Program: Master of Engineering - South Dakota School of Mines & Technology

Apr 27, 2025

2018-2019 SDSM&T Academic Catalog

Contact Information

Program Director
Dr. Maribeth Price, Dean of Graduate Education
Maribeth.Price@sdsmt.edu
605-394-1763

Civil & Environmental Engineering Emphasis
Dr. Marc Robinson
Marc.Robinson@sdsmt.edu
605-394-2563

Electrical Engineering Emphasis
Dr. Magesh Rajan
Magesh.Rajan@sdsmt.edu
605-394-1219

Materials Engineering & Science Emphasis
Dr. Jon Kellar
Jon.Kellar@sdsmt.edu
(605) 394-2343

Overview

The Master of Engineering program at SD Mines is a course-based professional non-thesis master’s degree program with three technical emphasis areas in Civil & Environmental Engineering (CEE), Electrical Engineering (EE), and Materials Engineering & Science (MES).

No Accelerated MS option is available for this degree.

Degree requirements for the Master of Engineering

Distribution of credits

Core requirements: 21-22 credits
Research or project requirements: 0-3 credits
Elective requirements: 6-9 credits
Total credits: 30

A minimum of 15 credits of the 30 required must be taken at the 600 level or above.

Core requirements

A minimum of 15 credits of engineering content in one of three available technical emphasis areas as described below.

A minimum of 6 credits of management courses must be selected from the list below.

Civil and Environmental Engineering emphasis area

At least 15 credit hours of graduate coursework with the CEE prefix (500 level courses and above)
No more than 3 credits may be from CEE 691 , CEE 788 , CEE 791 , or CP 697
The following courses may not be applied to the M. Eng. degree: CEE 790 and CEE 798 .

Electrical Engineering Emphasis

EE 626 Wireless Communications Credits: (3-0) 3
EE 655 Linear System Theory Credits: (3-0) 3
EE 680 Engineering Electromagnetics Credits: (3-0) 3
EE 431/431L/531/531L Power Systems/Lab Credits: (3-1) 4
Techincal Electives Credits: 3

Materials Engineering and Science Emphasis

MES 601 Fundamentals of Materials Engineering Credits: (3-0) 3
MES 603 Condensed Matter Physics Credits: (4-0) 4
MES 604 Chemistry of Materials Credits: (4-0) 4
Technical Electives Credits: 4

Management Courses List

Courses are available in any of our three online MS professional programs of Engineering Management (ENGM), Construction Engineering and Management (CEM), and Mining Engineering and Management (MEM). Students select a minimum of two of the courses (6 credits) listed below to meet the management course requirement.

ENGM 640 Business Strategy Credits: (3-0) 3
ENGM 661 Engineering Economics for Managers Credits: (3-0) 3
ENGM 642 Engineering Management and Labor Relations Credits: (3-0) 3
IENG 466/566 Project Planning and Control Credits: (3-0) 3
ENGM 620 Quality Management Credits: (3-0) 3
ENGM 663 Operations Planning Credits: (3-0) 3
ENGM 621 Statistical Process Control Credits: (3-0) 3
ENGM 745 Forecasting for Business and Technology Credits: (3-0) 3
CEM 619 Construction Company Management Credits: (3-0) 3
CEM 620 Leading and Managing Design Organizations Credits: (3-0) 3
MEM 435/535 Resource Industry Finance and Accounting Credits: (3-0) 3
MEM 430/530 Resource Industry Mergers and Acquisitions Credits: (3-0) 3
MEM 410/510 Advanced Mineral Economics for Managers Credits: (3-0) 3
MEM 630 Mining Law and Environment Credits: (3-0) 3

Research or project requirements

The completion of a project or non-thesis research is optional for this degree.

CEE 788 or EE 788 or MES 788 Non-thesis research, Credit to be arranged**

** Up to 3 credits of CEE 788 may be counted toward the Civil and Environmental Engineering emphasis

**Up to 2 credits of EE 788 may be counted toward the Electrical Engineering emphasis.

**Up to 2 credits of MES 788 may be counted toward the Materials Engineering and Science emphasis.

Elective requirements

An additional 6-9 credits of coursework may be taken in either the technical area or in management.

All electives must be approved by the student’s advisor or advisory committee.

Examinations

Each student is required to complete a written Master’s examination to graduate from the program. The Master’s exam is administered by the department or program for each emphasis area, and is given in the student’s final semester before graduation. The student is presented with a list of problems or issues drawn from the degree emphasis and is asked to prepare a proposal for a project intended to solve one of them. The proposal should address the technical background of the problem, the promised deliverables, the management structure of the project team, a work plan for completion, and a costing and budget analysis, in fifteen pages or less. The proposal must be submitted to the emphasis area program coordinator no later than the last day to hold a thesis or dissertation defense as scheduled by the Office of Graduate Education. The program coordinator must report the examination results to the Office of Graduate Education using the form on the Graduate Education web page.

Additional requirements

In addition to these degree-specific requirements, the student must also meet the requirements and policies applied to all graduate degrees by the Council of Graduate Education.