Strengths

1. The opportunity to plan well because it is a new department
2. Young and dynamic staff who have goals for the future
3. Academic staff’s high rate of participation in symposium
4. High rate of the number of SCI publications / academic staff
5. Administrative staff who support success and institutionalization
6. Groups of expertise
7. Tendency to work in a versatile manner
8. Ease to access electronic journals and SCI articles

Weaknesses
1. The fact that educational life has just been started and the fact that there has been no graduate student, yet
2. The fact that there are some deficiencies in technical infrastructure such as classroom and laboratory
3. The fact that economic opportunities are limited
4. Problems occurring in project supports
5. Insufficiency of economic support to attend meetings abroad.

Opportunities
1. The fact that the need to approach engineering problems scientifically has occurred as a result of increasing competitive conditions in the world and in our country
2. The fact that the interest which national and international massive companies that attach great significance to science and research show has increased.
3. Some mechanisms that support research and development studies and technology developing areas (techno-parks)
4. Development of facilities of communication and access.

Threats
1. Unsteady structure of the sector
2. The fact that industry is not in cooperation with university
3. Providing qualified personnel and their employment
4. Difficulty of mining sector and its requiring high amount of capital
5. The fact that academic staff’s wages are low
6. The fact that environmental restrictions affect mining sector negatively