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2021-2022 SDSM&T Academic Catalog 
    
2021-2022 SDSM&T Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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.

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 or a project description 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. A suitable proposal or project description completed as a course assignment during the student’s final 12 credits of registration may be used for scoring instead of a new proposal.

Each department or program will score the proposal or project description using a standard rubric and provide the scored proposal and rubric to the Program Director. The MENG Steering Committee will meet annually to review the scored proposals and develop recommendations for program improvement.

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.

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