Civil and Environmental Engineering, MS

Contact Information

Dr. Marc Robinson
Program Coordinator
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Civil Mechanical Building Room 243
Phone: (605) 219-8262
E-mail: Marc.Robinson@sdsmt.edu

Department Website

Students are responsible for checking with their advisors for any program modifications that may occur after the publication of this catalog.

MS in Civil and Environmental Engineering

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering offers both a thesis and non-thesis MS degree in the following emphasis areas: environmental, water resources, geotechnical/materials, and structural engineering.

SD Mines undergraduates admitted to the Accelerated MS option may apply up to 9 credits of coursework taken as an undergraduate at the 500 level and above to both the BS and MS degrees.

Degree requirements for thesis option

Distribution of credits

Core requirements: 0 credit
Research or project requirements: 6 credits
Elective requirements: 24 credits
Total credits: 30

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

Core requirements

No specific courses are required for this degree.

Research or project requirements

Candidacy for the MS CENE degree with the thesis option is contingent upon the student’s aptitude to do research.

CEE 798 Thesis Credits: 1 to 9 *
*Students must complete 6 credits of CEE 798. No more than 6 credits may be counted toward the degree. Non-thesis Research (CEE 788 ) is not applicable toward the thesis option.

Elective requirements

At least 15 credit hours of graduate level courses with the CEE prefix.
No more than 3 credits may be from a combination of CEE 691 , CEE 790 , CEE 791 , or CP 697 .

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

Examinations

The thesis must constitute an original contribution to knowledge in civil and environmental engineering and must be successfully defended at a final public oral presentation and examination. Students are expected to complete a written thesis proposal and present it to their committee at least one semester before defending the thesis.

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.

Objectives and Outcomes

Student Outcomes:

An ability to select and apply appropriate advanced concepts and principles to solve complex engineering problems within the student’s area of technical specialization.
An ability to select appropriate experiments and analyze the results in the solution of civil engineering problems.
An ability to formulate effective and persuasive communication to technical and nontechnical audiences (oral and written).

Degree requirements for non-thesis option

Distribution of credits

Core requirements: 0 credits
Research or project requirements: 0 credits
Elective requirements: 30 credits
Total credits: 30

Core requirements

No specific courses are required for this degree.

Research or project requirements

A thesis, project paper, or final examination is not required; this is a course-work only degree.

Elective requirements

This program requires a total of 30 credits of coursework to be selected by the student in consultation with the student’s advisor or advisory committee. The program of study must meet these criteria:

At least 18 credit hours of graduate level courses with the CEE prefix.
At least 15 credit hours must be taken at the 600-level or higher.
No more than 3 credits may be from a combination of CEE 691 , CEE 788 , CEE 790 , CEE 791 , CEE 798 , or CP 697 .

Examinations

No final degree examination is required for the non-thesis option. Individual courses may hold final examinations as part of the course.

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.

Objectives and Outcomes

Student Outcomes:

An ability to select and apply appropriate advanced concepts and principles to solve complex engineering problems within the student’s area of technical specialization.