Professional Expertise

Today, science and technology are advancing at a dizzying pace. A subject learned in school or in any course in our age loses its timeliness more quickly. Schools no longer only teach information, but how to access it. The information you think you can reach with the searches in the electronic environment, if you do not have the necessary infrastructure, can take you to very wrong or very old information.

When we looked at the development from the middle ages and then to this day, a scientist could be considered an expert in both medicine, biology, and physics. We can find dozens of examples of this in history. As science and technology develop, specialization becomes different, different professions begin to emerge. At the point where we are today, the phenomenon of distribution to different areas of expertise we see in medicine has emerged in almost all professions. To give an example from our own sector, mining engineering was first divided into schools that provided predominantly training in business and ore enrichment. Another step in this regard was for a university to separate Mineral Processing from Mineral Engineering as Mineral Processing Engineering. We have seen this in the field of geology and hydrogeology. It was later found that even in professions, different areas of expertise were formed. As an example, for mining engineers, not only the Mine Operator or the Ore-preparator, but also the specialties under them have become sought. It has become difficult to employ many years in the coal business in the metal or marble enterprises. It is even more different for geology. While the economic geology and other geology fields we call mining geology are separated more sharply than one, then search below it on a mineral basis, new areas of expertise have emerged, such as database management and resource estimation.

In other words, completing undergraduate education or even having done a master's degree does not mean that Professional Development has completed, because professional development wants continuity.