Master of Engineering

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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

Computer Science and Engineering Emphasis
Dr. Christer Karlsson
Christer.Karlsson@sdsmt.edu
Dept: (605) 646-3130

Electrical Engineering Emphasis
Dr. Shankarachary Ragi
Shankarachary.Ragi@sdsmt.edu
605-394-1219

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

Safety Management Emphasis
Dr. Jeffrey Woldstad
Jeffrey.Woldstad@sdsmt.edu
605-394-2628

Overview

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

This degree may be available completely online. Consult the contact for your technical emphasis area to learn which technical courses may be available online.

SD Mines undergraduate students admitted to the Accelerated MS may apply up to 9 credits of approved 400/500/600 level coursework toward both the BS and the MS degrees.

Degree requirements for the Master of Engineering

Distribution of credits

Core requirements: 21 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

The student will work with his or her advisor to select appropriate technical and management core courses for the degree.

A minimum of 15 credits of engineering content in one of the five emphasis areas is required:

Civil and Environmental Engineering
Computer Science and Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Materials Engineering and Science
Safety Management

A minimum of 6 credits of management courses must be selected from the Management Courses List below.

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 610 Construction Project Management Credits: (3-0) 3
CEM 619 Construction Company Management Credits: (3-0) 3
CEM 620 Leading and Managing Design Organizations Credits: (3-0) 3
CEM 706 Managing Sustainable Projects Credits: (3-0) 3
CEM 710 Advanced Construction Management Credits: (3-0) 3
MEM 435/535 Advanced Finance for the Mineral Industry 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 460/560 Advanced Human Capital Management for the Mineral Industry Credits: (3-0) 3
MEM 470/570 Project Management for Industry Credits: (3-0) 3
MEM 476/576 International Business for Engineers and Scientists Credits: (3-0) 3
MEM 620 Reputation Management for the Mineral Industry Credits: (3-0) 3
MEM 630 Mining Law and Environment for the Mineral Industry Credits: (3-0) 3
MEM 640 Advanced Mine Management for the Mineral Industry Credits: (3-0) 3
MEM 660 Mediation and Negotiation for the Mineral Industry Credits: (3-0) 3

Research or project requirements

The completion of a project or non-thesis research is optional for this degree. The number of project credits that may be counted toward the degree must be approved by program coordinator and cannot exceed three credits.

Elective requirements

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

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 the Civil and Environmental Engineering emphasis, 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

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.