment in the light of product and documentation requirements as well as control thermal treatment of metals.
  • manage and control metal forging processes (pressure casting, sand casting, mould casting, continuing casting, centrifugal casting ...).
  • manage and control metal smelting processes (inset storage, smelting, alloyage, melt purification, degassing, desulphurization, slag removal, modification).
  • manage forging and blending technologies and procedures as well as handle forged products.
  • manage rolling technologies and procedures as well as handle rolling products. 

In addition, the holder of the certificate also upgraded his/her key professional skills and competences with key general knowledge and skills in line with national standards. 

Assesment and completion:

Students' vocational abilities and skills and the fulfilment of conditions to obtain credits in accordance with the relevant education programme are established through verification and assessment. Assessment of students also takes into account non-formally acquired knowledge, which must be adequately demonstrated. Students are assessed using grades from 5 (excellent) to 1 (inadequate).

Progress:

Students may progress to a higher year if at the end of the academic year they achieve a positive score in all general education subjects and technical modules for the year as set out in the school’s operational curriculum, and have completed all extracurricular activities and practical on-the-job training, or progress on the basis of a programme faculty decision.

For students with individual learning agreements, passing an intermediate test is a condition for progression from the second year to the third year.

Progression:

Secondary technical, vocational or vocational-technical education; master craftsman/foreman/shop manager examination (SQF level 5).

Conditions for obtaining a public document:

In order to complete the education and obtain the qualification, the student/apprentice must successfully pass with positive grades:

  • general education subjects,
  • mandatory professional modules,
  • one of the optional professional modules,
  • open part of the open curriculum.

In addition, he/she must complete:

  • other forms of extracurricular activities (active citizenship and interest activities),
  • obligations in practical training  through work placement,
  • intermediate test (applies to apprentice form of education and students with an individual learning contract in the school form of education),
  • final exam.

The final exam includes:

  • written and oral examination of Slovenian language,
  • presenting and defending a service

Awarding body:

Vocational and technical secondary schools and adult education institutions.

URL

Awarding body URL:
https://paka3.mss.edus.si/registriweb/ProgramPodatki.aspx
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