Academic Calendar
Fall Semester 2007
Registration September 4 Classes that meet on Tuesdays with a class start time of 4:00 p.m. or later begin September 4 All other classes begin September 5 Fee Payment Deadline September 6 Last day to add or drop a course and to adjust fees September 13 Native Americans' Day Holiday October 8 Midterm (first half of semester ends) October 20 Midterm deficiencies grades due by midnight November 2 Early Registration Weeks (Tentative) October 29-November 16 Last day to withdraw from all classes with a refund November 7 Veterans Day Holiday November 12 Last day to drop classes November 19 Thanksgiving Holiday begins at end of class day November 21 Classes resume November 26 Final examinations December 17-21 Semester ends December 21 Fall Graduation December 22 Final grades are due by midnight December 27
Spring Semester 2008
Registration January 16 Classes that meet on Wednesday with a class start time of 4:00 p.m. or later begin January 16 All other classes begin January 17 Fee Payment Deadline January 18 Last day to add or drop a course and adjust fees January 25 Presidents' Day Holiday February 18 Spring vacation and Easter Break begins at end of class day March 14 Classes resume March 25 Midterm (First half of semester ends) March 11 Midterm deficiencies grades due by midnight March 18 Last day to withdraw from all classes with a refund March 28 Early Registration Weeks (Tentative) April 7-25 Last day to drop classes April 10 Final examinations May 5-9 Semester ends May 9 Spring Graduation May 10 Final grades are due by midnight May 14
This calendar conforms to guidelines established by the Board of Regents, but is subject to change at its discretion.
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Reservation of Rights
The information contained in this catalog is the most accurate available at the time of publication, but changes may become effective before the next catalog is printed. It is ultimately the student’s responsibility to stay abreast of current regulations, curricula, and the status of specific programs being offered. Further, please note that the university reserves the right to change graduation or other academic requirements where changes are necessary to comply with Board of Regents policy directives, to meet external demands relating to accountability or accreditation standards, to reflect curriculum changes or substitutions, or to implement evolving discipline requirements in major fields.
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, military status, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, political preference, or disability in employment or the provision of service.
Mines Matters: Co-ops and internships provide excellent opportunities for students to integrate their classroom learning with “real world” work experiences in industry. Eighty percent of School of Mines graduates had relevant work experience in 2006.
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Message from the President
Dear Friends,
The School of Mines is dedicated to being a leader in 21st century education that reflects a belief in the role of engineers and scientists as crucial to the advancement of our society. We are pleased that you have chosen to be a vital part of the successful and highly recognized reputation that the School of Mines has earned over the past 120 years.
The School of Mines offers its students the programs and tools to help them succeed in today’s competitive work place. Our distinguished and caring faculty, size of classes, and programs offered, give our students a leading edge that many larger institutions cannot provide. Students are given opportunities to participate in programs and activities which provide them with life skills, team building, and communication skills in addition to the excellent educational foundation provided in the classrooms at the School of Mines.
The administration and faculty at the School of Mines are continually investigating majors and programs to ensure that we meet the needs of our students. As a student, you can be assured that you will have access to the most current teaching practices and the latest equipment and laboratories. It also means that we can help you reach your life and career goals, whether they are in science or engineering, or in another professional field. We will help you build a strong educational foundation to find your place in life.
We look forward to helping you follow in the footsteps of our many successful alumni. Many of our alumni succeed because they have the experiences they need before they graduate. They are using their skills to make their communities, the nation, and the world, a better place. The School of Mines is doing that as well. We are pursuing new research projects that will create economic development opportunities and advance our knowledge of cutting edge technology.
If you see me on campus, please introduce yourself. I am eager to hear about your experiences as a School of Mines student. I also challenge you to join the many Mines alumni who serve as drivers for economic development, technology advancement, and societal betterment.
Sincerely,
Charles Ruch President 4 Message from the President
Table of Contents
Academic Calendar 2 Reservation of Rights 3 Message From the President 4 Mission, Vision, and Goal/Strategic Initiatives/Statement of Purposes 7 University Information 8 Admissions 14 Tuition and Fees 27 Financial Aid 30 Academic Information General Academic Information 35 Registration 45 Graduation Requirements 50 Policies and Procedures 57 Support Services 64 Educational Resources and Outreach Services 66 Student Information Services 80 Activities 87 Undergraduate Studies College of Engineering 91 Chemical Engineering B.S. 92 Civil Engineering B.S. 98 Computer Engineering B.S. 102 Computer Science B.S. and Minor 106 Electrical Engineering B.S. 110 Environmental Engineering B.S. 114 Geological Engineering B.S. 119 Industrial Engineering B.S. 122 Mechanical Engineering B.S. 125 Metallurgical Engineering B.S. 128 Minor in Materials Science-Metals 129 Mining Engineering and Management B.S. 131 College of Science and Letters 134 General Studies A.A. 135 Atmospheric Sciences Minor 137 Biology 140 Chemistry B.S. 141 Minor in Materials Science-Polymers 142 Geology B.S. and Minor 144 Interdisciplinary Sciences B.S. 149 Areas of Specialization 1. Atmospheric Sciences 152 2. Business Applications in Science and Technology 153 3. Pre-Professional Health Sciences 155 4. Science, Technology, and Society 156
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Humanities 158 Mathematics B.S. and Minor (Applied and Computational) 159 Military Science 163 Physical Education 165 Physics B.S. and Minor 166 Social Sciences 169 Graduate Studies 170 Graduate Student General Information 170 Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences Ph.D. 190 Atmospheric Sciences M.S. 194 Biomedical Engineering M.S. and Ph.D. 197 Chemical Engineering M.S. 201 Chemical and Biological Engineering Ph.D. 203 Chemistry (Graduate Study) 206 Civil Engineering M.S. 207 Computer Science M.S. 208 Electrical Engineering M.S. 210 Geology and Geological Engineering M.S. and Ph.D. 213 Materials Engineering and Science M.S. 218 Materials Engineering and Science Ph.D. 220 Mechanical Engineering M.S. 223 Metallurgical Engineering (Graduate Study) 226 Nanoscience and Nanoengineering Ph.D. 227 Paleontology M.S. 229 Physics (Graduate Study) 231 Technology Management M.S. 232 Courses 235 Faculty, Administration, and Governance 349 Index 372 Campus Map 377
Degree Abbreviations A.A. - Associate of Arts B.S. - Bachelor of Science M.S. - Master of Science Ph.D. - Doctor of Philosophy
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MISSION, VISION, AND GOAL
The South Dakota School of Mines and Technology serves the people of South Dakota as their technological university. Its mission is to provide a well-rounded education that prepares students for leadership roles in engineering and science; to advance the state of knowledge and application of this knowledge through research and scholarship; and to benefit the state, regions, and nation through collaborative efforts in education and economic development.
The School of Mines is dedicated to being a leader in 21st century education that reflects a belief in the role of engineers and scientists as crucial to the advancement of society. Our vision is to be recognized as a premiere technological university in the United States.
Most immediately, our goal is to be recognized as the university-of-choice for engineering and science within South Dakota and among our peer group of specialized engineering and science universities.
STRATEGIC INITIATIVES
1. Reshape the Learning and Teaching Experience 2. Promote the Acquisition, Discovery, and Application of Knowledge 3. Engage and Serve the Broader Community 4. Prepare for Our Future as a National Player in Science and Engineering Education and Research
STATEMENT OF PURPOSES
The South Dakota School of Mines and Technology is dedicated to being a leader in 21st century education that reflects a belief in the role of engineers and scientists as crucial to the advancement of society. Responding to the unprecedented challenges facing today’s world, the School of Mines will seek opportunities to benefit the educational, civic, and economic activities of the community, state, and region. The School of Mines will maintain and expand its role in research, scholarship, and creative endeavors that advance knowledge, solve problems, develop individual potential, and explore the human condition. Through its rigorous academic programs and co-curricular activities, the School of Mines is committed to developing informed and responsible scientists and engineers who behave ethically, value a global perspective, and accept the duties and responsibilities of citizenship.
7 Mission, Vision, and Goal/Strategic Initiatives/Statement of Purposes University Information Environmental Engineering Geological Engineering South Dakota Board of Regents Geology Industrial Engineering Mr. Terry D. Baloun, Highmore Interdisciplinary Sciences Dr. Richard G. Belatti, Madison Areas of Specialization: Dr. James O. Hansen, Pierre 1. Atmospheric Sciences Mr. Harvey C. Jewett, Aberdeen 2. Business Applications in Science and Dr. Kathryn O. Johnson, Hill City Technology Mr. Dean M. Krogman, Brookings 3. Pre-Professional Health Sciences Mr. Randall K. Morris, Spearfish 4. Science, Technology, and Society Ms. Carole Pagones, Sioux Falls Mathematics, Applied and Computational Mr. Tonnis H. Venhuizen, Armour Metallurgical Engineering Mechanical Engineering Officers of the Board Mining Engineering and Management President: Mr. Harvey C. Jewett Physics Vice President: Mr. Terry D. Baloun Secretary: Mr. Dean M. Krogman Master of Science Atmospheric Sciences Executive Director Biomedical Engineering Dr. Robert T. Tad Perry Chemical Engineering Civil Engineering South Dakota Public Higher Education Computer Science Institutions Electrical Engineering Geology and Geological Engineering Black Hills State University, Spearfish Materials Engineering and Science Dakota State University, Madison Mechanical Engineering Northern State University, Aberdeen Paleontology South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Management Technology, Rapid City South Dakota State University, Brookings Doctor of Philosophy University of South Dakota, Vermillion Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences Biomedical Engineering Degrees Chemical and Biological Engineering Geology and Geological Engineering The following degrees are offered at the South Materials Engineering and Science Dakota School of Mines and Technology in the Nanoscience and Nanoengineering designated fields of study. Further information concerning the Associate of Arts engineering and science curricula leading to the General Studies engineering and science degrees may be found in the individual college sections of this catalog. Bachelor of Science Chemical Engineering Accreditation Chemistry Civil Engineering The South Dakota School of Mines and Computer Engineering Technology is accredited by the Higher Learning Computer Science Commission of the North Central Association of Electrical Engineering Colleges and Secondary Schools, the recognized 8 University Information accrediting agency for the north central states. and educational environment that is characterized For more information call (800) 621-7440 or visit: by fair treatment, open communications, personal
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Advanced Materials Processing and Joining basketball court are provided in this 60,000- Laboratory, and the Human Engineering square-foot structure. Also included are music Laboratory are housed in this building. classroom and practice areas with adjoining music The Electrical Engineering/Physics offices, music library, and electronic music Building, completed in 1973, provides offices and laboratory. During the 2003-04 year, the building laboratory facilities for the electrical and was renovated to provide a wellness center and computer engineering and the physics new locker rooms. departments. This building houses the computer The Christensen Hall of Fame addition to services staff, and provides technology equipped the King Center honors past athletes, coaches, classrooms. teams, athletic traditions, and contributors by The McLaury Building, built in 1920, permanently dedicating a place to remember the provides classrooms, laboratories, and offices for past and to look to the future with pride for what the mathematics and computer science the School of Mines stands for on the playing department, the biology program, and the Office field and in the classroom. The Christensen Hall of Educational Programs and Professional of Fame also honors Jim and Nancy Christensen, Conferences. longtime supporters of the School of Mines. The The Mineral Industries Building was Christensens’ ties to School of Mines, its athletic occupied in 1962. It is a three-story building of programs, and the Hardrock Club are deep. While 52,000 square feet. The Departments of Geology Jim was a School of Mines student in the 1950s, and Geological Engineering, Materials and he was a member of the Hardrocker football and Metallurgical Engineering, Mining Engineering track teams. He graduated from the School of and Management, Atmospheric Sciences, and the Mines with a degree in General Engineering in Institute of Atmospheric Sciences are located in 1957. A donation from the Christensens made the this building. The Office of Research Affairs, Hall of Fame possible. Office of Graduate Education, Office of The Physical Plant Building, completed in Sponsored Programs, Engineering and Mining 1974, provides an excellent base for the operation Experiment Station, and South Dakota Space of the university in the areas of electrical, Grant Consortium are also housed in this building. mechanical, and other maintenance. This building This structure provides classroom and laboratory also houses the campus mailroom. facilities for undergraduate and graduate study in The Old Gymnasium is used for intramural several fields related to materials and earth activities and Museum of Geology laboratories. systems sciences and engineering. Dunham Field at O’Harra Stadium is one The Classroom Building, completed and of the most unique athletic fields in the region. occupied in the fall of 1989, houses the The architects took advantage of natural Departments of Humanities, Social Sciences, and topographic features on three sides of the field to Military Science, and distance learning construct parking terraces that can accommodate classrooms including the Digital Dakota Network approximately 300 automobiles from which studios and the Governor’s Electronic Classroom. spectators can view the field. An artificial turf This three-story building of 44,000 square feet playing field was installed in 2006, and is provides more than 20 air-conditioned classrooms encircled by an all-weather running track, that are used to support all programs. This renovated in 2002. The stadium is currently structure features divisible classrooms, art gallery, undergoing renovations. and faculty lounge. Connolly Hall, completed in 1948, and The Darold D. “Dud” King Center for remodeled in 1964, provides living physical education building was completed and accommodations for male and female students. occupied in 1976. Seating for 2,100 spectators at Palmerton Hall, completed in 1969, athletic events is available. Two accommodates both male and female students. It handball/racquetball courts, one squash court, is a completely carpeted five-story building with offices, training rooms, swimming pool, and a access to each floor provided by both elevator and
10 University Information stairs. student lounge, the SDSM&T Alumni Association Howard Peterson Hall is a 300-bed residence office, the bookstore, a banquet-ballroom, the hall that was occupied for the first time during the Career Center, conference rooms, Counseling and fall 2004 semester. It is located adjacent to the Student ADA Services, the Vice President for south end of the Surbeck Center. Room Student Affairs and Dean of Students office, configurations include suites and standard double Health Services, mail boxes for all students living rooms. Study lounges, a kitchen, and an exercise on campus, Student Accounts and Cashiering room are included. Since the residence hall Services, the main office for Residence Life, and connects to the Surbeck Center’s main floor, a the Surbeck Center offices. The dining hall, common front desk operation serves both snack bar, recreation area, Student Activities and complexes. The residence hall is named after Leadership Center, Ivanhoe International Center, Dean of Students Emeritus Howard Peterson, a the Multicultural Affairs office, Campus School of Mines alumnus who continues his Ministries, and display areas can be found in the service as a volunteer to the Foundation, the lower level, in addition to more meeting rooms Alumni Association, and other aspects of campus and “hang-out” space for students. Surbeck Center life. includes renovated spaces completed in 2004. The March-Dake Plaza, located close to the The O’Harra Memorial Building was former site of March-Dake Hall, honors two completed in the summer of 1942 as a joint State former School of Mines presidents who played and Federal Work Projects Administration important roles in making it the excellent Project. It houses the administration offices, the university it is today. The plaza honors the legacy Office of Academic and Enrollment Services, the that current university leaders strive to follow as Office of Financial Aid, the Office of Admissions, the School of Mines moves into the future. the SDSM&T Foundation, and the Museum of In 2004, renovations to the Devereaux Geology, and is named in honor of Dr. C.C. Library opened another floor for collections, new O’Harra, president and professor of geology at the study areas for students, news areas for special university from 1911 to his death in 1935. collections, and created a friendlier atmosphere The Kids Kastle Little Miner’s Clubhouse for study and research. The library, completed in was established in 1995 to provide child-care 1970, includes 56,000 square feet of modern services for students, faculty, staff, and area space that is carpeted and air conditioned. The alumni. library houses the Tech Learning Center and serves as the Patent and Trademark Depository for History the state. Surbeck Center, the student union for the The South Dakota School of Mines and School of Mines, provides more than just 71,000 Technology was originally established by the square feet of space devoted to campus and Dakota Territorial Legislature as the Dakota community activities. It also provides School of Mines in 1885 to provide instruction in information services, equipment check-out for mining engineering at a location where mining students, and scheduling services for the campus. was the primary industry. Surbeck Center’s main office serves as a one-stop The School of Mines opened for instruction on scheduling center that assists with the reservation February 17, 1887. Dr. Franklin R. Carpenter, a and coordination of university resources for the graduate of Ohio University, was appointed various activities of the university — academic, president and dean of the faculty. Degrees were student, departmental, community, and initially offered in mining engineering, civil professional. Additionally, Surbeck Center staff engineering, and general science. When North provide assistance for all on-campus activities, and South Dakota were granted statehood in 1889, events, academic, and summer conference the school was re-designated as the South Dakota scheduling. School of Mines. Surbeck Center’s main floor houses a large During the presidency of Dr. Robert Slagle
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(1896-1905), field geology was introduced, and a there are a vast variety of rocks and minerals, large collection of Badlands fossils and minerals wildlife, and plant life indigenous to the area. was added to the geological museum. During that The Badlands, formed by natural erosion, period, the third building was constructed on offer the viewer an eerie but beautiful landscape campus and the first School of Mines magazine of multicolored peaks and deep ravines. The was published. Faculty size and student Badlands area, as well as the northwest and enrollment reached a peak in 1905 that was not to southwest portions of South Dakota, offer some of be exceeded until 1920. the world’s most prolific sources of fossils. The university’s reputation as a diversified Discoveries of a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton, a science and engineering school was established Triceratops skull, and a mammoth butcher site following World War I with the rapid increase of have added to this reputation. More than four engineering students and the termination of million visitors enjoy the Black Hills/Badlands college preparatory courses. In 1943, the state area each year. legislature changed the name of the institution to the South Dakota School of Mines and Campus Safety Technology, in recognition of the school’s expanded role in new areas of science and The School of Mines is committed to the technology. Since that time, the university has safety of students and employees. Safety expanded its curriculum to include 10 engineering personnel regularly monitor the campus and work and six science undergraduate degrees and closely with the Rapid City Police Department to graduate programs leading to the master of enforce community, state, and federal laws. science degree in 11 engineering and/or science Emergency telephones are located on the disciplines. The School of Mines offers programs campus. In addition, the campus escort service leading to the doctor of philosophy degree in may be utilized 24 hours a day by calling campus atmospheric and environmental sciences, safety at (605) 394-6100. biomedical engineering, chemical and biological With the assistance of the Rapid City Police engineering, geology and geological engineering, Department, the School of Mines provides safety materials engineering and science, and and security education and awareness programs. nanoscience and nanoengineering. The purpose of these programs is to make the As the bounds of technology continue to campus community aware of safety issues and expand, the university continues to meet the techniques. The programs also cover alcohol and challenge of preparing students for highly drug abuse control and prevention. technical careers in engineering and science. Campus emergency procedures and statistics are outlined in the campus safety brochure that is Location distributed annually to all students and university personnel. It is also available on the School of Rapid City, South Dakota’s second largest Mines website and from the Vice President for city, is located at the base of the Black Hills in the Student Affairs and Dean of Students Office. southwestern part of the state. Directly to the west is the beautiful Black Hills region, and to the SDSM&T Alumni Association east lie the awesome White River Badlands. Mount Rushmore and Crazy Horse Memorial are The South Dakota School of Mines and within a one-hour drive from the campus, and Technology Alumni Association promotes throughout the Black Hills are attractions that communication and interaction among alumni, focus on the Native American and the early Gold students, faculty, and administrators of the School Rush history of the area. of Mines with the objective of strengthening the The Black Hills area is a naturalist’s dream. university’s academic, research, and service roles. There are many caves to explore, mountains to The association also provides an alumni network hike and ski, and streams to enjoy. In addition, and support services for graduates throughout the
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world. Services provided by the Alumni Tech Ventures, Inc. Association include maintenance of the alumni database, a semiannual publication (the Hardrock) Tech Ventures, Inc. is a for-profit corporation mailed to friends of the school and all alumni, a wholly owned by the SDSM&T Foundation. Its weekly electronic newsletter (the Hardrock E- purpose is to support commercialization of News), a biennial Alumni Directory, coordination research projects linked to School of Mines of alumni recognition programs, area meetings, faculty and researchers. Tech Ventures Inc. class reunions and get-togethers, and an all-school assists in all aspects from start up, to seeking reunion every five years. The most recent five- venture capital, to operating the new companies. year reunion was held July 6-10, 2005. Through these partnerships, Tech Ventures The Alumni Association also provides student generates unrestricted revenues used to support support funds and mentoring, and helps promote the university. the School of Mines Alumni Recruiting Team (SMART). The Alumni Association is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit South Dakota corporation governed by a Board of Directors. The Alumni Office is located in the Surbeck Student Center. For more information regarding the Alumni Association, please visit or contact the office at (605) 394-2347 or via e-mail at [email protected].
SDSM&T Foundation
The South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Foundation is a tax exempt 501(c)3 charitable organization that exists solely to serve the university by seeking the resources necessary to provide exceptional intellectual, professional, and personal development opportunities. Resources provided by the SDSM&T Foundation include student scholarships and graduate fellowships, the short-term loan program, general student assistance, faculty assistance, and areas of greatest need. Assistance is also provided to faculty for faculty development and research, educational leaves, travel costs, seminars, paper presentations, and educational support. Campaigns to solicit funds from alumni and campus staff are held annually, as well as mini- campaigns for special purposes and an on-going approach to corporations for support. The Foundation’s portfolio is professionally managed and all accounts are audited yearly. The Foundation Office is located in the lower level of the O’Harra Building.
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Admissions • achieve a high school GPA of at least 2.75 on a 4.00 scale. Authorization for Individual Institutional Policies All applicants not meeting automatic admission requirements will be reviewed by the Each university may adopt specific admission Admissions Committee. The committee considers regulations, consistent with law and the high school curriculum (special consideration is requirements set by the Board of Regents, as may given to math and science course work), grades, be required for each school or program to assure and test scores. acceptable student preparation and enrollment levels. A copy of such regulations and any South Dakota Board of Regents Minimum subsequent amendments shall be filed with the Undergraduate Admissions Requirements Executive Director and shall be subject to review A. Baccalaureate Degree Admissions for High by the Board of Regents. School Graduates For admission to baccalaureate degree New Admissions Requirements programs, high school graduates must: Effective Fall 2006 • meet the minimum course requirements The Board of Regents (BOR) requires that all with an average grade of C (2.0 on a 4.00 students meet the minimum course requirements scale); for admission to the South Dakota School of OR Mines and Technology. These are described • demonstrate appropriate competencies in below under South Dakota Board of Regents discipline areas where course requirements Minimum Undergraduate Admissions have not been met; Requirements. AND In addition, The Board of Regents approved • rank in the top 60 percent of their high the following requirements for admission to the school graduating class; School of Mines, effective fall 2006. OR • obtain an ACT composite score of 18 School of Mines will automatically accept (SAT-I score of 870) or above; for admission students who: OR • obtain an ACT composite score of at • obtain a high school GPA of at least 2.6 least 25 AND obtain an ACT math on a 4.0 scale. subscore of at least 25 (or SAT-I equivalent score) School of Mines ACT CODE - 3922 OR School of Mines SAT CODE - 6652 • obtain a high school GPA of at least 3.50 on a 4.00 scale AND have taken four years of 1. Minimum Course Requirements mathematics Effective the fall of 1996, all baccalaureate or general studies students under twenty-one (21) School of Mines will review and consider for years of age, including students transferring with acceptance students who meet BOR requirements fewer than twenty-four (24) credit hours, must AND meet the following minimum high school course • obtain an ACT composite score of at least 21 requirements. (or equivalent SAT-I score) a. Four years of — courses with major emphasis OR upon grammar, composition, or literary analysis • obtain an ACT math subscore of at least 21 — one year of debate instruction may be included (or equivalent SAT-I score) to meet this requirement. OR b. Three years of advanced mathematics — Algebra, geometry, trigonometry, or other
14 Admissions advanced mathematics including accelerated or three years of advanced mathematics may meet honors mathematics (algebra) provided at the 8th minimum course requirements through one of the grade level; not included are arithmetic, business, following: consumer, or general mathematics or other similar i. An ACT mathematics subtest score of 20 or courses. above; c. Three years of laboratory science — Courses ii. An Advanced Placement Calculus AB or in biology, chemistry, or physics in which at least Calculus BC score of three (3) or above. one (1) regular laboratory period is scheduled c. Students who do not successfully complete each week. Accelerated or honors science three years of laboratory science may meet (biology, physics, or chemistry) provided in the minimum course requirements through one of the 8th grade shall be accepted. Qualifying physical following: science or earth science courses (with lab) shall be i. An ACT science reasoning subtest score of decided on a case-by-case basis. seventeen (17) or above; d. Three years of social studies — History, ii. An Advanced Placement Biology, Chemistry, economics, sociology, geography, government — or Physics B score of three (3) or above. including U.S. and South Dakota, American d. Students who do not successfully complete Problems, etc. three years of social studies may meet minimum e. At the time of admission to a South Dakota course requirements through one of the following: Board of Regents university, it is expected that i. An ACT Social Studies/Reading subtest score students will have basic keyboarding skills and of seventeen (17) or above; have had experience in using computer word- ii. An Advanced Placement Microeconomics, processing, database and spreadsheet packages, Macroeconomics, Comparative or United States and in using the Internet or other wide-area Government and Policies, European or United networks. These expectations may be met by high States History, or Psychology score of three (3) or school course work or demonstrated by some above. other means. Incoming students assessed and e. Effective fall 2002, students graduating from found deficient in this area may be required to South Dakota high schools in 2002 who do not complete specific computer skills courses. successfully complete one year of fine arts may f. One year of fine arts effective fall 2002 for demonstrate fine arts knowledge or competency students graduating from South Dakota high through the following: schools in 2002 – Art, theatre, or music i. An Advanced Placement History of Art, (appreciation, analysis, or performance). Studio Art drawing, or general portfolio or Music Documented evidence of high school level non- Theory score of three (3) or above. credit fine arts activity will be accepted for students graduating from high schools in states B. Associate Degree Admissions for High that do not require completion of courses in fine School Graduates arts for graduation. A student who seeks admission to an associate degree program may gain acceptance by meeting 2. Alternate Criteria for Minimum Course any one of the following criteria: Requirements • Baccalaureate admissions requirements; a. Students who do not successfully complete OR four years of English may meet minimum course • Ranking in the top 60 percent of their requirements through one of the following: graduating class; i. An ACT subtest score of eighteen (18) or OR above; • A composite score of eighteen (18) or above ii. An Advanced Placement Language and on the enhanced ACT; Composition or Literature and Composition score OR of three (3) or above. • A cumulative GPA of 2.6 while in high b. Students who do not successfully complete school.
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classified as a non-traditional student. It is the Individual degree programs may have policy of School of Mines to recognize that additional admissions requirements. there is a great diversity in the background Associate Degree students who did not meet and goals of non-traditional students seeking the baccalaureate degree admission requirements college admissions. Each individual will be and who want to enter a baccalaureate degree evaluated for admission to School of Mines program must: based on the minimum requirements as • Complete at least fifteen (15) credit hours of prescribed by the Board of Regents and the the system general education requirement with School of Mines admission standards. a 2.00 GPA; Additional consideration will be given to non- AND traditional students who do not meet the BOR • Meet university minimum progression undergraduate admission requirements. standards. • Non-traditional students who are high school Exception Group: Each university may admit graduates and meet the BOR minimum a group of students to associate programs, limited requirements will be admitted. in size to 10 percent of the previous year’s freshman class, at the discretion of the university. • Non-traditional students who are not high school graduates and have obtained an ACT C. Non-High School Graduates, Including composite score of 18, ACT English sub-test Home Schooled Students score of at least 18, mathematics sub-test An applicant for baccalaureate or associate score of at least 20, and social studies/reading admissions who is not a high school graduate and science reasoning sub-test scores of at must: least 17, and meet any university determined requirements for admission will be admitted. • Obtain an ACT composite score of eighteen (18), ACT english sub-test score of eighteen • Non-traditional students who are not high (18) or above, mathematics sub-test score of school graduates and have completed the twenty (20) or above, social studies/reading general equivalency diploma (GED) with a and science reasoning sub-test scores of at combined score of 225 and minimum of 40 on least seventeen (17), and meet any university each test (paper based) or 2250 combined determined requirements for admission to score and minimum of 410 on each test baccalaureate programs. Students must be at (computer based) will be admitted. least eighteen (18) years of age, or the high school class of which the student was a • Non-traditional students who do not fit within member must have graduated from high the above categories will be considered for school; admission based on life experience and other OR evidence of success. Applications will be • completed the General Equivalency Diploma reviewed by a review group composed of the (GED) with a combined score of 225 and director of retention and testing, the director minimum of 40 on each test (paper based) or of admissions, and an admissions counselor. 2250 combined score and minimum of 410 on An applicant accepted under this section will each test (computer based). be placed on a one semester probationary status. The review group reserves the right to D. Non-Traditional Students impose additional conditions. For purposes of admission, a degree- seeking student who has attained the age of E. Exception Group twenty-one (21) and has not previously Each university may admit a group of attended any post-secondary institution is students to baccalaureate programs, limited in
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size to 3 percent of the previous year’s • 2 units of a modern (including American Sign freshman class, at the discretion of the Language) or classical language university. • 1 unit of fine arts: Effective fall 2002 for F. Regents Scholars students graduating from South Dakota high Effective fall 2001, South Dakota high schools in: Art, theatre, or music appreciation, school graduates completing the following analysis, or performance. high school courses with no final grade below a “C” (2.00 on a 4.00 scale) and an average • 1/2 unit of computer science: Students will grade of “B” (3.00 on a 4.00 scale) shall be have basic keyboarding skills and have had designated as Regents Scholars and shall be experience in using computer word eligible to receive a Regents Scholar Diploma processing, database and spreadsheet upon request by a high school administrator to packages, and in using the Internet or other the Department of Education and Cultural wide-area networks. Affairs. High school graduates designated as Regents Scholars automatically are admitted Readmission Procedures to all six public universities. (Regent Scholars A student who has interrupted attendance by still need to submit the admission application.) two (2) or more semesters must submit an application for readmission but is not required • 4 units of English: Courses with major to pay the application fees. Any student not emphasis upon grammar, composition, or under academic or disciplinary suspension literary analysis; one year of debate will be automatically readmitted. Applications instruction may be included to meet this from students under suspension will be requirement. considered by the university’s admissions committee. This committee may, at their • 4 units of algebra or higher mathematics: discretion, request further information from Algebra, geometry, trigonometry, or other the student. advanced mathematics including accelerated or honors mathematics (algebra) provided at Undergraduate Transfer Admission the eighth grade level; not included are arithmetic, business, consumer or general A. Transfers to Baccalaureate Programs mathematics, or other similar courses. Students under twenty-one (21) years of age transferring into baccalaureate degree • 4 units of science including 3 units of programs with fewer than twenty-four (24) approved laboratory science: Courses in transfer credit hours must meet the biology, chemistry, or physics in which at baccalaureate degree admission requirements. least one (1) regular laboratory period is Students with twenty-four (24) or more scheduled each week. Accelerated or honors transfer credit hours with a GPA of at least science (biology, physics, or chemistry) 2.00 may transfer into baccalaureate degree provided in the 8th grade shall be accepted. programs at the discretion of the university. If Qualifying physical science or earth science students are applying for federal financial aid, courses (with lab) shall be decided on a case- they must meet federal guidelines for transfer by-case basis. students.
• 3 units of social studies: History, economics, Technical Institute and sociology, geography, government—including Community College Credits U.S. and South Dakota, American Problems, Technical Institute courses are designed to etc. prepare students to enter the workforce for careers requiring less than a baccalaureate
17 Admissions degree. Acceptance of these courses for credit preferential consideration shall be given to at the South Dakota public universities is applicants from institutions which are strictly the function of the receiving accredited by their respective regional institution. Students who wish to transfer accrediting association. Advanced standing credits to a South Dakota public university for shall be allowed within the framework of programs other than the Bachelor of Applied existing rules in each college. Technical Science degree not available through the School of Mines should contact D. Students from Non-Accredited Colleges the Admissions Office of that desired A university may refuse to recognize university for an evaluation of their program credits from a non-accredited college or may objectives and technical institute transcript. admit the applicant on a provisional basis and An individual evaluation of course credits will provide a means for the evaluation of some or be made by the receiving public university in all of the credits. The validation period shall accordance with institutional and Board of be no less than one (1) semester and no longer Regents policy. than one (1) academic year. Total transfer credit for work at a junior, community college (2 year), and/or two-year An applicant for admission to the South technical college may not exceed one-half of Dakota School of Mines and Technology is the hours required for completion of the considered a transfer applicant if he/she has baccalaureate degree at the accepting enrolled for any college level work, full or institution. Students who have completed part-time, since graduation from high school. more than the acceptable semester hours of The applicant must be in good standing and junior, community, or technical college work eligible to return to all colleges/universities may apply completed, transferable courses to attended. In general, a “B” quality average in specific course requirements and thereby may courses attempted at other institutions is not be required to repeat the courses. The expected. Applicants from accredited semester hours of credit for those additional institutions ordinarily are granted credit courses may not be applied toward the toward their degree for work satisfactorily minimum credit hours required for the degree. completed at the previous institutions, provided such courses are equivalent or B. Students who Transfer to Associate comparable to those required in the program Programs an applicant is considering at School of Students younger than twenty-one (21) Mines. Credits from institutions, which are years of age transferring into associate degree not accredited by a regional accrediting programs with fewer than 12 transfer credit association, will be provisional and subject to hours must meet the associate degree validation. No credit is allowed for remedial admission requirements. Students with 12 or courses. more transfer credit hours with a GPA of at least 2.00 may transfer into associate degree E. Former Students programs at the discretion of the university. If A student returning to the institution or a students are applying for federal financial aid, student who has attended another higher they must meet federal guidelines for transfer education institution in the Board of Regents students. system is not required to pay the application fee, but he or she must submit an application for C. Students from Accredited Colleges or readmission and other required documents if he or Universities she has interrupted attendance by two (2) or more At the discretion of each university, semesters. A former student shall be considered students may be accepted by transfer from as a transfer student if he or she has attended other colleges within or outside of the state; another institution during the period of
18 Admissions interruption of attendance. High school students who wish to take courses at School of Mines should begin by contacting the F. Suspended Students Admissions Office at School of Mines and then A transfer applicant under academic the Principal’s Office or Guidance Office at the suspension from the last college attended shall not high school they are currently attending to receive be considered for admission during the period of the high school’s approval to participate. This suspension or, if suspended for an indefinite approval should accompany the School of Mines period, until one (1) semester has passed since the Admissions Application. Please refer to the last date of attendance at the previous school. A following legislative bill for further information. system transfer student must first be reinstated to SDCL 13-28-37, enacted by the South Dakota their previous institution prior to seeking Legislature in 1990, states the following: admission to the School of Mines. “Any student in grades eleven and twelve may enroll in not more than two (2) courses per fall or G. Disciplined Students spring semester which are offered at an institution A transfer applicant under disciplinary of higher education or post-secondary vocational suspension shall not be considered for admission education institution. The student shall obtain the until a clearance and a statement of the reason for school district’s approval of the post-secondary suspension is filed from the previous institution. course prior to enrolling in the course. If The university shall take into account the fact of approved, the student shall receive full credit the previous suspension in considering the toward high school graduation as well as post- application. secondary credit for the post-secondary course. The resident school district is not responsible for Special (Non-degree Seeking) Students any costs involved with attendance at the post- secondary institution by a student enrolled in the A prospective student at South Dakota School district. The student is responsible for any of Mines and Technology who wishes to be additional fees and costs involved with attending a classified as a special student must complete the post-secondary institution in accordance with this Application for Non-degree Seeking Students. section. If a failing grade is received in a post- Non-degree seeking students are ineligible for all secondary course under this section, the student federal financial aid programs. Non-degree receiving the failure is no longer eligible to enroll seeking students must submit an official copy of for post-secondary courses under this section.” their previous college transcript(s) if necessary to verify prerequisites. Additional Admissions Policies and Practices
Nursing at the School of Mines Institutions authorized by the Board of Regents to offer graduate study programs may South Dakota School of Mines and admit students selected according to regulations Technology offers courses that meet requirements established by each faculty. A graduate student for nursing at South Dakota State University (4- will be defined as one who has been accepted into year baccalaureate degree B.S.N.) and the a graduate school. University of South Dakota (2-year associate Effective spring semester 2000, all entering degree A.D.N.). students seeking an associate or baccalaureate Students interested in earning a nursing degree degree must provide valid Enhanced ACT scores from SDSU or USD need to apply to the degree- or must take the ACT COMPASS examination in granting university. For more information visit: the areas of writing skills, mathematics, and
19 Admissions writing skills and mathematics. equivalencies according to a conversion table Students enrolled prior to spring 2000 who approved by the Board of Regents. Note: An have already been placed into their initial official transcript is one that bears the original mathematics and English course work, and seal and signature of the official in charge of transfer students who have completed equivalent records at that institution. general education course work in English and mathematics are exempt from this requirement. D. Preadmission Immunization Requirements Students transferring within the South Dakota 1. All students, whatever their classification or Board of Regents system will be allowed to status, who reside on campus or who receive transfer their placement test scores and continue instruction at one of the residential campuses, and their sequence of courses in English and/or students who attend classes at USDSU in Sioux mathematics. Falls must document their immune status for The placement process will be consistent for measles, mumps, and rubella. Students who all Regental institutions. attend classes only at other self-support centers, or who take classes only through the Internet, are not Applications and Procedures subject to preadmission immunization requirements. Proof of two (2) doses of measles A. Application for Tuition and Fee Reductions vaccine or of the presence of an immune antibody and Scholarships Established by the titer against measles shall be required. Legislature Immunization for tetanus, diphtheria, Students should contact the Admissions Office poliomyelitis, varicella and meningitis is at each university for information on eligibility for recommended, as is a tuberculin test. Vaccination tuition and fee reductions and scholarships for hepatitis B is also recommended and is established by the Legislature. required for students enrolled in certain healthcare programs. Each institution will compile B. Application Submission information about current program-related An applicant for admission must submit the vaccination requirements and make this required application for admission and the information available to students along with other necessary official transcript or transcripts and curricular and registration materials. This other required documents to the Office of documentation may be accomplished by either a Admissions (501 E. Saint Joseph Street, Rapid State Health Department certificate, or it may be City, SD 57701). included as part of the institution’s physical exam C. Records Required report. Applicants who are twenty-one (21) years of age or younger must submit Enhanced ACT (or 2. A student who fails to provide satisfactory SAT-I) results, an official high school transcript, documentation of his or her immune status shall if a high school graduate, or proof of GED and an not be permitted to register for or to attend official transcript for all previous college work as classes. An institution’s president or the part of their application. Applicants who are older president’s designee may grant an extension of the than twenty-one (21) years of age and who do not deadline for a limited time. have valid ACT / SAT-I exam results, or who have not taken the exams are not expected to take 3. Students who are unable to ascertain their the exam. However, they are required to submit immunization status may obtain, at their own an official high school transcript, if a high school expense, the necessary tests and vaccination from graduate, and an official transcript for all college the student health service of their university. work. Applicants should also submit any other records, data, or letters required to support 4. In the event the South Dakota State eligibility for admission, including competency Department of Health declares an epidemic of test scores. SAT scores will be converted to ACT measles or rubella, the institution involved shall
20 Admissions provide to the State Department of Health a list of equivalency/GED scores and an official students who have not submitted immunization transcript of high school work completed. documentation. Subsequent campus actions shall consider the advice and authority of the South • Applicants younger than twenty-one (21) who Dakota State Department of Health. Students who have completed less than 24 semester credits have no vaccination or immunity against the of college work must submit official copies of required preventable infectious diseases may be SAT I or ACT scores in addition to the above dismissed from the campus. documents.
Freshman Checklist • Applicants who will be less than twenty-one (21) years of age at the beginning of the • Submit application for admission. semester for which they are applying for • Enclose non-refundable application fee with admission, and who have completed less than application for admission ($20.00). 24 credit hours of college course work must • ACT or SAT I scores must be on file in meet the minimum course requirements for the Admissions Office. admission to SD Public Higher Education • Applicants must arrange to have an official Institutions. (See “South Dakota Board of copy of their high school transcript forwarded Regents minimum Undergraduate Admission to the Office of Admissions (501 E. Saint Requirements.”) Joseph Street, Rapid City, SD 57701) after Transfer applicants will be notified of their their junior year is complete and grades have admission status at School of Mines shortly been recorded. A final transcript will also be after all of the above documents have been necessary in order to verify final class rank, submitted. No transfer credit evaluation will graduation, and satisfaction of the minimum be made until “final” college/university course requirements for admission to South transcripts are on file. Transfer credit Dakota Public Higher Education Institutions. evaluation is made by the Office of Academic • Prospective freshmen desiring scholarship and Enrollment Services in consultation with consideration must be accepted for admission the chair of the academic department in which prior to February 1. the applicant intends to major.
Transfer Checklist Undergraduate International Student Admission • Application for admission. To be considered for admission, international • Non-refundable application fee of $20.00. If students must meet the following requirements: the student has previously attended a South Dakota state university and paid the 1. Rank in the upper half of secondary school application fee, it is not assessed again. graduation class. 2. Have a 3.00 (B) grade average if transferring • An official transcript from each post- from a college or university in the United secondary institution attended. (Sent by the States. institution attended directly to the Office of 3. Be proficient in English or attend an approved Admissions (501 E. Saint Joseph Street, Rapid intensive English as a Second Language City, SD 57701) (ESL) program upon arrival. 4. Provide two letters of recommendation from • All applicants must submit a high school teachers or professors familiar with your transcript, or other proof of graduation from academic work. high school; or, if not a high school graduate, 5. Be financially self-sustaining. (Admission they must submit copies of their high school to School of Mines is not dependent on the
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ability to show adequate financing for Academic and Enrollment Services education, but the I-20 will not be issued (AES), South Dakota School of Mines without this information.) and Technology, 501 E. Saint Joseph Street, Rapid City, SD 57701-3995. The following items are necessary before a A TOEFL score of 530 (paper-based), 197 request for admission can be processed, (computer-based), or 71 (Internet based) or acceptance granted, and the United States better is required for undergraduate applicants. Department of Justice Form I-20 issued. The Information on worldwide test centers for the form I-20 is necessary for admission to the United TOEFL, as well as registration information, States for college attendance. The U.S. Embassy can be obtained by contacting any U.S. or Consulate website in your country will supply Embassy or Consulate or by writing to Test of detailed information on the application process for English as a Foreign Language, ETS, the required student visas. This information may Princeton, NJ 08540, or by visiting their also be available from an EducationUSA office, website at
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award and instructions for invoice procedures University of South Dakota, Dakota State should be sent. International students are not University, Northern State University, and Black eligible for School of Mines or federal loan Hills State University. Students from throughout programs and should not apply for such the world are able to register for and participate in financial assistance. classes offered via the Internet from any of these 6. International students must attend the school institutions. Courses offered by two-way specified on their visa or they may be refused interactive video and by correspondence are also admittance to the United States. A student listed on the EUC. entering the United States for study must maintain his/her status. More information is Current Reduced Tuition Programs for Non- available at the Ivanhoe International Center. Residents Prospective students should not enter the United States on a B-1 or B-2 visitor’s visa, as The current non-resident tuition rate is 150 the USCIS will not approve a change to the F- percent of the resident rate: $123.85 per credit 1 student visa. International students must hour compared to $82.60. For more information, not, under any circumstances, enter the United contact Janelle Toman at (605) 773-3455 or send States with a WT if they are planning to e-mail to [email protected]. become a full-time student. The WT status Reduced tuition is available for non-resident cannot be changed or extended, under any first-time freshmen, children of alumni, new circumstances, once the student is in the transfers, and international students. Those United States. US government reporting undergraduate students will qualify for a rate of requirements have been added for 150 percent of what residents pay. Students international students (F and J status) in recent already enrolled in the public university system years. As a result of the regulations that prior to summer 2006 will not be eligible for the became effective on January 1, 2003, the new non-resident rate. Tuition assistance is also Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act available to National Guard members, ROTC (FERPA) is waived for F and J students in cadets, South Dakota State Employees, certain respect to these specific reporting elementary and secondary school teachers and requirements. The regulations will be strictly vocational instructors, and persons 65 years of age enforced by the appropriate bureau(s) within or older. Graduate students who hold a state the US Department of Homeland Security contract for an assistantship or fellowship may (DHS) and information will be reported also be entitled to special reduced tuition and electronically to DHS via Student and should contact the Graduate Education Office at Exchange Visitor Information System (605)394-1206. For current tuition information (SEVIS). The consequences to students for see theweb site:
23 Admissions university shall be classified as a resident or a who fail to request resident status prior to a nonresident for admissions and tuition and fees particular semester or session or to pursue a purposes (See Policy 2:3 Admissions and Policy timely appeal shall be deemed to have waived 5:5 Tuition and Fees). any claim for reduced tuition for that semester or session. Information, Burden of Establishing H. A student or prospective student who Residency, Reclassification knowingly provides false information or refuses to provide or conceals information for A. The decision shall be based upon information the purpose of improperly achieving resident provided by the student and all other relevant student status is subject to the full range of information. penalties, including expulsion, provided for by B. The institution is authorized to require such the Board of Regents. written documents, affidavits, verifications, or other evidence as are deemed necessary to Establishing Bona Fide Residency establish the residence of the student, For tuition purposes, residence means the including proof of emancipation, adoption, or place where a person has a permanent home, at appointment of a guardian. which the person remains when not called C. Students have the burden of establishing elsewhere for labor, studies or other special or residency by clear and convincing evidence. temporary purposes, and to which the person D. Students may appeal the original classification returns at times of repose. It is the place a person decision by written petition to a reviewing has voluntarily fixed as the person’s permanent body appointed by the chief executive officer habitation with intent to remain in such place for of the institution within thirty (30) days after an indefinite period. A person, at any one time, registration for that semester. The has but one residence and a residence is not lost recommendation of the reviewing body shall until another is gained. be submitted to the chief executive officer for a decision. The decision of the chief A. The residence of an un-emancipated person executive officer shall be final, but students younger than twenty-one (21) years of age who have been classified as nonresidents follows that of the parents or of a legal retain full rights to petition the executive guardian who has actual custody of the person director of the South Dakota Board of Regents or administers the property of the person. In for reclassification after they have remained in the case of divorce or separation, if either South Dakota continuously for 12 months. parent meets the residence requirements, the E. After twelve (12) months continuous presence person shall be considered a resident. in South Dakota, students who were initially Students who enter the state for the classified as nonresidents may petition for predominant purpose of attending a Board reclassification. institution and who are under the custody of a F. Petitions for reclassification shall be filed with guardian in fact, that is, a person who has been the Executive Director, who shall act upon designated in writing by the students’ parents them. The Executive Director shall report his or legal guardian to serve as their attorney in disposition of such petitions to the Board at its fact for purposes related to the individual un- regularly scheduled meetings. These reports emancipated student’s affairs, may file a shall be summarized in a manner consistent residency petition with the Board at the time with the Family Educational Rights and of admission. Privacy Act. B. A person shall be classified as a resident G. If a petition for reclassification is granted, the student if the person has continuously resided reduced tuition rate shall become effective in South Dakota for at least 12 consecutive with the first semester or session following the months immediately preceding the first date on which the petition is granted. Students scheduled day of classes of the semester or
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other session in which the individual registers whether the person’s physical presence in in the Regental system; except that un- South Dakota is for the predominant purpose emancipated students whose parents of attending an institution of higher education established their residence in South Dakota for controlled by the Board: reasons not predominantly related to qualifying their children for reduced tuition, • The residence of an un-emancipated student’s may be classified as residents, parents or guardians; notwithstanding the fact that they have not • The situs of the source of the student’s resided in South Dakota for the requisite 12 income; months prior to the first scheduled day of • To whom a student pays taxes, including classes. property taxes; If it appears that the parents of a person • The state in which a student’s automobile is properly classified as a resident student under registered; the provisions of this section have removed • The state issuing the student’s driver’s license; their residence from South Dakota, the person • Where the student is registered to vote; shall be reclassified to the status of • The marriage of the student to a resident of nonresident unless the parents have been South Dakota; residents for the 12 months immediately • Ownership of property in South Dakota and preceding such removal. However, no such outside of South Dakota; reclassification is effective until the beginning • The residence claimed by the student on loan of a semester next following the removal. application, federal income tax returns, and C. Physical presence in South Dakota for the other documents; predominant purpose of attending an • Admission to a licensed profession in South institution of higher education controlled by Dakota; the Board does not count in determining the • Membership in civic, community, and other 12-month period of residence. Absence from organizations in South Dakota or elsewhere; South Dakota to pursue postsecondary and education does not deprive a person of • The facts and documents pertaining to the resident student status. person’s past and existing status as a student. D. A person once properly classified as a resident B. The existence of one or more of these factors student shall be deemed to remain a resident does not require a finding of resident student student so long as remaining continuously status, nor does the nonexistence of one or enrolled in the Regental system until the more require a finding of nonresident student person’s degree shall have been earned, status. All factors shall be considered in subject to the provisions of (B) above. combination, and resident student status may E. International students whose visas permit not result from the doing of acts which are them to establish domiciles in the United required or routinely done by sojourners in the States or its territories or protectorates may state or which are merely auxiliary to the qualify for resident tuition in the same manner fulfillment of educational purposes. as United States citizens. C. The fact that a person pays taxes and votes in the state does not in itself establish residence. Factors to Be Considered When D. Students who do not meet the requirements of Determining Whether Students Have this policy may still be classified as residents Entered South Dakota for the Predominant if their situation presents unusual Purpose of Attending a Public University circumstances and their classification is within the general scope of this policy. A. The following factors shall be considered relevant in evaluating a requested change in a Retention of Residence While in Military student’s nonresident status and in evaluating Service
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In determining the residence status for tuition record” and who, immediately upon release, purposes, it is presumed that persons in military return to South Dakota to enter college shall be service who list South Dakota as their “home of classified as residents.
Mines Matters: The beautiful Black Hills and surrounding area offer a variety of outdoor activities. Custer State Park, Mount Rushmore, Harney Peak, Spearfish Canyon, and Badlands National Park are a short distance from Rapid City.
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Tuition and Fees
Tuition, Living, and Other Expenses
The following rates are effective May 14, 2007 and are subject to change by Board of Regents action. For current information see the website:
Tuition and Fees Resident Non-Resident Undergraduate on-campus per semester credit $82.60 $123.85* Graduate on-campus per semester credit $125.25 $369.30 University Support Fee - per credit $73.35 $73.35 General Activity Fee - per credit $20.95 $20.95
*New students and transfers for Academic Year 2008 * Does not include Minnesota rates. For more information, please refer to Minnesota Reciprocity information.
See accompanying text for the description of fees for engineering and science courses as well as labs.
Resident Hall Rent - per semester Resident Non-Resident Double Occupancy (Palmerton/Connolly) $1016.65 $1016.65 Single Occupancy (Connolly) $1385.05 $1385.05 Double (Peterson) $1176.20 $1176.20 Double Deluxe (Peterson) $1237.55 $1237.55 Quad (Peterson) $1407.85 $1407.85 Deluxe or Study Quad (Peterson) $1521.35 $1521.35
or older. Graduate students who hold a state * For residency information, contact the contract for an assistantship or fellowship may Admissions Office or refer to Board of Regents also be entitled to special reduced tuition and Policy at: should contact the Graduate Education Office at
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Typical Education Expenses for Full Time child care, athletics, and intramurals. Undergraduate For One Semester University Support Fee Payment Process A fee assessed per credit hour used to purchase All tuition and fees are required to be paid in equipment, materials, and services in support of full or other financial arrangement made with the the instructional programs. Also, to assist in Cashier’s Office no later than the third day of fall providing services that benefit students which are and spring semester classes and first day of not funded from other sources. summer semester classes. For the student’s convenience, electronic bill and payment services Late Payment Charge are provided. If no financial arrangement is made If tuition and fees are not paid before established by these dates, a late charge will be assessed on due dates, late payment charges will be assessed. the next day. Examples of other financial If financial obligations are not met when due, arrangements may include payment plans, student may be administratively withdrawn for the deferments for financial aid, or third party university. payments. Students who owe a balance after the end of the add/drop period due to changes in class Special Expenses for Engineering and Science schedules are required to pay in full or to make A fee of $19.50 per credit hour is charged for other financial arrangements by the 19th class day courses in engineering, physics, computer science, for fall and spring semester. Since summer mathematics, chemistry, paleontology, technology semester add/drop periods vary, check with the management, and geology. Cashier’s Office for final financial arrangement dates for add/drop courses. If no financial Lab Fee arrangement is made, enrollments shall be $50 is charged to each lab course. These funds cancelled. are used for lab supplies, materials, and equipment. Debit Card System The South Dakota School of Mines Debit Credit by Examination Card is a money management system activated This $85.30 fee is charged for each course in through each student’s ID card. After money is which a student seeks credit by examination. deposited into the student’s personal Debit Card Flex Account, purchases made with the card will International Student Enrollment be deducted from the balance. The Debit Card This one-time $113.70 fee is assessed at the time can be used at the following locations: Dining of the international student’s first semester Services, Miners’ Shack Snack Bar, and School of enrollment in addition to the regular application Mines Bookstore. A Debit Card Flex Account fee. can be established by making a deposit with Student Accounts/Cashiering Office in the upper Vehicle Registration level of the Surbeck Center. All motor vehicles parked on campus must be registered with the Campus Safety Office. Contact Fees this office at (605) 394-2251 for options, amounts, Application Fee and appropriate display of parking permit or Non-refundable charge upon initial application for
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each student upon graduation. After that the use the Return of Title IV Funds policy for charge is $5.00 each, and $2.50 each copy students withdrawing from school and who are thereafter per request. receiving Federal Title IV student financial aid. Title IV funds refers to the federal financial aid Indebtedness programs authorized under the Higher Education A student who is indebted to the university and Act of 1965 (as amended) and includes the does not satisfy financial obligations when due following Federal Student Aid programs: may be withdrawn after notice from the university Subsidized and Unsubsidized Stafford Loan, and will not be permitted to register or receive a Parent PLUS Loan, Grad PLUS Loan, Perkins transcript of grades until the indebtedness is paid. Loans, Pell Grant, Academic Competitiveness This applies to indebtedness for university tuition, Grant (ACG), National Science and Mathematics room, board, fees, financial aid, and fines, but not to Retain Talent Grant (SMART), Supplemental to student organizations. If a student’s account is Educational Opportunity Grant and any other placed with a collection agency, the student will Federal Aid program enacted by Congress. be responsible for all collection costs, attorney’s Students are advised to review the information fees, and any other costs necessary for the located at: collections of any unpaid balance.
Refunds
Withdrawal Refunds Information Students who withdraw, drop out, or are expelled from School of Mines within the add/drop period (first 10 percent of term, commonly referred to as the census date) receive a 100 percent refund of tuition and course related fees. Students who withdraw, drop out, or are expelled from the university after the add/drop period for the enrollment period for which they are assessed charges may be entitled to a refund of tuition, fees, and other institutional charges calculated through 60 percent of the enrollment period. The refund shall be determined by computing the percentage of an enrollment period remaining after the date of withdrawal times the tuition, fees, and other institutional charges originally assessed the student. A student’s withdrawal date is: 1) When the student began the withdrawal process or officially notified School of Mines of intent to withdraw by contacting School of Mines Academic and Enrollment Services Office, or 2) The midpoint of the period for a student who leaves without notifying School of Mines; or 3) at School of Mines option, the student’s last documented date of academically related activity. Federal Financial Aid Recipients: The U.S. Department of Education requires institutions to
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Financial Aid Student Aid Programs.
The following information is intended to be a C. Be a U.S. citizen or eligible non-citizen. brief overview of the financial aid process and programs at the School of Mines. More up to date D. Not be in default on a federal student loan or and detailed information is available on our owe a federal student grant repayment. website at
A. Must have applied for admission in a II. Financial aid programs School of Mines degree program The School of Mines is a full participant in the Federal Student Aid Programs. Specific B. Complete a new FAFSA or Renewal FAFSA information about each program is available at each year to determine eligibility for Federal
The student’s School of Mines award letter Engineering, Mining Engineering and identifies the aid they are being awarded and Management, and Physics. provides information for finalizing the processing of their award. B. Student loans provide an opportunity for students to borrow money for educationally A. Grants are gift aid based on financial need. related expenses. However, like any loan, they must be repaid according to the 1. The Federal Pell Grant is awarded to provisions of the promissory note. First time students who have not yet completed their first loan recipients are required to complete bachelor’s degree and is based on a federal Entrance Loan Counseling as shown at formula used to analyze the information
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4. The Federal Parent PLUS is borrowed on go to
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4. Graduate Student Support made in order to include those classes in their Graduate students should contact the Graduate enrollment status for financial aid purposes at Education Office at the School of Mines School of Mines. However, if the student plans to regarding available fellowships. take classes at a non-Board of Regents school, they must contact the Financial Aid Office to III. Carefully review your billing statement determine if classes taken there can be used to The Student Accounts Office will send an e- fulfill degree requirements at the School of Mines mail notification to the student’s Hardrocker e- and to determine their overall semester enrollment mail account informing them of availability to status. access their billing statement before each semester and whenever there is a change to their student VI. Correspondence Studies account. Please pay attention to the amount owed The School of Mines does not offer courses and the payment guidelines set by the Business via correspondence. However, students are Office. Be advised that aid that requires the advised to discuss possible options with the student’s endorsement on a check and Work- Financial Aid Director for receiving assistance to Study awards will not appear on the billing help pay for this type of course work taken at statement. another eligible institution.
IV. Disbursement of aid VII. Summer financial aid and affect on With the exception of Federal Work-Study, eligibility for the coming school year which is paid monthly, and some scholarships, Students who are interested in receiving aid which are paid according to the wishes of the for the summer must have completed the FAFSA donor, financial aid is either credited to the for the coming school year. Their aid award will student’s account or disbursed by check at the be based on a summer, fall, and spring academic beginning of each semester, or after aid eligibility year. As a result, receiving aid for the summer is determined, whichever is later. If the aid will directly impact the amount of aid available applied to the student’s account exceeds for the fall and spring semesters. Generally, institutional costs, they will either receive a students must carry at least a half-time course refund check at fee payment, or in the student load [six (6) credits for undergraduate and four accounts office after the final add/drop date each and one-half (4.5) for graduate students] to be semester. Students may also elect to have any eligible for summer financial aid. A School of credit balance on their account deposited directly Mines Summer Aid Application, which is to their checking or savings account. Contact the available after March 31, must be completed Student Accounts Office for further information before they will be considered for summer aid. on this option. In the event that there are delays in disbursing of aid, students should always have VIII. Withdrawal and refunds available enough money to meet immediate Due to circumstances that may or may not be expenses they might incur at the beginning of beyond the student’s control, it may become each semester, such as the purchase of books and necessary to withdraw from all classes prior to the supplies. end of a particular semester. Depending on the withdrawal date, the student may be entitled to a V. Multi-Institution Students full or partial refund of tuition and fees, and if At times it may be necessary to take classes at contracting with the university for room and one of the other South Dakota Board of Regents board. universities in order to complete the student’s A withdrawal is considered to be official when degree requirements. Other than to sign up for the student comes to the Academic and classes through their School of Mines log on to Enrollment Services Office (AES), Room 216 of WebAdvisor, no special arrangements need to be the O’Harra Building to initiate the process. If
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that is not possible, they may call (800) 544-8162, School of Mines. Please review the withdrawal Ext. 2400 or local at (605) 394-2400. In the event procedures outlined elsewhere in the college that the student leaves school without notifying catalog. Information is also available on our AES, or simply never attends classes and receives website at a 0.00 GPA for the semester, the university has
Mines Matters: School of Mines students receive more than $11 million annually in financial aid and scholarships. Eighty percent of School of Mines students receive some form of financial aid, including more than 400 university scholarships.
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General Academic Information Mining Engineering and Management
College of Science and Letters Atmospheric Sciences Chemistry Geology Humanities Military Science Applied and Computational Mathematics Physical Education Physics Social Sciences
Minors Academic Organization • Minors are available in some science degree granting departments and programs. Academic organization of the South Dakota • No undergraduate degree program requires a School of Mines and Technology centers around minor. two colleges and 16 departments. • Regental undergraduate minors consist of 18- Faculty of the colleges work closely together 24 semester credit hours. to support and develop: • No less than nine (9) semester credit hours in a minor must be taken at School of Mines. • quality undergraduate educational • A cumulative grade point average of 2.00 or opportunities; better must be attained in the course work defining the minor. • focused quality graduate education; • The specific courses required for a minor in each department and program offering a minor • research and other scholarly activities in can be found in the section of this catalog support of educational opportunities at the where that program is described. undergraduate and graduate levels; • Notification of intent to seek a minor is to be in effect no later than the time of • service programs for the people of the state of registration for the first semester of the senior South Dakota, the region, and the nation. year (96 or more credit hours completed) on a form available in the Academic and Academic departments at South Dakota Enrollment Services Office. School of Mines and Technology are organized in This form must be approved and signed by the colleges as follows: chair of the department from which the major will be awarded and the chair of the College of Engineering department from which the minor will be Chemical and Biological Engineering awarded. Civil and Environmental Engineering Computer Science Credit Hours Definition Electrical and Computer Engineering Geological Engineering The amount of academic work scheduled Industrial Engineering or “carried” by a student is measured in terms Mechanical Engineering of credit hours. A credit hour is three hours of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering in-class time and preparation combined per week for one (1) semester. A recitation or
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lecture is scheduled as one fifty-minute period information section of this catalog for the plus two (2) hours of preparation for an definition of a full-time and half-time graduate average student per week per credit hour. student. Each credit hour of laboratory work is scheduled as one-hundred-ten to one-hundred- Course Numbering System seventy (110 to 170) minutes per week. Laboratories scheduled for two (2) hours per Tuition for courses numbered 000 through 499 credit hour are expected to require one (1) will be assessed at the undergraduate rate for hour of work outside of the scheduled time per all students. week per credit hour. Pre-College Courses Classification of Undergraduate Students 001-099 Pre-college, remedial skills, special improvement (non-degree credit) All undergraduate students will be assigned one of the following admissions Undergraduate Courses categories: 100-199 Freshman level 1. Regular: An admitted, enrolled student, who is 200-299 Sophomore level pursuing a degree at the School of Mines. 300-399 Junior level 400-499 Senior level (may be dual listed 2. Special: An enrolled student who has not been with 500 level graduate course) admitted, and is not pursuing a degree and, will not be permitted to accumulate more than Tuition for courses numbered 500 through 899 thirty (30) hours only on an exceptional basis. will be assessed at the graduate rate for all Special students do not qualify for federal students. student aid or institutional scholarships. An Admissions Office review is required Graduate Courses in order for a student to move from one 500-599: Entry level graduate (may be dual admissions category to another. listed with a 400 level undergraduate course and Freshman, sophomore, junior, or senior may include limited enrollments by classification of undergraduate students is undergraduates) based on accumulated credits for courses 600-699: Graduate level (undergraduate passed: enrollment only by exception) 0 to 31.99 credits - Freshman 700-799: Graduate level (Graduate students 32 to 63.99 credits - Sophomore only) 64 to 95.99 credits - Junior 800-899: Doctoral and post-doctoral level 96 or more credits - Senior (Doctoral and post-doctoral students only) Each year, the senior class applies supplementary credit-hour guidelines for Experimental Courses senior privileges. Experimental courses can be offered for a A full-time undergraduate student is maximum of two (2) times before formal approval defined as a student who is enrolled in at least is received, but they must be reported through the twelve (12) credit hours during a regular system curriculum approval process. semester. A regular semester is defined as fall, spring, and summer. A student on a cooperative education assignment who is registered for CP (Co-Op) credit shall be considered to have full-time status. See the graduate student general
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Enrollment in Courses B. Graduate Courses (500-899) 1. All undergraduate and graduate students A. Undergraduate Courses (001-499) enrolling at Regental universities in courses numbered 500-899 shall be admitted as a 1. All undergraduate and graduate graduate student (either degree seeking or students enrolling at Regental universities non-degree seeking) and registered at the in courses numbered 001-499 shall be graduate level. For all undergraduate and admitted as an undergraduate student graduate students enrolling at Regental (either-degree seeking or non-degree universities in courses numbered 500-899, the seeking) and registered at the courses shall be recorded on the transcript at undergraduate level. For all the graduate academic level and included in undergraduate and graduate students the calculation of all graduate grade point enrolling at Regental universities in averages. courses numbered 001-499, the courses shall be recorded on the transcript at the 2. When a graduate course is used on a undergraduate academic level and converted (transferred for one level to included in the calculation of all another) or actual credit basis to meet undergraduate grade point averages. undergraduate degree requirements for a Regental accelerated program, the course shall 2. When an undergraduate course is used be recorded on the transcript at the graduate on a converted credit basis (transferred for academic level with the credit hours approved one level to another) to meet graduate plan for the course and then duplicated at the of study requirements at Regental undergraduate level through an internal universities, the course shall be recorded transfer policy (Refer to BOR policy 2:5.16). on the transcript at the undergraduate At the graduate level, the credit is included in academic level with the credit hours the calculation of the graduate institutional approved for the course and then grade point average and the graduate duplicated at the graduate level through an cumulative grade point average at the full internal transfer policy (Refer to BOR credit rate. At the undergraduate level, policy 2:5.16). At the undergraduate level, the credit is included in the calculation of the the credit is included in the calculation of undergraduate institutional grade the undergraduate institutional grade point point average and the undergraduate average and the undergraduate cumulative cumulative grade point average at the grade point average at the full credit rate. converted (transferred for one level to At the graduate level, the credit is included another) or actual credit rate. in the calculation of the graduate institutional grade point average and the C. Undergraduate Students Taking Graduate graduate cumulative grade point average at Courses the converted credit rate (transferred for Undergraduate students who have completed a one level to another). minimum of 96 credit hours may enroll in a limited number of 500 level courses. The Vice 3. Undergraduate courses required as President for Academic Affairs may grant an prerequisites in preparation for registration exception for enrollment in a 600 level course. in graduate courses shall be recorded on The student shall pay graduate tuition and the the transcript at the undergraduate level courses shall be recorded on a graduate transcript. and will not be duplicated at the graduate These graduate courses may apply to an level because the courses are not a part of undergraduate degree. the Regental graduate plan of study.
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D. Repeated Enrollment in the Same Course 4. The extra courses should not create an overload 1. A student may enroll in an undergraduate upon the individual student involved. course (for which credit is granted only once) 5. Not more than twelve (12) hours of graduate no more than three times without permission credit taken as a School of Mines of the Vice President for Academic Affairs. undergraduate may be applied toward an advanced degree at the South Dakota School 2. A student may enroll in a graduate course of Mines and Technology. Upon written (for which credit is granted only once) justification by the chair of the student’s major no more than two times without permission of department, the dean of Dean of Graduate the Dean of Graduate Education. Education may approve a minor variance from this limit. 3. A student will be allowed unlimited 6. Petitions from undergraduate students other enrollments in an undergraduate or graduate than those defined above will not be course for which credit toward graduation accepted. (See graduate student general may be received more than once. An information section of this catalog for institution may limit the number of credit graduate policy.) hours for courses that may be taken more than once that apply toward the requirements for a Undergraduate Grading System major. Undergraduate grades will be assigned to Graduate Credit the undergraduate academic level and to all courses and sections with course numbers Graduate credit for School of Mines ranging from 001 to 499. Plus and minus seniors, per faculty adopted regulations: “An grades are not used. undergraduate student who has senior standing at School of Mines and is ranked in the upper A Exceptional one-half of the class, may petition the Dean of 4.00 grade points per semester hour Graduate Education on a form provided by the Academic and Enrollment Services Office for B Above Average the purpose that a course be recorded on 3.00 grade points per semester hour his/her graduate record.” The following conditions or limitations C Average apply: 2.00 grade points per semester hour 1. The student must attest that he/she is planning to continue work toward an advanced degree D Lowest Passing Grade at the South Dakota School of Mines and 1.00 grade points per semester hour Technology, but must understand that the university is under no obligation to credit F Failure courses so attempted toward any advanced 0.00 grade points per semester hour degree until a graduate program of study has been approved. S Satisfactory 2. The course(s) must be numbered 500-699. Does not calculate into any GPA 3. The course(s) must not be required for his or her undergraduate degree; the hours U Unsatisfactory may not count toward the 128 or 136 semester Does not calculate into any GPA credit hours required for the Bachelor of Science degree. RI Incomplete (Remedial)
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Does not calculate into any GPA b. The student must be earning a passing grade at the time the incomplete is necessitated. RS Satisfactory (Remedial) Anticipated course failure is not a justification Does not calculate into any GPA for an incomplete. c. The student does not have to repeat the course RU Unsatisfactory (Remedial) to meet the requirements. Does not calculate into any GPA d. The instructor must agree to grant an incomplete grade. W Withdrawal e. The instructor and student must agree on a Does not calculate into any GPA, no plan to complete the course work. credit granted f. The course work must be completed within one semester; extensions may be AU Audit granted by the Vice President for Academic Does not calculate into any GPA Affairs/Provost. g. If the student completes the course within the I Incomplete specified time, the grades that may be Does not calculate into any GPA assigned are A, B, C, D, F, S, RS, RU, or U. h. If the student does not complete the course IP In Progress within the specified time, the grade assigned Does not calculate into any GPA will be F (Failure) or U (Unsatisfactory) or RU (Remedial Unsatisfactory). EX Credit by Exam Does not calculate into any GPA An in progress (IP) grade may be granted only when all of the following conditions apply: CR Credit Does not calculate into any GPA a. The requirements for the course (for every student enrolled in the course) extend beyond LR Lab grade linked to recitation Grade the current term. O credit course b. The extension beyond the current term must be defined before the class begins. NR Grade not Reported by Instructor c. The instructor must request permission to Does not calculate into any GPA award IP grades for a course from their department chair and dean, and then approval NG No grade must be obtained from the Vice President for O credit tracking course Academic Affairs. d. A definite date for completion of the course Academic Amnesty* must be established in the course syllabus. Does not calculate in any GPA, no credit given An audit (AU) grade may be granted only when *Letter grade followed by an asterisk indicates the student has elected the AU option on or prior Academic Amnesty granted. to the census date of the term.
An incomplete (I) grade may be granted only A credit (CR) grade may be granted only for non when all of the following conditions apply: course credit that is not related to an examination a. A student has encountered extenuating or to equating transfer grades to the BOR grading circumstances that do not permit him/her to system. This grade is not used for any Regental complete the course. university courses.
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An examination for credit (EX) grade may be Junior 64-95.99 2.0 granted only for non course credit validation Senior 96+ 2.0 obtained through a validation process. This grade is used for any Regental university course. Minimum Progression Standards Definition of Grade Point Averages Minimum progression standards and related actions are based on the student’s cumulative The following grade point averages are calculated grade point average and system term grade point each academic term (fall, spring, summer): average.
Institutional GPA-based on credits earned at a 1. A student with a cumulative grade point specific Regental university. Utilized to average of 2.0 or better is considered to be in determine if degree requirements have been met good academic standing. and to determine honors designation at 2. If a student’s cumulative grade point average graduation. falls below 2.0 in any academic term (i.e. fall, spring, summer), the student is placed on System Term GPA-based on credits earned at any academic probation the following term. of the six (6) Regental universities within a given 3. While on academic probation, the student academic term (fall, spring, summer). Utilized to must earn a system term grade point average determine minimum progression status. of 2.0 or better. 4. When a student on academic probation Transfer GPA- based on credits earned and achieves a cumulative grade point average officially transferred from an accredited college or of 2.0 or better, the student is returned to good university outside the Regental system. When a academic standing. letter grade that normally calculates into the grade 5. A student on academic probation who fails to point average exists for a non-academic course maintain a system term grade point average of (e.g., credit earned via examination), it will be 2.0 or better is placed on academic suspension included in the transfer GPA. for a minimum period of two academic terms. 6. Students on academic suspension will not be Cumulative GPA- based on all credits earned by allowed to register for any course work at any the student (transfer credit plus system credit). Regental university except when an appeal has Utilized to determine minimum progression status been approved by the Regental university and to determine if degree requirements have been from which the student is pursuing a degree. met. An approved appeal granted by one Regental university will be honored by all Regental Calculation of grade point averages when universities. Also refer to policy 2:3.G undergraduate courses are repeated Probation/Suspension of Students. When a student repeats an undergraduate course, 7. Only Academic Suspension will be entered on only the last attempt (take) that received a grade the student’s transcript. Academic probation (excluding AU, any amnesty grade, I, IP, NR, RI, will be noted in the internal academic record and W) will count toward graduation and into only. grade point averages. Also refer to BOR policies Progression and graduation are contingent on 2:4 and 2:5. satisfactory performance on the Proficiency Examination. Refer to policy 2:28. Class Credit Hour Range GPA Standard Freshman 0-31.99 2.0 Academic Amnesty Sophomore 32-63.99 2.0 The goal of academic amnesty is to respond to the
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academic needs of matured individuals as they a. remain on the student’s permanent record. develop newly identified potential. Through the b. be recorded on the student’s undergraduate application of academic amnesty, the student’s transcript with the original grade followed by prior academic record can be excluded from an asterisk (*) current work under certain conditions. c. not be included in the calculation of the student’s grade point average because no Eligibility: credit is given. The student must: d. not be used to satisfy any of the graduation 1. be an undergraduate, full-time or part-time, requirements of the current degree program. degree-seeking student at one of the 4. Academic amnesty decisions will be made by universities in the South Dakota Regental the student’s home institution and system. will be honored by all other institutions within 2. not have been enrolled in any Regental the South Dakota Regental system. university for a minimum of three calendar 5. Universities outside of the South Dakota years (nine (9) consecutive terms including Regental system are not bound by the fall, spring, and summer) prior to the most academic amnesty decisions made by the recent admission to the home institution. South Dakota Regental system. Exceptions may be granted in rare cases only 6. Regental graduate programs and graduate by the Board of Regents Senior Administrator professional schools may consider all previous upon recommendation by the Vice President undergraduate course work when making for Academic Affairs. admissions decisions. 3. have completed a minimum of twenty-four (24) graded credit hours taken at any Regental Dean’s List Designation university with a minimum grade point average of 2.0 for the twenty-four (24) credit Undergraduate, full-time and part-time students hours after the most recent admission to the may be designated for the Dean’s List at the end home institution. of the fall and spring terms. The Dean’s List 4. not have earned a baccalaureate degree from designation is determined by the home university any university. and is based on a student’s total course 5. not have been granted any prior academic registrations for academic credit for the term from amnesty at any Regental university. any Regental university. The Dean’s List 6. submit a formal Academic Amnesty Petition designation does not appear on the transcript. to their home university following the procedures established by that university. According to the South Dakota Board of Regents policy, undergraduate full-time students must Conditions: meet the following guidelines to be awarded 1. Academic amnesty does not apply to Dean’s List designation: individual courses. Academic amnesty may be requested for either (a) all previous post- • Students must have earned a minimum of 12 secondary education courses, or (b) all credit hours in courses numbered 100-699 previous post-secondary education courses at during the term. a specific institution, or (c) a specified time • Students must achieve a System Term GPA of period not to exceed one academic year at least 3.50. (fall/spring). • Students with F, I, U, RI, or RU grades are not 2. Academic amnesty, if granted, shall not be eligible regardless of System Term GPA rescinded. attained. 3. Courses for which academic amnesty is granted will:
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Academic Recognition for Undergraduate, For any non-standard course, the last day to Part-Time Students receive a grade of “W” is based on the number of class meeting days for the course, using the Undergraduate, part-time students taking method described above. fewer than 12 credits per term may be designated A notation of the date of withdrawal will be for academic recognition for part-time students at included on the student’s transcript if he/she the end of the fall and spring terms. The withdraws from the system. academic recognition for part-time students Students may not drop a course or withdraw designation is determined by the home university. from the system after the time period specified The academic recognition for part-time students above. designation does not appear on the transcript. Withdrawal from the University To be awarded the academic recognition for part- The effective date used for students time students designation, students must meet the withdrawing from the university is the date that following guidelines: the withdrawal process is initiated in the Office of Academic and Enrollment Services. This notice • Students must have completed at least 12 must be given by the student using the appropriate credits hours prior to the current semester at forms. Dates for withdrawing from the university one or more Regental institution. will be proportionally adjusted for summer terms of instruction. • The student must have earned at least 3 and up Complete withdrawal from the university from to 11 credit hours of 100-699 level courses the day after registration day through 70 percent during the term. of the class meeting days in the term results in the assignment of “W” grades unless the professor-in- • Students must achieve a System Term GPA of charge has previously assigned a final grade. A at least 3.50. withdrawal from the university must be initiated in the Office of Academic and Enrollment • Students with F, I, U, RI or RU grades are not Services and processed through the director of eligible regardless of System Term GPA Retention and Testing. A withdrawal from the attained. university will be processed only when all courses at all Regental universities are being dropped by a Date for a Grade of W student. Undergraduate and graduate students who If a student withdraws from the university drop a course, or withdraw from the System, shall after completion of 70 percent of days, grades of receive a grade of “W” if that action occurs “F” automatically are assigned by the Office of anytime between the day after the census day for Academic and Enrollment Services in all courses that course and the day that corresponds with the for which the student was enrolled unless a final completion of 70 percent of the class days for that grade has previously been issued by the course course. Likewise, a student who withdraws from instructor. In the event that a final grade has not the system during that time period also shall been assigned, consideration may be given to receive grades of “W” for all the courses in which extenuating circumstances that may warrant the he/she is registered. assignment of a grade of “W.” Should such For standard classes, the last day to receive a extenuating circumstances exist, the student may grade of “W” is determined by calculating 70 appeal in writing to the Student Enrollment percent of the class meeting days in the term, Appeals Committee for change of the counting from the first day of classes in the term automatically assigned “F” to “W.” Such appeal and rounding up if the calculation produces a must be filed within one semester after the fractional value greater than or equal to 0.5. semester in which the withdrawal occurred. The
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Student Enrollment Appeals Committee, the Procedures: student’s advisor, and the instructor(s) involved in 1. Students who participate in recognized said course(s) will meet to consider the student’s activities will notify their instructors prior to appeal and the circumstances involved. The the absence. Academic Appeals Committee will render a final 2. Students will be given the opportunity to decision on change of grade from “F” to “W” for make-up any exams missed in the course of each individual course involved, based upon the the absence. information and recommendations provided by 3. Students will consult with their instructors the course instructor(s) and the student’s advisor. regarding the make-up/submission of other graded activities that will be missed as a Re-admission Following Withdrawal consequence of the absence. A student may be readmitted by permission of 4. Recognized activities are those determined by the Vice President for Academic Affairs in the the advisor of the sponsoring School of Mines same semester after a withdrawal if the student organization or the coach of the involved has paid the appropriate tuition and fees. athletic team. If there are any questions, the advisor or coach should consult with the Vice Transcript of Credits President for Student Affairs or Athletic A transcript of credits is an authentic copy of Director. the student’s academic record from each Regental 5. All other arrangements (if allowable) for university attended. The fee is $5.00 for one absences not covered under this policy must copy, and $2.50 for each additional copy per be decided through consultation between the request. A transcript must include all courses faculty member and the student, and/or under attempted. Transcripts are released only on the guidelines of the class syllabus of the written request with the signature of the individual instructor. concerned. This order must be placed in person, 6. Unresolved issues may be taken up following by mail, or by FAX to the Office of Academic and the established School of Mines Grievance Enrollment Services. Upon graduation each Procedure for Students Policy III-A-31. student is entitled to one complete transcript of the credits earned without charge. A list of School of Mines advisors is posted on the School of Mines website. Recognized Attendance activities under this policy are determined by the Every student is expected to attend each School of Mines advisor/coach. Upon request or lecture or laboratory session for which he or she is as a standard process the advisor/coach may send scheduled. The faculty has allowed no system of an e-mail notice verifying the event. authorized “cuts.” A student who fails to attend classes regularly must satisfy such requirements Campus Clearing Policy as the instructor in a course may prescribe. All graduating students are responsible for return of all college property, library books, keys, Excused Absences for School Sponsored etc., and payment of all financial obligations to Events the college before their diplomas will be released. The faculty recognizes extracurricular activities to be a valued component of student Conduct development and education. When an activity South Dakota School of Mines and results in a classroom absence, the faculty Technology subscribes to the widely recognized members have agreed to accommodate students traditions and lawful missions of tax-supported involved in these activities in accordance with this higher education in the United States. These policy. traditions and missions work to: (1) to develop students to well-rounded maturity, physically,
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socially, emotionally, intellectually, and administration. School of Mines judicial process vocationally; (2) to develop, refine, and teach provides all members of the student body with the ethical and cultural values; (3) to teach the facilities for appeal and adjudication. practice of excellence in thought, behavior, and Admission and enrollment in the university performance; (4) to teach principles of patriotism, obligates the student to be familiar with and to civil obligation, and respect for the law; and (5) to abide by the standards and the rules and transfer the wealth of knowledge and tradition regulations of the university as well as the laws of from one generation to the other. The regulations the various levels of government. Students should established by the Regents, faculty, or be aware of and familiar with such laws, rules, administration, have been developed to enhance and regulations with respect to their status on the the opportunities for fulfilling the above purposes. campus, as defined in the student code of conduct, Students are expected to adhere to and support printed annually is available to students at such policies. registration or upon request and online. Changes In general, students are expected to conduct in some of these rules may be desirable from time themselves as responsible citizens at all times and to time, and student cooperation and participation to uphold all federal, state and local laws. in bringing about changes through appropriate Conduct that is held detrimental to the college channels is encouraged. However, violations of community (composed of students, faculty, and existing regulations will not be condoned and administration) may result in disciplinary action. disciplinary sanctions may be imposed for such The Regents for the state supported violations. institutions of higher learning in South Dakota have formulated the following policy statement relating to student conduct and behavior:
The attendance of a student at one of the higher education institutions under the jurisdiction of the Board of Regents is a voluntary entrance into the academic community. By such act the student assumes obligations of conduct and performance imposed by the institution. The constitutional rights of students will not be abridged by action of the academic community. The institutions may discipline or expel the student from the academic community for any intentional act, which disrupts or prevents the accomplishment of any lawful mission, process, or function of the institution or in order to secure compliance with the obligations of conduct and performance imposed. (Regents Policy Manual, Sec. 10.1.2. June 1990)
Complete details of current policy regarding student conduct, responsibilities, and disciplinary sanctions will be found in the student code of conduct brochure. A Code of Student Rights and Responsibilities and the Board of Regents Policy on Student Conduct was adopted in January of 1995. Adopted policy serves as a basic set of guidelines for students, faculty members, and
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Registration Holidays The schedule of holidays for the institutions of Academic Terms Defined higher education is listed below. Classes shall not be scheduled to meet on holidays. The School of Mines operates a fall, spring, New Years Day and summer term. Fall and spring shall operate January 1* on a semester basis. Summer term begins the day Martin Luther King Jr. Day after spring semester ends and continues until the Third Monday in January day before fall semester begins. A semester shall consist of a minimum of Presidents Day Third Monday in February fifteen (15) weeks. The number of class days in a given semester shall be inclusive of those days set Memorial Day Last Monday in May aside for registration, assessment/performance testing and final examinations but exclusive of Independence Day holidays and days set aside for new student July 4* orientation. New student orientation may be Labor Day concurrent with or prior to registration. First Monday in September Academic guidelines require that all courses Native American Day offered for credit must involve a minimum of Second Monday in October fifteen (15 ) contact hours over three (3) Veterans Day instructional days for each credit hour awarded. November 11* Courses offered by distance education should have equivalent standards, rigor, student Thanksgiving Day Fourth Thursday in November outcomes, substance and assignments as courses offered by face-to-face means. Distance education Christmas Day courses may be scheduled on a semester basis and December 25* require that students complete learning * If January 1, July 4, November 11, or December experiences on a particular timeline (i.e. each 25 fall on a Sunday, the Monday following shall week). The required length for a distance be observed as the holiday; if they fall on a education course is determined by course Saturday, Friday shall be observed as the holiday. expectations and scheduling. The student will conclude the course upon completion of course Drop and Add Period requirements. Typically, a one credit hour course The drop/add period is the time period during lasting for a semester equates to forty-five (45) which students may adjust their academic hours of effort by the student. schedule for the term without financial or academic consequences. The last day of the Academic Calendar drop/add period for a course is designated as the Institutions of higher education, under control census date for that course and is the official date of the South Dakota Board of Regents, shall for enrollment reporting. The end of the drop and operate on a common academic calendar with add period for standard and non-standard courses common periods during the summer term and the offered in a semester shall be the date the first 10 fall and spring semesters at each institution when percent of the term ends or the day following the classes are not in session. Academic calendars first class meeting, whichever is later. When shall be designed a minimum of two (2) years in calculating 10 percent of the term, breaks of five advance with annual extensions recommended to (5) or more days are not included when counting the Executive Director by the Council of the total number of days but Saturdays, Sundays, Presidents and Superintendents no later than the and holidays are. Student registrations can only May meeting. be added to courses after the end of the drop and 45 Registration
add period by approval of the chief academic completed an honors course in high school and officer of the university. who have taken and successfully passed the appropriate College Entrance Examination Board Registration Changes Advanced Placement test with a score of three (3), All students will be assigned an academic four (4), or five (5) may receive course credit. mentor/advisor upon admission; thereafter, all South Dakota Board of Regents policy on specific course registrations and changes, other than courses for which credit is given and other withdrawal from the university, should be requirements are found at approved by the assigned mentor/advisor.
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Education, and in some disciplines the universities “Credit by Examination.” with a grade of award additional credit for higher scores. The “EX.” No entry will be made on the guide is available on the SDBOR website at permanent record if the examination is failed.
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science requirement for the bachelor of toward graduation once. The student must science degree. petition the graduate dean for permission to 2. The student shall notify the Office of take a graduate course more than two times. Academic and Enrollment Services in writing 3. A student will be allowed unlimited takes for of his or her request that the course be graded an undergraduate or graduate course for which on a pass or fail basis. Only the Office of credit toward graduation may be received Academic and Enrollment Services and the more than once (e.g., Independent Study, student’s advisor are to be notified of the Thesis). All takes will count into grade point intention of the student to be graded on a pass average calculations. Individual or fail basis. A student will have the option departments/majors may limit the number of during the drop and add period of each credits allowed toward graduation in certain semester to change from pass or fail to courses. Students should check with their traditional grading, or vice versa. mentor/advisor. 3. The instructor will report the student’s grade 4. The Audit (AU) grade is the only grade that based on the college’s regular grading system. will not be counted as a take of a course. All If a grade of “D” or better is recorded, the other grades, including Withdraw “W” grade, student will receive a “Satisfactory,” a grade will count as a take of a course. of “U” will be recorded as a “Fail,” and the 5. Transfer courses and non-courses (CLEP, “U” grade will count in calculating credits credit by exam) will also count as a take of a attempted. course. 4. Credits earned under this option may be used 6. The count for retakes will begin with courses toward a student’s graduation requirements, if in which students are enrolled fall 2003. appropriate and applicable, but only if a grade Takes of a course prior to fall 2003 will not be of “S” is recorded. A passing grade will be counted. recorded as “S" and will not be used in the calculation of the student’s GPA. A course Audited Courses and Registrations for No taken on a pass or fail basis will not be Credit converted, after a grade has been recorded, to The outside preparation of auditors is entirely a traditional grade for the purpose of voluntary. Their participation in classroom improving a GPA. discussions and examinations, and the minimum 5. The pass or fail option shall apply only to the attendance requirements are subject to student’s first registration in a course. arrangements with the instructor of the course being audited. Failure to meet these arrangements Registration Retake Policy will be cause for changing the grade in the course The registration retake policy defines how from “AU” to “W.” An auditor is allowed neither many times a student may register for (take) a credit nor a grade for the course even if the course. auditor satisfactorily passes the final examination The retake policies approved by the BOR are: of the course. An audited course cannot count 1. A student will be allowed a total of three takes toward the definition of a full-time load for for undergraduate courses (course numbers of purposes of securing financial aid nor for 001 to 499) for which credit is only counted establishing eligibility to compete in toward graduation once. The student must intercollegiate contests. An audited course may petition to the Vice President for Academic not be used to qualify for a reduced tuition rate, Affairs to be permitted to take an but will be counted toward any upper limits on the undergraduate course more than three times. number of credit hours a student may carry, and 2. A student will be allowed a total of two takes will be counted in determining requirements for for graduate courses (course numbers of 500 paying campus fees. or above) for which credit is only counted A course taken for no credit but with a grade
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will be treated the same as an audited course calculating 10 percent of the term, breaks of except that the student will be expected to prepare five (5) or more days are not included but and participate in the course to the same extent as Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays are. all other students. The grade awarded will not be 5. In extreme circumstances, students may add counted in the student’s grade point average. summer school courses after this period with The request to audit a course or to enroll with permission of the instructor and the Vice no credit must be made at the time of the drop and President for Academic Affairs (or their add period by written petition to the Office of designee). Academic and Enrollment Services. The petition 6. No student will be permitted to attend any has no effect on the tuition charges for a course. class unless he/she is registered and listed on the class attendance roll. Overloads 7. Following fee assessment, the students are A normal student load is eighteen (18) credit required to pay for all additional tuition and hours or less. An overload is a course load in fees at the Student Accounts/Cashiering excess of 18 credit hours. Services Office. Failure to pay may result in To register for an overload, students must students being dropped from the sections that consult with their academic advisors. Student they added. It is the responsibility of the requests for overload enrollments should be instructor in each class to check the class roll submitted in writing to their college dean at their carefully during the first few weeks of each “HOME” institution to grant the approval for semester to be certain that all students registration in credits beyond the overload status. attending a given class are listed on the class This approval will normally be granted based on a roll. Any student whose name does not appear student’s exceptional past academic experience. on the class roll should not be permitted to attend that class, and should be referred to the Deadlines for Adding Courses Office of Academic and Enrollment Services 1. Students may add daytime or night courses to promptly for clarification of his or her status. their schedules through the first 10 percent of 8. Students can add and drop courses by using the term. When calculating 10 percent of the WebAdvisor, a web interface to the Colleague term, breaks of five (5) or more days are not Student Information System. included but Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays Deadlines for Dropping a Course are. This date is listed in the Academic Please see “Date for a Grade of W” on page Calendar, which is on the inside front cover of 43 for information about dropping a course. this catalog. 2. In exceptional circumstances, students may Mandatory Placement Procedure add daytime or night courses with the A mandatory placement procedure for permission of the instructor and the mathematics and English is used at all department chair responsible for the student’s Regental universities in the state. The proposed additional course, through the 15th instruments and criteria used for other day of classes. mandatory placement are at the discretion of 3. Students wishing to add daytime or night each institution. courses beyond the period specified above must file a written appeal with the Vice President for Academic Affairs/Provost (or their designee); the appeal must be signed by the student and approved by the instructor of the course involved and the student’s advisor. 4. Students may add summer term courses through the first 10 percent of the term. When
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Bachelor of Science Graduation formal collaborative agreement among Regental universities are considered to be earned from the Requirements institution granting the degree.
Baccalaureate Degree Two Bachelor of Science Degrees From South Dakota School of Mines and Technology The institution granting the degree determines the honors designation for its graduates. To earn An undergraduate student who wishes to a honors designation at graduation the student qualify for a second bachelor of science degree must meet both the following cumulative and conferred by School of Mines must complete a institutional grade point averages: minimum of thirty (30) semester hours of credit in residence beyond the credit hours used for the Summa Cum Laude: first B.S. degree. equal to or greater than 3.90 Students should report their intent to pursue two (2) bachelor of science degrees to the Office Magna Cum Laude: of Academic and Enrollment Services. This action equal to or greater than 3.70 and less than 3.90 will initiate the assignment of an advisor in each discipline. Cum Laude: equal to or greater than 3.50 and less than 3.70 General Requirements
The student must have completed a minimum The following rules on graduation of sixty-four (64) credit hours at the institution requirements apply for the bachelor of science granting the degree. Courses that are part of a degree in any curriculum offered by the formal collaborative agreement among Regental university. Requirements that apply to many or universities are considered to be earned from the all programs are described below. Please refer to institution granting the degree. the curriculum for an individual degree program for specific course requirements. Each candidate Associate Degree for a degree is personally responsible for meeting all requirements for graduation. No university The institution granting the degree determines official can relieve a candidate of this the honors designation for its associate-level responsibility. graduates. To earn an honor designation at The South Dakota School of Mines and graduation, an associate-level graduate must meet Technology reserves the right to change any both the following cumulative and institutional course of study or any part of a curriculum in grade point averages: keeping with accreditation, educational, and scientific developments. With highest honor: equal to or greater than 3.90 General Education Core Requirements General education core requirements must be With high honor: completed within the first sixty-four (64) credits. equal to or greater than 3.70 and less than 3.90 Requests for exceptions to these general education requirements must be approved by the student’s With honor: advisor and by the Vice President for Academic equal to or greater than 3.50 and less than 3.70 Affairs/Provost. The required core is listed below. An associate-level graduate must have completed a minimum of 32 credit hours at the institution granting the degree. Courses that are part of a 50 Graduation Requirements
Goal #1 2. Demonstrate speaking competencies including Students will write effectively and responsibly choice and use of topic, supporting materials, and understand and interpret the written organizational pattern, language usage, expression of others. presentational aids, and deliver; Student Learning Outcomes: As a result of taking courses meeting this goal, a student will: 3. Demonstrate listening competencies by summarizing, analyzing, and paraphrasing 1. Write using standard American English, ideas, perspectives and emotional content. including correct punctuation, grammar, and sentence structure; Credit Hours: Three (3) hours 2. Write logically; Courses: 3. Write persuasively, with a variety of ENGL 279/289 Technical Communications I rhetorical strategies (e.g., expository, and II1 argumentative, descriptive); SPCM 101 Fundamentals of Speech 4. Incorporate formal research and documentation in their writing, including 1Technical Communications I and II develop research obtained through modern, written and speech communications in an technology-based research tools. integrated fashion in the context of the major. Students must finish the entire sequence, as well Each course meeting this goal includes the as ENGL 101, to satisfy the requirements of Goal following student outcomes: #1 and Goal #2. Required: #1, #2, #3, and #4 Goal #3 Credit Hours: Six (6) hours Students will understand the organization, Courses: potential, and diversity of the human community ENGL 101 Composition I through study of the social sciences. ENGL 201 Composition II Student Learning Outcomes: As a result of ENGL 279/289 Technical Communications I taking courses meeting this goal, students will: and II1 1. Identify and explain basic concepts, 1 Engineering and sciences students at School terminology and theories of the selected social of Mines take this six credit sequence in the science disciplines from different spatial, sophomore and junior years. Both courses temporal, cultural, and/or institutional develop written and speech communications in an contents. integrated fashion in the context of the major. 2. Apply selected social science concepts and Students must finish the entire sequence, as well theories to contemporary issues; as ENGL 101, to satisfy the requirements of Goal 3. Identify and explain the social or aesthetic #1 and Goal #2. values of different cultures. In addition, as a result of taking course meeting this goal, Goal #2 students will be able to demonstrate a basic Students will communicate effectively and understanding of at least one of the following: responsibly through speaking and listening. 4. The origin and evolution of human Student Learning Outcomes: Courses institutions; satisfying this goal will require students to: 5. The allocation of human or natural resources within societies; 1. Prepare and deliver speeches for a variety of 6. The impact of diverse philosophical, ethical or audiences and settings; religious views.
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Each course meeting this goal includes the following student learning outcomes: following student learning outcomes: Required: #1, #2 At least one of the following: Required: #1, #2, and #3 At least one of the #3, #4, #5, or #6 following: #4, #5, or #6 Credit Hours: Six (6) hours (in two (2) Credit Hours: Six (6) hours (in two (2) disciplines or in a sequence of foreign language disciplines) courses) Courses: Courses: ANTH 210 Cultural Anthropology ART 111/112 Drawing I and II ECON 201 Principles of Microeconomics ARTH 211 History of World Art I ECON 202 Principles of Macroeconomics ENGL 221/222 British Literature I and II GEOG 101 Introduction to Geography ENGL 241/242 American Lit I and II GEOG 212 Geography of North America ENGL 250 Science Fiction HIST 151/152 United States History I/II FREN 101/102 Introductory French I and II POLS 100 American Government GER 101/102 Introductory German I and II POLS 210 State and Local Government HIST 121/122 Western Civilization I and II PSYC 101 General Psychology HUM 100 Introduction to Humanities SOC 100 Introduction to Sociology HUM 200 Connections: Humanities and SOC 150 Social Problems Technology SOC 250 Courtship and Marriage LAKL 101/102 Introductory Lakota I and II MUS 100 Music Appreciation Goal #4 PHIL 100 Introduction to Philosophy Students will understand the diversity and PHIL 200 Introduction to Logic complexity of the human experience through PHIL 220 Introduction to Ethics study of the arts and humanities. PHIL 233 Philosophy and Literature Student Learning Outcomes: As a result of SPAN 101/102 Introductory Spanish I and II taking courses meeting this goal, students will: Goal #5 1. Demonstrate knowledge of the diversity of Students will understand and apply values, beliefs, and ideas embodied in the fundamental mathematical processes and human experience; reasoning. 2. Identify and explain basic concepts of the Student Learning Outcomes: As a result of selected disciplines within the arts and taking courses meeting this goal, students will: humanities. In addition, as a result of taking 1. Use mathematical symbols and mathematical courses meeting this goal, students will be structure to model and solve real world problems; able to do at least one of the following: 2. Demonstrate appropriate communication skills 3. Identify and explain the contributions of other related to mathematical terms and concepts; cultures from the perspective of the selected 3. Demonstrate the correct use of quantifiable disciplines within the arts and humanities; measurements of real world situations. 4. Demonstrate creative and aesthetic understanding; Credit Hours: Three (3) hours 5. Explain and interpret formal and stylistic Courses: elements of the literary or fine arts; MATH 102 College Algebra 6. Demonstrate foundational competency in MATH 115 Precalculus reading, writing, and speaking a non-English MATH 120 Trigonometry language. MATH 123 Calculus I MATH 125 Calculus II Each course meeting this goal includes the MATH 225 Calculus III
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MATH 281 Statistics from a variety of sources with intellectual integrity. Goal #6 Student Learning Outcomes: Students will: Students will understand the fundamental principles of the natural sciences and apply 1. Determine the extent of information needed; scientific methods of inquiry to investigate the 2. Access the needed information effectively and natural world. efficiently; Student Learning Outcomes: As a result of 3. Evaluate information and its sources critically; taking courses meeting this goal, students will: 4. Use information effectively to accomplish a specific purpose; 1. Demonstrate the scientific method in a 5. Use information in an ethical and legal laboratory experience; manner. 2. Gather and critically evaluate data using the scientific method; Assessment: Students fulfill the requirement 3. Identify and explain the basic concepts, by demonstrating competency through and terminology and theories of the selected assessment designed by the university. natural sciences; 4. Apply selected natural science concepts and Pre General Education Courses in English and theories to contemporary issues. Each course Mathematics meeting this goal includes the following Pre general education courses include ENGL student learning outcomes: Required: #1, #2, 031, ENGL 032, ENGL 033, READ 041, MATH #3, and #4 021, and MATH 101.
Credit Hours: Six (6) hours Completion of Pre General Education Courses Courses: BIOL 151/151L General Biology I and 1. Students placed in pre general education Laboratory courses must enroll in and complete the BIOL 153/153L General Biology II and courses within the first 30 credits hours Laboratory attempted. CHEM 106/106L Chemistry Survey/Laboratory 2. If a student does not complete the pre general CHEM 108/108L Organic Chemistry/Laboratory education course(s) within the first 30 credit CHEM 112/112L General Chemistry I and hours attempted, a registration hold is placed Laboratory on the student’s record. CHEM 114/114L General Chemistry II and During the next 12 credit hours attempted, the Laboratory student must enroll in and complete the pre GEOL 201/201L Physical Geology/Laboratory general education course(s). PHYS 111/111L Introduction to Physics I and 3. If the pre general education course(s) is not Laboratory completed within the first 42 credit hours PHYS 113/113L Introduction to Physics II and attempted, the only course(s) in which a Laboratory student may enroll is the pre general education PHYS 211 University Physics I course(s); and the student’s status is changed PHYS 213/213L University Physics II and from degree seeking to non degree seeking. Laboratory 4. Students transferring from non-Regental institutions must enroll in pre-general Goal #7 education courses during the first 30 Students will recognize when information is attempted Regental credit hours. These needed and have the ability to locate, organize, students may enroll in other courses critically evaluate, and effectively use information concurrently with the pre-general education
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courses. If the student does not complete the ACT placement score. Mathematics courses pre-general education courses during the first taken below the level of MATH 123 are not 30 Regental credit hours attempted during the totaled in the semester hours required for each next 12 credit hours attempted, the student curriculum with the exception of IS and must enroll in and complete the pre-general chemistry-applied option. MATH 021 and education course(s). If the student does not MATH 101 do not count toward any degree. successfully complete the pre-general B. Basic Sciences: minimum of sixteen (16) education course(s) within 42 attempted credit hours - CHEM 112, 112L, PHYS 211, Regental credit hours, the only course(s) in and PHYS 213 are required for all engineering which a student may enroll I the pre-general curricula. education course(s); and the student’s status is C. Humanities and social sciences: minimum of changed from degree seeking to non-degree fifteen (15) or sixteen (16) credit hours - This seeking. The Vice President for Academic subject area must include six credits in Affairs/Provost may grant an exception. humanities and six (6) credits in social sciences. The number required in your major Credit hours for the pre general education is listed in the department section of the courses are included in the total number of catalog. Students majoring in engineering credit hours attempted. must complete at least three of these credits at an advanced level. The grades assigned for courses number less than 100 will be RI, RS and RU. Humanities Art: ART 111, 112, ARTH 211, 321, 491, 492 Curricular Requirements English: ENGL 221, 222, 241, 242, 250, 300, 330, All bachelor of science programs require the 343, 350, 360, 374, 383, 391, 392, 468 general education core requirements as describe Foreign Language: FREN 101, 102, GER 101, earlier. Other requirements for each degree are 102, LAKL 101, 102, SPAN 101, 102 determined by the faculty in each program, with History: HIST 121, 122 approval through the university curriculum Humanities: HUM 100, 200, 291, 292, 300, approval process. Some of these other program 350, 375, 491, 492 requirements are common to most or all programs Music: MUAP 200, 201, MUS 100, 110, 217, offered at School of Mines. These include: 317, 326 Philosophy: PHIL 100, 200, 220, 233 A. Mathematical Sciences: all programs, with the Religion: 230, 250 exception of interdisciplinary science and chemistry-applied option, require a minimum Social Sciences of sixteen (16) credit hours of mathematics at Anthropology: ANTH 210 the level of calculus and above. To qualify for Business Administration: BADM 350, 360 MATH 123, Calculus I, a student must have Economics: ECON 201, 202 completed at least three units of mathematics Geography: GEOG 101, 212, 240, 250, 400 in high school and must have obtained an History: HIST 151, 152, 492 acceptable score on the School of Mines Political Science: POLS 100, 350, 407, 430, 440, mathematics placement examination. A 453 student with less preparation in mathematics Psychology: PSYC 101, 323, 331, 391, 392, 441, may register as a freshman in engineering but 451, 461 will be required to start the mathematics Sociology: SOC 100, 150, 250, 351, 391, 392, sequence at a level indicated by his or her 402, 411, 420, 483, 511, 520 formal preparation and all School of Mines mathematics placement examination scores or All courses numbered 300 and above are
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upper level courses. previous college education if the courses are equivalent to required or elective courses at this D. All degree candidates must complete ENGL university and if each course presented is of 101, ENGL 279, and ENGL 289, which passing quality. cannot be used to meet the humanities and The acceptability of transfer credit is social sciences requirements. determined by the student’s major department.
E. Physical Education: minimum of two (2) Credit Definitions credit hours. MUEN 101, 121, 122, and MSL 101L and MSL 102L can be counted for the Credits in Residence physical education requirement. Credit in residence within the Board of Regents system is a course offered by any of the F. Electives: Free Electives vary with the degree-granting Regental institutions at any individual department. Any course may be approved sites using any approved method of selected which is at freshman level or higher delivery. (i.e. 100 level or higher). ROTC credits may be accepted, depending on the number of Institutional Credits degree electives available in each department. An institutional credit is a credit offered by the degree granting institution and includes credits G. Science Electives Courses may be selected — that are part of a formal collaborative agreement from biology, chemistry, geology, physics, or between that institution and another Regental atmospheric science. institution.
For information regarding the Associate of Arts Validated Credits degree requirements, see page 124. Credit earned for college level courses by validation methods such as Credit by Exam, Semester Credit and Grade-Point Average CLEP, AP, portfolio, etc. within the Regental Additional requirements are listed with each system will not be considered “credits in departmental curriculum found in a later section residence.” of this catalog. All curricula require passing grades in the prescribed courses and a minimum Institutional Credit Requirements for Degree- cumulative grade point average of 2.00. Each Seeking Students engineering curriculum requires 136 hours of credit for graduation and each science curriculum 1. Minimum number of credit hours that must be requires one hundred twenty-eight (128) hours of earned from the institution granting the credit. degree:
Military Science Credits Baccalaureate 32 hours Military Science credits may apply to all Associate 16 hours degrees as free electives. This option varies with the number of free electives available in an 2. Number of the last credit hours earned individual curriculum. A veteran may petition the preceding completion of the degree that must director of Academic and Enrollment Services to be earned from the institution granting the receive credit for basic military science and degree: physical education. Baccalaureate 16 of the last 32 hours Transfer Credit Associate eight of the last 16 Articulation of credit may be allowed for hours
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required to do so, will not be allowed to register 3. Minimum number of credit hours specified in for courses at any of the state universities for two the major requirements that must be academic terms unless the student seeks and is completed at the degree granting institution: granted a deferment for a valid cause (i.e. co-op, 50 percent. internship, etc). Students failing to achieve the minimum proficiency level on one or more components of Required Check-out Procedure the exam will be allowed to retest. Retesting must All graduating seniors and students occur within one year of after initial testing. terminating enrollment at School of Mines are During that year, students may continue to enroll responsible for ensuring that they have returned in courses. As preparation for retesting, students all keys, library books, laboratory equipment, and are required to complete a development plan for other university property to the appropriate remediation, within one month of notice of failure departments prior to graduation or their last day of and in collaboration with the director of Retention enrollment. All financial obligations to the and Testing. Students will be able to retest twice university or any of its departments must also be during that year and a fee of $15.00 will be paid prior to graduation or termination of charged for each section to cover the cost of enrollment at School of Mines. testing. Perkins Student Loan recipients must Students will be informed by the testing office complete an exit interview with a Business Office when they are eligible to test. Approximately four representative prior to graduation or termination to six weeks after a student has tested, they will of enrollment at School of Mines. The university receive the results and an explanation of how to reserves the right to withhold a student’s diploma interpret their achievement. Students who failed to and/or transcript of grades for failure to meet any achieve an acceptable score within one year from of the above specified requirements. initial testing will not be permitted to continue their registration. An appeal process for Collegiate Assessment of Academic Proficiency certification of proficiency using alternate methods is available to those students. CAAP Exams Required for Graduation Effective spring semester 1998 for baccalaureate degree-seeking students and fall semester 1999 for associate degree-seeking students, the South Dakota Board of Regents has mandated that all students attending a state university in South Dakota and seeking their first undergraduate degree take and pass the Board of Regents Proficiency Examination. Baccalaureate degree-seeking students will sit for the exam on completion of 48 passed credit hours at or above the 100 level and associate degree-seeking students will sit for the exam on completion of 32 passed credit hours at or above the 100 level. Enrolled students who have already earned a baccalaureate degree are exempt from the requirement. Testing will be offered during a two-week period during the fall and spring semesters. Students who fail to sit for the exam, when
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Policies and Procedures and laptop. Unacceptable activities include, but are not The policies and procedures listed in this limited to: section were established by the South Dakota • Unauthorized file access or file transfer; Board of Regents and/or South Dakota School of • Use of another individual’s identification, Mines and Technology. For further information password, or account; regarding policies in this section, please contact • Use of computing or networking facilities one of the Vice President’s Offices at the that interferes with the work of another university or visit student, faculty member, or university
computing and network resources may be (e.g., undergraduate or graduate, full or part time), found at
Students should be aware that these rights and Final Examination Policy privileges are available to them. Formal notification regarding FERPA is provided The South Dakota School of Mines and annually. An announcement covering information Technology provides a policy for the designated as Public or Directory Information is administration of final examinations. included on posters, in the Family Matters, First The faculty, recognizing that courses and Year Information and Commuter Connection programs of instruction differ substantially and newsletters and on the Academic and Enrollment that methodologies of instruction and evaluation Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act web remain the province of each instructor, does not page at
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scheduled by the registration officer. No special faculty of the South Dakota School of Mines and individual or departmental requests will be Technology, final examinations will be the only honored in constructing the final examination events scheduled during the week of final schedule. examinations. Students having conflicts arising The instructor or instructors for each course from participation in such scheduled events must shall indicate to their department chair whether or see their professors at least one week prior to the not they intend to give a final examination, the examinations week to determine an equitable number of hours for the exam, and whether alternative to taking the examination at the additional rooms are needed for alternate seating; scheduled time. requests for additional rooms can be honored only Instructors will submit all grades not later than if rooms are available. No additions will be three working days after the last day of final permitted once the schedule has been published. examinations for the term. All final exam requests will be due from departments at the time course registry requests Requests for Waivers are due. The final version of the exam schedule In extenuating circumstances students may will be published in the Course Listings bulletin. request that a requirement stated in the academic Final exams in all laboratory courses and policies of the institution or of the South Dakota courses of one credit or less will be given during Board of Regents be waived. Examples of such the last regularly scheduled class period of the requirements include, but are not limited to, the semester. Final examinations for evening classes limit on the number of times a course may be meeting after 4:30 p.m. will be held at the last attempted, the time limits on completion of pre- meeting of the class during final exam week. general education and general education courses, Final examinations for all other courses are the academic suspension policy, the proficiency scheduled by the registration officer according to exam policy, and the change of grade from an F to the regular class meeting time during the semester a W. Students wishing to appeal must complete and must be given at the scheduled time; they may the Application for Academic Waiver form that is not be rescheduled or given prior to the start of available at the Office of the Vice President for the final examination period. Examinations will Academic Affairs or can be downloaded from be held in the regularly scheduled classrooms
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matters unrelated to academic standards. 1. Step 1 — The student should first attempt to A. Students should be free to take reasoned resolve the problem with the other person(s) exception to the data or views offered in any involved in the problem. For example, a problem course of study and to reserve judgment about with an instructor should be addressed first with matters of opinion, but they are responsible the instructor involved and the department chair. for learning the content of any course of study A problem with a campus service unit should be for which they are enrolled. taken up first with the director of that unit. B. Each institution shall establish an academic 2. Step 2 — If the problem, question, or concern appeals procedure to permit review of student is not resolved by the action taken in Step 1, the allegations that an academic evaluation was grievant must present a written grievance utilizing tainted by prejudiced or capricious Grievance Form A at the lowest administrative consideration of student opinions or conduct level having authority to dispose of the grievance. unrelated to academic standards. These A copy of the grievance should be filed with the procedures shall prohibit retaliation against administrator at the next level who is the persons who initiate appeals or who supervisor of the administrator receiving the participate in the review of appeals. grievance. C. Students are responsible for maintaining The grievance must be filed within 10 standards of academic performance working days of the date on which the incident, established for each course in which they are situation, or circumstance occurred. The enrolled. administrator upon receiving the grievance will
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appropriate and thorough investigation of the Alcohol and Drug Policy alleged incident, situation, or circumstance, including a review of the decision of the executive South Dakota School of Mines and council administrator on the Step 3 grievance, and Technology and the South Dakota Board of prepare a decision on the grievance within 20 Regents (4:27 Drug Free Environment) are working days of the receipt of the Step 4 committed to providing a drug free workplace. grievance. The grievant may be notified in person With the exception of policy 4:27:E 1-11, policy or by certified mail regarding the decision of the strictly prohibits the manufacture, distribution, president. dispensing, sale, possession, procurement, 5. Step 5 —If the grievance has not been contributing to a minor, and consumption or use resolved in Step 4, the grievant may submit a of alcohol, marijuana, or controlled substances by grievance to the Board of Regents on Grievance students and employees on any property Form D within 10 working days of the controlled by the School of Mines and in notification to the student as to the decision connection with any institutionally sponsored rendered in the previous step. This form must be activity. School of Mines students and employees filed with the executive director of Board of are expected to abide by all state liquor laws while Regents within 10 working days following receipt on any property controlled by the School of Mines of the Step 4 decision. The Board of Regents will and in connection with any institutionally review the grievance and render a final decision in sponsored activity (e.g. possession by accordance with Board procedures, policies, and consumption for students under 21 years of age guidelines. will be enforced). Furthermore, the School of Mines prohibits the possession of empty bottles, Anti-Harassment Policy cans, wine boxes, or other containers that originally contained alcoholic beverages and It is the policy of South Dakota School of being in the presence of alcohol or other drugs on Mines and Technology that harassment will not be campus proper or in the dormitories. BOR alcohol tolerated. It distracts the harasser, the victim, and and other drug policy violations are cumulative others from the tasks of the workplace and throughout a student's enrollment at South Dakota academic environment; it undermines morale and Board of Regents institutions (they stay on the the psychological well-being of the victim; and it student's discipline record and are transferable). leads to expensive litigation and to possible School of Mines alcohol and other drug policy liability. The university has no tolerance for violations are not cumulative between academic harassment, whether it occurs on or off campus, years. during or after normal business hours, at work- This policy does not replace nor restrict the related social functions, or during business-related student discipline code as established by the South travel. Any employee or student violating this Dakota Board of Regents (3.4.2.B.16.). policy will be subject to disciplinary action up to and including termination or dismissal. The Procedure South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Any employee violating this prohibition shall Anti-Harassment policy IV-A-20, the South be subject to appropriate disciplinary action, Dakota Board of Regents Sexual Harassment which may include termination of employment. policy 1:17, and the South Dakota Board of Students found in violation of the School of Regents Human Rights Complaint Procedure 1:18 Mines policy for alcohol and other drugs may or can be reviewed in their entirety at may not also be in violation of BOR policy http://sdmines.sdsmt.edu/hr/rules#, or contact the concerning alcohol and other drugs (BOR Policy Affirmative Action Officer/Title IX-EEO 3.4.2.B.16). Interpretation is at the discretion of Coordinator in the Human Resources Office. the student conduct administrator and the Judicial Committee on a case by case basis. In the event a
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student is found responsible for a second violation arena. These acts of dishonesty violate the ethical of the School of Mines Policy IV -A-03 within the values the university works to instill in all same academic year, it will be considered a members of the campus community. violation of BOR Policy (3.4.2.B.16.) Faculty and administrators should consistently automatically. communicate the importance of academic Recognized student organizations are integrity and ethical principles to our students. In expected to report underage drinking at their addition, all members of the campus community sponsored events or on their property to the should take reasonable steps to anticipate, deter, student conduct administrator for remedial action and confront acts of dishonesty in all areas of with individual students. Failure to report via the academics — research, assignments, and exams. campus student conduct process may result in The instructor of record for each course is action being taken against the student responsible for clarifying the academic integrity organization. standards for that course within the course At a minimum, students who violate the syllabus. School of Mines alcohol or other drug policy will The penalty for any act of academic be sanctioned as follows: dishonesty shall be at the discretion of the 1. 1st violation — a $50 fine, completion of the instructor of record, subject to the appeals process Choices interactive journal; if under 21, described below. Penalties may range from parental notification will include a copy of the requiring the student to repeat the work in letter of sanction being sent to the student's question to failure in the course. To ensure parent/legal guardian. fairness to all involved and to conform to South 2. 2nd violation — a $75 fine, completion of a Dakota Board of Regents policies, penalties may brief alcohol assessment and any be imposed only in accordance with the following recommended consequences from the procedure. In the following, the term “judicial assessment, one-year disciplinary probation; if officer” refers to the person appointed by the under 21, parental notification. Dean of Students to consider cases of academic 3. 3rd violation — suspension for at least a dishonesty, as described in BOR Policy 3:4. semester; in extenuating circumstances, Among other responsibilities, the judicial officer student may stay enrolled but must complete is expected to maintain university-wide records on an approved treatment program; if under 21 all actions related to student academic dishonesty. parental notification. An instructor who intends to penalize a student for an act of academic dishonesty must Policy Governing Academic Integrity provide written notification to the student and the judicial officer within ten working days of the High standards of academic honesty and time the alleged violation becomes known to the intellectual integrity are essential to the success of instructor. The written notification must include a our students and the institution. The campus description of the alleged violation, the penalty community will not tolerate acts of dishonesty in the instructor intends to impose, a statement any academic activities at School of Mines. Such notifying the student that he or she may request an acts jeopardize not only the individual student, but informal hearing with the instructor, and a also the integrity and dignity of the institution and statement describing the student’s right to appeal its members. the instructor’s final decision. The South Dakota Board of Regents has If the student desires such a hearing, he or she clearly defined those acts that constitute violations must request the hearing within 10 working days of academic integrity (BOR Policy 3.4.2.B.1). of receiving the notification or within the first 10 These acts include, but are not limited to, working days of the following semester, cheating, fraud, plagiarism, or knowingly whichever is appropriate. If an informal hearing is furnishing false information within the academic held, the judicial officer shall be present. The
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instructor must give the student written Dakota School of Mines and Technology does not notification of the outcome of the hearing, own this software or its related documentation including a description of any penalties to be and, in general, School of Mines does not have the imposed. If the student accepts the instructor’s right to reproduce such software or to permit its decision and penalties by signing a statement to reproduction by others. Microsoft MSDN is the that effect, there shall be no subsequent only exception. Please contact the ITS Help Desk proceedings. for information regarding MSDN, If the student chooses not to participate in an
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Academic Support Services with advising and registration activities, including planning class schedules, interpreting university The Office of Academic and Enrollment procedures and policies, and making referrals to Services (AES) provides academic support other university services. Peer advisors do not services to School of Mines students through the take the place of faculty academic advisors but coordination of academic orientation, they do assist them in fulfilling their roles as undergraduate academic advising, peer advising, academic advisors. Peer advisors assist these student assessment (including placement and faculty academic advisors in conducting the fall proficiency testing and survey administration), and spring registrations and the university student success publications, and tutoring to assist mentoring course. students achieve gateway competencies and to increase the percentage who graduate from School Student Assessment of Mines. AES provides academic support services to AES is responsible for administering the School of Mines faculty through advisor training, COMPASS mathematics and English placement course scheduling, degree auditing, and providing tests for new students and the Collegiate institutional research services for departmental Assessment of Academic Proficiency (CAAP) assessments, proposal writing, and accreditation tests for sophomores. AES facilitates the mid- visits. term deficiency grade reports to identify students who may be experiencing academic difficulties Academic Orientation and plans interventions when appropriate. Interest inventories are provided to assist student in Working closely with Student Services, AES choosing a career. The Student Satisfaction provides several registration and orientation Survey is also administered to assess ways in sessions in the early spring, during the summer which the school can more effectively meet and one session each at the beginning of both the student needs. fall and spring semesters. AES is responsible for the academic component of these sessions, which Student Success Publications includes placement testing, advising, and registering for courses. Publication of student success newsletters is a part of academic support at School of Mines. Academic Advising These newsletters (“FYI: First-Year Information,” “The Commuter Connection,” and “SDSM&T AES is responsible for assigning the Family Matters”) focus on informing students appropriate faculty academic advisor to first-time about academic requirements, policies, students to help them in their adjustment to procedures, and available services. AES also collegiate life. Departmental advisors are publishes a guidebook for the parents of first-time assigned to students during their second semester. students. AES publishes an advisor/mentor handbook and conducts regular training to update academic Tutoring advisors on current academic requirements and course offerings, and Board of Regents and Tutoring in all the core subjects — math, university policies and procedures. chemistry, physics, computer science, English, and more — is provided by peer tutors and is free Peer Advising to all School of Mines students through the Tech Learning Center, or TLC. Peer advisors are upper-class students selected Located adjacent to the computer lab in the by their departments to assist first-year students lower level of the Devereaux Library, the TLC is 64 Academic Support Services
open seven days/evenings a week during the regular semester and on a more limited schedule during the summer sessions. The TLC also provides computers, a television/video cassette recorder (VCR), textbooks, and other study aids for student use. For more information regarding the TLC please call (605) 394-2400 or (605) 394- 2428.
Mines Matters: The South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Career Center assists students with sharpening interview skills, finding internships, and by hosting a Career Fair in fall and spring of each year. More than 98 percent of 2005-06 graduates are working in their career field or are pursuing graduate/professional degrees and are working for more than 105 employers in 24 states.
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Educational Resources and Bookstore
Outreach Services The School of Mines Bookstore is located in the Surbeck Student Center and is owned and Black Hills Natural Sciences Field Station operated by School of Mines. All revenues (BHNSFS) generated by the Bookstore are reinvested into the School of Mines. The School of Mines Bookstore The Black Hills Natural Sciences Field Station serves the students, staff, and faculty of School of functions in cooperation with universities from Mines by providing course materials, office South Dakota, North Dakota, Mississippi, and supplies, Hardrockers apparel, computer software, Wisconsin with the purpose of providing summer etc. In addition, the Bookstore cashes personal field courses in the Black Hills and nearby areas, checks, sends and receives personal faxes, and as well as overseas. Field courses in geology and special orders books and software. Please call geological engineering are offered. For (605) 394-2374 for assistance. For additional descriptions of all courses offered, see the listings information, visit the School of Mines of the Department of Geology and Geological Bookstore’s website at Engineering in this catalog.
The Field Station operates from three sites: Center of Excellence for Advanced School of Mines campus, field camp sites during Manufacturing and Production (CAMP) the summer at Ranch A in the northern Black Hills, Wyoming, and Taskesti in the country of School of Mines formally initiated the Center Turkey. of Excellence for Advanced Manufacturing and Production (CAMP) in October of 1997. After Geology and Geological Engineering Field just three years in operation, CAMP won the Camps: prestigious Boeing Company Outstanding GEOL 410 Field Geology — five (5) weeks (six Educator Award for year 2000 and a year later the (6) semester hours) — Ranch A, Wyoming National Science Foundation (NSF) Corporate and Foundation Alliance Award. GEOE 410 Engineering Field Geology five (5) CAMP integrates students, faculty, and weeks (six (6) semester hours) — Ranch A, WY industry partners into a center whose purpose is to develop a unique approach to engineering. It GEOL 410 — Field Geology is held during five teaches students how to handle large and small (5) weeks of the summer in Taskesti, Turkey project organization, team management, presentation of project ideas and reports, and GEOE 399 — Environmental Field Geology, a other important topics not taught in the classroom. three weeks (three (3) semester hours), Rapid CAMP teaches these concepts by involving City, SD students in the actual management of exciting BHNSFS also offers youth geology field camps projects that include intercollegiate competitions and field trips. as well as industry sponsored projects. It is this first-hand involvement that makes CAMP a Further information may be obtained by successful program for creating future managers calling (605) 394-2494, or go to the website: and leaders.
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industry, and to provide a focus for manufacturing deposition (LPD) system that is comprised of a 3 assistance. kW Nd: YAG Laser, a Fanuc M16i Robot, a 2.5 - Although all students are welcome to work on D gantry motion system with a CAD/CAM CAMP projects, students who are invited to interface, and four metal powder-feed systems become CAMP members must be juniors with at with integrated CID and CCD cameras. The LPD least a 3.00 GPA or have outstanding capabilities system facilitates laser cladding, solid free-form relevant to CAMP goals. CAMP members must fabrication, and graded alloy development of both complete course work on product development, metallic and non-metallic materials. This lab also electronic communication, and business supports the development of laser ultrasonics for administration. Members must also work on a in-situ defect detect during the cladding multi-disciplinary senior design project. operations. Projects include component repair, development of laser cladding wear resistance Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and materials, material property response, thermal and Remote Sensing Lab stress modeling of the laser clad materials, and unique component direct laser fabrication. The Geographic Information Systems (GIS) The laboratory also houses state of the art and Remote Sensing laboratory provides the Direct Write technology that includes aerosol and campus and broader community with a facility for syringe deposition techniques. Similar to the LPD generating and analyzing spatially-referenced system above, Direct Write technologies also use digital information, including maps and remotely- CAD/CAM interface to add materials in a specific sensed data. The laboratory was developed by the location. Main equipment in this facility includes, Department of Geology and Geological M3D (aerosol deposition), n-Scrypt (slurry/paste Engineering in close cooperation with the South syringe deposition), EFD (slurry/paste syringe Dakota Space Grant Consortium and EROS Data deposition) and Photonic Curing (room Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The lab temperature sintering system) along with became a NASA Center of Excellence in Remote associated support equipment. Projects include Sensing in 1998. It served as an ESRI Authorized passive electronic device fabrication (resistors, Learning Center from 2000-04, and continues to inductors, capacitors and transformers), energetic offer many GIS workshops every year. devices, tissue engineering, optical devices and Undergraduate and graduate courses in GIS medical implant devices. are offered through the Department of Geology and Geological Engineering for the benefit of Advanced Materials Processing and Joining campus and off-campus users of GIS. Lab (AMP) Applications have been developed in a variety of NSF Center for Friction Stir Processing areas, including: abandoned mine inventory, (CFSP) archaeology, aquifer vulnerability, ecosystem classification, geology, hydrology, land cover The Advanced Materials Processing and classification, land use planning, mineral deposit Joining Center (AMP) was created in 2001 under modeling, mineral exploration, paleontology, a grant from the Army Research Laboratory. The wildlife habitat modeling, carbon sequestration, latest in the state of the art Friction Stir Welding and remote sensing. (FSW) and Processing (FSP) equipment was designed and installed at the School of Mines with Additive Manufacturing Laboratory (AML) our industrial partner, MTS Systems Corporation of Eden Prairie, Minnesota. This equipment The Additive Manufacturing Laboratory provided AMP with the most versatile, fully (AML) provides manufacturing research and instrumented FSW/FSP research and development development in the form of material addition in tools found anywhere in the world. Since its size scales from microns to meters. inception, AMP has added state of the art This laboratory houses the laser powder ultrasonic spot welding, pulsed fusion, and virtual
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reality joining equipment. AMP is currently during these first three years has been the staffed by three full time employees (Director, establishment of the region’s first National Research Scientist, and an Administrative Science Foundation (NSF) Research Center. This Assistant). NSF Industry University Cooperative Research AMP has developed internal research Center (I/UCRC) for Friction Stir Processing programs with the academic departments at the (CFSP) brings together the School of Mines, School of Mines through funding support for BYU, USC, UMR, and WSU and 20 industrial graduate and undergraduate students and faculty sponsors from around the world to perform members. Several graduating students have taken research and development programs to enhance responsible positions in the field of FSW/FSP the understanding of the science of FSP and within industry. Currently, AMP projects involve accelerate its implementation into industrial students from the MES, CEE, EE, ChemE, and environments. The School of Mines AMP Center CSE graduate programs and sponsors several has been designated as the Lead Institution for undergraduate senior design projects within the this NSF I/UCRC Research Center. ME and MET departments. Sophomore, junior, and senior undergraduate students are employed The Center for Accelerated Applications at the to support research efforts. Collaborative Nanoscale (CAAN) outreach programs have been developed with the local Oglala Lakota College through the The Center for Accelerated Applications at the involvement of Native American summer student Nanoscale (CAAN) focuses on the increasingly interns. The AMP Center is developing research important nanotechnology field. Nanotechnology programs with the Welding Group at the Western covers many areas of research dealing with Dakota Technical Institute (WDTI) in the fusion objects measured in nanometers. A nanometer is welding of hard to join materials. a billionth of a meter, or a millionth of a The School of Mines AMP Center is one of millimeter. A human hair’s diameter measures the world’s leading focal points for research and about 200,000 nanometers. The ultimate value of development in the emerging Friction Stir nanotechnology is quality. By building products Welding and Processing technologies. We are at the molecular level, they will last longer, work collaborating with major government laboratories, better, and push their potential to new levels. universities, and industrial companies and are Some experts predict that nanotechnology will training our students for positions of result in a new Industrial Revolution. responsibility within these organizations. AMP The industrial impact of nanotechnology is has an extensive government base of support for projected to be in excess of $1 trillion annually our R&D programs with current research within the next 10-15 years. Under Governor collaborations with the Army Research Mike Round’s 2010 Initiative for Economic Laboratory, Air Force Research Laboratory, Development, a group of distinguished South NASA Langley Research Center, and DOE Dakota researchers have joined together in a Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Industrial focused effort to conduct applied research and partnerships exist with major aerospace and development relating to nano-science and defense companies. These partnerships include engineering. The programs initiated by the center direct funding, materials and equipment are chosen for their strong commercialization contributions, and engineering consultation and potential and mutual interest to industrial partners. support. The center is positioned to utilize student AMP has developed collaborative research resources in these programs and is closely programs with Brigham Young University, associated with the Ph.D. program in nano- University of South Carolina, University of science and engineering. Missouri-Rolla, Iowa State University, Ohio State Direct write (DW) technologies support the University, Wichita State University, and the direct printing of mesoscale materials, such as University of Colorado. A major achievement metals and ceramics for conductors, dielectrics,
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ferreolectrics, and ferromagnetics through use of several techniques. Available DW equipment Center for Bioprocessing Research and includes: Maskless Mesoscale Materials Development (CBRD) Deposition (M3D), Ink Jet, n-Scrypt, and micron scale laser sintering and ablation. With the The Center for Bioprocessing Research and materials handling capability and the precision of Development is the newest of the 2010 centers the DW technology, the School of Mines created through Governor Rounds' 2010 Initiative researchers are able to: manufacture conformal for Economic Development. The CBRD Center, a antennas; integrate circuitry with bio-materials; collaborative effort between the School of Mines perform research involving tissue engineering, and the South Dakota State University, is integrated lightweight electronics, and support headquartered on the School of Mines campus. development of products that are difficult and Research activities are jointly conducted and co- expensive to construct with conventional located on the School of Mines and SDSU technologies.” campuses. CBRD's focus is on research that leads to new technologies for processing plant-derived Computational Mechanics Laboratory lignocellulose materials into biomaterials such as ethanol and key building block chemicals. It is Computational mechanics is concerned with anticipated that these efforts will reduce the the numerical simulation of advanced engineering nation’s dependence on petroleum and lower the problems. It brings together highly sophisticated production of greenhouse gases. methods of structural and applied mechanics, Because of the unique geographical location computer science and applied mathematics, and of the center, local industry by-products, such as encompasses numerical methods for application to agriwaste and logging waste will play a various mechanical engineering problems. It is significant part in providing the feedstock for bio- now a well established and growing discipline derived chemicals and fuel research. This which is increasingly exploited by engineers and research has the potential for a far-reaching scientists to optimize existing products and impact on the economy of the Black Hills, manufacturing processes and to promote the agribusiness, and the State as a whole. development of new technologies. Engineering and science collaborators from The Computational Mechanics Laboratory the School of Mines, SDSU and the Department (CML) was established to provide the basic of Energy’s National Renewable Energy infrastructure required to promote, support, and Laboratory, represent the fields of agricultural perform, academic and research activities in the engineering, biochemical engineering, field of computational mechanics at the School of biochemistry, chemical engineering, mechanical Mines. The CML (built as an addition to the engineering, chemistry, and microbiology. Civil/Mechanical Engineering Building) started Research is focusing on biomass pretreatment, its operation in January 2006 and provides much microbial conversion, separations, process needed space for a variety of high-end computing simulation and economic analysis, and microbial activities. The lab supports both state-of-the-art extremophiles from the Deep Underground computer hardware and software, providing Science and Engineering Laboratory. School of Mines students access to the modeling For more information please visit our website: capability used in industry. The lab houses
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facility houses state-of-the-art equipment to ores, raw materials, and manufactured products. conduct novel and cutting-edge research and EMES currently operates, maintains, and development in rapid tooling and polymer and oversees training in electron microscopy composite processing and prototyping. The suite (scanning and transmission electron microscopes), of rapid tooling equipment include a CNC mill, a X-ray diffraction, atomic absorption spectroscopy, CNC lathe and finishing tools such as a drill inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometry, press, saws and sanding facilities. The suite of visible and near infrared spectroscopy, and polymer and composite processing equipment carbon/sulfur and hydrogen/nitrogen/oxygen include an autoclave, two capillary rheometers, a analyses. EMES also works closely with other composite fabric braider, a filament winder, a departments on campus, which house additional precision fabric cutting table, a materials testing instruments, including a gas chromatograph- instrument, two resin transfer molding systems, a atomic emission detector, an atmospheric- single and a twin screw extruder, two vacuum pressure-ionization mass spectrometer, a proton- bagging systems, and a walk-in oven. Combined transfer-reaction mass spectrometer, a laser these capabilities provide students and faculty an particle size analyzer, Raman and FT-IR extensive set of tools with which to create the spectrometers, and scanning tunneling and atomic prototypes for the next generation of advanced force microscopes. composite structures. In collaboration with CAMP, CAPE has been Information Technology Services (ITS) played a critical role in the successes of many of the student national competition projects. CAPE Information Technology Services (ITS) serves provides expertise and facilities that have created the academic technology needs of School of the first monocoque body for the Human Powered Mines by acquiring, supporting, and enhancing Vehicle, the unified inverted wing under-carriage many of the technology resources available for for the Formula SAE vehicle, structures for students, faculty, and staff engaged in scholarly several SAE Aero Design team planes, and the activity. The mission of ITS is to provide sub-vehicle for the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, to proactive, responsive, people-oriented name a few. The CAPE plays a critical role in technologies, training, and support in the areas of supporting polymer and composite research and multimedia, computing, and networking. In innovation. For example, faculty and students are partnership with faculty, ITS pioneers new investigating advanced nanocomposites, learning technologies to provide quality protective face gear for soldiers, low thermal educational experiences outside the traditional coefficient of expansion composites and new in- classroom or to enhance traditional learning situ sensors for the health monitoring of environments. composite structures. Funding for these projects ITS supports the network and communications come from the Department of Defense and the server infrastructure for the entire campus. ITS Department of Energy. operates and maintains the campus Local Area For additional information please visit our Network (LAN) and all centralized computing website:
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Electronic Classroom (GEC, CB110), the Digital Dakota Network studio (DDN, CB109), and Tablet PC Program traditional and cutting-edge audiovisual resources The School of Mines began a tablet PC to support classroom instruction. program in fall 2006. All incoming freshmen The ITS Software Development Team is were issued convertible tablet PCs. These responsible for maintaining and updating the machines are laptops that are fully functional as a School of Mines website while providing software PC but also have a touch sensitive screen that development support to all departments on allows students to write on the screen as if it was a campus. They create specialized web software to piece of paper. This allows students to take notes meet the needs of our campus customers, in class in their own handwriting, allows them to including the Student Association, residence halls, highlight lectures from their faculty, and allows administration, special faculty projects, etc. many other functions with test taking that would All ITS staff enjoy the challenge of assisting not be available with a basic laptop. The tablet faculty in the transfer of cutting-edge instructional PCs have built in wireless capabilities so that any technology tools into the classroom, making the classroom on campus can be used as a computer learning process more efficient, effective, and lab and students can connect to the Internet and exciting. On request, ITS staff members are the campus’ file servers from anywhere on available for short class presentations on focused campus. The Help Desk for the tablet PCs is technology topics to complement curriculum. In located in the basement of Devereaux Library. 2000-01, Technology Fellows began working with faculty in this area. ITS is working closely PC Labs with the Technology Fellows to ensure All of the PCs on campus are linked to the coordination among services. campus network, providing access to file servers, ITS is involved in supporting technology to applications software, electronic mail, and the enhance many School of Mines outreach efforts, Internet. Approximately 90 PCs are located in including the on-campus daycare center (Kids campus labs, accessible to all students. An Kastle Little Miner’s Clubhouse), the Higher additional 62 PCs and Unix workstations are Education Center-West River building, the located in department labs, and these are also Technology Development Center, the Black Hills accessible to all students upon request. Many of Business Development Center, and local service the campus labs are reserved for class use much of organizations. On request, ITS will provide the day but can be used as open labs otherwise. reasonable services to currently registered PC labs are located in: students from any South Dakota institution of Civil/Mechanical Building: Room 310 higher education who may be located permanently Devereaux Library: East lower floor or temporarily in the Rapid City area. In EE/Physics Building: Room 307 partnership with the State Bureau of Information Surbeck Center and Telecommunications, ITS also provides In these labs students have access to standard services to local state agencies. office productivity software, as well as electronic mail and World Wide Web/Internet. Many of the ITS Help Desk labs are also equipped with discipline-specific The ITS Help Desk assists students, faculty, software packages. See and staff with software and hardware questions
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applications, online surveys, MS Word, MS who are taking the class at the same time. Excel, and MS Access programming solutions. Information Technology Services is The information services team can be responsible for recording and televising the contacted via the Technology Help Desk at (605) distance education courses. To inquire about 394-1234, Vickie Bender at (605) 394-1299, or by distance offerings, check the Schedule of Classes e-mail to [email protected]. or contact Academic and Enrollment Services (605) 394-2400. Interactive Supplemental Materials All faculty at School of Mines have access to Distance Education Using Videoconferencing Internet and electronic mail facilities. Faculty The Digital Dakota Network (DDN; located in have the capability to use interactive CB109, CB110, and CB106 videoconferencing videoconferencing technologies to meet with facilities link all six South Dakota universities, as students. Some classes use listserves or chat well as all South Dakota K-12 school districts, groups to distribute additional material and for and many state agencies with interactive communication and discussion among students. videoconferencing capabilities. Students have the option of corresponding All videoconferencing sites are fully through mail, telephone, fax, and electronic mail interactive, so students at every site receiving the with faculty and instructors. The course syllabus class can see and hear the faculty member at the will list options for course material delivery. originating site. Students at any participating site Distance instructors will provide contact can ask questions of the faculty member and information (e-mail address and telephone students at the other sites, and participate in class number) that will be provided to students, along discussion. with their course materials. If students have Other videoconferencing applications are also privacy concerns regarding using Internet-based supported via DDN, and Internet2, such as student communications, please contact the Help Desk at job interviews with potential employers or [email protected] or (605) 394-1234 for meetings with research sponsors. assistance. Governor’s Electronic Classroom Distance Education Course Delivery Systems The Governor’s Electronic Classroom Distance education courses are available via facilities link all six South Dakota universities Internet, and various interactive media. The with interactive videoconferencing and a tightly technology of distance education is changing as coupled computing environment. Courses taught fast as technology itself, and School of Mines in this classroom can simultaneously involve strives to benefit students by taking advantage of faculty members and students at two or more cutting-edge technologies for course delivery. As sites. All participants can see and hear the other technologies become available, they will be sites. The videoconferencing equipment incorporated into the offerings. automatically switches to the site where someone Video-based courses at School of Mines is speaking. The videoconferencing capability in usually include segments filmed in the classroom this classroom can also be used to connect to as the lecture is being presented to the on campus compatibly equipped sites around the world via students during the current semester. This is ISDN telephone lines. When not reserved for especially important in the science and classes, this facility is available for other engineering classes because of today’s rapid videoconferencing applications such as student advances in knowledge and technology. Most job interviews or meetings with research sponsors. distance learning classes are “semester based,” (i.e., distance students are expected to complete Internet2 Videoconference Room each class within the semester the course is Another videoconferencing venue is available taken?. This gives distance students the in Surbeck Center. This facility permits opportunity to meet and work with other students videoconferencing via Internet2 (H.323 standard)
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network connections, as well as with ISDN dialup incorporated into a system called C-Lock that can connections. The room is a conference room and be used by farmers and ranchers to predict how works best for small groups. specific agricultural management practices are likely to affect carbon storage in soil. The C-Lock Institute of Atmospheric Sciences (IAS) system can then quantify the potential carbon storage in a way that makes it possible for The Institute of Atmospheric Science (IAS) at the individual landowners to generate income through School of Mines has a rich history of research participation in the emerging global carbon going back to 1959, when the emphasis was on market. weather modification and hail damage research. In another example, information gained Areas of scientific emphasis have broadened through linked observations and models in the today to include aspects of atmospheric studies Black Hills is being used to predict when and varying from air quality to convection in the where lightning-caused fires are likely to occur. In atmosphere to ecosystem structure and the effects addition, IAS scientists and students make field of climate on our earth’s ecosystems. measurements during active fires using portable, The expanded mission of the Institute of solar-powered mesonet stations specifically Atmospheric Sciences is to study the physical, deployed in the area of the fire, which are chemical, and biological processes that affect the integrated with larger-scale observations and composition and dynamics of the earth’s models generated and maintained by the National atmosphere. Our research and educational Weather Service in order to help deploy fire- programs focus on regionally relevant issues of fighting resources for maximum safety and national concern and global importance. Research effectiveness. conducted at the IAS is linked to undergraduate, The IAS strives to improve our understanding master of science (M.S.) and doctorate (Ph.D.) of the earth’s natural ecosystems using degree curricula that provide a fundamental observations made on a variety of platforms, such understanding of the atmosphere, biosphere, and as a microwave radiometer, aircraft, and hydrosphere. Together our research and atmospheric soundings. These observations focus educational programs provide opportunities for on specific phenomena such as lightning and students to conduct theoretical and applied severe storms and are linked to complex research and training related to earth-atmosphere numerical models used to predict short and long- systems and their interactions. term system behavior. Current modeling studies The vision of IAS is to create opportunities for focus on hailstorms, thunderstorm electrification students to become colleagues with IAS faculty in (including lightning), precipitation processes, the conduct of cutting edge research to determine their modification by cloud seeding, winter how the Continental Earth System functions, and orographic clouds, and marine boundary-layer in the transformation of this science into products clouds. and services of value to society. IAS researchers Mesoscale research has focused on the study convert observations made across scales of time of factors governing the initiation and and space, from atmosphere to leaf, into fluxes of organization of convective storms, mesoscale heat, moisture, material and momentum. These cloud systems, and topographic effects on airflow fluxes are then incorporated into numerical and precipitation. Recent work has included models that describe the behavior of natural analysis of severe wind-producing convective systems and that can predict their behavior in the storms and observational studies of bow echoes future. and supercell storms carried out jointly with the The new knowledge developed as a result of National Weather Service, Rapid City, to increase basic research about the earth’s biogeochemical the understanding of these storms and to improve system is transformed by IAS students and forecasting. scientists into practical applications. For example, An ongoing project involves studies of lake- information concerning the carbon cycle has been effect snow storms and interactions of the
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wintertime Great Lakes with larger-scale weather instrumented flux towers, one located in a systems. Another area of continuing research is forested site in the Black Hills and one located in the study of the influences of surface conditions, a grassland site not far from Rapid City. Both especially moisture availability, on mesoscale towers serve as platforms for real-time weather and climate. Related numerical modeling measurements of carbon fluxes that tell us how studies include the coupling of atmospheric, fast the forest and grasslands are growing and surface, and subsurface hydrologic processes in whether or not the ecosystems are gaining or mesoscale models. Work is underway on remote losing carbon. In addition, each tower includes sensing of land surface properties and processes instrumentation to measure the movement of and the use of remotely sensed data to initialize water vapor, heat, and energy through the system. mesoscale models. New areas of work include the These measurements are transmitted to central application of high-resolution mesoscale models computers, where the observed data are compared to incident meteorology (as in wildfires) and to model predictions of the transfers and local-scale ensemble forecasting. Global cloud transformations of nutrients, energy, and and aerosol properties are being retrieved from moisture. The models can then be modified to satellite data, and their influence upon the earth’s improve their accuracy. radiation budget and climate change is under IAS has state of the art laboratory facilities to study. Access to the supercomputer facilities of analyze key constituents of terrestrial and aquatic the National Center for Atmospheric Research at ecosystems. For example, the Biogeochemistry Boulder, Colorado, has been of great value in Core Facility, made possible by a recent grant running the larger cloud models. Recently, a from the National Science Foundation and housed cluster computer has been acquired, so most in IAS, is an analytical and research laboratory models can now be run in-house as well as on facility shared by IAS and the Civil and remote computers. Environmental Engineering department. In order to leverage scientific and intellectual Additional laboratory facilities in IAS focus on resources in the region, IAS scientists collaborate measurements of atmospheric constituents that with many partnering institutions such as the have the potential to affect the radiation and the National Center for Atmospheric Research and oxidant balance of the earth system. the EROS Data Center, and with several Tribal As IAS looks to the future, we are working to Colleges, including Sinte Gleska and Oglala develop additional unique opportunities Lakota Colleges. Unique facilities associated with associated with our region that leverage our these collaborations include a tethered balloon historical strengths and developing expertise. For system operated by IAS students and scientists for example, the T-28, a specialized aircraft designed observing atmospheric chemistry profiles, ground to penetrate and investigate severe storms, and aircraft-based LIDAR systems owned and operated for more than 30 years by IAS scientists operated by OLC and a local business enterprise, for the NSF, was recently retired. Plans are respectively. In addition, IAS students often serve underway to procure its successor, the A10 as interns at the local National Weather Service Warthog, which will have enhanced capabilities. Office, located adjacent to campus and linked to The IAS is also developing plans linked to the IAS through a fiber optic cable and have been establishment of a National Underground Science employed as "weekend" weather forecasters at Laboratory that may be located in a mine in the local TV stations. Black Hills. IAS plans call for the creation of a The Carbon Cycle Science research program world class vertical “cloud chamber” that will be in IAS provides an example of how IAS scientists used to elucidate fundamental mysteries about the work together in interdisciplinary teams using a origin and development of atmospheric range of analytical and observational tools with hydrometeors and particles. Finally, IAS is the aim of converting cutting edge science into establishing an Advanced Visualization Center in products that can be applied to real-world collaboration with the Computational Mechanics problems. The program is anchored by two fully- Lab established in the Mechanical Engineering
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Department. • A NOAA-funded project involving Most of the Institute’s scientists teach in the collaborations with Black Hills State university’s Department of Atmospheric Sciences. University, the Black Hills Center for The Department offers a B. S. in atmospheric American Indian Health, and the Western sciences through the Bachelor of Science in Research Alliance to establish the Great Plains Interdisciplinary Sciences (B.S.I.S.) program, an Center for Atmosphere and Human Health. M.S. degree, and a Ph.D. degree in Atmospheric and Environmental Science. The Institute employs Library both undergraduate and graduate students from atmospheric sciences as research assistants. The Devereaux Library, located in a four-story Current IAS projects that illustrate the varied building on the north side of the campus along opportunities for students interested in Saint Joseph St., provides a wide variety of interdisciplinary atmospheric research include: resources and services for students, faculty, staff, and the community. During the academic year, • An NSF and NOAA-funded project to develop the library is open ninety-five (95) hours each more effective strategies to prevent soil week. erosion and the resultant sedimentation of The library’s main level is the location of the rivers. South Dakota Reading Room, reference • NSF and NASA projects to link models of the collection, electronic resources, reference desk, fundamental physics of lightning to the downtime (the popular reading area), circulation resultant impacts on local and regional desk, interlibrary loan, technical services, and atmospheric chemistry. administrative offices. • An NSF project to study the interactions of the The lower level of the library contains the Great Lakes with winter storms. literature collection, Government Documents • A NASA project to assess the role of post- Collection, movies (VHS and DVD), audiobook Soviet land use change on regional climate. collection, an audiovisual listening and viewing • An NSF funded project to determine the role room, study areas, and a PC laboratory. The Tech of prairie wetlands on the climate of the Learning Center and Tablet Central are also Northern Great Plains. located on the lower level. • An NSF project to develop a digital online The second level of the library houses an archive of airborne in situ observations extensive journal collection, the print versions of obtained during 15 years of summer Abstracts and Indexes and study areas. thunderstorm field projects. The library’s top level houses the majority of • A defense contract on assessing the role of the Main Book Collection, the Special Collections assimilating abridged atmospheric data into vault and study areas. incident meteorology scenarios. The library’s collection supports the entire • A Department of Defense project designed to range of academic disciplines, with a primary develop and test methods to evaluate the focus on science and engineering; it contains potential effectiveness of various fabrics with approximately 180,000 volumes. Special respect to their resistance to chemical and collections include the South Dakota Collection, biological agents. audiovisual materials, extensive documents from • An NSF project to link science and Native every branch of the federal government, and American culture through the exploration of patents and trademarks. Devereaux Library is an special places in the Black Hills. official Patent and Trademark Depository Library, • IAS is participating in Phase II of the Big Sky the only such designation in South Dakota, as well Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership, as a participant in the Federal Depository Library formed to evaluate options for CO2 Program. The library’s collection includes sequestration in four Great Plains states. hundreds of CD-ROMs and a growing collection of videos, DVDs, and audiobooks.
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Devereaux Library is a “library without or the collections. These activities support the walls,” providing electronic access to many of its department’s university-level educational resources. The Library has developed its own programs. Inquiries from the public about web home page, providing access to other library specimens and discoveries are welcomed and catalogs, electronic databases, and all other often lead to partnerships with local ranchers and resources on the Internet. Patrons may use the fossil enthusiasts. Many volunteer opportunities web page to ask reference questions, order are available. Through partnerships with Federal interlibrary loans, make suggestions about the and State agencies, the museum collects, library’s resources and services, search the online conserves, and houses these unique, often rare, catalog, and renew books. resources. Devereaux is a teaching library, offering Of interest to the public and the general classes that introduce patrons to the state’s online student are exhibited skeletons from the Late catalog (SDLN) and to the Internet. Individual Cretaceous marine and non-marine rocks to the instruction in the use of electronic resources is Mid-Tertiary Big Badlands of western South available weekdays at the Reference Desk. To Dakota, providing a vivid impression of Dakota facilitate teaching an electronic classroom was life in ancient times. Spectacular minerals from added last year. Nicknamed I-Hub it has a 50 throughout the world, arranged by the Dana inch plasma screen, access to the Internet, and a System, are on exhibit. The South Dakota Hall of DVD player. I-Hub is located near the Reference Minerals focuses on the diversity of Black Hills Desk. minerals, and also included are special exhibits Devereaux Library’s primary mission is to featuring fluorescent minerals. Lapidary support the university, but the public is also specimens of local agates, meteorites, and native welcome to use its resources and services. gold complete this unique collection. The museum is open to the public throughout Museum of Geology the year. Tours for groups may be scheduled with the museum, which is located on the top floor of The Museum of Geology is an outstanding the O’Harra Building. The museum may be part of School of Mines particularly as the reached at (605) 394-2467 or (800) 544-8162, ext. museum and surrounding region is rich in fossils, 2467. rocks and minerals, many that comprise the museum’s collections and exhibits. South Dakota Space Grant Consortium Approximately 350,000 specimens, pertaining to the fields of vertebrate paleontology, The South Dakota Space Grant Consortium mineralogy, invertebrate paleontology and (SDSGC) was established March 1, 1991, under a paleobotany are on public display or in the grant from the National Aeronautics and Space research collections. Museum collections form Administration (NASA). Consortium members in the basis for staff and student research. The addition to South Dakota School of Mines and museum provides an active educational outreach Technology include Augustana College, South program to area schools and organizations. Dakota State University, and the USGS National Undergraduate paleontology education is an Center for Earth Resources Observation and option within the geology curriculum, whereas Science (EROS). Horizons, Inc., SAIC, graduate education opportunities can lead to the Honeywell, Cynetics Corp., Raven Industries, and degree of master of science in paleontology or RESPEC are industrial affiliates. Educational Ph.D. in the geology and geological engineering affiliates include Black Hills State University, department. The museum serves as an aid to the University of South Dakota, Dakota State department as its staff provides several museum University, Lake Area Technical Institute, Oglala and vertebrate paleontology courses along with Lakota College, Sinte Gleska University, Lower practical experience through summer field Brule Community College, the South Dakota expeditions and participation within the laboratory Discovery Center and Aquarium, Teaching
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SMART (a program of Girls Inc. of Rapid City), For more information, see the South Dakota Kirby Science Discovery Center, The Journey Space Grant Consortium website located at Museum, Black Hills Astronomical Society, and
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assists in organizing and publicizing events, and Photography in recruiting participants through a variety of Photography services are provided to ways. document campus events. Reprints of photos are Through traditional avenues such as media available through the public information relations and advertising, and through campus coordinator. Photos can be made available events and other opportunities, the Office of electronically for publications or the web. Communications and Marketing spreads the positive message about how School of Mines can Surbeck Center Scheduling Services help students reach their goals and achieve their dreams. As the student union for School of Mines, Services provided by the Office of Surbeck Center provides more than just 71,000 Communications and Marketing include square feet of space devoted to campus and publications, graphic design and layout, media community activities; it also provides information relations, and photography. services, equipment check-out for students and scheduling services for all of campus. Surbeck Publications Center’s main office serves as a one-stop The publications manager coordinates the scheduling center assisting with the reservation production of all major campus publications and coordination of University resources for the including, but not limited to, the catalog, various activities of the University - academic, recruitment publications, and the School of Mines student, departmental, community and and Technology Hardrock magazine. Staff professional. Additionally, Surbeck Center staff members of the Office of Communications and provide assistance for all on campus activities, marketing staff are available to edit and proof events, academic and summer conference publications produced by campus departments and scheduling as listed below. offices. Staff can also assist with the coordination Surbeck Center’s main floor houses a large of printing bids. student lounge, the alumni office, the bookstore, banquet-ballroom, career planning office, Graphic Design and Layout conference rooms, counseling, the dean of Communications and marketing staff students office, health service facilities, mail members are experienced in creating materials boxes for all students living on campus, student including advertisements, newsletters, brochures, accounts and cashiering services office, the main and fliers, using industry-standard software, office for residence life, and the Surbeck Center multiple scanning platforms, and print output offices. The dining hall, snack bar, recreation formats. area, student activities and leadership center, Ivanhoe International Center, the multi-cultural Public Information and Media Relations activities office, campus ministries, and display The public information coordinator organizes areas can be found in the lower level in addition all media activities for the campus, including to more meeting rooms and “hang-out” space for press releases, weekly tip sheets, and hometown students. Surbeck Center includes an addition releases. It is a goal of the university to provide completed in December of 1971 and newly faculty, students, and staff with recognition for renovated spaces completed in 2004. their achievements. Hometown releases are sent for student achievements including Dean’s List, Summer Conference Services Honors Convocation Awards, and From mid-May through mid-August, the Commencement. Students, faculty, and staff are campus of School of Mines provides conferencing encouraged to notify the public information services to a variety of guests. Surbeck Center coordinator regarding newsworthy achievements staff is available to confirm and coordinate your and events. reservation information and to assist with special event planning and logistical needs to ensure a
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successful experience for summer guests. student mentors serve as role models, tutors, and friends who can help freshmen experience a Academic Scheduling smooth transition to college success. Women are The office of Academic and Enrollment paired by major, interests, and hobbies and Services determines the initial classroom participants in the program meet monthly. For assignments and provides this information to more information on the WISE program at the Surbeck Scheduling. Typically, fall and spring School of Mines, please refer to semesters are downloaded to the scheduling
Reserving Facilities All scheduling of campus resources begins with Surbeck Center. Scheduling and event staff for Surbeck Center process and coordinate all requests for use of University facilities, services, and equipment. Once a request is received, documentation requirements are determined; Surbeck Scheduling staff then coordinate with the appropriate authorizing and resource providing departments. Campus resources are reserved by contacting Surbeck Center’s scheduling and event staff. Telephone Number: 605.394.6774, Fax Number: 605.394.6998, and e-mail address: [email protected].
Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) program The Women in Science and Engineering program is dedicated to addressing the university’s continuing concern about the under- representation of women in science and engineering disciplines nationwide. The program is based on the belief that maintaining American global preeminence in science, engineering, and technology fields can only be achieved by fully developing the intellectual capital women have to offer. The Women in Science and Engineering staff work with students, faculty, and staff to provide an inviting and supportive environment at the School of Mines for women at all levels of study. The Mentor and Mentees (M&M) program at the School of Mines pairs upper-level female science and engineering students with under class women to give the younger women the support they need to succeed. The junior- and senior-level
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Student Services the academic year, as well as working with students on an individual basis. In addition, the Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Career Center sponsors several professional Students development workshops to help students develop their social networking, business etiquette, The Vice President for Student Affairs and cultural awareness, and other skills important to Dean of Students office develops, manages, and career success after graduation. Career resources directs student services programs at School of available to students include employer materials, Mines. These programs are designed to assist placement and salary data, interest inventory students in fulfilling their academic, educational, programs, Career Guides, publications, and other and career objectives by developing their information that can help students make career optimum potential intellectually, socially, and decisions, search for jobs, and prepare for emotionally. interviews. The Vice President of Student Affairs and On-Campus Interviews: Each year many Dean of Students serves as a student advocate; companies visit the campus to recruit School of advises School of Mines community on student Mines students for full-time, summer, or co-op matters; supervises all units within student affairs; positions. The Career Center coordinates the conducts student-centered research; advises scheduling of campus interviews through an e- student organizations; develops student-related recruiting system, which can be accessed at policies; and produces the campus safety and
Career Counseling: Individuals interested in a student on co-op who is registered for CP credit information on career choices, deciding a major, shall be considered to have full-time status. or changing majors are encouraged to contact the Administration: The Cooperative Education director of Career Center at (605) 394-2667. Steering Committee is comprised of the Resources available to School of Mines students departmental Cooperative Education include access to an electronic interest inventory Coordinators, the Provost and Vice President for assessment and other career planning tools. Academic Affairs, and the director of Career Alumni Placement Assistance: The Career Center. The committee is responsible for Center offers School of Mines alumni free access developing cooperative education industrial or to its online résumé and job posting system. Visit business experiences; assisting students with
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visual or auditory impairments, dyslexia, every day. Many foods are prepared right before ambulatory impairments, etc. Students wishing to your eyes — only moments before serving. Daily use the Assistive Technologies Lab must be ADA features include traditional home-style meals, certified through the campus counselor and ADA fresh-cooked pastas and simmering sauces. Also coordinator. Walk-ins are welcome. Call (605) enjoy hot and hearty traditional and vegetarian 394-2416 for information or an appointment. soups, bisques and chowders as well as a taste- tempting salad bar and our make-to-order grill. Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Prevention Miner’s Shack Snack Bar is a one stop shop! Program (ATOD) From convenience items to made to order pizzas, overstuffed deli sandwiches on Montana Wheat The Office of Student Affairs recently Bread, hearty soups, burgers and more, this one received two grants to help address ATOD issues. stop shop is sure to be a favorite. Choose what The Campuses Community Prevention Coalition you would like ala carte and use your Declining (CCPC) was established in 2005 and the Tobacco Balance Dollars or cash to make your purchase! Prevention Program in 2006. Both programs offer a wide range of educational services including Health Services ATOD surveys, social norms information, bystander training, wellness activities, counseling The Student Health Service is a two-part and referral, alcohol and drug prevention classes program that provides undergraduate and graduate such as Choices and Prime For Life. (605) 394- students the best medical care possible at 2416. reasonable cost.
Suicide Prevention Program Part I — Clinical Service Each student (graduate and undergraduate) The Office of Student Affairs recently must have a complete Proof of Immunization for received a suicide prevention grant from the Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR), signed by Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services a physician. Forms are to be submitted to the Administration (SAMHSA) of the U.S. Dean of Students office; once processed, the form Department of Health and Human Services to help will be on file in the Student Health office. the college identify various factors related to Failure to provide the completed Immunization depression, stress and suicidal thoughts. A Form will result in denial of registration. “gatekeeper” program is being taught to students Meningitis vaccinations are strongly and staffs regarding identification, intervention, recommended, especially for students living in the referral and services available to students. (605) residence halls. Those graduate students who are 394-2533. enrolled exclusively in distance education courses, and who do not attend on-campus Dining Services classes, do not need to meet the immunization requirements. School of Mines Dining Services would like An on-campus nurse and physician assistant to invite students, faculty and staff to dine on are available during posted hours. Student Health campus in the Hardrocker Dining Hall or the staff provide routine medical treatment on Miner’s Shack Snack Bar. They are both located campus. When deemed necessary, the campus in the lower level of the Surbeck Student Center. health provider will refer the patient for or will Use your all-you-care-to-eat meal plans, provide additional administered services. Declining Balance Dollars, or pay by cash in the Recommended or required vaccinations are Hardrocker Dining Hall. You’ll find an abundant provided at minimum cost. Procedures for variety of fresh foods, prepared from scratch emergency care are listed in the campus safety
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brochure. Student health fees are included in the the provision of newspapers and literature from mandatory general activities fee that all students native countries. pay at registration. The IIC also serves as a resource for various community groups and individuals, and Part II — Optional student injury and sickness collaborates with area universities and limited benefit insurance plan organizations on a number of activities. The Optional student health insurance is available physical facility of the IIC offers a relaxed setting through student injury and sickness limited for students to work on computers, collaborate on benefit plan for purchase. This coverage is projects, read a native publication, or just “hang mandatory for all international students in order to out” with friends. provide protection from serious financial For students planning to study abroad, the IIC hardship. Since this is a group policy for students is a good place to start the process. There are a enrolled in South Dakota Board of Regents number of options available for students to institutions, the cost has been held to a minimum consider, and the IIC can help students identify to cover most of the normal hospitalization and the option best suited to them. surgical charges. Additional coverage may be The IIC welcomes everyone who wishes to purchased for student’s spouse and dependents. become involved in any of its programs, For complete information regarding this student particularly the Friendship Family Program and health insurance plan, contact the School of Mines the Conversation Partners Program. Business Office, Student Health Services, or the Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Multicultural Affairs Students, or the university website. The Office of the Multicultural Affairs/Study Ivanhoe International Center Center is located in the student lounge area in the basement of Surbeck. Staff is committed to the The Ivanhoe International Center (IIC) was recruitment and retention of students of color. established through the generosity of alumnus The office provides the following services: Lytton F. “Buster” Ivanhoe, in the fall semester, identifies, motivates and prepares School of 1994. The Center is located in the lower level of Mines and K-12 students at the college and pre- Surbeck Center and is the center of international college level to enter and successfully progress activities on campus, including services for through science, technology, engineering and international students and for students who may mathematics educational pathways, provides be planning to study abroad. The Ivanhoe supplemental tutoring, mentoring and other International Center is a department in the academic enrichment programs, administers division of Student Affairs. scholarship programs and identifies supplemental A broad program of services is provided to sources of financial assistance and scholarship, international students, including assistance with housing inquiry referrals, assists in co- US Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS, op/internship/employment placement, sponsors formerly known as the INS) student matters; social and cultural enrichment events and advocacy with all campus offices, organizations, activities to nurture cross-cultural understanding and the surrounding community; housing inquiry and inclusion, hosts time management/test taking referrals; federal income tax requirements; and the workshops, coordinates service projects and international student list serve. The IIC outreach opportunities to sustain cultural identity coordinates orientation sessions, the English as a in the larger Rapid City community, and Second Language (ESL) program, social maintains a reference library of cross-cultural and activities, community and campus outreach, and diversity literature. Part of the recruitment efforts focus on involvement with provides prospective
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students, K-12 teachers, and professional staff Most first and second year students are required to with multiple opportunities. live on-campus. The South Dakota Board of The multicultural activities office coordinator, Regents policy # 3:6 on housing states the located within the Office of Multicultural Affairs, following: “during the first two (2) years from the Surbeck Center, provides educational information time they were or would have been graduated and programming for all students so they are more from high school, all unmarried students who aware of multiple cultural customs, traditions and enroll in courses delivered on a main campus for issues. Both offices are committed to work with, six credit hours or more are required to enter into support efforts, and provide leadership in the a housing agreement with the institution unless quest for a multicultural environment at School of special permission to room elsewhere is received Mines. To this end, the Office of Multicultural from the institution. Permission ordinarily shall Affairs has a dynamic definition of be granted to students with dependent children or multiculturalism: the interweaving of culture, to students who reside full time during the race/ethnicity, social class, religion, geographic academic year with parents or legal guardians. location, age, and gender. Through this definition Students who have enrolled for twelve (12) or they embrace similarities, respect the differences more credits for four semesters may be exempted among groups, and discourage assumptions based from this agreement at the discretion of the on stereotypical notions about someone’s culture. institution.”
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to purchase a meal plan each semester. (h) are military veterans with one or more years of active service; or On-Campus Living (i) are classified as special students (enrolled, but Connolly Hall, completed in 1948, Palmerton not admitted/non-degree seeking); or Hall, completed in 1969, and Howard Peterson (j.) are taking less than six credit hours. Hall, completed in 2004, provide comfortable living accommodations for approximately 570 Exemptions are initiated by completing the students on campus. All students who live in a Residence Hall Exemption form (available residence hall are required to abide by the online). When a student signs the Residence Hall policies, regulations, and guidelines of the Exemption form, he or she is certifying that the residence halls. The Residence Life Handbook, conditions of an approved exemption as described provided to each resident, covers all such policies, in (a) through (j) above exist. Any exceptions to regulations, and guidelines. Resident Assistants, the above policy must be supported by full written students employed by Residence Life, live and documentation of the individual circumstance(s) work with students to ensure the residence hall and are subject to the approval of the director of communities are environments conducive to Residence Life. academic success. Local telephone service, high speed internet Graduate Housing connections and expanded basic cable TV service In general, campus housing availability is are available and included in rent. Rooms are limited for graduate students because of furnished with a bed (frame with mattress), a undergraduate demands. No married student desk, and a study chair for each resident. housing is available. Residence hall applications Additionally, closet space, wastebasket, and and information are not automatically provided to dressers are also provided. Telephones, TVs, and graduate students; therefore, if students want such computers are not provided. Rooms in Howard application/information, please visit our website Peterson Hall have air-conditioning and in-room at
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Mines Matters: The Ivanhoe International Center provides assistance to international students so they may successfully complete their chosen degree program at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Approximately 100 students from 22 countries are currently pursuing their degrees at the School of Mines.
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Student Activities Association for Computing Machinery Association of Engineering Geologists Student Activities and Leadership Center Drill and Crucible Club Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers The mission of the Student Activities and Institute of Industrial Engineers Leadership Center (SALC) is to enhance student Linux User Group involvement through educational and social Materials Advantage activities while promoting leadership Paleontology Club development through empowering students. The Robotics Team SALC motto is: “Connecting you to the campus, Society of Automotive Engineers International preparing you for the world.” The center provides Alternative Fuel Vehicle organizations support for a diverse range of Baja SAE programming ideas, new member recruitment, and Formula SAE teambuilding activities. Organizations can also Society of Economic Geologists use several office resources as needed. The center Society of Explosive Engineers creates and implements new student orientation Society of Women Engineers sessions, leadership development programs, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle student organizations and programs, and advises the homecoming committee. The SALC also Athletic Organizations provides advisors for a variety of student Cycling Club organizations including student government, Hardrocker Climbing Club student programming board, and the campus Hot Rockers Dance Team Greek council. SDSM&T Racquet Club “Racqueteers” Ski and Snowboard Club Student Organizations Tech Soccer Club Involvement in student organizations is strongly encouraged at South Dakota School of Community Service Organizations Mines and Technology. Through co-curricular Circle K involvement, students develop their leadership Engineers and Scientists for Peace International skills, and gain real-life experiences in Habitat for Humanity collaboration, critical thinking, and time Students Against Drunk Drivers management. There are more than 80 organizations at School of Mines, with new ones Greek Organizations being created throughout the year. To find out Alpha Chi Sigma how to get involved in any of these organizations, Alpha Delta Pi or to get information about starting an Alpha Omega Epsilon organization, contact the SALC. Delta Sigma Phi Interfraternity Council Academic Organizations Theta Tau Aero Design Team Triangle AIChE ChemE Car American Chemical Society Honor Societies American Institute of Chemical Engineers Alpha Pi Mu American Society of Civil Engineers Eta Kappa Nu Concrete Canoe Order of Omega Steel Bridge Phi Eta Sigma American Society of Mechanical Engineers Tau Beta Pi Human Powered Vehicle
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Multicultural Organizations Student Association American Indian Science and Engineering Society All regularly enrolled students at School of Association of Norwegian Students Abroad Mines are eligible for active membership in the Chinese Student and Scholar Association student association upon registration and payment Cultural Expo Committee of the required activity fees. The purpose of the India Club student association is to administer and coordinate Mongolian Student Association student activities; to provide a means for representing student ideas and opinions to faculty, Religious Organizations administration, and the community; and to Christian Challenge / Baptist Campus Ministry improve and clarify academic, cultural, Fellowship of Christian Athletes recreational, and social aspects of the academic International Christian Fellowship community. The student senate conducts the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship affairs of the student association. Latter-day Saint Student Association Elections for class representatives and Lutheran Campus Ministry Senators occur in spring semester, with the Muslim Student Association exception of the Freshman class, which occurs in Newman Club the fall semester. The president of the student United Campus Ministry senate appoints additional representatives.
Special Interest Organizations Tech Activities and Programs (TAP) Ambassadors for Life Tech Activities and Programs (TAP) is the College Republicans campus-wide programming board. The mission Drama Club of TAP is to provide a comprehensive program Hardrocker College Bowl Club for the cultural, educational, recreational, and Hardrocker Flying Club social interests of the students, staff, faculty, Leadership Development Team alumni, and guests of School of Mines. TAP also M-Week provides an opportunity for students to develop Non-Trad Student Forum their leadership skills and to interact with faculty Pershing Rifles outside of the classroom. Membership is open to Ranger Challenge all School of Mines students. Scabbard and Blade Student-Alumni Connection Visual and Performing Arts Tech Activities & Programs (TAP) Tech Association of Role Players Apex Gallery Ultimate Frisbee Club The Apex Gallery was established in 1989 and Veterans Club is housed in the Classroom Building. It offers Students for the Exploration and challenging educational art and science Development of Space exhibitions for enjoyment and enrichment of people of all ages. Contemporary works of artists Student Government Organizations and scientists, many of who are nationally and Residence Hall Association internationally recognized, are exhibited. These Student Association exhibitions are designed to reflect a cross section of cultural expressions and perspectives. In Student Media addition to providing on-campus students and Amateur Radio Club staff with opportunities to view the exhibits, the KTEQ 91.3 FM Apex Gallery has an active community outreach Raver component.
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Music Program information visit the Music Activities website at: The Music Program, a division of the
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institution they are transferring from to be Eligibility for Intercollegiate Athletics eligible for further intercollegiate competition. To be eligible for intercollegiate Junior college transfers or graduates need to competition at the South Dakota School of check with the athletic director about their Mines and Technology, a student must: status. 1. Be making normal progress toward a recognized degree and maintain the GPA Intramural Sports required to remain in good standing as set forth by this catalog. All students are encouraged to participate 2. Be enrolled in a minimum of twelve (12) in the intramural program, which provides semester credit hours at the time of organized athletic contests and wholesome participation, or if the participation takes place recreation. In the past several years, between terms, the student must have been approximately 70 percent of the student body enrolled in the term immediately preceding has participated in the intramural program. It the date of participation. Students become provides for individual and team competition ineligible upon dropping below twelve (12) and fosters a spirit of fair play and credit hours of enrollment. sportsmanship. Among the activities are co- 3. Pass 24 credit hours (or equivalent) in the ed water polo, wallyball, indoor and outdoor two terms of attendance immediately soccer, basketball, dodge ball, volleyball, preceding the term of participation. A second- swimming, racquetball, and flag football. A term freshman must pass nine (9) credit hours director of Intramural Activities is responsible (or equivalent) in the first term. for directing the Intramural Program. 4. Be eligible in the appropriate conference. 5. Transfer students from a four-year institution must have eligibility remaining at the
Mines Matters: School of Mines has an active varsity athletic program. The university is a member of the DAC Conference and is associated with the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). Varsity sports include men’s football, women’s volleyball, and men’s and women’s basketball, golf, and track and cross country.
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Message from the Dean of the College of Engineering
Welcome to the College of Engineering at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Our college offers eleven degree programs in all of the traditional areas of engineering at the undergraduate level, twelve degree programs in most areas of engineering at the graduate level, and Ph.D. access either directly through department programs or interdisciplinary programs that crosscut through the traditional engineering disciplines. These traditional and interdisciplinary Ph.D. programs include atmospheric and environmental sciences, chemical and biological engineering, geology and geological engineering, materials engineering and science, and nanoscience and nanoengineering.
Engineers at both the undergraduate level and gradate level are in high demand. Each year, thousands of university students graduate into the ranks of the profession of engineering. Industries, companies, and government pursue these graduates by actively recruiting them and offering them excellent salaries and benefits.
If you enjoy a challenge and reward, the College of Engineering at the School of Mines is for you. We have a highly respected international reputation known for exceptionally high-quality graduates. Our department and university advisory boards, composed of leaders from government and industry across the country, repeatedly comment about our high quality programs to us and to others. Our programs are accredited by ABET (Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology) and regularly achieve the highest status possible. The following pages contain the information about the college you need in planning and selecting courses. If I can answer any questions about the College of Engineering, please don’t hesitate to contact me.
I look forward to seeing you in our hallways, studying, working in our laboratories, and interacting with you in many extracurricular activities sponsored by the national professional societies. I also look forward to shaking your hand as you walk across the stage with your engineering degree!
Sincerely,
Dr. Duane L. Abata Dean College of Engineering
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Chemical Engineering B.S. Staff
Chemical and Biological Engineering Secretary, Linda Embrock. Chemical and Instrumentation Specialist, Ivan Filipov.
Chemical and Biological Engineering (CBE)
Chemical engineers with a B.S. degree from School of Mines acquire a solid foundation in the sciences of biology, chemistry, and physics, in mathematics, and in applied engineering and technology. This broad foundation allows graduating chemical engineers to discover new ideas required to solve the problems challenging the people of the world, while constantly pursuing the efficient and safe use of the world’s resources. These needs or problems might be related to the environment, electronics, energy, food, fibers, biotechnology, petroleum, pharmaceuticals, and new engineering materials (nano-materials, ceramics, and polymer composites). To learn more about a career in chemical engineering visit our webpage
science, patent or environmental law, or even equipment. Manufacture microchips and business administration, in addition to chemical, intricate circuitry for a variety of electronics biochemical, materials, or nanoengineering. applications. Chemical engineers, in their effort to solve real world problems for the betterment of society, • Environmental applications: Protection of use their knowledge and skills to control chemical human health and the environment is of vital and physical changes of raw materials to create concern to the process industries. high-value products, while minimizing pollution Additionally, many sites have been previously to the environment. Some specific examples are: contaminated and must be remediated. Design and development of in-situ and ex-situ • Chemical and food process industry: Design technologies for the remediation or biological processes using catalytic and multi-phase destruction of hazardous wastes such as reactions to convert petroleum and agricultural polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, feed stocks into much needed chemicals, halogenated solvents, chlorinated aliphatic fuels, and foods, and to subsequently purify compounds, and toxic metals, such as, U, As, the products. Reactor design and development Cr, or Pb. of separations such as distillation, extraction, crystallization, evaporation, filtration, gas The chemical engineering program is absorption, industrial waste reduction, and challenging, but rewarding. It is designed to absorption are commonly used to make prepare students to become practicing chemical products such as plastics, paints, cosmetics, engineers, ready to enter the workforce and make candies, cereals, chocolate, beverages, immediate contributions or ready to enter gasoline, paper, and countless other products. graduate education to pursue additional career opportunities. Critical analysis of chemical • Biotechnology industry: Design and operate processes, both as an entire process and individual bioreactors where conditions must be components, is the core of the program. In optimized for the growth of specialized addition to becoming proficient in using microbes to produce desired metabolites, such computers and process simulation software to as penicillin, human insulin, pharmaceutical solve chemical engineering problems, students proteins, fuel ethanol, food will also learn to become effective communicators additives/sweeteners, and biopolymers. that can work and learn independently as well as Develop special separation techniques to within a successful team. As a part of the isolate these high-value biological materials. program, students will be expected to conduct Use genetic engineering and recombinant themselves with the highest ethical standards and DNA techniques to create new and improved learn to appreciate the societal responsibilities of agricultural products and high-producing being a professional chemical engineer. microbes for biopharmaceuticals. Discover and produce new polymers for delivery of Professional Development and Scholarship drugs or development of artificial organs. Opportunities
• Advanced materials and electronics: Develop Students in the School of Mines chemical new hurricane resistant windows made from engineering program have many chances to enrich recycled glass and polymers; produce their formal engineering education. The intermetallic nano-powders created to store department has an active student professional hydrogen more safely for fuel cell organization, the American Institute of Chemical applications, or novel ion-conducting Engineers Student Chapter, which is associated polymers for improved fuel cell efficiency; with the national AIChE professional organization design and produce the next generation of
93 Chemical Engineering B.S. community service, and participate in regional While the dollar amount and number of and national meetings. scholarships available fluctuate from year to year, At the regional and national AIChE meetings, during the fall 2006/spring 2007 academic year chemical engineering students from School of approximately 60 percent of undergraduates Mines compete against chemical engineering enrolled in chemical engineering received students from other universities in such things as financial support through a scholarship. In 2007- research paper presentations, process designs, and 08 approximately 75 percent of the sophomore – a Chem-E Car Competition. School of Mines senior ChE students will receive a scholarship. students compete, and win, these competitions. The total amount of scholarships given to all ChE For example, in 2003, the fuel cell powered students in 2007-08 will be near $192,000. “ChemE-Car” car they designed won first place in the AIChE Rocky Mountain Regional Laboratories and New Initiatives competition, beating teams from Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona. At the 2006 Annual The chemical engineering program has AIChE meeting in San Francisco, School of laboratory facilities that are used extensively to Mines ChE students were recognized for many supplement the theory and skills presented in the honors. For example, one student received one of classroom and provide students hands-on 15 national AIChE scholarships, a student design experience in operating chemical process team from Tech was one of 5 teams to receive an equipment. These facilities include the main award for their national design project (design laboratory that houses mini-plant equipment such safety award), and the ChE Car team placed in the as a distillation column, evaporators, heat top half during a competition that included many exchangers, and gas absorbers. Other laboratories large universities. In Summer 2007, a School of include a process dynamics laboratory, which is Mines AIChE student will be one of 11 used to study the dynamics and control of process engineering students from throughout the USA variables such as temperature, pressure, flow rate, who will participate as a Washington Internships and liquid level; a personal computer laboratory for Students of Engineering (WISE) intern in for students to use for addressing the solution of Washington, DC.
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students in science and engineering. It will cooperative education opportunities for students enhance recruitment and retention of the best majoring in chemical engineering. Students are students and faculty, promote multidisciplinary / encouraged to apply for these opportunities as global collaboration, foster new generations of they provide a valuable exposure to the practice of innovators and leaders, and advance the resources chemical engineering. For each semester or of the State of South Dakota. summer term spent in a co-op position, students The department has been awarded substantial register for two (2) credits of a Cooperative grants from industrial foundations and companies Education (CP) course. These credits can be used to enhance the laboratory facilities as well as the to fulfill the chemical engineering curriculum biochemical engineering area. The Dow Corning requirements. Students wishing to register for a Foundation Enhanced Materials, Automation, co-op course should visit with their advisor prior Processing, and Simulation (M.A.P.S.) Laboratory to accepting a co-op position to ensure that is the foundation for the unique hands-on open- departmental procedures are followed and to ended laboratory experience. Students are optimize the sequencing of co-op courses with exposed to the real-world challenge of effectively other required courses. applying process design skills in a pilot plant The Chemical and Biological Engineering environment. This is coupled to advanced process faculty are actively engaged in research and simulation using AspenPlus and state-of-the-art development and welcomes the participation of Camile and Opto-22 process controllers. The undergraduates in these efforts. Additionally, chemical engineering program is continuing to students are encouraged to apply to REU expand in the growth area of biochemical (Research Experience for Undergraduates) sites at engineering and biology. Students may develop an other institutions. For example, during the past emphasis in biochemical engineering through few summers, School of Mines students have elective courses in biochemistry, microbiology, conducted summer research on fuel cells at the physiology, and biochemical engineering. University of Houston, bio-processing at Additional biochemical engineering topics are Colorado State University, biomedical integrated into the core chemical engineering engineering at the University of Minnesota, and courses. Students can gain hands-on experiences cellulosic biomass conversion at the Iowa State in our state-of-the-art biochemical engineering University. Individual School of Mines CBE laboratory, which is substantially funded by the faculty member research projects and areas of Cargill company. Check out the latest interest may be found from their web pages that developments at are linked from
Co-op and Research Opportunities Chemical Engineering Curriculum/Checklist
The chemical engineering curriculum is The courses listed in the curriculum have been designed to allow students to prepare themselves chosen to develop a well-rounded education, to enter the workforce within the traditional four- beginning with the foundations of mathematics, year time frame. Opportunities also exist for physics, biology and chemistry, and culminating students to participate in on-the-job training in the with a capstone process design course at the form of cooperative education (co-ops) summer senior level. Along the way, students develop internships and research. These employment competencies in fluid dynamics, heat transfer, opportunities may be included as an integral part mass transfer, computer solutions to complex of the student’s studies. Students who participate engineering problems, process control, kinetics, in these opportunities demonstrate the high and reactor design, all while developing their quality of their education and learn more about critical thinking and general problem solving the profession of chemical engineering. skills. A number of industrial partners offer Although a minor in chemical engineering is
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not available, one can obtain a special emphasis in Humanities or Social Sciences Elective(s) 5 emerging areas such as biochemical engineering, TOTAL 18 environmental engineering, or advanced materials by tailoring their elective courses. Second Semester Students in the School of Mines B.S. MATH 125 Calculus II 4 environmental engineering program may elect CHEM 114 General Chemistry II 3 chemical engineering as their specialty emphasis. CHEM 114L General Chemistry II Lab 1 With the increased national emphasis on the PHYS 211 University Physics I 3 environment, the unique opportunity exists at CHE 111 Intro. Eng. Modeling 1 School of Mines for one to earn dual degrees in CHE 117 Prof. Pract. in Chem. Eng. 2 chemical engineering and environmental Humanities or Social Sciences Elective(s) 4 engineering, thus coupling a focus on the TOTAL 18 environment with complementary chemical processing and design skills. Sophomore Year The chemical engineering faculty at the First Semester School of Mines strives to keep the curriculum CHE 217 Chemical Engineering I 3 current and dynamic. As a part of this evolution, MATH 225 Calculus III 4 the faculty continues to develop innovative and ENGL 279 Technical Communications I 3 unique approaches to teaching chemical CHEM 326 Organic Chemistry I 3 engineering lectures and laboratories. An CHEM 220L Exp. Organic Chem. IA 1 example of this is the integration of process PHYS 213 University Physics II 3 design and simulation throughout the chemical TOTAL 17 engineering laboratory experiences. Sophisticated process design simulators (such as the commercial Second Semester software, AspenPlus and Pipe-Flo), are being co- CHE 218 Chemical Engineering II 3 integrated with the process design project. Major CHE 222 Chem. Engr. Thermo I 3 funding for the development came from the CHE 250 Comp. App. in Chem. Eng. 2 National Science Foundation and from industrial CHEM 328 Organic Chemistry II 3 sponsors. The chemical engineering faculty is MATH 321 Differential Equations 4 also involved in the University’s tablet PC Humanities or Social Sciences Elective(s) 3 program, which they have used to explore new TOTAL 18 ways to deliver courses and integrate sophisticate process software. In addition, School of Mines Junior Year offers the unique opportunity for students and First Semester professors to interact in small groups and one-on- CHE 317 Chemical Engr. III 3 one sessions to focus the student learning to each CHE 321 Chemical Engr. Thermo II 3 individual. CHE 333 Process Measure and Control 1 It is the student’s responsibility to check with CHE 361 Chemical Engr Lab II 2 his or her advisor for any program modifications CHEM 230 Analytical Chem for Engr 2 that may occur after the publication of this CHEM 332L Analytical Chem Lab 1 catalog. CHEM 341 Physical Chem for Engr I 2 ENGL 289 Technical Comm II 3 Freshman Year TOTAL 17 First Semester MATH 123 Calculus I 4 Second Semester CHEM 112 General Chemistry I 3 CHE 318 Chemical Engineering IV 3 CHEM 112L General Chemistry I Lab 1 CHE 362 Chemical Engr Lab III 1 GE 130 Introduction to Engr. 2 CHE 343 Chem Kinetics/Reactor Des 3 ENGL 101 Composition I 3 CHEM 343 Physical Chem for Engr II 2
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CHEM 345L Physical Chem I and II Lab 1 CHE Elective (5): Select 5 credits from CHE Engineering Elective 3 434/434L, 444, 450, 455, 474, 474L, 484, 484L, Department Approved Elective 3 491, 492, 498 or others approved by advisor. TOTAL 16 CHE Lab Elective (1): Select 1 credit from CHE Senior Year 434L, 474L, 484L, 498 or other approved by First Semester advisor. CHE 417 Chemical Engineering V 2 CHE 461 Chemical Engineering Lab IV 1 Engineering Elective (3): Select 3 credits from CHE 464 Chemical Engr Design I 4 engineering courses other than CHE prefix; Chemical Engineering Elective 3 requires advisor approval. These courses are Biology Elective 3 typically at a 200 level or higher. Hum/SS 300 Level or Higher Elective(s) 3 TOTAL 16 Department Approved Elective (7): Select from the following: ChE, Chem, or other approved Second Semester courses to fulfill emphasis electives. These CHE 433 Process Control 3 courses are typically at a 150 level or higher. May CHE 465 Chemical Engr Design II 3 include up to three (3) credits of advanced CHE 487 Global and Contemporary military science and up to six (6) credits of Issues in Chemical Engineering 1 cooperative education. Chemical Engineering Elective 2 Chemical Engineering Lab Elective 1 Department Approved Elective 4 PE Physical Education/MUEN 2 TOTAL 16
136 credits required for graduation
Curriculum Notes Board of Regents General Education Requirements: Students, working in conjunction with their advisor, need to ensure General Education Requirements are completed in the required timeframe. Hum/SS electives require 6 cr hr each from Humanities and Social Sciences.
Optional emphases in ChE: The academic advisor recommends and approves courses to take if students are interested in an emphasis in one of these areas: biochemical engineering, environmental engineering, or advanced materials (nano materials, polymers, ceramics, materials processing, corrosion, or solid state/semi- conductors).
BIOL Elective (3): Select from BIOL 341, 231, or other approved by advisor.
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Civil Engineering B.S. supports the mission of the institution and was developed in parallel with it. The civil engineering program’s mission is:
1. To prepare men and women for an enhanced quality of life by providing an educational experience that leads to baccalaureate and post-baccalaureate degrees in civil engineering.
2. To contribute to the expansion of knowledge of civil engineering through programs of basic and applied research, scholarship, and other creative endeavors.
3. To use the special capabilities and expertise of the program’s faculty to address regional, national, and international needs in civil engineering, including the areas of environmental, geotechnical, structural and water resources.
4. To serve the State of South Dakota and the nation by providing training and education that will benefit the planning, design, construction and maintenance of facilities essential to civilization.
Contact Information The principal goals in support of the civil engineering program’s mission are: Dr. Scott J. Kenner Department of Civil and Environmental 1. To enhance our state and national Engineering recognition as an outstanding civil Civil/Mechanical 118 engineering program that provides well (605) 394-2513 prepared employees to the civil e-mail: [email protected] engineering profession. 2. To develop centers of excellence in Faculty research and graduate education, using faculty expertise to further develop Professor Kenner, Chair; Professors Bang, interdisciplinary research. Hansen, Mott, Preber, and Fontaine; Associate 3. To create and maintain an environment that Professors Klasi; Assistant Professors Surovek, ensures growth of the intellect, character, Stone, Arneson-Meyer, Fazio and Roberts; and spirit of students as well as faculty and Professor Emeritus Ramakrishnan; Instructor staff members. Budd. 4. To build mutually beneficial partnerships with the broader community. Civil Engineering Program Mission 5. To increase the resources available to the department and the civil engineering The mission of the civil engineering program program. 98 Civil Engineering B.S.
program has adopted the program outcomes Civil Engineering Program Objectives established by ABET, outcome requirements of Criterion 3. By achieving these outcomes The objectives of the civil and environmental establishes the foundation for achieving program engineering program with regard to undergraduate objectives. The specific program outcomes are education is to produce graduates with capabilities listed below. to: Students completing the civil engineering 1. engage in the professional practice of civil program will be able to demonstrate: engineering within the region working in the public or private sector, a. an ability to apply knowledge of 2. actively participate in professional mathematics, science, and engineering organizations that promote civil b. an ability to design and conduct engineering and provide continuing self- experiments, as well as to analyze and development, and interpret data 3. pursue advanced studies in civil c. an ability to design a system, component, engineering or a related professional or process to meet desired needs discipline. d. an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams These program objectives can also be found e. an ability to identify, formulate, and solve on the CEE website
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opportunity for qualified students to pursue their instruction. The comparatively rugged terrain on academic training to a more specialized and and near the campus offers excellent opportunity advanced level for higher professional attainment. for a variety of practice in surveying methods and techniques. Integration of Design into the Civil Engineering Curriculum Professionalism
The curriculum in the civil engineering Students in civil engineering are encouraged program begins by giving the student a thorough to participate in the technical and professional knowledge in mathematics and basic sciences. activities of the Student Chapter of American Courses in the engineering sciences begin the Society of Civil Engineers for promotion of transition from theory to creative application. professional and cultural ethics, and specialties in During their junior year, students take required the profession. Students are required to take the courses in four major areas of the civil fundamentals of engineering examination as the engineering program: environmental engineering, first step in becoming a registered professional geotechnical engineering, structural engineering, engineer. Because there is a human side to and water resources engineering. In each of these engineering, students are required to take courses courses students learn to apply mathematics, in the humanities and social sciences. Students science, and engineering science to the solution of also take required sophomore and senior courses civil engineering problems, with students learning that directly address professionalism and the fundamental elements of engineering design. engineering ethics. They are also exposed to During their senior year, students choose one of these ideas throughout the engineering the civil engineering emphasis areas and take a curriculum. sequence of two (2) required courses in that area. A minor in civil engineering is not available. The low enrollments in these courses allow for good interaction between students and faculty. Civil Engineering Curriculum/Checklist Seniors also select two (2) courses related to their chosen course sequence from a list of department It is the student’s responsibility to check with approved courses. As seniors, students get an his or her advisor for any program modifications even more intense design experience, learning that may occur after the publication of this about alternative solutions, feasibility, economics, catalog. and detailed design descriptions. In their last semester, students take a capstone design course, Freshman Year working, either in groups or alone, with the First Semester guidance of a faculty member on a meaningful ENGL 101 Composition I 3 major engineering design project that draws upon CHEM 112 General Chemistry I 3 previous course work. The capstone design MATH 123 Calculus I 4 experience culminates with a formal final report GE 130 Introduction to Engineering 2 and a presentation to the faculty and the students’ PE Physical Education 1 peers. Humanities or Social Sciences Elective(s) 3 TOTAL 16 Laboratories Second Semester The Department of Civil and Environmental CHEM 112L General Chem I Lab 1 Engineering has separate laboratories equipped CHEM 114 General Chem II 3 for materials testing, study of fluid flow and PHYS 211 University Physics I 3 hydraulic systems, geotechnical engineering, MATH 125 Calculus II 4 environmental engineering, structural engineering CEE 117 Computer Aided Design design, engineering graphics, and computer-aided and Interpretation in CEE 2
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PE Physical Education 1 CEE Approved Elective4 3 Humanities or Social Sciences Elective(s) 3 EM 215 Dynamics TOTAL 17 OR ME 221 Dynamics of Mechanisms 3 Sophomore Year CEE 464 Civil Engr Capstone Design I 1 First Semester TOTAL 18 MATH 321 Differential Equations 4 EM 214 Statics 3 Second Semester CEE 284 Digital Computation in CEE 4 CEE 463 CEE Profession 1 CEE 206 CEE Pract and Eng Surveys I 4 ME 211 Intro to Thermodynamics 3 Humanities or Social Sciences Elective(s) 3 CEE 465 Civil Engr Capstone DesignII 2 TOTAL 18 CEE Track Elective3 3 CEE Approved Elective4 3 Second Semester Humanities or Social Sciences Elective(s) 3 ENGL 279 Technical Comm I 3 TOTAL 15 MATH 225 Calculus III 4 EM 331 Fluid Mechanics 3 136 credits required for graduation EM 321 Mechanics of Materials 3 Humanities or Social Sciences Elective(s) 3 Curriculum Notes TOTAL 16 1 In order to enroll in the CEE Junior courses, Junior Year1 the student must have at least a C in EM 214 and First Semester EM 321. ENGL 289 Technical Comm II 3 2 Structural Engineering emphasis students CEE 316 Engr and Construct Materials 3 must choose CEE 357 while students of other CEE 326 Envr Engr Process Fundament3 emphasis areas may choose CEE 358. CEE 336 Hydraulic Systems Design 3 3 Students have the option of emphasizing in CEE 346 Geotechnical Engineering I 3 one area selected from either environmental CEE 353 Structural Theory 3 engineering, geotechnical engineering, structural TOTAL 18 engineering, or water resources engineering where two (2) or more approved courses can be selected. Second Semester The student can also chose a general engineering PHYS 213 University Physics II 3 option thus selecting a mix of approved elective Science Elective 3 courses. Track electives for the four focus areas CEE 327 Intro to Environ Engr Design 3 are CEE 426 and CEE 427, CEE 447 and CEE CEE 337 Engineering Hydrology 3 448, CEE 456 and CEE 457, CEE 433 and CEE CEE 347 Geotechnical Engr II 3 437, respectively One of the following courses: 3 4 Approved elective courses must be approved CEE 357 Theory and Design of by the Department of Civil and Environmental Metal Structures I 2 Engineering. Only one approved elective can be CEE 358 Applied Structural Design2 taken at the graduate level. TOTAL 18
Senior Year First Semester IENG 301 Basic Engineering Econ 2 Department Approved Elective4 3 CEE 474 Engr Project Management 3 CEE Track Elective3 3
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Computer Engineering B.S. from a wide variety of subject areas to fit their particular interests. Elective subject areas include digital signal processing, microprocessor-based system design, computer networks, computer architecture, and VLSI design.
Mission
The mission of the computer engineering program, in support of the mission of School of Mines, is to provide computer engineering students with education that is broadly based in the fundamentals of the profession so that graduates will be able to maintain a high degree of adaptability throughout their professional careers. Contact Information It is also intended that the students will develop a dedication to the profession and an ability to Dr. Michael J. Batchelder maintain professional competency through a Department of Electrical and Computer program of life-long learning. Engineering Electrical Engineering/Physics 322 Objectives (605) 394-2454 e-mail: [email protected] 1. Graduates will be able to successfully practice computer engineering and related fields Faculty regionally and nationally.
Professor Hasan, Chair; William J. Hoffert 2. Graduates will be well-educated in the Professor Simonson; Professors Batchelder, fundamental concepts of computer Corwin, Logar, Professor Emeritus Opp, engineering and be able to continue their Penaloza, and Weiss; Associate Professor professional development throughout their Hemmelman; Assistant Professors Montoya, careers. Zhang, and Anagnostou, Instructors Linde and Rausch. 3. Graduates will be skilled in clear communications and teamwork and capable of Computer Engineering functioning responsibly in diverse environments. The computer engineering curriculum is principally oriented toward preparing students for Program Strengths careers by providing them with the engineering and technical education appropriate to meet A two-semester capstone design experience modern technological challenges. The basic requires computer engineering students to conduct curriculum includes required course work in their own design project in a simulated industrial mathematics, basic sciences, humanities, social environment. They are encouraged to work on sciences, and fundamental engineering topics in team projects. Often the team projects are circuit analysis, electronics, electrical systems, multidisciplinary. This foundation provides digital systems, assembly language, data students with a broad base of understanding that structures, operating systems, and software allows them to apply their knowledge of scientific engineering. computer engineering students are and engineering principles to the practical and required to select three (3) senior elective courses innovative solutions of existing and future 102 Computer Engineering B.S. problems. Graduate School Opportunities Students are required to develop a high level of written and oral communication skills and to Since the undergraduate curriculum is broad work well as a member of a team. They must based, it is impossible to study areas of interest in develop a social and ethical awareness so they very much depth. Qualified students may understand their responsibility to protect both the specialize further by pursuing a graduate program occupational and public health and safety and to at the School of Mines. implement these factors in their professional activities. Students are encouraged to participate Laboratories in the activities of professional societies, such as the Institute of Electrical and Electronics The electrical and computer engineering Engineers and Eta Kappa Nu, to enhance their department houses well-equipped laboratories educational and social life while on campus and to designed to give students easy access to gain professional contacts for their careers. experimental support for their theoretical studies. Students have opportunities to participate in Junior and senior laboratory projects are cooperative education and summer intern conducted on an open laboratory basis that allows programs whereby they elect to seek employment students to schedule experimental work at their to experience engineering work before they own convenience. Laboratory facilities are open complete their degree requirements. Students to students and are supervised until 10 p.m. on gain insight into future opportunities and are often most weeknights. hired by their intern companies after graduation. Four general-purpose laboratories are fully equipped to provide facilities for experiments in Integration of Design Concepts such diverse areas as communication systems, control systems, electromechanics, energy One of the key elements of the undergraduate conversion, digital circuits, and electronics. computer engineering education experience is to These laboratories can also be used to provide integrate design throughout the curriculum. hands-on experience under the direct supervision Students experience various design concepts in a of electrical and computer engineering faculty. In variety of settings: addition, there are special-purpose laboratories • Hands-on laboratory projects (including serving the fields of power systems, antennas, team projects); microwave engineering, analog and digital systems, mechatronics, real-time embedded • Effective integration of computer systems, computer instrumentation, applications; microprocessor development, reconfigurable logic, and parallel processing and cluster • Development of effective communication computing (in conjunction with the mathematics skills; and computer science department). Seniors and graduate students have access to • Senior elective courses; facilities to work on senior design and graduate thesis projects. The work area allows students a • Senior capstone experience; and convenient place in which to work for the duration of their project. • Participation in competitive team projects such as the Robotics team, the Alternative Notes on Computer Engineering Courses Fuel Vehicle Team, the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle team, and the Formula SAE Mini- Classes that are typically offered every Indy team. semester include CENG 244, CENG 464, and CENG 465. Classes that are typically offered every fall
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semester include CENG 314, CENG 440 and ENGL 279 Tech Comm I 3 CENG 444. EE 221 Circuits II 4 Classes that are typically offered every spring Humanities or Social Sciences Elective(s) 3 semester include CENG 342, CENG 442, and TOTAL 18 CENG 446. CENG 420 is typically offered in the spring Junior Year semester of even numbered years, for example First Semester spring 2008. CENG 447 is typically offered in CSC 314 Assembly Language 3 the spring semester of odd numbered years, for ENGL 289 Tech Comm II 3 example spring 2007. EE 320 Electronics I 4 EE 351 Mechatronics and Computer Engineering Curriculum/Checklist Measurement Systems 4 MATH 225 Calculus III 4 It is the student’s responsibility to check with TOTAL 18 his or her advisor for any program modifications that may occur after the publication of this Second Semester catalog. EE 312 Signals 3.5 CSC 300 Data Structures 4 Freshman Year CENG 342 Digital Systems 4 First Semester MATH 381 Intro to Prob Theory/Stats 3 MATH 123 Calculus I 4 EM 216 Statics and Dynamics 4 CHEM 112 General Chemistry I 3 TOTAL 18.5 CHEM 112L General Chemistry I Lab 1 CENG 244 Intro to Digital Systems 4 Senior Year PE Physical Education1 1 First Semester Humanities or Social Sciences Elective(s) 3 EE 311 Systems 3.5 TOTAL 16 CSC 470 Software Engineering 3 CENG 464 Senior Design I 2 Second Semester CENG Elective(s)2 4 ENGL 101 Composition I 3 IENG 301 Basic Engr Economics 2 MATH 125 Calculus II 4 TOTAL 14.5 PHYS 211 University Physics I 3 PE Physical Education1 1 Second Semester Humanities or Social Sciences Elective(s) 3 CENG 465 Senior Design II 2 TOTAL 14 CSC 456 Operating Systems 4 CENG Elective(s)2 3 Sophomore Year CENG Elective(s)2 4 First Semester Humanities or Social Sciences Elective(s) 4 CSC 150 Computer Science I 3 TOTAL 17 EE 220 Circuits I 4 MATH 321 Differential Equations 4 136 credits required for graduation PHYS 213 University Physics II 3 PHYS 213L University Physics II Lab 1 Curriculum Notes Humanities or Social Sciences Elective(s) 3 1 Music Ensemble courses, (MUEN 101, 121 TOTAL 18 or 122) may be substituted for Physical Education courses for qualified students. Any other Second Semester substitution must be approved in advance by the CSC 250 Computer Science II 4 physical education department chair. CSC 251 Finite Structures 4 2 Eleven (11) CENG elective credits are
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CENG Electives EE 322 Electronics II 4 EE 421 Communications Systems 4 EE 451 Control Systems 4 CENG 420 Design of Digital Signal Processing Systems 4 CENG 440 VLSI Design 4 CENG 442 Microprocessor Design 4 CENG 444 Computer Networks 4 (credit for only one of CENG 444 or CSC 463 may be used) CENG 446 Advanced Computer Architectures 4 (credit for only one of CENG 446 or CSC 440 may be used) CENG 447 Embedded and Real-Time Computer Systems 4 CSC 433 Computer Graphics 3 CSC 440 Adv Digital Systems 4 CSC 463 Data Communications 4 CSC 447 Artificial Intelligence 3 CSC 464 Intro to Digital Image Processing and Computer Vision 3 CSC 476 Theory of Compilers 3 CSC 410 Parallel Computing 3
A maximum of four (4) co-op credits may be used toward the CENG electives requirement if a written request presented by the student is approved by the ECE faculty. The student request must justify that the CENG design requirement is met. Computer engineering students are required to take the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam prior to graduation.
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Computer Science B.S. and Minor degree in computer science and a master of science degree in computer science. The bachelor of science degree in computer science is accredited by the Computing Sciences Accreditation Board (CSAB). Students who desire to major in one of these programs should announce their intention to the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science as early as possible. Students should consult advisors in the department at each registration period before selecting electives to round out the courses of study outlined in the departmental curriculum. Any student who is pursuing a double major and whose designated advisor is in another department should consult an advisor in the mathematics and computer science department at each registration.
Laboratories
School of Mines has a variety of computing platforms available. Resources include an extensive PC network, a Linux lab, and a lab equipped with SunRays tied to three Sun Enterprise 450 servers. Other computing resources may be accessed via the Internet. The institution encourages its students to use the computer facilities in the creative and efficient solution of scientific and engineering problems. Contact Information Computer Science Major Dr. Kyle Riley Department of Mathematics The primary goal of the computer science and Computer Science program is to prepare the graduate to enter a McLaury 308 dynamic and rapidly changing field as a (605) 394-2471 competent computer scientist. We expect our e-mail: [email protected] graduates to be capable in all phases of software development including design, development, and Faculty testing. We expect our graduates to have a firm understanding of hardware technologies. These Professors Corwin, Logar, Penaloza, and Weiss; capabilities require the graduate to possess good Associate Professor McGough; Assistant communication skills, both oral and written, and Professor Wei; Instructors Manes and Schrader; the ability to work effectively as a team member. Emeritus Professors Carda and Opp. The graduate must be able to read and comprehend the literature of the discipline and be General Information sufficiently well versed in general theory to allow The Department of Mathematics and growth within the discipline as it advances. We Computer Science offers a bachelor of science expect most of our graduates to pursue careers as 106 Computer Science B.S. and Minor
software engineers within the computer industry. Computer Science and Mathematics Double Some may choose careers as entrepreneurs and Major others will pursue advanced degrees and careers in research. Due to the large number of courses common Students majoring in computer science will to the computer science major and the use the computer science curriculum on the mathematics major, many students find it following page. The sample schedule on the attractive to pursue a double major in these two following page lists all required classes for the areas. Students seeking the double major should bachelor’s degree in their proper prerequisite consult their advisors for details about this option. sequence. Students should consult course listings for prerequisites and should consult their advisors Computer Science Curriculum/Checklist at each registration. A computer science major must complete It is the student’s responsibility to check with thirty (30) total hours in humanities, social his or her advisor for any program modifications science, or other nontechnical disciplines that that may occur after the publication of this serve to broaden the background of the student. catalog. Within that requirement, the student must complete a minimum of sixteen (16) credits in Freshman Year humanities and social science with at least six (6) First Semester credit hours in humanities and at least six (6) ENGL 101 Composition I 3 credit hours in social science. Refer to the CHEM 112 General Chemistry I 3 humanities and social sciences section of this CHEM 112L General Chemistry I Lab 1 catalog for a list of courses satisfying these MATH 123 Calculus I 4 requirements. It is also important to refer to the CSC 150 Computer Science I 3 general education core requirements under Humanities or Social Sciences Elective(s)1 3 bachelor of science graduation requirements for TOTAL 17 further information. Students must complete the general education core requirements within the Second Semester first sixty-four (64) credits. MATH 125 Calculus II 4 Any computer science major desiring a minor CHEM 114 General Chemistry II 3 in another field should consult his or her advisor CSC 250 Computer Science II 4 in the Department of Mathematics and Computer CSC 251 Finite Structures 4 Science as early in his or her program of study as PE Physical Education 1 possible. Academic and Enrollment Services has TOTAL 16 a form that must be signed by the student and the department chairs of both departments involved. Sophomore Year First Semester Minor in Computer Science MATH 225 Calculus III 4 CSC 314 Assembly Language 4 A minor in the Department of Mathematics CENG 244 Intro to Digital Systems 4 and Computer Science must be approved by the PE Physical Education 1 student’s major department. Academic and Humanities or Social Sciences Elective(s)1 3 Enrollment Services has forms that should be TOTAL 16 completed and signed by the department chairs from both departments involved in this minor. Second Semester The requirements for a minor in computer science ENGL 279 Technical Communications I 3 are CSC 150, CSC 250, CSC 251, CSC 314, CSC CSC 317 Computer Organization 300, and CENG 244. and Architecture 4 CSC 300 Data Structures 4
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Humanities or Social Sciences Elective(s)1 6 engineering degree. Other majors should TOTAL 17 consult their departments on policy regarding these courses. Junior Year First Semester • MUEN 101, 121, 122 can be used to substitute ENGL 289 Technical Comm II 3 for one or two of the required two Physical MATH 321 Differential Equations 4 Education credits. PHYS 211 University Physics I 3 1Elective courses must be chosen to satisfy CSC 372 Analysis of Algorithms 3 all of the following requirements: Elective or CSC Elective1 3 1. Sixteen (16) semester hours in humanities TOTAL 16 or social science. At least six (6) hours must be in humanities and at least six (6) Second Semester hours must be in social sciences. MATH 315 Linear Algebra 4 2. Six (6) credit hours of humanities and six MATH 441 Engineering Statistics I 2 (6) credit hours of social science must be MATH 442 Engineering Statistics II 2 completed within the first sixty-four (64) CSC 461 Programming Languages 4 hours. It is important to refer to the PHYS 213 University Physics II 3 general education requirements under PHYS 213L University Physics II Lab 1 bachelor of science graduation TOTAL 16 requirements for further information. 3. Thirty (30) total hours in humanities, Senior Year social science, or other nontechnical First Semester disciplines that serve to broaden the CSC 470 Software Engineering 3 background of the student. This may CSC 440 Advanced Digital Systems 4 include all English classes, two (2) credits CSC 484 Database Mgmt Systems 3 of physical education, and those courses Electives or CSC Electives1 6 used to meet requirement (1) above. TOTAL 16 4. A minimum of three (3) computer science elective courses numbered 400 or above Second Semester must be taken. MATH 471 also counts as a CSC 456 Operating Systems 3 computer science elective. A three (3)- CSC 465 Senior Design Project 3 credit Co-op may be substituted for one HUM 375 Computers in Society1 3 computer science elective. Special topics Electives or CSC Electives1 5 and independent study courses may not be TOTAL 15 used to satisfy the computer science elective requirement. 128 credits required for graduation Course Offering Schedule Curriculum Notes • CSC 470 and CSC 465 form a two-course In an attempt to help students plan their future sequence. It is expected that they will be semesters, the following information is presented. taken in successive semesters. This reflects the best available knowledge at the • An exit exam, such as the Major Field time of the preparation of this document. This is Achievement Test in Computer Science, not meant as a guarantee of when classes will be will be given as part of CSC 465. The offered. Students concerned about when classes overall results of this exam will be used to will be offered should contact the department assess the computer science program. chair for any changes to the following. Courses • CSC 105 may not be counted toward any not listed below have no defined rotation and will mathematics, computer science, or be offered contingent on demand and staff. Most
108 Computer Science B.S. and Minor computer science courses are not suitable to offering in an eight-week Summer session. Students should not expect computer science offerings in the summer. Classes that are typically offered every semester include CSC 105, CSC 150, CSC 250, CSC 251, CSC 314, CSC 300, and CSC 456. Classes that are typically offered every fall semester include CSC 372, CSC 440, CSC 484, and CSC 470. Classes that are typically offered every spring semester include CSC 317, CSC 461, and CSC 465. Classes that are typically offered in the fall semester of even numbered years, for example fall 2006, include CSC 421/521, CSC 445/545, and CSC 772. Classes that are typically offered in the spring semester of odd numbered years, for example spring 2007, include CSC 410/510, CSC 447/547 and MATH 471. Classes that are typically offered in the fall semester of odd numbered years, for example fall 2007, include CSC 448/548, CSC 464/564, and CSC 784. Classes that are typically offered in the spring semester of even numbered years, for example Mines Matters: More than110 elementary spring 2008, include CSC 433/533, CSC 463/563, students attended Camp Invention®, June 25- and CSC 762. 29, 2007 on the School of Mines campus. Camp Invention® is a hands-on science and creativity day camp that lets kids learn while having fun
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Electrical Engineering B.S. communication systems, power systems, control systems, optoelectronics, microwave engineering, and computer systems.
Mission
The mission of the electrical engineering program, in support of the mission of School of Mines, is to provide electrical engineering students with education that is broadly based in the fundamentals of the profession so that graduates will be able to maintain a high degree of adaptability throughout their professional careers. It is also intended that the students will develop a Contact Information dedication to the profession and an ability to maintain professional competency through a Dr. Brian T. Hemmelman program of lifelong learning. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Objectives Electrical Engineering/Physics 314 (605) 394-2451 1. Graduates will be able to successfully practice e-mail: [email protected] electrical engineering and related fields regionally and nationally. Faculty 2. Graduates will be well-educated in the Associate Professor Hemmelman, Chair; William fundamental concepts of electrical engineering J. Hoffert Professor Simonson; Steven P. Miller and be able to continue their professional Endowed Chair and Professor Whites; Professors development throughout their careers. Batchelder and Hasan; Assistant Professors Montoya, Zhang, and Fathelbab; Instructors 3. Graduates will be skilled in clear Hutton and Rausch. communications and teamwork and capable of functioning responsibly in diverse Electrical Engineering environments.
The electrical engineering curriculum is Program Strengths principally oriented toward preparing students for careers by providing them with the engineering A two-semester capstone design experience and technical education appropriate to meet requires electrical engineering students to conduct modern technological challenges. The basic their own design project in a simulated industrial curriculum includes required course work in environment. They are encouraged to work on mathematics, basic sciences, humanities, social team projects and often the team projects are sciences, and fundamental engineering topics in multidisciplinary. This foundation provides circuit analysis, electronics, electrical systems, students with a broad base of understanding that electromagnetics, energy systems, and properties allows them to apply their knowledge of scientific of materials. Electrical engineering students are and engineering principles to the practical and required to select three (3) senior elective courses innovative solutions of existing and future from a wide variety of subject areas to fit their problems. particular interests. Elective subject areas include Students are required to develop a high level 110 Electrical Engineering B.S.
of written and oral communication skills and to Graduate School Opportunities work well as members of a team. They must develop a social and ethical awareness so they Since the undergraduate curriculum is broad understand their responsibility to protect both the based, it is impossible to study areas of interest in occupational and public health and safety and to very much depth. Qualified students may implement these factors in their professional specialize further by pursuing a graduate program activities. Students are encouraged to participate at the School of Mines. in the activities of professional societies, such as the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Laboratories Engineers and Eta Kappa Nu, to enhance their educational and social life while on campus and to The electrical and computer engineering gain professional contacts for their careers. department houses well-equipped laboratories Students have opportunities to participate in designed to give students easy access to cooperative education and summer intern experimental support for their theoretical studies. programs whereby they elect to seek employment Junior and senior laboratory projects are to experience engineering work before they conducted on an open laboratory basis that allows complete their degree requirements. Students students to schedule experimental work at their gain insight into future opportunities and are often own convenience. Laboratory facilities are open hired by their intern companies after graduation. to students and are supervised until 10 p.m. on most weeknights. Integration of Design Concepts Four general-purpose laboratories are fully equipped to provide facilities for experiments in One of the key elements of the undergraduate such diverse areas as communication systems, electrical engineering education experience is to control systems, electromechanics, energy integrate design throughout the curriculum. conversion, digital circuits, and electronics. Students experience various design concepts in a These laboratories can also be used to provide variety of settings: hands-on experience under the direct supervision of electrical and computer engineering faculty. In • Hands-on laboratory projects (including addition, there are special-purpose laboratories team projects); serving the fields of power systems, antennas, microwave engineering, analog and digital • Effective integration of computer systems, mechatronics, real-time embedded applications; systems, computer instrumentation, microprocessor development, reconfigurable • Development of effective communication logic, and parallel processing and cluster skills; computing (in conjunction with the mathematics and computer science department). • Senior elective courses; Seniors and graduate students have access to facilities to work on senior design and graduate • Senior capstone experience; and thesis projects. The work area allows them a convenient place in which to work for the • Participation in competitive team projects duration of their project. such as the Robotics team, the Alternative Fuel Vehicle Team, the Unmanned Aerial Notes on Electrical Engineering Courses Vehicle team, and the Formula SAE Mini- Indy team. Classes that are typically offered every semester include EE 220, EE 221, EE 301, EE 351, EE 464, and EE 465. Classes that are typically offered every fall
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semester include EE 311, EE 320, EE 381, EE EE 221 Circuits 4 421, EE 431, EE 461, and EE 481. MATH 225 Calculus III 4 Classes that are typically offered every spring EE 351 Mechatronics and semester include EE 312, EE 322, EE 330, EE Measurement Systems 4 362, EE 451, EE 382, and EE 483. Humanities or Social Sciences Elective(s) 3 Classes that are typically offered in the fall TOTAL 18 semester of even numbered years, for example fall 2006, include EE 482. Junior Year Classes that are typically offered in the fall First Semester semester of odd numbered years, for example fall ENGL 289 Tech Comm II 3 2007, include EE 432. EE 311 Systems 3.5 EE 320 Electronics I 4 Electrical Engineering Curriculum/Checklist EE 381 Electric and Magnetic Fields 3 EM 216 Statics and Dynamics 4 It is the student’s responsibility to check with TOTAL 17.5 his or her advisor for any program modifications that may occur after the publication of this Second Semester catalog. EE 312 Signals 3.5 EE 322 Electronics II 4 Freshman Year EE 330 Energy Systems 4 First Semester EE 382 Applied Electromagnetics 3 MATH 123 Calculus I 4 Approved Math Elective2 3 CHEM 112 General Chemistry I 3 TOTAL 17.5 CHEM 112L General Chemistry I Lab 1 CENG 244 Intro to Digital Systems 4 Senior Year Humanities or Social Sciences Elective(s) 3 First Semester PE Physical Education1 1 IENG 301 Basic Engr Economics 2 TOTAL 16 ME 211 OR PHYS 341 Thermodynamics 3 Second Semester ENGL 101 Composition I 3 EE 464 Senior Design I 2 MATH 125 Calculus II 4 EE Electrical Engr Elective3 4 PHYS 211 University Physics I 3 EE Electrical Engr Elective3 4 PE Physical Education1 1 Free Elective4 3 Humanities or Social Sciences Elective(s) 3 TOTAL 18 TOTAL 14 Second Semester Sophomore Year EE 362 Electric and Magnetic First Semester Properties of Materials 3 EE 220 Circuits I 4 EE 465 Electrical Engr Design II 2 MATH 321 Differential Equations 4 EE Electrical Engr Elective3 3 CSC 150 Computer Science I 3 Technical Elective5 3 PHYS 213 University Physics II 3 Humanities or Social Sciences Elective(s) 4 PHYS 213L University Physics II Lab 1 TOTAL 15 Humanities or Social Sciences Elective(s) 3 TOTAL 18 136 credits required for graduation
Second Semester Curriculum Notes ENGL 279 Technical Comm I 3 1 Music Ensemble courses, (MUEN 101, 121
112 Electrical Engineering B.S. or 122) may be substituted for Physical Education prior to graduation. courses. Any other substitutions must be approved in advance by the physical education department chair. 2 MATH 315, 373, 381, and 441/442 are approved electives. 3 Eleven (11) electrical engineering elective credits required. EE Electives EE 421 Communications Systems 4 EE 431 Power Systems 4 EE 432 Power Electronics 4 EE 451 Control Systems 4 EE 461 VLSI Technology 4 EE 481 Microwave Engineering 4 EE 482 Laser and Opto-Electronic Systems 4 EE 483 Antennas for Wireless Communications 4 CENG 342 Digital Systems 4 CENG 420 Design of Digital Signal Processing Systems 4 CENG 440 VLSI Design 4 CENG 442 Microprocessor Design 4 CENG 444 Computer Networks 4 (credit for only one of CENG 444 or CSC 463 may be used) CENG 446 Advanced Computer Architectures 4 (credit for only one of CENG 446 or CSC 440 may be used) CENG 447 Embedded and Real-Time Computer Systems 4 4 A free elective is any college level course 100 level or above that is acceptable toward an engineering or science degree. Military science courses, 100 level and above, apply as free electives only; substitution for departmental, technical, humanities, or social science electives is not permitted. 5 A technical elective is any science or engineering course 200 level or above that does not duplicate the content of any other course required for graduation. Co-op credits may be used for technical elective credit. A maximum of six (6) co-op credits may be used for the EE degree. Electrical engineering students are required to take the FE (Fundamentals of Engineering) exam
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Environmental Engineering B.S. will participate in a two-semester capstone design experience that will involve work with a multidisciplinary team on the solution to a significant environmental problem. In order to develop a technical link with one of five disciplines closely related to environmental engineering, each student will opt for an emphasis consisting of four (4) to five (5) required and elective courses, delivered by the respective discipline. This course work prepares the student to cooperatively work alongside engineers of the emphasis discipline in solution of environmental problems. Emphasis areas include: 1. Chemical Engineering — The application of Contact Information chemical, chemical engineering, and environmental engineering principles to the Dr. Henry V. Mott environmentally safe production of a wide Department of Civil and Environmental range of products including pharmaceuticals Engineering for human consumption, materials for Civil/Mechanical 123 electronic applications, and energy to power (605) 394-5170 our society. e-mail: [email protected] 2. Civil Engineering — Engineering of our Management Committee society’s infrastructure through treatment of water for potable use, renovation of waste Professor Mott, Program Coordinator; Professors waters generated by domestic and industrial Davis, Kliche and Preber; Assistant Professors users, safe handling (both disposal and Cross, Menkhaus, and Stone; Instructor Budd. recycling) of solid and hazardous wastes generated by society, clean-up of existing Environmental Engineering environmental pollution, and general stewardship of the Earth’s land and water Environmental engineers serve our society at resources. the most fundamental level in caring for the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the soil in which 3. Geological Engineering — Engineering for we grow our food. Environmental engineers the environmentally sound use and solve existing and prevent future environmental conservation of the Earth’s natural resources problems. Students in the B.S. Environmental including development of ground-water Engineering program will be educated in higher supplies, cleanup of contaminated aquifers, mathematics, basic sciences, engineering sciences, isolation of hazardous wastes, and exploration and engineering design. The experience will be for and development of mineral or petroleum augmented by “hands- on” laboratory courses at resources. the freshman through senior levels. Students will use computers in virtually all engineering course 4. Materials and Metallurgical Engineering — work. Fundamental environmental engineering development and implementation of course work will involve heat and mass transfer, environmentally sound processes for classical and chemical thermodynamics, ground- producing the metals, ceramics, and composite water and surface-water hydrology, and materials used by our society, and leadership environmental systems analysis. Each student in the area of recycling of materials for re-use 114 Environmental Engineering B.S.
by society. Laboratories
5. Mining Engineering — The development of Laboratories maintained by the chemical and mining and reclamation plans that ensure biological, civil and environmental, geological, environmentally sound mining operations and materials and metallurgical, and mining that the Earth and oceans are returned to engineering and management programs are environmentally acceptable conditions upon equipped with up-to-date analytical the completion of mining activities. instrumentation. Descriptions of these laboratories are given elsewhere in respective The objective of the environmental sections of this catalog. These laboratories are engineering program is to provide graduates with utilized both in graduate and undergraduate an educational foundation that will enable them to research and in association with undergraduate engage in the professional practice of courses to enhance student understanding of environmental engineering within the public or critical phenomena. Computational laboratories private sector, or complete advanced studies either maintained by all five (5) programs are equipped in environmental engineering or a related with up-to-date personal and workstation professional discipline. computing equipment. These computers are networked with the university’s file server. Graduates of this program are expected to: Environmental Engineering 1. Ethically apply principles from mathematics, Curriculum/Checklist the natural sciences, engineering, humanities, and social sciences, as appropriate in It is the student’s responsibility to check with applicable global and contemporary societal his or her advisor for any program modifications contexts, to the definition, formulation, and that may occur after the publication of this solution of both existing and potential catalog. environmental problems. 2. Develop, interpret, and utilize appropriate Freshman Year laboratory process data; think critically; and First Semester use modern engineering skills, techniques, and ENGL 101 Composition I 3 tools in the iterative decision-making process CHEM 112 General Chemistry I 3 associated with environmental engineering CHEM 112L General Chemistry I Lab 1 design. MATH 123 Calculus I 4 3. Work and learn, on a lifelong basis, both GE 130/130L Introduction independently and cooperatively with peers. to Engineering 2 4. Communicate the results of their work and Humanities or Social Sciences Elective(s) 3 their ideas effectively, both orally and in PE Physical Education8 1 written form, to peers and to non-technical TOTAL 17 audiences. A minor is not available in environmental Second Semester engineering. CHE 111 Intro. Engr Modeling 1 CHEM 114 General Chemistry II 3 Cooperative Education Program CHEM 114L General Chemistry II Lab 1 CHE 117 Prof Pract in ChE6 2 Students may participate in the Cooperative MATH 125 Calculus II 4 Education Internship Program. Within the limits PHYS 211 University Physics I 3 specified by each emphasis, these credits may be Gen Ed Humanities or Social Sci. elective 3 applied toward elective requirements. PE Physical Education8 1
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TOTAL 18 Senior Year First Semester Sophomore Year ENVE 421 Environ Systems Analysis 3 First Semester ENVE 464 Environ Engr Design I 2 ENVE 217 Chem Engr. I 3 ENVE 475 Ground Water 3 MATH 225 Calculus III 4 Emphasis elective(s)5 8 CHEM 230 Analytical Chemistry for TOTAL 16 Engineers 2 ENGL 279 Tech. Comm I 3 Second Semester BIOL 341 Microbial Processes in ENVE 337 Engineering Hydrology 3 Engr and Nat. Science 3 EnvE 390 Seminar 1 Humanities or Social Sciences Elective(s) 3 ATM 405 Air Quality 3 TOTAL 18 ENVE 465 Envr Engr Design II 2 Emphasis elective(s)5 3 Second Semester Humanities or Social Sciences Electives 4 PHYS 213 University Physics II 3 TOTAL 16 GEOE 221 Geology for Engineers 3 EM 216 Statics and Dynamics1 4 136 credits are required for graduation MATH 321 Differential Equations 4 Gen Ed Humanities or Social Sci. elective 3 Curriculum Notes Laboratory Elective7 1 1A combination of EM 214/321, EM 214/215, ENVE 390 Seminar 0 or EM 214/ME 221 may replace EM 216. TOTAL 18 2MET 422 will satisfy the requirements for EnvE 315/-318 for the materials and metallurgical Junior Year emphasis only. First Semester 3CHE 222 and CHE 321 will satisfy the ENGL 289 Tech. Comm II 3 thermodynamics requirement. IENG 301 Basic Engr. Economics 2 4CHE 218, EM 331, or ME 331 will also Statistics9 2 satisfy fluid mechanics requirements. ENVE 315 Fund. of Heat Transfer2 2 5Each student must select a set of emphasis ENVE 320 Thermodynamics3 4 area course work totaling fourteen (14) credits. ENVE 326 Introductory Environmental (See emphasis areas below). Engr. Design 3 6CEE 284 (4 cr.) meets the combined TOTAL 16 requirement for ChE 117-ChE 250, four (4) credits total. Math 373, three (3) credits, may be Second Semester substituted for ChE 250, two (2) credits. CHE 250 Computer Applications in 7Biol 231L, or Chem 332L will satisfy this Chemical Engineering6 2 requirement. CHEM 316 Fund. of Org. Chem. 3 8Music Ensemble courses may be substituted ENVE 318 Chemical Engr. IV2 3 for physical education courses for qualified EnvE 327/327L Env. Engr. students. Any other substitutions must be Process Analysis 3 approved in advance by the physical education EM 328 Applied Fluid Mechanics4 3 department chair. EnvE 390 Seminar 0 9A minimum of two (2) credits algebra-based Emphasis elective(s)5 3 applied statistics must be completed. TOTAL 17
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Environmental Engineering Emphasis Areas ENVE 310 Aqueous Extrac/Conc/Recy 3 CEE 425 Sustainable Engr Design 3 Chemical Engineering CEE 433 Open Channel Flow 3 Required course work CEE 437 Watershed/Floodplain Mod 3 Sub CHE 222 and ChE 321 for ENVE 320 2 EnvE 466 Engr. & Env. Geology 3 BIOL 231L General Microbiology Lab ENVE 498 Undergraduate Research 3 AND CEE 621 Env. Contaminant Fate CHEM 332L Analytical Chemistry I Lab1 1 and Transport 3 ChE 343 Chem. Kinetics & Reactor CEE 622 Adv. Trt. Plant Design 3 Design 3 CEE 627 Trt., Disp., and Mgmt. ChE Lab Electives (2 cr. from the following): of Hazardous Wastes 3 ChE 362 Chem Engr. Lab III 1 CEE 628 Env. Engr. Measurements 3 ChE 434L Sep process Lab 1 Technical Elective: must bring the emphasis total ChE 461 Chem Engr. Lab IV 1 to 14 credits minimum; be upper division (3xx or ChE 484L BioChem Engr. Lab 1 above); have basic science, engineering science, Engineering Topics Electives (3 cr. from the or engineering topics content; and be relevant to following): environmental engineering and the student’s ChE 417 Chemical Engr. V 2 specific study program. ChE 434 Des. of Sep. Processes 2 ChE 444 Reactor Design 3 Geological Engineering ChE 455 Poll Phen and Proc Control 3 Required course work ChE 484 Fund. of BioChem Engr 3 GEOE 324 Engineering Geophysics 3 Technical Electives (3 cr. from the following): GEOE 466 Engr and Env Geology 3 ChE courses listed above (if not counted toward Eng. Geological Engineering Emphasis electives: Topics Elective Eight (8) credits from the following: Chem 460 Biochemistry 3 Geol 416 Introduction to GIS 3 Chem 482 Env. Chemistry 3 CEE 437 Watershed/Floodplain Mod 3 ChE 492 Topics var GeoE 462 Drilling Engineering 3 ATM 503 Biogeochemistry 3 GEOE 482 Applied Geomorphology 3 ChE 498 Undergrad. Research var ENVE 498 Undergraduate Research 1 or 2 EnvE 498 Undergrad. Research var GEOE 498 Undergraduate Research 1 or 2 Other upper division science or engineering topics
courses related environmental engineering as Materials and Metallurgical Engineering approved by advisor. Required course work
sub. MET 422 for ENVE 315 and ENVE 3181 1 1 The combination of these two (2) courses ENVE 220 Mineral Processing and also satisfies the laboratory elective requirement Resource Recovery 4
ENVE 310 Aq Extrac/Conc/Recy 3 Civil Engineering ENVE 310L Aq Extrac/Conc/Recy Lab 1 Required course work ENVE 321 High Temp Extrac/Conc/Recy 4 ENVE 426 EnvE Phys/Chem Proc Des 3 Electives2 3 ENVE 426L EnvE Phys/Chem Proc Lab 1
ENVE 427 EnvE Bio. Proc. Des. 3 1ENVE 315 and ENVE 318 (five (5) credits ENVE 427L EnvE Bio. Proc. Des. Lab 1 total) are the typical required courses. For the Engineering Topics elective: a minimum of Materials and Metallurgical Engr. emphasis only Three (3) credits must be completed from the substitute MET 422 (four (4) credits). following:
ENVE 220 Mineral Processing and 2These electives must address engineering topics Resource Recovery 4 or natural sciences and be 300 level or higher.
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Mining Engineering Required course work
MEM 120 Intro to Mining and Sustainable Development 2 MEM 203 Introduction to Mine Health and Safety 1 MEM 307 Mineral Exploration and Geostatistics 3 MEM 405 Mine Permitting and Reclamation 3 MEM 433 Comp. Apps in Geoscience Modeling 4 Electives 1
Mines Matters: The School of Mines finished in sixth place overall against 80 registered teams at the Formula SAE West competition, held June 13-16, 2007 at the California Speedway in Fontana, Calif.
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Geological Engineering B.S. Geological Engineering
Geological engineering is the development and conservation of natural resources in ways useful to mankind. It encompasses diverse fields such as ground-water resources, subsurface contamination, slope stability, environmental site investigations, petroleum exploration and production, and minerals. The instruction in geological engineering provides training at both the undergraduate and graduate levels through the Ph.D.
Geological Engineering Program Objectives
The objectives of the program in geological engineering are to provide students with: 1) an understanding of the fundamental principles of geological engineering, basic engineering, and geology, and 2) academic training and design experiences to prepare them for practice in the geological engineering profession. This education also prepares them to continue with graduate studies, if they desire. Graduates of the geological engineering program are expected to be competent for entry- level professional practice in the areas of 1) ground water, 2) environmental site planning and Contact Information natural hazards, 3) geomechanics and geotechnics, and 4) exploration for and development of fuels or Dr. Maribeth H. Price minerals. In the senior year, students select two Department of Geology and Geological of these four main areas of emphasis, depending Engineering on their interests and career objectives. Studies in Mineral Industries 307 these areas culminate in major engineering design (605) 394-2461 experiences to help bridge the gap between e-mail: [email protected] education and professional practice. Graduates of the program who obtain employment in their area Faculty of expertise are expected to advance more rapidly than their peers who do not have similar Professor Price, Chair; Professors Davis and specialized training. Roggenthen; Associate Professor Stetler; Professor Emeritus Rahn. Geological Engineering Education
Supporting Faculty An integral part of the educational experience is development of the ability to design solutions Professors Duke, Fox, Hladysz, and Paterson; for meeting desired needs in geological Assistant Professor Terry; Adjunct Professor engineering work. The design component of the Long. curriculum is developed within geological 119 Geological Engineering B.S. engineering courses that integrate basic science digital and analytical modeling laboratory, a (including geology, chemistry, and physics) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) engineering science (including statics, mechanics laboratory, a ground-water laboratory, a wind of materials, fluid mechanics, soil mechanics, and engineering laboratory, a geotechnics laboratory, thermodynamics). This engineering design a drilling fluids laboratory, and an operational experience includes a two-semester capstone well field with data loggers and transducers. design sequence. The capstone engineering Instrumentation includes ground-probing radar, a design courses build upon and integrate previous hydrologic analysis system, a portable wind course work in helping to prepare graduates for tunnel, a mobile drilling rig, and petroleum the professional practice of geological engineering equipment. The computer laboratory engineering. is continually updated and contains high-speed The nature of geological engineering is computers with GIS and other analytical continually evolving as the needs of employers capabilities. Programs are available for digital change in response to advances in technology and modeling of ground-water flow and contaminant economic forces. To prepare adequately for migration, petroleum engineering, slope stability, careers in geological engineering, students must geophysical applications, geochemical modeling, be willing to engage in lifelong learning in order and spreadsheet applications. to embrace new technologies and to stay current within the engineering profession. Graduates with Geological Engineering Curriculum/Checklist a broad range of skills, flexibility in learning new technologies, and sound training in fundamental It is the student’s responsibility to check with principles can expect a competitive advantage in his or her advisor for any program modifications the job market and workplace. that may occur after the publication of this The bachelor of science program in geological catalog. engineering is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, 111 Market Freshman Year Place, Suite 1050, Baltimore, MD 21202-4012 – First Semester telephone (410) 347-7700. CHEM 112 General Chemistry I 3 A minor in geological engineering is not MATH 123 Calculus I 4 available. ENGL 101 Composition I 3 GE 130 Intro to Engineering 2 Professional Development Gen. Ed. Goal 3 and Goal 4 Electives 6 TOTAL 18 Students in geological engineering are encouraged to participate in the Student Chapter Second Semester of the Association of Engineering Geologists as CHEM 112L General Chem I Lab 1 well as to become student members of the CHEM 114 General Chemistry II 3 National Ground Water Association, the Society MATH 125 Calculus II 4 for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration (SME), PHYS 211 University Physics I 3 and the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE). GEOE 221 Geology for Engineers 3 Students are strongly encouraged to take the CEE 117 Computer Aided Design and Fundamentals of Engineering examination, as the Interpretation in Civil Engr. 2 first step in becoming a registered professional TOTAL 16 engineer. Sophomore Year Geological Engineering Laboratories First Semester EM 214 Statics 3 The Department of Geology and Geological MATH 225 Calculus III 4 Engineering has laboratory facilities that include a MEM 201L Surveying for
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Mineral Engineers 2 GEOE 465 Geol Engr Design Project II 3 PE Physical Education 1 Humanities or Social Sciences Elective(s) 3 PHYS 213 University Physics II 3 TOTAL 16 Gen. Ed. Goal 3 Electives 3 TOTAL 16 136 credits required for graduation
Second Semester Curriculum Notes ENGL 279 Technical Communications I 3 1 Approved Elective. Must be a course EM 321 Mechanics of Materials 3 approved by the Department of Geology and GEOL 212 Mineralogy/Crystallography 3 Geological Engineering. MATH 321 Differential Equations 4 2 Students interested in mineral exploration PE Physical Education 1 may substitute GEOE 451 for GEOE 461. Gen. Ed. Goal 4 Electives 3 3 Professional Electives. Students may choose TOTAL 17 two of the following courses: GEOE 451 Economic Geology Junior Year GEOE 425 Engineering Geophysics II First Semester GEOE 462 Drilling Engineering ENGL 289 Technical Communications II 3 GEOE 482 Applied Geomorphology GEOL 331 Stratigraphy & Sedimentation3 ENVE 326 Environmental Engineering GEOL 341 Elementary Petrology 3 Process Fundamentals CEE 346 Geotechnical Engineering 3 ENVE 421 Environmental Systems Analysis MET 320 Met Thermodynamics 4 CEE 337 Engineering Hydrology TOTAL 16 CEE 347 Geotechnical Engineering II CEE 437 Watershed and Floodplain Second Semester Modeling GEOE 322 Structural Geology 3 CEE 447 Foundation Engineering GEOE 324 Engineering Geophysics I 3 CEE 474 Engineering Project Management EM 328 Applied Fluid Mechanics 3 ME 351 Mechatronics and Measurement Approved Elective1 3 Systems (cross-listed with EE 351) MEM 302 Mineral Econ and Finance 3 Humanities or Social Sciences Elective(s) 1 MEM 433 Computer Applications in TOTAL 16 Geoscience Modeling MEM 405 Mine Permitting and Reclamation Summer MEM 450 Rock Slope Engineering GEOE 410 Engineering Field Geology 6 MEM 305 Introduction to Explosives TOTAL 6 Engineering
Senior Year Additional course work in mathematics and First Semester statistics is encouraged. MATH 381 and MATH GEOE 466 Engr and Envr Geology 3 382 are recommended statistics courses; MATH GEOE 475 Ground Water 3 432 is recommended for students interested in GEOE 461 Petroleum Production2 3 numerical modeling of partial differential GEOE 464 Geol Engr Design Project I 3 equations. GEOL 416 GIS I: Intro to GIS 3 TOTAL 15
Second Semester MEM 304 Rock Mechanics I 4 Professional Electives3 6
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Industrial Engineering B.S. effective problem solving.
• design, develop, implement, and improve integrated systems that include people, materials, information, equipment, and environments.
• effectively manage business operations and project management teams.
• continue to develop the personal and professional skills necessary to adapt to our changing societal, technological, and global environments.
Contact Information Graduates of the industrial engineering program are expected to be competent for entry Dr. Stuart D. Kellogg level professional practice and will: Industrial Engineering Civil Mechanical 328 • possess basic scientific and mathematical (605) 394-1271 competence. e-mail: [email protected] • be able to conduct experiments and analyze Faculty data.
Ervin Pietz Professor Kellogg, Chair; Professor • have technical and computer competence. Kerk; Associate Professor Matejcik; Assistant Professors Karlin and Jensen. • be able to communicate effectively.
The bachelor of science program in industrial • be able to work effectively on a professional engineering is accredited by the Engineering team. Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). • understand business and management functions. Industrial engineering is concerned with the design, improvement, and installation of • be able to design a system. integrated systems of people, material, and equipment. The industrial engineer employs a set • have an understanding of professional and of skills that includes mathematical modeling, ethical responsibility. probability and statistics, computer science, human factors, and interpersonal skills. Thus, Industrial Engineering Education industrial engineering may be thought of as applied problem solving, from inception to The curriculum in the industrial engineering implementation. department is designed to give the student a thorough knowledge in the fundamental principles Industrial Engineering Program Objectives within the four primary stems of industrial engineering: operations research and optimization, The objectives of the industrial engineering manufacturing, statistical processes, and human program are to produce graduates who: engineering. Throughout the program of studies, • contribute to the success of companies through special emphasis is placed upon application of 122 Industrial Engineering B.S. systems principles in engineering design to assure 114/114L, CHEM 480, CP 297/397/4971, IENG proper integration of the individual (or 4911, ME 380, MEM 203, PE 105, and PHYS individuals), procedures, materials, and 363. (Note 1: Pre-approved, significant safety equipment. Service learning components, content.) Thus, a total of at least 21 credit hours laboratories, case work, simulations, and the is needed for an occupational safety minor. A capstone design sequence reinforce the minor in occupational safety must be approved by managerial aspects of systems integration, the student’s major department and the minor systems design, and the global, societal, and coordinator on a form available at the Office of business context for product and process Academic and Enrollment Services. improvement. Additional information may be found at the Students may participate in the department website:
Minor in Occupational Safety Freshman Year First Semester The minor in occupational safety is MATH 123 Calculus I 4 offered to students pursuing any B.S. degree CHEM 112 General Chemistry I 3 program. Minimum math/science competence is Humanities or Social Sciences Elective(s) 3 CHEM 112/112L, MATH 123, PHYS 111 or 211, PE Physical Education1 1 and MATH 281 or 381 or 441. Required courses ENGL 101 Composition I 3 are IENG 321/331/341, PSYC 331 or POLS 407, CHEM 112L General Chemistry I Lab 1 Senior Design or Senior Project1 in home ME 110 Intro to Mechanical Engr 2 department, and a minimum of 6 credit hours OR from the following list: BIOL CEE 117 Computer Aided Design 2 121/121L/123/123L, ENVE 326, CHEM TOTAL 17
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Engineering 3 Second Semester EE 301 Intro Circuits, Machines, Syst 4 MATH 125 Calculus II 4 MET 232 Properties of Materials 3 PHYS 211 University Physics I 3 TOTAL 16 PE Physical Education1 1 PSYC 101 General Psychology 3 Senior Year General Elective 2 First Semester Humanities or Social Sciences Elective(s) 3 IENG 425 Production and Operation 3 TOTAL 16 IENG 331 Safety Engineering2 3 IENG 471 Facilities Planning 3 Sophomore Year IENG 464 Senior Design Project I 3 First Semester Dept. Approved Electives 6 EM 216 Statics and Dynamics 4 TOTAL 18 ENGL 279 Technical Communications I 3 MATH 225 Calculus III 4 Second Semester IENG 381 Intro to Probability and Stats 3 IENG 366 Management Processes 3 PHYS 213 University Physics II 3 IENG 465 Senior Design Project II 3 PHYS 213L University Physics II Lab 1 IENG 475 Computer Controlled Manuf 3 TOTAL 18 Humanities or Social Sciences Elective(s) 3 Department Elective 4 Second Semester TOTAL 16 IENG 382 Probability Theory and Stats II 3 136 credits required for graduation MATH 321 Differential Equations 4 IENG 215/216/217 Cost Estimating Curriculum Notes for Engineers 3 1 Music ensemble courses may be substituted IENG 241 Production Tools for Quality for physical education courses for qualified Improvement 2 students. Any other substitutions must be IENG 302 Engineering Economics 3 approved in advance by the physical education Humanities or Social Sciences Elective(s) 3 department chair. TOTAL 18 2IENG 341 (Industrial Hygiene) may be substituted during a second semester. Junior Year First Semester Elective courses must be chosen to satisfy all ENGL 289 Technical Communications II 3 of the following requirements: IENG 311 Work Methods and Measurement 3 1. Sixteen (16) semester hours in humanities or IENG 486 Statistical Quality and social science. At least six (6) hours must be Process Control 3 in humanities and at least six (6) hours must IENG 345 Entrepreneurship 4 be in social sciences. This may include PSYC IENG 362 Stochastic Models 3 101, which is required. Humanities or Social Sciences Elective(s) 1 TOTAL 17 2. Six (6) hours of humanities or social science must be included in the list of approved Second Semester cultural diversity courses. IENG 441 Simulation 3 MATH 353 Linear Optimization 3 3. At least three (3) hours of humanities or social IENG 321 Ergonomics/Human Factors science must be at the 300 or 400 level.
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Mechanical Engineering B.S. 2. An effective integration of computer technology;
3. Communication skills and effective presentations; and
4. Improved understanding of engineering theory through hands-on laboratory experience.
In the senior year, the students select from course electives that best reflect their interests and career objectives. Students may select courses from one or more of the following general areas: 1. Manufacturing, e.g., control, design, Contact Information development, and manufacture of diverse equipment and processes; Dr. Michael Langerman Department of Mechanical Engineering 2. Thermal Science/Energy, e.g., design of Civil Mechanical 172 power systems and heating/air conditioning (605) 394-2408 systems. e-mail: [email protected] 3. Mechanical Systems/Design, e.g., design of Faculty machines, structures, and systems.
Professor Langerman, Chair; Professors Buck, Mission Dolan, Kalanovic, Kjerengtroen, and Krause; Associate Professors Korde, and Muci-Kuchler, The mission of the Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professors Gu, Skillman, and Yoon; program is to prepare our graduates for leadership Professors Emeritus Gnirk and Pendleton; roles in the mechanical engineering profession by: Instructor Ash. • offering a quality education fostering a Mechanical Engineering distinctive curriculum accentuating design and project-based learning, Mechanical engineering is a very broad field that provides opportunities for interesting and • committing to individual development while challenging work in every phase of modern emphasizing the values of teamwork in a technology. The curriculum in the mechanical culturally diverse, multidisciplinary engineering department is designed to give the environment, student a thorough knowledge of the fundamental principles of engineering and science within the • encouraging undergraduate and graduate major areas of mechanical engineering: research nurturing creative solutions to manufacturing, mechanical systems, and thermal complex engineering problems. science and energy. Beyond this basic foundation, the curriculum also develops: Objectives
1. The various aspects of engineering design We realize that building upon traditions of including design theory and teamwork; excellence requires continual development of active partnerships among the faculty, the 125 Mechanical Engineering B.S.
students, and our constituents. In keeping with include: advanced workstation computer facilities, these objectives, the mechanical engineering equipment for modern digital controls, machine program produces graduates who are able to vision systems, image analysis equipment, perform at a level that meets or exceeds industry structural testing and analysis equipment, expectations. Our students will be able to achieve compliant structures and computational solid the objectives listed below within a few years of mechanics, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer graduation through attainment of the outcomes codes on the workstation facilities. listed below at the time of graduation. Mechanical Engineering Curriculum/Checklist OBJECTIVE 1: Lead and/or manage effective engineering design analyses It is the student’s responsibility to check with his or her advisor for any program modifications Outcomes that may occur after the publication of this • Apply skills in engineering, science, and catalog. To graduate, the student must attain a mathematics grade of C or better in all Junior-level ME core courses (i.e., all ME 3XX numbered courses). • Practice effective analysis Freshman Year1 • Conduct data analyses and analyses First Semester verification MATH 123 Calculus I 4 CHEM 112 General Chemistry I 3 OBJECTIVE 2: Lead and/or manage effective CHEM 112L General Chemistry I Lab 1 engineering design teams ME 110 Intro to Mechanical Engr. 2 ENGL 101 Composition I 3 Outcomes PE Physical Education2 1 • Apply effective engineering design skills Humanities or Social Sciences Elective(s) 3 TOTAL 17 • Demonstrate teaming proficiency Second Semester • Participate in research and professional MATH 125 Calculus II 4 development PHYS 211 University Physics I 3 CSC 150 Computer Science I 3 Students may participate in the Cooperative PE Physical Education2 1 Education Internship Program. In some instances, Humanities or Social Sciences Elective(s) 6 credits earned during the co-op may be applied TOTAL 17 toward department elective requirements. The mechanical engineering department does Sophomore Year not offer a minor. First Semester EM 214 Statics 3 Mechanical Engineering Laboratories ENGL 279 Technical Communications I 3 ME 262 Product Development 4 There are several undergraduate laboratories MATH 321 Differential Equations 4 in the department, including mechanical systems Humanities or Social Sciences Elective(s) 3 and instrumentation, thermal and fluid systems, TOTAL 17 manufacturing, robotic systems, and vibrations. Laboratories are updated with personal Second Semester computers, peripherals, and data acquisition ME 221* Dynamics of Mechanisms 3 equipment. ME 211* Intro to Thermodynamics 3 Graduate research laboratories and resources PHYS 213 University Physics II 3
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PHYS 213L University Physics II Lab 1 courses, and their sequencing is important. A MET 231 Properties of Materials Lab 1 faculty advisor should be consulted for any MET 232 Properties of Materials 3 deviation from the above schedule. ME 216* Mechanics of Materials 3 2 Music ensemble courses may be substituted TOTAL 17 for physical education courses for qualified students. Any other substitutions must be Junior Year approved in advance by the physical education First Semester department chair. MATH 225 Calculus III 4 3 Total design content of senior year ENGL 289 Technical Comm II 3 mechanical engineering electives must be a ME 316* Solid Mechanics 3 minimum of three (3) hours. EE 301 Introductory Circuits, Machines, and Systems 4 ME 331* Thermo Fluid Dynamics 3 TOTAL 17
Second Semester ME 313* Heat Transfer 3 ME 352* Intro to Dynamic Systems 3 MATH 373 Intro to Numerical Methods 3 ME 322* Machine Design I 3 ME 351* Mechatronics and Meas Syst 4 ME 312* Thermodynamics II 3 TOTAL 19
Senior Year3 First Semester ME 477 Mechanical Engr Design I 2 IENG 302 Engineering Economics 3 MATH 381 Probability/Statistics 3 ME 4XX Mechanical Engr Elective #1 4 ME 481 Advanced Prod. Dev. Lab I 1 ME 4XX Mechanical Engr Elective #2 3 TOTAL 16
Second Semester ME 479 Mechanical Syst Design II 2 ME 482 Advanced Prod. Dev. Lab II 2 ME 4XX Mechanical Engr Elective #3 3 ME 4XX Mechanical Engr Elective #4 3 Humanities or Social Sciences Elective(s) 4 Free Elective 2 TOTAL 16
136 credits required for graduation * A grade of C or better required for graduation
Curriculum Notes 1 Many courses are prerequisites for other
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Metallurgical Engineering B.S. and upon the principles of chemistry, physics, and mathematics. These sciences provide an Minor (Materials Science – Metals) understanding of the methods of metal production processes and the behavior of materials. In addition to familiar materials such as steel, aluminum, copper, glass, gold, and silver, metallurgical engineers produce many exotic materials such as metals with shape memories, ultrahigh-purity materials for integrated circuits, materials for surgical implants, ceramics for space vehicles, nano-scale metal particles and superconductors. There are three (3) areas of specialization in metallurgical engineering: mineral processing, extractive metallurgy, and materials engineering. Mineral processors concentrate ores and recycle materials so that extractive metallurgists can produce pure, high- Contact Information quality metals and non-metallics for use by materials engineers who transform these materials Dr. Jon J. Kellar into the marvels of our advanced civilization, Department of Materials and Metallurgical ranging from space craft to thin diamond films. Engineering Metallurgical engineers are actively involved in Mineral Industries 112 nanotechnology and production and utilization of (605) 394-2343 nano-scale materials. e-mail: [email protected] Advances made by metallurgical and material engineers make possible advances in other Faculty engineering fields. This happens because virtually every engineering field is in constant Douglas W. Fuerstenau Professor Kellar, Chair; search of higher-performance materials. Professor Howard; Associate Professor Medlin; Metallurgical engineers are responsible for the Associate Professor Cross; Assistant Professor production of materials and also for the evaluation West; Research Scientist Hong; Adjunct of metals, ceramics, and polymer-based Professors Arbegast and Sears, Distinguished composites. The evaluation of materials includes Professor Emeritus Han; Professor Emeritus tests to determine strength, hardness, toughness, Stone. corrosion behavior, and many others. It is the role of the Metallurgical Engineer to develop Materials and Metallurgical Engineering processing methods to create materials with specific and exacting properties for every Materials and metallurgical engineering is the conceivable application. branch of engineering that develops and supplies The primary source for materials continues to the materials for virtually every other engineering be the Earth in forms such as ores, minerals from field. Three-fourths of all chemical elements are sea water, and petroleum. However, recycled metals, so metals play a vital role in nearly every materials are an increasingly important material aspect of modern life. metallurgical engineers source for metallurgical engineers. transform the Earth’s mineral resources into Materials and Metallurgical Engineers are finished products by extracting metals from ores, employed throughout the nation and the world. producing ceramics from metal compounds, and fabricating composite structures. Today’s materials are exotic and so are the methods of producing them. Metallurgy is based 128 Metallurgical Engineering B.S.
The Objectives of the B.S. Metallurgical Minor in Materials Science — Metals Engineering Degree Program The requirements for a minor in Materials The program graduates will: Science — Metals are MET 232, 330, 332, 443, • Successfully apply metallurgical engineering 445 and one of MET 430 or 440, for a total of 18 principles in their employment credits. MET 330, MET 332 and MET 440 are • Meet societal needs through science and offered in alternate years, so plans for a materials technology science-metals minor should be made early. This • Grow professionally and personally minor is designed for students in the engineering • Serve their profession and community and science disciplines that desire focused training in the field of Materials Science with Materials and Metallurgical Engineering special emphasis on metals. Students completing Laboratories the minor in materials science-metals will demonstrate the following outcomes: Laboratory facilities in metallurgical 1. a proficiency in Materials Science concepts engineering are equipped for instruction in covering metals and alloys; mineral processing, chemical metallurgy, physical 2. the ability to develop new metals/alloys, and metallurgy, and mechanical metallurgy. Sample improve metals/alloys; preparation facilities, laser light scattering particle 3. the ability to predict and evaluate the size analyzers, gravitational separation equipment, performance of metals and alloys. laser Doppler particle size and zeta potential measurement equipment are available for mineral Given the redundancy in the B.S. and materials processing. Induction melting and metallurgical engineering core curriculum, the vacuum furnaces, fluidized-bed reactors, minor in materials science-metals is not available corrosion potentiostat, contact angle goniometer, to those students who receive a B.S. degree in and high pressure autoclaves are available for metallurgical engineering. A minor in materials chemical metallurgy. X-ray diffraction units, science-metals must be approved by the student’s Fourier transform infrared spectrometer, Raman major department. Academic and Enrollment Spectrometer, Langmuir-Blodgett trough, Services has forms that should be completed and metallographs, atomic force microscope, signed by the department chairs from both controlled atmosphere furnaces, quantitative departments involved in this minor. image analyzer, scanning and transmission electron microscopes, universal testing machine Metallurgical Engineering (MTS), Charpy impact testing machine, and Curriculum/Checklist microhardness, Rockwell and Vickers hardness testers are available for measuring material It is the student’s responsibility to check with performance. his or her advisor for any program modifications State-of-the art laboratory facilities in welding that may occur after the publication of this and joining are available within the metallurgical catalog. engineering laboratories. These facilities include traditional joining (fusion welding) as well as Freshman Year advanced joining (friction stir joining) equipment. First Semester Co-curricular opportunities in blacksmithing MATH 123 Calculus I5 4 and the artistic aspects of metallurgy are also CHEM 112 General Chemistry I6 3 available. Where appropriate, these co-curricular ENGL 101 Composition I1 3 activities are integrated into the metallurgical Free Elective 2 engineering curriculum. PE Physical Education 1 Humanities or Social Sciences Elective(s)3, 4 3 TOTAL 16
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Second Semester TOTAL 17 MATH 125 Calculus II 4 BIOL 153 General Biology II6 OR 3 Senior Year BIOL 151 General Biology I6 OR 3 First Semester CHEM 114 General Chemistry II6 3 MET 464 Engineering Design III 2 PHYS 211 University Physics I 3 IENG 301 Basic Engineering Econ 2 CHEM 112L General Chem Lab 1 Science Elective 3 PE Physical Education 1 Humanities or Social Sciences Elective(s) 3 Humanities or Social Sciences Elective(s)3, 4 3 Set A or C 7 Humanities or Social Sciences Elective(s)3, 4 3 TOTAL 17 TOTAL 18 Second Semester Sophomore Year MET 433 Process Control 3 First Semester MET 465 Engineering Design IV 1 MET 232 Properties of Materials 3 Science Elective 3 MET 231 Structures and Properties of Set B or D 11 Materials Lab 1 TOTAL 18 MATH 321 Differential Equations 4 PHYS 213 University Physics II 3 136 credits required for graduation CHEM 114L General Chem II Lab OR 1 BIOL 151L General Biology I Lab OR 1 Curriculum Notes BIOL 153L General Biology II Lab 1 1 Satisfies General Education Goal #1 ENGL 279 Technical Comm I1 3 2 Satisfies General Education Goal #2 EM 214 Statics 3 3 Satisfies General Education Goal #3 TOTAL 18 4 Satisfies General Education Goal #4 5 Satisfies General Education Goal #5 Second Semester 6 Satisfies General Education Goal #6 MATH 225 Calculus III 4 EM 321 Mechanics of Materials OR 3 Set A-Fall Even Years ME 216 Intro to Solid Mechanics 3 MET 422 Transport Phenomena 4 PHYS 213L University Physics II Lab 1 Free Elective 3 MET 220L Min Proc and Res Recov Lab 1 Set B-Spring Odd Years Humanities or Social Sciences Elective(s)3, 4 4 MET 321 High Temp Extract/Conc/Rec 4 TOTAL 16 Directed Met Elective 3 EE 301 Intro Circuits, Machines, Syst 4 Junior Year Set C-Fall Odd Years First Semester MET 330 Physics of Metals 3 ENGL 289 Technical Comm II2 3 MET 330L Physics of Metals Lab 1 MET 320 Metallurg Thermodynamics 4 MET 332 Thermomechanical Treatment 3 MET 351 Engineering Design I 2 Set D-Spring Even Years Set A or C 7 MET 440 Mechanical Metallurgy 3 TOTAL 16 MET 440L Mechanical Metallurgy Lab 1 Directed Met Elective 3 Second Semester MET 310 Aqueous Extract/Conc/Rec 3 MET 352 Engineering Design II 1 MET 310L Aq Extract/Conc/Rec Lab 1 MATH 373 Intro to Numerical Analysis 3 Free Elective 2 Set B or D 11
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Mining Engineering and management takes traditional mining engineering education one step farther by including Management B.S. management-related education in the curriculum. The curriculum provides the student with fundamental training in the basic sciences, engineering sciences, engineering design, geology, the humanities, and mining engineering. Principles of mine operation, mine planning, mining technology, rock mechanics, and computer applications receive special emphasis. Key management-related concepts are introduced at all levels of the curriculum. Significant design experience is built into the curriculum and is enhanced by the use of sophisticated design software in many of the mining courses. In this, teamwork is stressed. The students work together in small, specialized Contact Information teams during many of the laboratory exercises and to complete the final capstone design project. The Mr. Shashi Kanth, Chair students will present their final design project Mining Engineering and Management Program both orally and in written form. Mineral Industries 327C The mining engineering and management (605) 394-1973 program will come up for accreditation review by e-mail: [email protected] the Engineering Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Faculty Technology (ABET) during their next general review in 2010. Professors Kliche and Hladys. A minor in mining engineering and management is not available. Supporting Faculty Mining Engineering and Management Mr. Shashi Kanth, Chair; Mr. Charles Layton, Program Objectives Professor Hansen; Associate Professor Klasi. The program in mining engineering and Mining Engineering and Management management is designed to meet the changing needs of the mining industry in South Dakota, the The mining engineering and management nation and the world. The program concept is a degree program replaces the mining engineering result of discussions between the School of Mines degree program. Mining Engineering Industrial advisory board and The mining engineering and management the School of Mines administration. program was designed to better meet the needs of The objective of creating this new degree at the mining industry. It combines the traditional School of Mines is to provide the modern mining mining engineering education with selected industry with graduates who are technically sound management-related concepts in order to better in mining engineering, but who can progress prepare the graduates for the modern mining quickly through supervision and into industry. management. Mining engineering is the application of The curriculum has been designed to meet engineering and scientific principles to the accreditation requirements in both mining discovery, appraisal, and extraction of minerals engineering and engineering management. The from the Earth and sea. Mining engineering and 131 Mining Engineering and Management B.S.
core mining engineering curriculum provides available for student use includes: equipment for technical training in areas such as rock mechanics, rock specimen preparation, uniaxial and triaxial mine ventilation, ore reserve evaluation, mine rock strength testing machine, direct shear design, mining equipment selection, mining machine, computerized data acquisition system, method selection, and mineland reclamation. The ventilation network model, and state of art GPS curriculum also includes a strong emphasis on based surveying equipment. management-related topics: health and safety, The computer laboratory consists of a new economics and finance, labor relations, project (2007) lab sponsored by industry leader in mine management, environmental management, design software (MAPTEK) with personal international business, and communication skills. computers used independently or linked to the campus servers through a Professional Development network. Available software packages are routinely used by undergraduate and graduate Students in the program are encouraged to students for the solution of problems in rock become student members of their primary mechanics, geostatistics, management, mineral professional organization-the Society for Mining, economics, ventilation, blasting, mapping, and Metallurgy, and Exploration (SME). Upon mine design. State-of-the-art geoscience graduation, they are further encouraged to modeling and mine planning software is used by continue professional membership of SME. students for surface and underground mine design. Additionally, the students can become student members of the International Society of Mining Engineering and Management Explosives Engineers (ISEE). Both SME and Curriculum/Checklist ISEE have local chapter meetings, which the students are encouraged to attend. It is the student’s responsibility to check with During their senior year, students in the his or her advisor for any program modifications mining engineering and management program are that may occur after the publication of this encouraged to take the Fundamentals of catalog. Engineering (FE) examination. Passing the FE examination is the first step in the process of Freshman Year registration as a Professional Engineer (PE). The First Semester second, and final, step in the registration process CHEM 112 General Chemistry I 3 is the successful completion of the Professional CHEM 112L General Chemistry I Lab 1 Engineering examination, which is normally taken MATH 123 Calculus I 4 at least four (4) years after graduation. Humanities or Social Sciences Elective(s) 3 The mining engineering and management GE 130 Intro to Engineering 2 program participates in a cooperative education ENGL 101 Composition I 3 program that provides an opportunity for students PE Physical Education 1 to combine school work with a meaningful work TOTAL 17 experience in industry. Participating companies in the program provide jobs for students during Second Semester semesters scheduled for work. A student in the CHEM 114 General Chemistry II 3 cooperative program should plan on five (5) years MATH 125 Calculus II 4 to graduate. PHYS 211 University Physics I 3 MEM 120 Introduction to Mining and Mining Engineering Laboratories Sustainable Development 2 PE Physical Education 1 Laboratory facilities exist in the department Humanities or Social Sciences Elective(s) 3 for rock mechanics, ventilation, and computer- TOTAL 16 aided mine design. Laboratory equipment
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Sophomore Year Mechanics 4 First Semester EM 328 Applied Fluid Mechanics 3 MATH 225 Calculus III 2 GEOE 322/322L Structural Geology 3 PHYS 213 University Physics II 3 TOTAL 17 EM 216 Engineering Mechanics (Statics and Dynamics) 4 Senior Year MEM 201 Surveying for Mineral First Semester Engineers 2 HRM 417 Human Resource MEM 203 Introduction to Mine Health Management 3 and Safety 1 MEM 401 Theoretical and Applied ENGL 279 Technical Comm I 3 Ventilation Engineering 4 ECON 201 Microeconomics 3 MEM 466 Mine Management 2 TOTAL 18 MEM 4XX Mining Technical Elective1 3 Hum/SSCourse (Language) 4 Second Semester TOTAL 16 MATH 321 Differential Equations 3 GEOE 221/221L Geology for Engineers 3 Second Semester ENGL 289 Technical Comm II 3 MEM 464 Mine Design and Feasibility Humanities/Social Science Course 3 Study 4 MEM 202 Materials Handling and Free Elective 2 Transportation 2 XXX XXX Managerial Economics and MEM 204 Surface Mining Methods Finance 3 and Equipment for Coal, MET 220 Coal and Minerals Metal and Quarrying Processing 3 Operations 3 MEM 405 Mine Permitting TOTAL 17 and Reclamation 3 BADM 407 International Business 3 Junior Year TOTAL 18 First Semester MEM 301 Computer Applications 136 credits required for graduation in Mining 2 MEM 303 Underground Mining Methods Curriculum Notes and Equipment for Coal, 1Elective chosen from a list of approved Metal and Stone Operations 3 mining or business courses. MEM 305 Mine Excavation Courses marked with an “X” are pending until and Explosives 3 fall 2007. MEM 306 Mine Power and Pumping Systems 3 BADM 360 Organization and Management 3 MEM 307 Mineral Exploration and Geostatistics 3 TOTAL 17
Second Semester XXX XXX Mineralogy and Petrology 4 MEM 302 Mineral Economics and Finance 3 MEM 304 Theoretical and Applied Rock
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Message from the Dean of the College of Science and Letters
I would like to take this opportunity to acquaint you with the College of Science and Letters at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Within our college are undergraduate degree programs in chemistry, geology, applied and computational mathematics, physics, and interdisciplinary sciences with specializations in atmospheric science, business applications in sciences and technology, pre-professional health sciences and science, technology, and society. Master’s degrees are awarded in atmospheric sciences, geology and geological engineering, and paleontology. The faculty in the college also participates in the interdisciplinary Ph.D. programs in atmospheric and environmental sciences, geology and geological engineering, materials engineering and science, and nanoscience and nanoengineering.
Science graduates from the School of Mines are well-prepared technically to enter the workforce or graduate or professional schools. What distinguishes the education you will get here is the quality of the faculty and the attention to student-oriented learning. Experiential learning is a priority here and undergraduate students have opportunities to participate in research and scholarship using state of the art equipment and facilities. There is a growing awareness that science transcends national and cultural boundaries. To prepare our students to be successful in this environment, the college is actively embracing study-abroad programs.
It is an exciting time at the School of Mines as the institution moves from a regional center of expertise to one of national and international prominence. I see many opportunities for growth in teaching, research, and scholarship. I hope you will consider becoming a part of this future.
If I can answer any questions about the College of Science and Letters, please don’t hesitate to contact me. I hope to meet you on campus.
Sincerely,
Dr. Duane C. Hrncir Dean College of Science and Letters
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Associate of Arts Degree A.A. Written and Oral Communication A minimum of nine (9) semester hours is required. This requirement can be met by taking one of two (2) sequences of courses. Either: ENGL 101 Composition I 3 ENGL 279 Technical Communications I 3 ENGL 289 Technical Communications II 3 OR: ENGL 101 Composition I 3 ENGL 201 Composition II 3 SPCM 101 Fundamentals of Speech 3
Humanities Courses in history, literature, philosophy, religion, non-English languages, art, music, and Contact Information theatre may be used. A minimum of six (6) semester hours in two (2) disciplines, i.e. two (2) Dr. Sue Shirley different course prefixes or a two-semester Department of Humanities sequence in a foreign language, is required. Classroom Building 310 ART 111/112 Drawing and Perception (605) 394-2481 I and II 3/3 e-mail: [email protected] ARTH 211 History of World Art I1 3 ENGL 221/222 British Literature I1 and II1 3/3 The Associate of Arts Degree in General ENGL 241/242 American Lit I1 and II1 3/3 Studies is a two-year degree program that ENGL 250 Science Fiction 3 provides a student the opportunity to complete a FREN 101/102 Intro French I1 and II1 4/4 curriculum in traditional fields of study. The GER 101/102 Intro German I1 and II1 4/4 curriculum offers a broad and varied background HIST 121/122 Western Civilization in general education as well as opportunities to I1 and II1 3/3 explore a number of disciplines as a basis for HUM 100 Introduction to Humanities1 3 entrance into a four-year degree program. HUM 200 Connections: Humanities Completion of the A.A .Degree will fulfill the and Technology1 3 general education requirements for a MUS 100 Music Appreciation1 3 baccalaureate degree at the state universities of MUS 110 Basic Music Theory I1 3 South Dakota. Approved general education PHIL 100 Introduction to Philosophy 3 courses from other state universities may be used PHIL 200 Introduction to Logic 3 to satisfy the School of Mines general education PHIL 220 Introduction to Ethics1 3 requirements. The program of studies is as PHIL 233 Philosophy and Literature 3 follows: REL 230 Introduction to the Bible 2 REL 250 World Religions1 2 Associate of Arts Degree SPAN 101/102 Intro Spanish I1 and II1 4/4 General Education Requirements It is the student’s responsibility to check with Social Sciences his or her advisor for any program modifications Courses in anthropology, economics, that may occur after the publication of this geography, history, political science, psychology, catalog. and sociology may be used. A minimum of six semester hours in two (2) disciplines, i.e. two (2) different course prefixes, is required.
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ANTH 210 Cultural Anthropology1 3 (24-30) semester hours, depending on the courses ECON 201 Prin of Microeconomics1 3 selected in humanities, social sciences, cultural ECON 202 Prin of Macroeconomics1 3 diversity, and natural sciences. All elective GEOG 101 Introduction to Geography1 3 courses must be approved by the student’s GEOG 212 Geography of North America 3 academic advisor. HIST 151/152 US History I1 and II1 3/3 POLS 100 American Government 3 Other Degree Requirements PSYC 101 General Psychology 3 Students are required to pass the CAAP SOC 100 Introduction to Sociology1 3 proficiency examination and the Information SOC 150 Social Problems1 3 Literacy examination. For additional information SOC 250 Courtship and Marriage 3 on these examinations contact the Office of Academic and Enrollment Services at (605) 394- Mathematics 2400. A minimum of three (3) semester hours of college algebra or a math course with college Students must have achieved a minimum algebra as a prerequisite is required. cumulative grade point average of 2.00 in order to MATH 102 College Algebra 3 graduate with this degree.
Natural Sciences After completion of forty-eight (48) credit A minimum of six (6) semester hours in the hours, students may register for up to nine hours natural sciences is required including one of 300 level courses. semester hour of laboratory. Courses in Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science, Geology, and Physics Students must meet the Institutional Credit may be used. Requirements, which include completion from BIOL 151/151L General Biology I School of Mines of eight (8) of the last sixteen and Laboratory 3/1 (16) credits counted toward the degree. BIOL 153/153L General Biology II and Laboratory 3/1 This information and an A.A. worksheet may be CHEM 106/106L Chemistry/Laboratory 3/1 found at
Electives Total semester hours required to graduate is sixty-four (64). The number of elective credits will vary from a minimum of twenty-four to thirty
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Atmospheric Sciences Minor Specialization in Atmospheric Sciences within the Bachelor of Science in Interdisciplinary Sciences degree program Students in the Bachelor of Science in Interdisciplinary Sciences (IS) degree program may choose a specialization in atmospheric sciences. The successful student is expected to be capable of independent and critical thinking in the areas of physical, synoptic, and dynamic meteorology; remote sensing; and global atmospheric change. As such, he or she should be qualified for employment where expertise in atmospheric sciences is a primary requirement, though need not necessarily qualify as a Contact Information meteorologist by the federal government’s criteria. The curriculum also is suitable for Dr. Mark Hjelmfelt preparation toward graduate study at the M.S. and Department of Atmospheric Sciences Ph.D. level. Mineral Industries 212B (605) 394-2291 The IS Bachelor of Science degree program e-mail: [email protected] offers a specialization in atmospheric sciences. General requirements for a B.S. in Faculty Interdisciplinary Sciences are described on p.149. Required course work for the atmospheric Professor Hjelmfelt, Chair; Professors Detwiler, sciences specialization includes the following: and Helsdon; Associate Professor Capehart; Assistant Professor Sundareshwar; Adjunct Degree: meteorology, atmospheric science, or Professors Benson and Zimmerman. other natural science major that includes: 1) All courses and other curriculum requirements The purpose of the atmospheric sciences for the general IS degree requirement. curriculum is to educate students to the level of scientists and engineers who are capable of 2) The atmospheric sciences undergraduate core: developing and applying knowledge concerning ATM 301, ATM 404, ATM 406, ATM 450, ATM physical, dynamical, and chemical processes in 450L the atmosphere. 3) The following mathematics and science courses Undergraduate minor in Atmospheric Sciences (which may require additional prerequisites): CHEM 114, CHEM 114L, CSC 150, PHYS 213, A minor in atmospheric sciences is offered to PHYS 213L, MATH 225, BIOL 311 any student enrolled in any undergraduate degree program that allows minors at the School of 4) 12 hours of additional ATM or ATM-directed Mines. For some majors this would require an cooperative education (CP) credits additional semester or more of study beyond the normal four years. A minimum of eighteen (18) 5) 12 Hours of additional professional credits in atmospheric science coursework must development credits from ATM, BIOL, CHEM, be earned. Three courses, Introduction to CEE, CSC, CP, ENVE, GEOE, GEOL, MATH, Atmospheric Sciences (ATM 301), Atmospheric or PHYS, within the requirements of the IS Physics (ATM 401), and Global Environmental program. (Engineering course credits cannot be Change (ATM 406) are required for the minor. counted toward IS degree requirements but can be 137 Atmospheric Sciences Minor counted as general electives.) and computer science.
Federal Certifications as a Meteorologist OR: Combination of education and experience- Students in the undergraduate minor or IS course work as shown in A above, plus programs desiring to be qualified for federal appropriate experience or additional education. employment as meteorologists (with the National Weather Service or other federal government Note: There is a prerequisite or corequisite of agencies employing meteorologists) should calculus, physics, and differential equations for contact a Department of Atmospheric Sciences course work in atmospheric dynamics and advisor to ensure that their plan of study meets the thermodynamics. Calculus courses must be strictly enforced civil service requirements. The appropriate for a physical science major. basic requirements for federal civil service qualification as a meteorologist (as dictated by the Atmospheric sciences undergraduate United States Office of Personnel Management) curriculum scheduling are listed below: It is the student’s responsibility to check with his or her advisor in the atmospheric sciences Degree: meteorology, atmospheric science, or department for any course offering or other other natural science major that includes: program modifications that may occur after the A. At least twenty-four (24) semester hours (36 publication of this catalog. Most courses are quarters) of credit in atmospheric offered only every other year. Attention must be science/meteorology including a minimum of: paid to this two-year cycle in planning a program of study. 1. Six (6) semester hours of atmospheric dynamics and thermodynamics Master of Science Graduate Degree Program A master of science graduate program in the 2. Six (6) semester hours of analysis and atmospheric sciences is offered to students with prediction of weather systems undergraduate degrees in atmospheric sciences or (synoptic/mesoscale) meteorology, physics, mathematical sciences, biology, chemistry, or engineering. A resident 3. Three (3) semester hours of physical undergraduate student in any of these fields may meteorology and take as electives upper-division courses in meteorology, either as part of the minor or 4. Two (2) semester hours of remote sensing of otherwise, and proceed directly to graduate work atmosphere and/or instrumentation in meteorology upon receipt of the bachelor’s degree. In addition to meeting the goals listed B. Six (6) semester hours of physics, with at least above for undergraduate minor and IS one course that includes laboratory sessions atmospheric science graduates, the master of science graduate will be able to review the C. Three (3) semester hours of ordinary literature; devise strategies for attacking a differential equations problem in atmospheric sciences; acquire, organize, and interpret data; and prepare results D. At least nine (9) semester hours of course for both oral and written presentation. He or she work appropriate for a physical science major is expected to be able to carry out such original in any combination of three or more of the investigations both individually and as a member following: physical hydrology, statistics, of a team. chemistry, physical oceanography, physical A master of science degree requires twenty- climatology, radiative transfer, aeronomy, four (24) credit hours of course work, with an advanced thermodynamics, advanced additional six (6) semester hours of research credit electricity and magnetism, light and optics, for completing a thesis. There are two
138 Atmospheric Sciences Minor specializations in the program, meteorology and earth systems, with a common core of three courses shared by both specializations. See pages 190-192 for more details. A properly-prepared undergraduate science or engineering graduate with minimal meteorological background may use the M.S. program to complete sufficient course work to satisfy the federal civil service requirements for employment as a meteorologist. The M.S. program can be a stepping-stone to Ph.D. work in the atmospheric and environmental sciences, as well as a terminal degree leading to employment in private industry or government.
Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Graduate Program In addition to the M.S. program in atmospheric sciences, the atmospheric sciences department participates in the Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences (AES) Ph.D. program. Faculty in several departments are involved in delivering the program, including chemistry and chemical engineering, civil and environmental engineering, mining and engineering management, geology and geological engineering, and atmospheric sciences. Degree candidates are expected to complete courses in a broad range of topics selected from these disciplines. For complete information on the AES program, please refer to the AES section of this catalog beginning on page190.
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Biology Recommended Options
A. General Biology Sequence Eight (8) core credits: BIOL 151, 151L, 153, 153L Ten (10) additional credits from: BIOL 231 General Microbiology 3 BIOL 231L General Microbiology Lab 1 BIOL 341 Microbial Processes in Engineering and Nat. Sciences3 BIOL 371 Genetics 3 BIOL 491 Independent Study 1/4 Contact Information B. Health Science Sequence Dr. Sookie S. Bang Eight (8) core credits: Department of Chemical and Biological BIOL 151, 151L, 153, 153L Engineering Ten (10) additional credits from: McLaury 102 BIOL 121 Basic Anatomy 3 (605) 394-2426 BIOL 121L Basic Anatomy Lab 1 e-mail: [email protected] BIOL 123 Basic Physiology 3 BIOL 123L Basic Physiology Lab 1 Faculty BIOL 231 General Microbiology 3 BIOL 231L General Microbiology Lab 1 Professor Dixon, Chair; Professor Bang, Assistant BIOL 371 Genetics 3 Professor Sani. BIOL 423 Pathogenesis 3 BIOL 423L Pathogenesis Lab 1 Biology BIOL 492 Topics 1/5
Many students need a knowledge of biology C. Environmental Science Sequence as part of their background. The biology courses Eight (8) core credits: are offered for students in science, engineering, BIOL 151, 151L, 153, 153L and general studies. Students are advised to take Ten (10) additional credits from: laboratory courses whenever possible. BIOL 311 Principles of Ecology 3 Minimum enrollments, as established by BIOL 330 Environmental Science 3 administration policy, are necessary to teach a BIOL 341 Microbial Processes in course. A minor in biology is not available. Engineering and Nat. Sciences3 However, for students considering medical, BIOL 371 Genetics 3 dental, veterinary, or graduate school in a biology BIOL 431 Industrial Microbiology 3 field, the department recommends students and BIOL 431L Industrial Microbiology Lab 1 advisors consider one of three biology sequences BIOL 403 Global Environmental Change3 for study rather than selecting courses at random. BIOL 492 Topics 1/5 Record of successful completion of an approved sequence can be made a part of a student’s Biological Laboratories permanent record. A minimum of eighteen (18) credits is recommended with eight (8) of those These laboratories, located on the ground floor credits being BIOL 151/151L; BIOL 153/153L; or of the McLaury Building, are equipped for the equivalent. At least six (6) credits should be at the preparation and study of biological materials, both 300 level or above. macroscopic and microscopic. For some courses field trips add significant experience. 140 Biology
Chemistry B.S. instrumental data interpretation for molecular structure characterization. Students are expected to have a command of the four major sub- disciplines of chemistry, namely, analytical, inorganic, organic, and physical chemistry, as well as to be familiar with the chemical literature. Chemistry graduates of the department distinguish themselves in that the chemistry curriculum gives them ample opportunity to supplement their chemical knowledge with a breadth of other courses, which may be elected from diverse offerings on campus including the humanities, social sciences, biological and Contact Information physical sciences, mathematics, engineering, and others. This unique latitude inherent within the Dr. Dan Heglund chemistry curriculum allows students to develop Department of Chemistry as well-rounded individuals who are able to face Chemistry/Chemical Engineering 220 and meet the challenges they may anticipate in (605) 394-1241 their chosen careers. e-mail: [email protected] Chemistry, by its very nature, is the central science in today’s world, and many graduates use Faculty their degrees as a solid foundation for advanced study in chemistry as well as for study in Associate Professor and Chair Heglund, Professor medicine, pharmacy, veterinary medicine, Boyles; Assistant Professors Fong, Meyer, and forensic science, materials science, environmental Zhu; Instructor Christofferson. science, medical technology, physical therapy, patent or environmental law, education—all are Staff possibilities for students with a chemistry education. Likewise, students who opt not to Department of Chemistry Secretary, Coleen further their education beyond their B.S. degrees Moses; Chemical Materials Manager, Kris in chemistry are also prepared for a wide variety Grinnell; Chemical and Instrumentation of employment opportunities. Among former Specialist, Margaret Smallbrock. chemistry graduates these have included research and quality assurance positions in academic, Chemistry industrial, governmental, and private sectors of the economy. The Department of Chemistry offers The department also participates in both the undergraduate chemistry courses, that meet the M.S. and Ph.D. programs in Materials and requirements for the degree bachelor of science Engineering Science (MES), the Ph.D program in and for other programs on campus. The chemistry Biomedical Engineering and the Ph.D. program in program offers the American Chemical Society Nanoscience and Nanoengineering. Students (ACS) certified degree, which meets the national seeking these degrees may choose to emphasize requirements of the ACS. This degree requires any of the representative sub-disciplines of one hundred twenty-eight (128) semester credits. chemistry in addition to interdisciplinary research Upon graduation with a bachelor’s degree in specialties as an integral part of their graduate chemistry, students have knowledge of chemical program of study. and physical phenomena at the molecular level. The department prides itself in having state- They are expected to possess the skills of critical of-the-art instrumentation available not only for thinking in chemical problem-solving, such as research but as an integral part of undergraduate 141 Chemistry B.S.
education. The instrumentation within the the nationally recognized high standards department currently includes FT-IR established by the American Chemical Society. spectrometers, a 300 MHz superconducting This curriculum opens the way for a variety of heteronuclear nuclear magnetic resonance careers in research and development in the spectrometer, a spectrofluorometer, diode-array chemical industry or the government, and gives spectrophotometer, voltammograph, atomic the student an excellent foundation for graduate absorption spectrometer, gas chromatograph-mass study in chemistry. spectrometer and other instruments. Students desiring to meet the minimum In order to ensure that chemistry majors will requirements for certification by the American complete all degree requirements in a timely Chemical Society should follow the curriculum manner, will meet prerequisites for further outlined below. education such as medical school, and will be knowledgeable about post-graduation options and Chemistry Curriculum, ACS Certified employment opportunities, advisors work closely with their assigned students. It is the student’s responsibility to check with his or her advisor for any program modifications Minor in Materials Science — Polymers that may occur after the publication of this catalog. The requirements for a minor in Materials Science — Polymers are Met 232, Chem. 220, Freshman Year 326, 328, 332, 340 and 426, for a total of nineteen First Semester (19) credits. This minor is designed for students CHEM 112 General Chemistry I 3 in the engineering and science disciplines that CHEM 112L General Chemistry I Lab 1 desire focused training in the field of Materials ENGL 101 Composition I 3 Science with special emphasis on polymers. MATH 123 Calculus I 4 Students completing the minor in Materials Gen. Ed. Goal 3 or 4 Elective 3 Science — Polymers will demonstrate the IS 110 Explorations 2 following outcomes: CHEM 290 Seminar 0.5 TOTAL 16.5 1. a proficiency in materials science concepts covering polymers; Second Semester 2. the ability to develop new polymeric CHEM 114 General Chemistry II 3 materials, and improve traditional CHEM 114L General Chemistry II Lab 1 polymeric materials; MATH 125 Calculus II 4 3. the ability to predict and evaluate the PHYS 211 University Physics I 3 performance of polymeric materials. Gen. Ed. Goal 3 Elective 3 Gen. Ed. Goal 4 Elective 3 Given the redundancy in the B.S. chemistry CHEM 290 Seminar 0.5 and chemical engineering core curricula, the TOTAL 17.5 minor in materials science — polymers is not available to those students who receive a B.S. Sophomore Year degree in chemistry or chemical engineering. First Semester CHEM 332 Analytical Chemistry 3 Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, ACS CHEM 332L Analytical Chemistry Lab 1 Certified CHEM 326 Organic Chemistry I 3 CHEM 326L Organic Chem I Lab 2 The ACS-certified curriculum provides an MATH 225 Calculus III 4 excellent foundation in science and mathematics CHEM 252 Systematic Inorganic 3 for professional preparation in chemistry, meeting Chemistry
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PE Physical Education 1 Curriculum Notes CHEM 290 Seminar 0.5 1A minimum of sixteen (16) credit hours of TOTAL 17.5 university-approved humanities and social sciences are required, with a minimum of six (6) Second Semester hours in humanities and six (6) hours in social PHYS 213 University Physics II 3 sciences. PHYS 213L University Physics II Lab 1 2Fifteen (15) credits of advanced chemistry CHEM 328 Organic Chemistry II 3 courses are required: Chem. 434, 434L, 446, 452, CHEM 328L Organic Chem II Lab 2 452L, and 460. ENGL 279 Technical Comm I 3 3Six (6) credits of advanced chemistry Humanities or Social Sciences Elective(s)1 5 electives are required. Take any two of the CHEM 290 Seminar 0.5 following courses: 420, 421, 426, 448, 455, and TOTAL 17.5 482.
Junior Year First Semester ENGL 289 Technical Comm II 3 CHEM 342 Physical Chemistry I 3 Chem 342L Physical Chem I Lab 1 Elective(s) 9 PE Physical Education 1 CHEM 490 Seminar 0.5 TOTAL 16.5
Second Semester CHEM 344L Physical Chem II Lab 1 CHEM 344 Physical Chemistry II 3 CHEM 370 Chemical Literature 1 Advanced Chemistry Requirement2 6 CHEM 490 Seminar 0.5 Advanced Chemistry Elective(s)3 3 TOTAL 15.5
Senior Year First Semester Elective(s) 8 CHEM 490 Seminar 0.5 Advanced Chemistry Requirement2 3 Advanced Chemistry Elective3 3 TOTAL 14.5
Second Semester Electives 6 Adv Chemistry Requirement2 6 CHEM 490 Seminar 0.5 TOTAL 12.5
128 credits required for graduation
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Geology B.S. and Minor Geology
The program in geology fully utilizes the magnificent geologic setting of the Black Hills and Badlands, and the extensive fossil and mineral specimens in the Museum of Geology, to train students for careers in geology including environmental applications, mineral and petroleum exploration, governmental agencies, museums, academic fields, teaching, and entrepreneurship. Both undergraduate and graduate programs are available. The undergraduate program develops a strong background in basic sciences and students may choose from three different specializations. The Applied Geology specialization prepares students for careers in the traditional geologic industries such as petroleum or mineral exploration, water resources, or environmental science. The Earth System Science specialization emphasizes interactions among the lithosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere and prepares students for careers in environmental science. The Paleontology specialization studies ancient creatures and environments and prepares students for opportunities in research, teaching, or museum conservation and curation. For careers in science education, students Contact Information should consult teaching programs at other colleges for auxiliary education courses that Dr. Maribeth H. Price would be needed for teacher certification. With Department of Geology and Geological some adaptation, the specializations can provide a Engineering foundation for professional graduate degrees such Mineral Industries 307 as medicine or law. All specializations prepare (605) 394-2461 the individual for graduate study in geology or e-mail: [email protected] related areas. The graduate programs, both master’s and Faculty doctoral, involve additional specialization in geology and paleontology and commonly include Associate Professor Price, Chair; Professors research on regional or local problems. Analytical Duke, Fox, Lisenbee, and Paterson; Associate and computational facilities in the department and Professor Uzunlar; Assistant Professors Grellet- related departments include the electron Tinner and Terry; Haslem Post-doctoral Fellow microprobe, heating-cooling fluid inclusion stage, Pagnac. AA-ICP, XRD, SEM, TEM, the Geographic Information Systems/ Remote Sensing Supporting Faculty Laboratory. The Museum of Geology holds over 300,000 fossil and mineral specimens that are Professors Roggenthen and Davis. Associate available for educational and research use. Professor Stetler. Completion of graduate degrees leads to higher- 144 Geology B.S. and Minor
level professional employment including college- Second Semester level instruction. CHEM 114 General Chemistry II 3 CHEM 114L General Chemistry II Lab 1 Professional Development MATH 125 Calculus II 4 PHYS 211 University Physics I 3 The senior year culminates in an individual Gen. Ed. Goal 3 and Goal 4 Electives1 6 research project in which the student practices the TOTAL 17 professional accomplishments of project planning, organization, time management, and oral/written Sophomore Year communication. Students are strongly First Semester encouraged to participate in professional societies GEOL 331 Stratig and Sedimentation 3 active on campus, including the Society of MATH 225 Calculus III 4 Economic Geologists and the Paleontology Club. PHYS 213 University Physics II 3 Paleontology students will have opportunities to MEM 201 Surveying for volunteer or work on archival and research Mineral Engineers 2 projects at the Museum of Geology GEOL 321 Search For Our Past 3 TOTAL 15 Minor In Geology Second Semester Other science and engineering majors may ENGL 279 Technical Comm I 3 pursue a minor in geology by completing eighteen GEOL 212 Mineralogy (18) credit hours of geology courses including the and Crystallography 3 following: GEOL 201, 201L, 212, 321, 341, and GEOE 211 Earth Systems Engr Analysis 2 GEOE 322. GEOL 331 may be substituted for PE Physical Education 1 GEOL 321 with the permission of the chair of the Gen. Ed. Goal 3 and Goal 4 Electives 1 6 Department of Geology and Geological TOTAL 15 Engineering. Junior Year Geology Curriculum/Checklist First Semester ENGL 289 Technical Comm II1 3 It is the student’s responsibility to check with GEOL 341 Elementary Petrology 3 his or her advisor for any program modifications GEOL 416 Intro to GIS 3 that may occur after the publication of this GEOL 461 Invertebrate Paleo2 3 catalog. Humanities/Social Science Elective(s) 1 PE Physical Education 1 Applied Geology Specialization TOTAL 14
Freshman Year Second Semester First Semester GEOE 322 Structural Geology 3 MATH 123 Calculus I 4 GEOL 403 Regional Field Geology 1 CHEM 112 General Chemistry I 3 GEOE 324 Engr Geophysics I 3 CHEM 112L General Chemistry I Lab 1 GEOL 442 Optical Petrology2 3 ENGL 101 Composition I 3 Geology Elective(s)3 3 GEOL 201 Physical Geology 3 TOTAL 13 GEOL 201L Physical Geology Lab 1 IS 110 Explorations 2 Summer TOTAL 17 GEOL 410 Field Geology 6
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Senior Year First Semester Second Semester GEOL 464 Senior Research I4 1 ENGL 279 Technical Comm I1 3 GEOE 475 Ground Water 3 GEOL 212 Mineralogy and GEOE 461 Petroleum Production 3 Crystallography 3 Free Elective(s)3 4 GEOE 211 Earth Systems Engr Analysis 2 Humanities/Social Science elective(s) 3 PE Physical Education 1 TOTAL 14 Gen. Ed. Goal 3 and Goal 4 Electives 1 6 TOTAL 15 Second Semester GEOL 465 Senior Research II4 3 Junior Year GEOE 482 Applied Geomorphology2 3 First Semester GEOE 451 Economic Geology 3 ENGL 289 Technical Comm II1 3 Geology Elective(s)3 3 GEOL 341 Elementary Petrology 3 Free electives 3 GEOL 416 Intro to GIS 3 TOTAL 15 BIOL 311 Principles of Ecology 3 GEOL 321 Search For Our Past 3 128 credits required for graduation Humanities/Social Science Elective(s) 1 TOTAL 16 Earth System Science Specialization Second Semester Freshman Year GEOE 322 Structural Geology 3 First Semester ATM 406 Global Environ. Change 3 BIOL 151 General Biology I 3 PE Physical Education 1 MATH 123 Calculus I 4 Program Elective(s)5 3 CHEM 112 General Chemistry I 3 Free Elective(s) 4 CHEM 112L General Chemistry I Lab 1 TOTAL 14 GEOL 201 Physical Geology 3 GEOL 201L Physical Geology Lab 1 Summer IS 110 Explorations 2 GEOL 410 Field Geology 6 TOTAL 17 Senior Year Second Semester First Semester CHEM 114 General Chemistry II 3 GEOL 464 Senior Research I4 1 CHEM 114L General Chemistry II Lab 1 GEOL 351 Earth Resources and Environ 3 MATH 125 Calculus II 4 GEOL 420 Intro to Remote Sensing 3 ENGL 101 Composition I 3 Program Elective(s)5 2 PHYS 211 Univ. Physics I 3 Free elective(s) 3 Gen. Ed. Goal 3 Electives1 3 Humanities/Social Sciences elective(s) 3 TOTAL 17 TOTAL 15
Sophomore Year Second Semester First Semester GEOL 465 Senior Research II4 3 ATM 301 Intro to Atmospheric Sci 3 GEOL 417 GIS Database Development 3 GEOL 331 Stratig and Sedimentation 3 GEOE 482 Applied Geomorphology2 3 MATH 225 Calculus III 4 Program Elective(s)5 3 PHYS 213 Univ. Physics II 3 TOTAL 12 Gen. Ed. Goal 4 Electives 1 3 TOTAL 16 128 credits required for graduation
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Paleontology Specialization Humanities/Social Science Elective(s) 1 TOTAL 16 Freshman Year First Semester Second Semester BIOL 151 General Biology I 3 GEOE 322 Structural Geology 3 CHEM 112 General Chemistry I 3 GEOL 403 Regional Field Geology 1 CHEM 112L General Chemistry I Lab 1 GEOL 472 Museum Conserv Curation2 3 ENGL 101 Composition I 3 MATH 281 Intro to Statistics 3 GEOL 201 Physical Geology 3 PE Physical Education 1 GEOL 201L Physical Geology Lab 1 Geology Elective(s)3 3 IS 110 Explorations 2 TOTAL 14 TOTAL 16 Summer Second Semester GEOL 410 Field Geology 6 CHEM 114 General Chemistry II 3 GEOL 371 Field Paleontology 2 CHEM 114L General Chemistry II Lab 1 TOTAL 8 BIOL 153 General Biology II 3 MATH 123 Calculus I 4 Senior Year PHYS 111 Intro to Physics I 3 First Semester Gen. Ed. Goal 3 Electives 1 3 GEOL 464 Senior Research I4 1 TOTAL 17 GEOL 473 Museum Prep and Exhibit Design 3 Sophomore Year GEOL 417 GIS Database Design First Semester OR Math Elective(s) 3 GEOL 331 Stratig and Sedimentation 3 Free Elective(s) 3 BIOL 121 Basic Anatomy 3 Humanities/Social Science Elective(s) 3 BIOL 121L Basic Anatomy Lab 1 TOTAL 13 GEOL 321 Search for our Past 3 Gen. Ed. Goal 3 and Goal 4 Electives 1 6 Second Semester TOTAL 16 GEOL 465 Senior Research II4 3 GEOL 351 Earth Resources Second Semester and the Environment 3 ENGL 279 Technical Comm I1 3 Geology Elective(s)3 2 GEOL 212 Mineralogy and Free Elective(s) 4 Crystallography 3 TOTAL 12 GEOL 276 Dinosaurs and Extinct Vertebrates 3 128 credits required for graduation GEOE 211 Earth Systems Engr Analysis 2 PE Physical Education 1 Curriculum Notes Gen. Ed. Goal 4 Electives 3 1Students must complete twenty-seven (27) TOTAL 15 credits of the general education core in their first sixty-four (64) credit hours, including six (6) Junior Year credits of science, three (3) credits math, six (6) First Semester credits English/technical communication, six (6) ENGL 289 Technical Comm II1 3 credits humanities, and six (6) credits social GEOL 341 Elementary Petrology 3 science. ENGL 289 yields an addition three (3) GEOL 416 Intro to GIS 3 general education credits, for a total of thirty (30). GEOL 461 Invertebrate Paleo2 3 2Courses offered alternate years. BIOL 311 Principles of Ecology 3 3A geology elective is any course with a
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GEOL or GEOE prefix. 4Under exceptional circumstances, a student may petition the department chair to substitute geology electives for senior research. 5A program elective is any 300-400 level course with a prefix of GEOL, GEOE, ATM, BIOL, CHEM, or MATH. MATH 441 Engineering Statistics I, and MATH 442 Engineering Statistics II are particularly recommended.
Additional course work in mathematics and statistics is strongly recommended, especially for students planning to go to graduate school. MATH 381 and MATH 382 are recommended statistics courses; MATH 432 is recommended for students interested in numerical modeling of partial differential equations.
Mines Matters: The School of Mines Museum of Geology houses more than 300,000 specimens. Skeletons from the Oligocene of the Big Badlands and the Upper Cretaceous of Western South Dakota are displayed and give a vivid impression of Dakota life long ago. Other special exhibits feature fluorescent minerals, lapidary specimens of local agates, and native gold.
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Interdisciplinary • Students whose professional experiences require that they integrate knowledge from Sciences B.S. diverse fields.
The benefits of the Interdisciplinary Sciences degree include: • Flexibility in a wide range of study;
• Individual design allowing the student to help select the content of the degree; and
• The opportunity to study natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, and liberal arts from a broad perspective, thus providing a well-rounded program.
Areas of Specialization Contact Information Interdisciplinary sciences majors choose from Dr. Sue Shirley four areas of specialization that will prepare them Department of Humanities for a career or for graduate and professional Classroom Building 310 programs. (605) 394-2482 email: [email protected] • Atmospheric Sciences
The bachelor of science degree in • Business Applications in Science and interdisciplinary sciences is a science degree Technology program that seeks to serve the needs of students whose goals cannot be met within the other • Pre-Professional Health Sciences science departments. IS students choose from four areas of specialization: atmospheric sciences; • Science, Technology, and Society business applications in science and technology; pre-professional health sciences; and science, 1. Atmospheric Sciences: technology, and society. The IS degree program The atmospheric sciences specialization is allows students to enroll in a wide variety of math designed for students whose career goal is and science courses, as well as carefully chosen meteorology or atmospheric research. Working electives in the humanities, fine arts, and social with faculty from the Department of Atmospheric sciences. Sciences, students can take course work to satisfy federal guidelines (e.g., for National Weather The Interdisciplinary Sciences degree is Service, US Bureau of Reclamation and US especially appropriate for the following Geological Survey) for the title of meteorologist. individuals: This specialization also serves as excellent • Students pursuing pre-professional and health preparation for graduate study in meteorology, services careers, such as law, business, atmospheric sciences, and adjacent fields. medicine, physical therapy, radiography, etc.; Courses range from those in traditional operational meteorology to those in earth system • Students whose educational and career goals sciences. necessitate courses in several departments;
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2. Business Applications in Science and requirements for the IS degree, thus graduating Technology: with both a bachelor’s degree in IS and the MT or Students pursuing business applications in RT certification. A number of the courses needed science and technology complement a strong to complete the MT or RT program count toward background in the mathematics and natural the IS degree. Note: Faculty and staff from sciences with course work in business. Through School of Mines and the IS degree program are collaboration with the Black Hills State not involved in the selection of candidates for the University College of Business and Technology, RT/MT programs. School of Mines students are students in this area of study complete a minor in not guaranteed admission to the RT/MT either business administration (24 cr.) or programs. entrepreneurial studies (25 cr.). These students will be prepared for additional study in master of 4. Science, Technology, and Society: business administration (MBA) or technology The science, technology, and society management (TM) programs. Potential careers specialization combines a strong science also include pharmaceutical sales and business background with a firm grounding in consulting or working for community and environmental, social and science policy issues. government science agencies. Students pursue a science concentration, such as environmental science, or a minor in a science 3. Pre-Professional Health Sciences: field, which is complemented by studies in areas A strong background in science will prepare such as political science, history, humanities, students in the pre-professional health sciences English, and philosophy. Course work will specialization for entry into a variety of graduate prepare students for additional study in law school and professional programs, including medical and or in science policy and public policy programs. dental schools, physical and occupational therapy Careers will include positions in community and programs, physicians assistant and chiropractic government agencies, in science and technology programs, optometry and ophthalmology companies, in the military, or as science lobbyists. specialties, and radiography or medical technology programs. Internships in the Interdisciplinary Sciences Program Admission community and complementary course work in Policy the humanities and social sciences are included to After successful completion of at least sixty-four help students meet the admissions requirement of (64) credit hours and at least one year prior to the the professional schools. intended graduation date, the student must apply Students planning to enter these professions for admission to the degree program by filing a should consult the programs of study of the plan of study with the IS Steering Committee. schools they plan to attend. Working closely with The plan of study must be approved by the their advisor, they will select the courses needed steering committee before a student will be to fulfill the graduation requirements for the IS formally admitted to the program. This plan of degree and to meet the entrance requirements for study consists of (1) a Letter of Intent stating the the professional schools in health science. career goals to which the IS degree course work is to be applied and (2) an IS worksheet showing the Medical Technology (MT)/Radiologic courses already taken and the courses to be Technology (RT): completed prior to graduation. The Letter of School of Mines has an articulation agreement Intent and worksheet must be reviewed and with Rapid City Regional Hospital, which has approved by the student’s IS advisor before fully certified MT and RT programs. Students submission to the Steering Committee. The Letter take prerequisite course work for MT or RT at of Intent form and worksheet are available from School of Mines before applying to either the IS office or may be accessed at the IS website program. Upon completion of the MT or RT online. program, a student may elect to complete the The deadlines for submitting the Letter of
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Intent and worksheet to the IS office are as 30 credit hours in the natural sciences, including 6 follows: For May graduates — April 30 of the hours in sequence and 12 hours at the upper preceding year; for August graduates — July 30 division. of preceding year; for December graduates — 4 Business applications in science and November 30 of preceding year. Students must technology requires a minor in either business have an approved Letter of Intent/worksheet on administration or entrepreneurial studies, file in the IS office before registering for IS 498, completed in collaboration with Black Hills State the senior capstone project. University.
General Requirements for Graduation: For all Thirty-six (36) of the required 128 credits must be Interdisciplinary Sciences specializations, at the junior or senior level (courses numbered it is the student’s responsibility to check with his 300 and above.) or her advisor for any program modifications that may occur after the publication of this catalog. Interdisciplinary Sciences Core Courses All IS students take a sequence of four core I. IS Core Courses (IS 110, IS 201, IS 401, IS courses, spread out over the course of four years: 498) 11 • IS 110: Explorations in the freshman year;
II. English sequence (ENGL 101, 279, 289) • IS 201: Introduction to Science, Technology, 9 and Society in the sophomore year;
III. Math, Computer Science, Sciences • IS 401: Writing and Research in the Math and Computer Sciences1 min. 12 Interdisciplinary Sciences in the first semester Biology2 min. 3 of the senior year; and Chemistry2 min. 3 Additional Natural Sciences3 min. 24 • IS 498: Undergraduate Research/Scholarship Other Math, CSC, Science min. 18 (senior project) in the second semester of the SUBTOTAL 60 senior year.
IV. Humanities and Social Sciences Science Minors available to IS Students: Humanities general education 6 When possible, students pursuing the IS Humanities upper division 6 specializations are strongly encouraged to Social Sciences general education 6 complete a minor in another science field at Social Science upper division 6 School of Mines as part of their 128 total credits. SUBTOTAL 24 Minors are available in computer science, geology, mathematics, physics, or occupational V. Physical Education 2 safety. Students should consult the policy on minors and the specific courses required for each VI. Program (Specialization) Approved minor, provided elsewhere in the catalog. The IS Electives4 22 degree is not available as a minor. Transfer Studies: 128 credits required for graduation Students who reside in local communities can achieve considerable savings in their education 1All IS specializations require Math 123 costs by completing a significant portion of their Calculus I and a minimum of 3 credit hours in studies close to home before transferring to computer science. another institution to complete their desired 2Some specializations require additional major. Students who do not intend to pursue a course work in chemistry and biology. degree offered at School of Mines are encouraged 3All IS specializations require a minimum of to take courses appropriate for the two-year
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associate of arts (A.A.) degree in general studies. College of Business and Technology. The Through this program of access and transfer, requirements for the minor are BADM 406 or students still experience the excellent educational ACCT 210/ACCT 211, BADM 336, BADM 438, environment found on the School of Mines BADM 334, BADM 360, BADM 370, BADM campus. Students should consult the programs of 474, and BADM 492. The minor must be study for the school from which they plan to approved by the student’s major department. graduate and then work closely with their A.A. Contact the Humanities/Social Sciences Office for advisor to select courses with the highest more information. likelihood of transferability. Completion of the A.A. degree will fulfill the general education Interdisciplinary Sciences requirements for a baccalaureate degree at the (Upper level courses are in bold print) other state universities of South Dakota (BHSU, IS 1101, 191, 192, 2011, 291, 292 , 370, 380, 391, DSU, NSU, SDSU, USD). 392, 4011, 491, 4981, 492, 691, 692 1IS Degree core courses. Pre-law/Pre-medicine Study at School of Mines: Specialization in Atmospheric Sciences: While the IS specializations in pre- Curriculum/Course Checklist professional health sciences and science, technology, and society (STS) are especially Course sequences vary by student entry year, designed to help students meet the entrance math/science placements, availability of ATM requirements for medical or law school, a courses, and career objectives. Students should particular baccalaureate degree is not required for consult with an atmospheric admission into most law and medical programs. sciences/interdisciplinary sciences advisor for a Graduates from School of Mines with degrees in more personalized course of study based on career several of the science and engineering programs goals within the atmospheric sciences. have successfully completed these professional programs. Students are encouraged to consult the Freshman Year admissions requirements and policies for those First Semester law and medical schools to which they intend to CHEM 1121 General Chemistry I 3 apply. CHEM 112L General Chemistry I Lab 1 ENGL 101 Composition I 3 Teaching Opportunities and Certification: IS 110 Explorations 2 Students who are interested in teaching MATH 123 Calculus I 4 science at the secondary education level should Gen Ed Humanities/Social Science Elective 3 contact education programs at the other state TOTAL 16 universities for information on the auxiliary courses required for certification. Project Second Semester SELECT, an intensive one-year certification CHEM 114 General Chemistry II 3 program offered through the Black Hills State CHEM 114L General Chemistry II Lab 1 University College of Education, may be of CSC 150/L Computer Science I/Lab 3 interest to students completing the IS and other MATH 125 Calculus II 4 science degrees at School of Mines. Information PE Physical Education 1 on this BHSU program can be obtained from the Gen Ed Humanities/Social Science Elective 3 Humanities/Social Sciences office. TOTAL 15
Minor in Entrepreneurial Studies: Sophomore Year A 25 credit minor in Entrepreneurial Studies is First Semester available to all School of Mines students through ATM 301 Intro to Atmospheric Science 3 collaboration with the Black Hills Sate University ENGL 279 Technical Communications I 3
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MATH 225 Calculus III 4 Curriculum Notes PE Physical Education 1 1All IS specializations require a minimum of PHYS 211 University Physics I 3 thirty (30) semester hours of natural sciences, Gen Ed Humanities/Social Science Elective 3 including a minimum of three (3) semester hours TOTAL 17 in chemistry, three (3) semester hours in biology, six (6) semester hours in a science sequence, and Second Semester twelve (12) semester hours at the upper division. ENGL 289 Technical Comm II 3 The atmospheric sciences/meteorology IS 201 Introduction to Science, specialization requires one year of general Technology, and Society 3 chemistry with labs, one year of university PHYS 213 University Physics II 3 physics with lab, and one semester of BIOL 311: PHYS 213L University Physics II Lab 1 Principles of Ecology. Students should consult ATM/SCI/MATH/ENG Elective 3 with their advisors to determine additional science Gen Ed Humanities/Social Science Elective 3 courses appropriate for their career paths. TOTAL 16 2All IS specializations require Math 123 or a math course requiring Math 123 as its Junior Year prerequisite. Atmospheric sciences/meteorology First Semester requires CSC 150/150L and additional math ATM 404 Atmos Thermodynamics 3 course work beyond Math 123. Math 102 and ATM 450/L Synoptic Meteorology I/Lab 3 Math 120 may be used toward graduation BIOL 311 Principles of Ecology 3 requirements. ATM/SCI/MATH/ENG Elective 3 3Students should consult with their Upper Division HU/SS Elective 3 atmospheric sciences/interdisciplinary sciences TOTAL 15 advisors on the most appropriate ATM/science/math/ engineering electives for their Second Semester career paths. See also p. 138. ATM 406 Global Environ Change 3 ATM/SCI/MATH/ENG Electives 10 Specialization in Business Applications in Upper Division HU/SS Elective 3 Science And Technology — TOTAL 16 Curriculum/Course Checklists
Senior Year Interdisciplinary sciences students selecting First Semester the business applications in science and ATM/SCI/MATH/ENG Electives1 1 technology specialization are expected to pursue a IS 401 Writing and Research in the minor in one of two areas: business Interdisciplinary Sciences 3 administration or entrepreneurial studies. These Upper Division HU/SS Elective 3 minors are earned through collaboration with TOTAL 17 Black Hills State University. Students should consult with their advisors to determine the most Second Semester appropriate minor for their career interests. ATM/SCI/MATH/ENG Electives 10 Course sequence may vary by student entry year, IS 498 Undergrad Res/Scholarship 3 math/science placements, availability of business Upper Division HU/SS Elective 3 courses, and career objectives. Students should TOTAL 16 consult with an interdisciplinary sciences advisor for a more personalized course of study. 128 credits required for graduation
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Business Applications with Business Second Semester Administration Minor: Curriculum/Course BADM 360 Organization and Mgmt 3 Checklist Science Electives 7 Electives 5 Freshman Year TOTAL 15 First Semester ECON 201 Principles of Senior Year Microeconomics 3 First Semester ENGL 101 Composition I 3 IS 401 Writing and Research in the IS 110 Explorations 2 Interdisciplinary Sciences 3 Math/CSC Elective1 3 BADM 370 Marketing 3 Science Elective2 4 Science Electives 7 TOTAL 15 Upper Division Humanities Elective 3 TOTAL 16 Second Semester Math/CSC Elective 6 Second Semester PE Physical Education 1 BADM 310 Business Finance 3 Science Electives 7 IS 498 Undergrad Res/Scholarship 3 Gen Ed Humanities/Social Sciences Elective 3 Science Electives 7 TOTAL 17 Upper Division Humanities Elective 3 TOTAL 16 Sophomore Year First semester 128 credits required for graduation ACCT 210 Principles of Accounting I 3 ENGL 279 Technical Communications I 3 Business Applications with Entrepreneurial IS 201 Intro to Science, Technology, Studies Minor: Curriculum/Course Checklist and Society 3 PE Physical Education 1 Freshman Year Science Elective 4 First Semester Gen Ed Humanities/Social Science Elective 3 ENGL 101 Composition I 3 TOTAL 17 IS 110 Explorations 2 Math/CSC Elective1 3 Second Semester Science Elective2 4 ACCT 211 Principles of Accounting II 3 Gen Ed Humanities/Social Sciences Elective 3 ENGL 289 Technical Comm II 3 TOTAL 15 MIS 205 Advanced Computer Appl 3 Science Elective 5 Second Semester Gen Ed Humanities Elective 3 Math/CSC Elective 6 TOTAL 17 PE Physical Education 1 Science Electives 7 Junior Year Gen Ed Humanities/Social Science Elective 3 First Semester TOTAL 17 BADM 350 Legal Environ Business 3 Math/CSC Elective 3 Sophomore Year Science Electives 7 First semester Electives 2 ACCT 210 Principles of Accounting I 3 TOTAL 15 ENGL 279 Technical Communications I 3 IS 201 Intro to Science, Technology, and Society 3
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PE Physical Education 1 Curriculum Notes for Business Applications in Science Electives 3 Science and Technology: Gen Ed Humanities/Social Science Elective 3 TOTAL 16 1All IS specializations require Math 123 or a math course requiring Math 123 as its Second Semester prerequisite. Math 102 and Math 120 may be ACCT 211 Principles of Accounting II 3 used toward graduation requirements. Students ENGL 289 Technical Communications II 3 should consult with their advisors on the most Science Electives 7 appropriate math/computer science courses for Gen Ed Humanities/Social Sciences Elective 3 their career paths. TOTAL 16 2All IS specializations require a minimum of thirty (30) semester hours of natural sciences Junior Year including a minimum of three (3) semester hours First Semester in chemistry; three (3) semester hours in biology; BADM 336 Entrepreneurship I 3 six (6) semesters in a science sequence; and Math/CSC Elective 3 twelve (12) semester hours at the upper division Science Electives 7 level. Students pursuing the business applications Upper Division Humanities Elective 3 in science and technology specialization are TOTAL 16 expected to choose a science concentration. A minor in a science field (e.g., computer science, Second Semester geology, mathematics, physics, occupational BADM 438 Entrepreneurship II 3 safety) is highly encouraged. Students should BADM 360 Organization and Mgmt 3 consult with their advisors to determine the most appropriate science courses and sequence for their Science Electives 10 career paths. TOTAL 16 Specialization in Pre-Professional Health Senior Year Sciences: First Semester Curriculum/Course Checklist IS 401 Writing and Research in the Interdisciplinary Sciences 3 Students should consult with their advisors BADM 334 Small Business Management 3 for a more personalized course of study based on BADM 370 Marketing 3 career goals within the health sciences. Course Science Electives 4 requirements vary according to professional Upper Division Humanities Elective 3 program, e.g., medical school, radiographic TOTAL 16 technology, physical therapy. Course sequence may also vary by student entry year, math/science Second Semester placements, and career objectives. BADM 474 Personal Selling 3 BADM 492 Business Plan Writing Freshman Year and Competition 1 First Semester IS 498 Undergrad Res/Scholarship 3 BIOL 121/121L Human Anatomy & Lab 4 Science Electives 6 ENGL 101 Composition I 3 Upper Division Social Sciences Elective 3 IS 110 Explorations 2 TOTAL 16 Math/CSC Elective1 3 Gen Ed Humanities/Social Science Elective 3 128 credits required for graduation TOTAL 15
Second Semester
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BIOL 123/123L Basic Physiology & Lab 4 TOTAL 15 CHEM 112/112L Gen Chemistry I a& Lab 4 Math/CSC Elective 3 Second Semester PE Physical Education 1 IS 498 Undergrad Res/Scholarship 3 Gen Ed Humanities/Social Science Elective 3 Science Electives 4 TOTAL 15 Upper Division HU/SS Elective 3 Upper Division Science Elective 3 Sophomore Year Electives 3 First Semester TOTAL 16 BIOL 151/151L Gen Biology I and Lab 4 CHEM 114/114L Gen Chemistry II and Lab4 128 credits required for graduation ENGL 279 Technical Comm I 3 IS 201 Introduction to Science, Curriculum Notes: Technology, and Society 3 1All IS specializations require Math 123 or a Gen Ed Humanities/Social Science Elective 3 math course requiring Math 123 as its TOTAL 17 prerequisite. Math 102 and Math 120 may be used towards graduation requirements. Students Second Semester should consult with their advisors on the most BIOL 153/153L Gen Biology II and Lab 4 appropriate math/computer science courses for ENGL 289 Technical Comm II 3 their career paths. Math/CSC Elective 3 2Elective credits may include additional Gen Ed Humanities/Social Science Elective 3 course work at the 100 level or above in math, Electives 2 4 computer science, natural and physical sciences, TOTAL 17 humanities, social sciences, business, military science, or engineering as needed to meet the Junior Year required minimums or to meet admissions First Semester requirements for professional programs in health Math/CSC Elective 3 science. Students should consult with their Upper Division Science Elective 3 advisors on the most appropriate courses for their Upper Division HU/SS Elective 3 career goals. Electives 7 TOTAL 16 Science, Technology, and Society: Curriculum/Course Checklist Second Semester Science Electives 4 Course sequence may vary by student entry Upper Division HU/SS elective 3 year, math/science placements, and career Upper Division Science Elective 3 objectives. Students should consult with their Electives 7 advisors for a more personalized course of study TOTAL 17 based on career plans.
Senior Year Freshman Year First Semester First Semester IS 401 Writing and Research in the ENGL 101 Composition I 3 Interdisciplinary Sciences 3 IS 110 Explorations 2 Science Elective 4 Math/CSC Elective1 3 Upper Division HU/SS Elective 3 Science Elective2 4 Upper Division Science Elective 3 Gen Ed Humanities/Social Science Elective 3 PE Physical Education 1 TOTAL 15 Electives 1
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Second Semester Math/CSC Elective 3 Second Semester PE Physical Education 1 IS 498 Undergrad Res/Scholarship 3 Science Electives 7 Science Electives 7 Gen Ed Humanities/Social Science Elective 3 Upper Division HU/SS Elective 3 Elective3 3 Elective 3 TOTAL 17 TOTAL 16
Sophomore Year 128 credits required for graduation First semester ENGL 279 Technical Comm I 3 Curriculum Notes: IS 201 Introduction to Science, 1All IS specializations require Math 123 or a Technology, and Society 3 math course requiring Math 123 as its PE Physical Education 1 prerequisite. Math 102 and Math 120 may be Science Elective 4 used towards graduation requirements. Students Gen Ed Humanities/Social Science Elective 3 should consult with their advisors on the most Elective 3 appropriate math/computer science courses for TOTAL 17 their career paths. 2All IS specializations require a minimum of Second Semester thirty (30) semester hours of natural sciences ENGL 289 Technical Comm II 3 including a minimum of three (3) semester hours Math/CSC Elective 3 in chemistry, three (3) semester hours in biology, Science Elective 4 six (6) semester hours of a science sequence, and Gen Ed Humanities/Social Science Elective 3 twelve (12) semester hours at the upper division Elective 3 level. Students pursuing the science, technology, TOTAL 16 and society specialization are expected to choose a science concentration. A minor in a science Junior Year field (e.g., atmospheric science, computer science, First Semester geology, mathematics, physics, occupational Math/CSC Elective 3 safety) is highly encouraged. Students should Science Electives 7 consult with their advisors to determine the most Upper Division HU/SS Elective 3 appropriate science courses and sequence for their Elective 3 career paths. TOTAL 16 3 Elective credits may include additional college course work at the 100 level or above in Second Semester math, computer science, sciences, humanities, Science Electives 7 interdisciplinary sciences , social sciences, Upper Division HU/SS elective 3 business, military science, or engineering as Elective 6 needed to meet the required minimums or to TOTAL 16 qualify for a science minor. Students should consult with their advisors to determine the most Senior Year appropriate elective courses for their career goals. First Semester IS 401 Writing and Research in the Interdisciplinary Sciences 3 This information and additional information on Science Electives 8 the IS degree program can be found at Upper Division HU/SS Elective 3
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Humanities All IS degree candidates must complete ENGL 101, ENGL 279, ENGL 289, IS 201, IS 301, and IS 498, which cannot be used to meet the humanities and social sciences requirements.
Humanities (Upper level courses are in bold print.)
Art: ART 111, 112, ARTH 211, 321, 491, 492
English: ENGL 0311, 0321, 0331, 1012, 2012, 221, 222, 241, 242, 250, 2792, 2892, 300, 330, 343, 350, 3 3 360, 374, 383, 391 , 392 , 468 Contact Information Foreign Language: Dr. Rodney Rice FREN 101, 102, GER 101, 102, SPAN 101, 102 Department of Humanities Classroom Building 317 History: (605) 394-1244 HIST 121, 122 e-mail: [email protected] Humanities: Faculty HUM 100, 200, 291, 292, 300, 350, 375, 491, 492
Associate Professor Rice, Chair; Professors Music: MUAP 200, 201, MUEN 1014, 1214, 1224, 2603 Antonen, Boysen, Feiszli, Shirley, and Sneller; 1 Associate Professors Hudgens, Lee, Mitchell, and MUS 100, 110, 217/217L , 250, 317/317L, 326 Palmer; Assistant Professor Bruni. Philosophy: Humanities PHIL 100, 200, 220, 233
The Department of Humanities provides study Religion: in the fields of communication, fine arts, REL 230, 250 literature, religion, western civilization, and philosophy. The curriculum provides a broad- Speech Communications: SPCM 1013 based approach, which develops linkages between 1 the humanities areas and the technological fields Does not meet general requirements for graduation. that have been the mission of School of Mines. 2 Interdisciplinary sciences degree candidates are Meets general requirements for graduation, but not for humanities credits. required to complete twenty-four (24) semester 3 hours of humanities and social science courses. May not be used as humanities credit, but Other science and engineering degree candidates may be used for free elective credit. (Consult advisor for further details.) are required to complete sixteen (16) semester 4 hours of humanities and social sciences courses May not be used as humanities credit, but — at least six (6) credits in each area. may be used for PE or free elective credit. Engineering majors are required to enroll in at (Consult advisor for further details.) least one upper-level humanities or social science course (of at least three (3) credit hours). 158 Humanities
Applied and Computational Science as early as possible and should consult advisors in the department at each registration Mathematics period before selecting electives to round out the B.S. and Minor courses of study outlined in the departmental curriculum. Any student who is pursuing a double major and whose designated advisor is in another department should consult an advisor in the mathematics and computer science department at each registration to ensure that reasonable progress is being made and that conflicts are avoided.
Prerequisite and Placement Information
Before registering for any course in mathematics, a student must either have met all prerequisites and be enrolled in all co-requisites, passed the appropriate placement examinations, or Contact Information have obtained permission from the chair of the mathematics and computer science department. Dr. Kyle Riley Placement examinations, however, may only be Department of Mathematics and Computer used for initial mathematics course placement Science (exception — students successfully completing McLaury 308 Math 021 may skip Math 101 and proceed to (605) 394-2471 Math 102 if they have obtained the written e-mail: [email protected] permission of the Vice President for Academic Affairs and earned a successful Algebra Faculty Placement Examination score.) Please see the course descriptions in this catalog for all Associate Professor Riley, Chair; Professors information related to prerequisites and Corwin, Johnson, Logar, and Teets; Associate placement. Again, placement exams (with the Professors Burgoyne, McGough; Assistant exception noted above) may only be used for Professors Braman, Dahl, Geary, and Kowalski; initial placement. For example, a student enrolled Instructors Lofberg and Trimble; Emeritus in Trigonometry (MATH 120), must pass this Professors, Carda and Opp. course with at least a “C” before being allowed to enroll in MATH 125; a student receiving below a General Information “C” in Trigonometry may not use a placement examination to skip a repeat of Trigonometry Mathematics is a broad field of study that is before enrolling in MATH 125. Placement foundational to many areas of Science and examinations are given prior to registration each Engineering. The Department of Mathematics semester. and Computer Science offers a bachelor of Students transferring from other institutions or science degree in applied and computational returning to School of Mines after interrupting mathematics. This degree program emphasizes studies for a period of one year or more should computational methods and the use of technology consult the chair of the Department of applied to the mathematical problems in industry Mathematics and Computer Science to discuss and the sciences. Students who desire to major in proper placement. this program should announce their intention to the Department of Mathematics and Computer
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Departmental Courses Applied and Computational Mathematics Major Mathematics 021 and 101 may not be used for credit toward any bachelor’s degree at School of Students majoring in mathematics will use the Mines. College Algebra, Trigonometry, and Pre- accompanying applied and computational Calculus courses may not be counted toward any mathematics curriculum. The curriculum includes mathematics, computer science, or engineering fifty-seven (57) credits of mathematics courses, degree. Other majors should consult their eleven (11) credits of computer science, ten (10) departments on policies regarding these courses. credits of sciences, and at least nine credits of In an attempt to help students plan their future additional science/engineering courses that fall in semesters, the following information is presented. a specific field (see emphasis area below). Any This reflects the best available knowledge at the student majoring in mathematics and desiring a time of the preparation of this document. This is minor in another field should consult his or her not meant as a guarantee of when classes will be advisor in the Department of Mathematics and offered. Students concerned about when classes Computer Science as early in his or her program will be offered should contact the department of study as possible. In addition, the student must chair for any changes to the following. Courses contact the Office of Academic and Enrollment not listed below have no defined rotation and will Services in order to declare a major. be offered contingent upon demand and staff Departmental majors contemplating a career in availability. Summer offerings are highly actuarial science should prepare for the dependent on staffing. An attempt will be made examinations given by the Society of Actuaries. to offer MATH 102, MATH 120, MATH 123, It is recommended that this preparation be MATH 125, MATH 225, and MATH 321 during attained, in part, by electing the following the summer. courses: MATH 353, MATH 381, MATH 382, Classes that are typically offered every MATH 471, MATH 687, IENG 362, and IENG semester include MATH 021, MATH 102, 301 or IENG 302. Information concerning these MATH 120, MATH 123, MATH 125, MATH examinations can be obtained from the 225, MATH 321, MATH 373, and MATH 381. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. Classes that are typically offered every fall The primary goal of the applied and semester include MATH 101, MATH 281, and computational mathematics program is to give our MATH 486. graduates a firm understanding of mathematics Classes that are typically offered every spring and its applications to science and engineering. semester include MATH 315, MATH 382, We expect our graduates to develop a strong MATH 441, MATH 442, and MATH 353. foundation of knowledge and skill in the core Classes that are typically offered in the fall areas of analysis, differential equations, numerical semester of even numbered years, for example fall methods, and modeling. We also expect them to 2006, include MATH 413 and MATH 431. attain a basic understanding of probability, Classes that are typically offered in the spring statistics, and algebra. Since applied semester of odd numbered years, for example mathematicians are problem solvers, our spring 2007, include MATH 421, and MATH graduates must develop the ability to formulate 471. and solve problems arising from scientific and Classes that are typically offered in the fall engineering applications. This entails acquiring semester of odd numbered years, for example fall fundamental knowledge in the basic sciences, 2007, include MATH 432 and MATH 423. which our students accomplish by taking courses Classes that are typically offered in the spring in an emphasis area. The student will take three semester of even numbered years, for example (3) courses in an external discipline that will spring 2008, include MATH 424, MATH 451, provide exposure and depth in an application area and MATH 687. of mathematics. Information on emphasis areas
160 Mathematics B.S. (Applied and Computational) and the associated courses is available from the A minor in the Department of Mathematics department or advisor. and Computer Science must be approved by the Our graduates must be prepared to continue student’s major department. A form for declaring learning throughout their careers. In the two- a minor is available at the Office of Academic and course sequence of MATH 498 and MATH 402, Enrollment Services. The form must be students will have the opportunity to work with completed and signed by the Department chairs individual faculty members on research and from both departments involved in this minor. develop their communication skills. This work will result in a technical paper and an oral Mathematics and Computer Science Double presentation. Major Upon graduation, we expect some of our graduates to pursue careers in fields such as Due to the large number of courses common computer software development, actuarial to the computer science major and the science, applied statistics, manufacturing quality mathematics major, many students find it control, and operations research. Others will go attractive to pursue a double major in these two on to teach mathematics at the elementary or areas. Students are encouraged to pursue the secondary levels or to pursue advanced degrees in double major and should contact their advisor for mathematics. details. An applied and computational mathematics major must complete a minimum of sixteen (16) Applied and Computational Mathematics credit hours in humanities and social sciences Curriculum with at least six (6) credit hours in humanities and at least six (6) credit hours in social sciences. For the bachelor of science in mathematics, a Refer to the humanities and social sciences student must: section of this catalog for a list of courses 1. take all of the courses listed in the applied satisfying these requirements. It is also important and computational mathematics to refer to the general education core requirements curriculum; under bachelor of science graduation requirements 2. take three (3) emphasis area courses for further information. Students must complete (information about emphasis areas and the general education core requirements within supporting courses is available from the the first sixty-four (64) credits. department); and The accompanying sample schedule lists all 3. have a departmental grade point average required classes for the degree in their proper of at least 2.00 in all mathematics courses prerequisite sequence. Students should consult 300 level or higher. (Courses taken more course listings for prerequisites and should than once will have only the higher grade consult their advisors at each registration. counted for computing the departmental Grade Point Average.) Minor in Mathematics Applied and Computational Mathematics The requirements for a minor in mathematics Curriculum/Checklist are MATH 123, MATH 125, MATH 225, MATH 423, and a minimum of 6 credit hours from the It is the student’s responsibility to check with his following list: MATH 315, MATH 381, MATH or her advisor for any program modifications that 382, or any MATH course 400-level and above, may occur after the publication of this catalog. excluding Independent Studies courses. Thus, a Additional information about the program may be total of at least twenty-two (22) semester credit found at
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First Semester TOTAL 15 ENGL 101 Composition I 3 IS 110 Explorations 2 Senior Year MATH 123 Calculus I2 4 First Semester CSC 150 Computer Science I 3 MATH 423 Advanced Calculus I 4 Science Elective 3 MATH 432 Partial Differential Equations 3 Elective/Lab1 3 MATH 498 Undergraduate Research I 1 TOTAL 18 Elective1/Emphasis3 7 TOTAL 15 Second Semester MATH 125 Calculus II 4 Second Semester PHYS 211 University Physics I2 3 MATH 424 Advanced Calculus II 4 CSC 250 Computer Science II 4 MATH 451 Math Modeling 3 PE Physical Education4 1 MATH 402 Communicating Mathematics 1 Elective/Lab1 5 Elective1/Emphasis3 7 TOTAL 17 TOTAL 15
Sophomore Year 128 credits required for graduation First Semester ENGL 279 Technical Comm I 3 Curriculum Notes MATH 225 Calculus III2 4 1The science requirement for this major MATH 321 Differential Equations 4 consists of PHYS 211, PHYS 213, one course PHYS 213 University Physics II 3 from among BIOL 151, CHEM 112, GEOL 201, Elective/Lab1 3 plus a lab associated with one of the science TOTAL 17 courses taken – either BIOL 151L, CHEM 112L, GEOL 201L, or PHYS 213L. Second Semester 2Students should consult the “General MATH 315 Linear Algebra 4 Education Requirements” section of this catalog CSC 251 Finite Structures 4 for a complete listing of all general education ENGL 289 Technical Comm II 3 requirements. It is important to note that all MATH 373 Intro to Numerical Analysis 3 general education requirements must be Elective/Lab1 3 completed within the first 64 credits taken. We TOTAL 17 additionally require math majors to take a total of at least sixteen (16) semester hours of electives in Junior Year humanities and social sciences. First Semester 3Math majors must complete three (3) courses MATH 413 Abstract Algebra 3 in a science or engineering “emphasis” area. Any MATH 381 Probability and Statistics 3 double major automatically satisfies this emphasis MATH 431 Dynamical Systems 3 area requirement with their other major. Further PE Physical Education4 1 information about possible emphasis areas is Elective1/Emphasis3 6 available from the department. TOTAL 16 4MUEN 101, 121, 122 can be used to substitute for one or two of the required two Second Semester Physical Education credits. MATH 382 Probability and Statistics II 3 MATH 471 Numerical Analysis 3 MATH 421 Complex Analysis 3 Elective1/Emphasis3 6
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Military Science at Bataan Memorial Death March.
Curriculum
ROTC provides leadership training and experience demanded by both corporate America and the U.S. Army. ROTC consists of Basic and Advance courses of instructions. The Basic Course consists of the first four semesters of MSL. It is designed to provide all college students leadership and management skills that complement any course of study. There is no obligation or commitment to continue in ROTC or serve in the Armed Forces. The Advanced Course consists of the last four semesters of the ROTC Contact Information program. The Advanced Course is offered to students possessing the potential to become Army LTC Jon Hansen officers and who desire to serve as commissioned Department of Military Science officers in the Active Army, U.S. Army Reserve, Classroom Building 113 or the Army National Guard. The objective of the (605) 394-2769 or (605) 394-6038 Advanced Course is to select, train, and prepare e-mail: [email protected] students for military service. The ROTC program is designed to provide an understanding of the Faculty fundamental concepts and principles of military art and science; to develop leadership and Professor Hansen, Chair; Assistant Professors managerial potential and a basic understanding of Bryan, Ruedebusch, and Dringman. associated professional knowledge; to develop a strong sense of personal integrity, honor, and General Information individual responsibility; and to develop an appreciation of the requirements for national School of Mines maintains a unit of the senior security. Attainment of these objectives will division of the Army Reserve Officers Training prepare students for commissioning and will Corps (ROTC). The unit was established in 1950 establish a sound basis for future professional and is administered by commissioned and development and effective performance in the noncommissioned officers of the United States Army or any chosen career field. Army nominated by the Department of the Army In the traditional four-year program, the and approved by the president of the school. The student enrolls in eight consecutive semesters of ROTC program is open to both men and women. MSL courses, two (2) credit hours each semester MSL courses complement any course of study the first two (2) years, and four (4) credit hours providing leadership training unavailable each semester the last two (2) years. Leadership anywhere else on campus. Participation in the laboratories are offered concurrently with each of ROTC Basic Course incurs no military obligation. the classroom courses. Non-traditional two-year Laudable achievements by the ROTC corps of programs include eligible veterans with prior cadets includes: three-time consecutive first place military service, current members of the US Army finishes in varsity Ranger Challenge team Reserve or Army National Guard, and students competition, first-time occurrence of two who have had high school Junior ROTC or competing teams in 2003, individual cadet Civilian Air Patrol experience. A two-year accomplishment of #13 / 4890 on national order program is available for any student having four of merit listing and team / individual competition academic semesters remaining or enrollment into 163 Military Science
an School of Mines master’s degree program after include Scabbard and Blade, Pershing Rifles, attending a summer ROTC Leadership Training Bataan Memorial Death March, and the School of Course at Ft. Knox, Kentucky. Participation at Mines Ranger Challenge Team. Students may the basic course does not carry any commitment also take part in voluntary hands-on training to to participate in ROTC but it does satisfy the include physical fitness, self-defense, survival, prerequisites necessary to enter the final four weapons, orienteering, rappelling, semesters of ROTC. mountaineering, and first aid. These exercises are Students must additionally complete a course designed to provide the student with an in the following areas to satisfy commissioning opportunity to practice and improve skills learned requirements: 1) American Military History, 2) in the classroom. Communications, and 3) Computer Literacy.
Tuition, Credit, and Equipment
Military science and leadership courses are tuition free. Books and equipment are provided by the department. Associated fees assessed for all courses do apply. MSL credit may be applied as free electives toward graduation. MSL 101L or MSL 102L may be used to meet PE requirements. Tuition is charged for courses when used to meet PE requirements.
Financial Information
Financial support of $300 Freshman, $350 Sophomore, $450 Junior, and $500 Senior subsistence per month for up to ten months of the academic school year is paid to contracted students enrolled in the ROTC Advanced and Basic Courses. Students attending the four-week ROTC Leadership Training Course or the 32-day Leaders Development and Assessment Course (LDAC) receive approximately $800 plus room, board, and travel expenses. Additional financial aid is available to eligible freshman, sophomore, and junior students in the form of four-year, three-year, and two-year Army ROTC scholarships. The scholarship provides tuition, fees, and a textbook allowance, in addition to the monthly subsistence allowance paid during the school year. In addition, all non-scholarship, SD Resident advanced course cadets receive a 50 percent reduction in tuition costs.
Extracurricular Activities
Military-related extracurricular activities and organizations available to the ROTC student
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Physical Education
Contact Information
Ms. Barbara Felderman Department of Physical Education King Center 152 (605) 394-2602 e-mail: [email protected]
Faculty
Professor Felderman, Chair; Professor Welsh; Associate Professor Schafer; Assistant Professor Kratzer.
Physical Education
The physical education program is administered as a phase of a student’s general education with the primary mission of the department being to provide physical activity for each student. The main objective is to assist in developing a healthy and active lifestyle for each student. The specific objectives are to create an interest in physical fitness and physical skills and to develop those skills as much as time and facilities permit, while fulfilling the physical education requirement for graduation.
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Physics B.S. and Minor engineering discipline. It provides a background in applications of physics for students seeking employment in industry and also provides a solid foundation for graduate study in physics or in other fields such as geophysics, meteorology, metallurgy, computer science, mathematics, materials science, and many branches of engineering. Because physics is the basis of most engineering disciplines, understanding basic principles of physics can help one become a better engineer. An increasing number of students are choosing a double major, consisting of physics plus some field of engineering. Students going this route often end up in industrial research and Contact Information development. Another factor to consider is that, in a rapidly changing economy, where one field of Dr. Andre G. Petukhov engineering may be in a slump while others are Department of Physics not, understanding physics can assist one in Electrical Engineering/Physics 223 moving across disciplines. For these reasons, we (605) 394-2364 encourage all students to consider double majors. e-mail: [email protected] Graduate studies leading to the degree of master of science and Ph.D are offered. Research Faculty is primarily in solid state physics. At this level of study, the student will be expected to assume Professor Petukhov, Chair; Professors Foygel and much of the responsibility for carrying out a Sobolev; Associate Professor Corey research project. Graduate studies in the physics department are an integral component of the Physics materials engineering and science, and nanoscience and nanoengineering programs. For The goal of a program of study in physics is to details of graduate programs in physics, see the provide the student with an understanding of the graduate section. basic laws of physics and to develop skills that will enable the student to further explore physical Minor in Physics phenomena and to solve related problems. The student should have a sense of curiosity A minor in physics requires a minimum of about their surroundings and a strong desire, not eighteen (18) hours of courses in physics, which only to find solutions to problems that are must include PHYS 213, and at least fifteen (15) encountered, but also to develop a deeper hours of physics courses numbered higher than understanding of the basic principles involved. PHYS 213. All minors in physics must be The student will be expected to develop a high approved by the department and must conform to level of mathematical skills and to become the institutional policies and guidelines for proficient in oral and written communications. minors. Laboratory skills are also emphasized. At the bachelor of science level, the student Physics Laboratories will not be expected to specialize in any branch of physics. However, the curriculum does have The facilities in the EE-Physics Building are room for electives, providing an opportunity to ample for all aspects of the department’s develop a minor in other fields of science or in an experimental work from the introductory 166 Physics B.S. and Minor laboratories through graduate research. They are Second Semester equipped to enable the student to observe physical MATH 321 Differential Equations 4 phenomena, demonstrate physical principles, and EE 220 Circuits I 4 learn techniques for making quantitative ENGL 289 Technical Comm II 3 measurements in the fields of mechanics, heat, Humanities or Social Sciences Elective(s) 6 optics, electricity and magnetism, atomic physics, TOTAL 17 and solid state physics. The equipment is of the type that the student is likely to encounter after Junior Year graduation with emphasis on computer-based data First Semester acquisition and control of experiments. MATH 432 Partial Differential Equations 3 PHYS 341 Thermodynamics 3 Physics Curriculum/Checklist PHYS 312 Exper Physics Design I 2 CENG 244 Intro to Digital Systems 4 It is the student’s responsibility to check with Phys 451 Classical Mechanics 4 his or her advisor for any program modifications TOTAL 16 that may occur after the publication of this catalog. Second Semester MATH 315 Linear Algebra 4 Freshman Year PHYS 471 Quantum Mechanics 4 First Semester PHYS 445 Statistical Mechanics1 4 MATH 123 Calculus I 4 PHYS 314 Exper Physics Design II 2 CHEM 112 General Chemistry I 3 Humanities or Social Sciences Electives 1 CHEM 112L General Chemistry I Lab 1 TOTAL 15 ENGL 101 Composition I 3 PE Physical Education 1 Senior Year IS 110 Explorations 2 First Semester Humanities or Social Sciences Elective(s) 3 PHYS 421 Electromagnetism 4 TOTAL 17 PHYS 361 Optics1 3 PHYS 412 Advanced Design Projects I 2 Second Semester PHYS 481 Mathematical Physics1 4 MATH 125 Calculus II 4 Humanities or Social Sciences Elective(s) 3 PHYS 211 University Physics I 3 TOTAL 16 PE Physical Education 1 CHEM 114 General Chemistry II 3 Second Semester CHEM 114L Gen Chemistry II Lab 1 PHYS 433 Nuclear and Particle Physics1 3 CSC 150 Computer Science I 3 PHYS 439 Solid State Physics1 4 TOTAL 15 PHYS 414 Advanced Design Projects II 2 Humanities or Social Sciences Elective(s)6 Sophomore Year TOTAL 15 First Semester MATH 225 Calculus III 4 128 credits required for graduation PHYS 213 University Physics II 3 PHYS 213L University Physics II Lab 1 Curriculum Notes PHYS 275 Relativity 3 ENGL 279 Technical Comm I 3 At the end of the sophomore year twelve (12) Humanities or Social Sciences Elective(s) 3 hours of electives must include six (6) hours in TOTAL 17 humanities (in two (2) disciplines or in a sequence of foreign language courses) and six (6) hours in social sciences (in two (2) disciplines).
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The electives must contain a minimum of sixteen (16) hours in social sciences and humanities and three (3) hours of mathematics or computer science at the 200 level or above. Ten (10) credit hours of military science may also be used as electives.
1 Courses offered alternate years.
Mines Matters: The South Dakota School of Mines and Technology’s under class Mini Baja team finished in seventh place during the 2007 Mini Baja West competition, held May 23-26 in Rapid City, South Dakota The School of Mines also raced a senior team vehicle, which finished in 11th place overall. The under class vehicle also took eighth place in the sales portion of the competition.
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Social Sciences course of at least three (3) credit hours.
Social Sciences
(Upper level courses are in bold print.)
Anthropology: ANTH 210
Business Administration: ACCT 2101, ACCT 2111, BADM 1011, 3101, 3341, 3361, 350, 360, 3701, 4061, 4381, 4741, 4921.
Economics: ECON 201, 202 Contact Information Geography: Dr. Roger Dendinger GEOG 101, 212, 400 Department of Social Sciences Classroom Building 311 History: (605) 394-5111 HIST 151, 152, 492 e-mail: [email protected] Law: Faculty LAW 457
Associate Professor Dendinger, Chair; Professor Management Information System: Goss; Assistant Professor Keohane, Associate MIS 205 Professors McReynolds and Van Nuys; Devereaux Library Director Andersen; Associate Political Science: Librarian Cataloger Davies. POLS 100, 350, 407
Social Sciences Psychology: PSYC 101, 323, 331, 391, 392, 451, 461 The Department of Social Sciences provides Sociology: study and understanding of that branch of science SOC 100, 150, 250, 391, 392, 420/520 that focuses on the institutions and functioning of people in society. By utilizing empirical and Curriculum Notes quantitative methods in the study of human 1 beings, the curriculum reflects the technical and May not be used as social sciences credits, scientific nature and the mission of the university. but may be used for free elective credit. (Consult Interdisciplinary Science degree candidates advisor for further details.) are required to complete twenty-four (24) semester hours of humanities and social sciences courses. Other science and engineering degree candidates are required to complete sixteen (16) semester hours of humanities and social sciences courses — at least six (6) credits in each area. Engineering majors are required to enroll in at least one upper-level humanities or social science 169 Social Sciences
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Information The Council on Graduate Education consists of one faculty representative from each college, two South Dakota School of Mines and faculty members appointed by the Faculty Senate, Technology offers graduate degree programs at two graduate student representatives and the Dean the master’s and doctoral levels. The graduate of Graduate Education or his/her designee. (The program provides opportunities for advanced Vice President for Academic Affairs serves in an study and research in the fields of engineering and ex-officio capacity.) science. Each individual program of study is designed to broaden and extend the student’s Graduate Programs knowledge within the chosen field, to develop the power of independent critical thinking, and to Master of Science degrees are offered in: promote the skill of individual and cooperative Atmospheric Sciences research. Biomedical Engineering A master’s degree program was authorized at Chemical Engineering the South Dakota School of Mines and Civil Engineering Technology in October 1935, and the first degree Computer Science was granted in 1937. Permission to start Ph.D. Electrical Engineering programs during the 1967-68 academic year was Geology/Geological Engineering granted in January 1967 to the Department of Materials Engineering and Science Geology and Geological Engineering. In June, Mechanical Engineering 1983, the Board of Regents authorized the Paleontology doctorate in materials engineering and science. Technology Management The Board authorized the atmospheric, environmental, and water resources Ph.D. Doctor of Philosophy degrees are offered in: program (cooperative with South Dakota State Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences University) in October of 1993 for start-up at the Biomedical Engineering 1994 spring semester. This program has been Chemical and Biological Engineering changed to atmospheric and environmental Materials Engineering and Science sciences. In March 2005, The Board of Regents (multi-disciplinary) authorized a Ph.D. program in nanoscience and Geology/Geological Engineering nanoengineering and in March 2006 authorized an Nanoscience and Nanoengineering M.S./Ph.D. program in biomedical engineering, which is a joint program with the University of Admission to the Graduate School South Dakota. In April 2007, a Ph.D. program in chemical and biological engineering.was The Graduate Office encourages applications authorized by the Board and will begin in the fall from qualified students holding bachelor’s 2007 semester. degrees in engineering or science from accredited The graduate office was organized formally in four-year colleges and universities. Bachelor’s 1950-51. The policies of the graduate office are degrees or “diplomas” in technical engineering formulated with the assistance of the Council on fields generally do not qualify as accredited four- Graduate Education, which is advisory to the year degrees for purposes of admission. A student Dean of Graduate Education. The policies are desiring admission should obtain an application approved by the Faculty Senate and the Regents form from the Graduate Office or via the website of Higher Education for South Dakota and are at
170 Graduate Student General Information submitted to the Graduate Office. Application will review this recommendation and provide a materials of domestic applicants should be letter of decision to the applicant. For further received at least three (3) months before the information, refer to the section on “Probation beginning of the semester for which the student Policy.” desires admission (July 1 for fall semester and Admission to the graduate school for study November 1 for spring semester). International toward a master’s degree does not imply that the applicants must submit all of their materials at student will be allowed to work toward a least five (5) months before the beginning of the doctorate. A separate application and evaluation semester (April 1 for fall semester and September of the student’s qualifications are necessary 1 for spring semester). Applicant files will not be before acceptance into a doctoral program. It reviewed for possible admission until the $35 should be noted further that admission to the application fee has been paid. graduate school for study toward a Ph.D. degree Three letters of recommendation are required. does not constitute admission to candidacy for the These should be submitted, upon request of the Ph.D. degree. Refer to a later section for applicant, by three (3) persons familiar with the information on admission to candidacy. scholastic ability and interests of the applicant. However, applications from students at or International Student Admissions graduated from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology need only include the signatures An international applicant for graduate school of two (2) faculty members familiar with the must provide evidence of English proficiency. applicant’s academic performance unless English proficiency for graduate applicants from otherwise specified on the application form. countries in which English is not the native If the applicant has not completed an language must be verified by the TOEFL (Test of undergraduate program, a list of the remaining English as a Foreign Language). In addition, requirements should accompany the application. TWE (Test of Written English) scores are Evidence of graduation must be submitted prior to recommended, but are not required. TOEFL enrollment. results must be sent to the Graduate Office, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, 501 The Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) is East Saint Joseph Street, Rapid City, SD 57701- required by every graduate program. Applicants 3995. A minimum score of 560/220/83 is are strongly recommended to submit scores in required for unconditional satisfaction of the advance of registration. This examination is requirement. Students having scores greater than prepared by the Educational Testing Service, 520/190/68 but below 560/220/83 will be required Princeton, New Jersey. School of Mines to undergo an evaluation and will be required to graduates are not required to submit GRE scores. complete a program of study in English as a second language. Admittance will not be granted The descriptions that follow provide to students with TOEFL scores below 520/190/68. information on requirements for specific graduate Information on worldwide test centers and on programs. When an application for admission to a registration for the TOEFL can be obtained by graduate program is received, the faculty of the contacting any U.S. Embassy or Consulate or by department or multi-disciplinary program in writing to Test of English as a Foreign Language, which the applicant expects to major will evaluate Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New the applicant’s academic qualifications. The Jersey 08540, U.S.A. International students from chair/coordinator, on behalf of the faculty, will countries where English is either the native or recommend whether or not the applicant should common language may be exempted by the Dean be accepted into the graduate program, and of Graduate Education from the TOEFL whether the admission should be as an requirement. Likewise, applicants who have a unconditional, provisional, probationary, or prior degree from a college or university in the special student. The Dean of Graduate Education United States are generally exempted.
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Conditional acceptance can be granted director of the Ivanhoe International Center for International applicants after they first pass additional information. English as Second Language classes. An international applicant will not be issued the U.S. Full-Time/Half-Time Defined Department of Justice Form I-20, Certificate of Eligibility for Non-immigrant (F-1) Student Full-time Graduate Student is Defined as: status, until admission to graduate school for A student registered for nine or more credit study toward a specific advanced degree has been hours per semester at any of the six universities in granted and the applicant has provided the South Dakota Regental system during the documentary evidence of financial ability to cover academic year, or six (6) or more credit hours the projected annual costs of education at this during the summer session. university. Form I-20 is usually necessary for admission to the United States for college Half-time Graduate Student is Defined as: attendance. This institution will issue a DS-2019 A student registered for 4.75 to eight (8) credit Form only when appropriate. hours per semester during the academic year, or All international applicants are required to three (3) to five (5) credit hours during the submit the $35 application fee. (At the time of summer session. first registration on campus, a $113.70 Audited or remedial English credits do not international student enrollment fee must be paid.) apply to the above definitions. Both charges are non-refundable. During the regular academic year, registration International students are advised that full- in evening courses counts toward the time status at this university is necessary in order determination of full-time status if the student is to satisfy F-1 status requirements (see “Tuition registered also in regular daytime courses. During and Fees” section of the catalog). the summer session, full-time student status may Each international student (and any be earned completely with evening courses. dependents accompanying him/her to the United Graduate students are assessed the same States) is REQUIRED to enroll in the Major campus fees as undergraduates (see “Tuition and Medical Hospitalization/Surgical Insurance Plan Fees”). State law does not permit reduction or provided through South Dakota School of Mines remission of fees under any circumstances. and Technology. No outside policies will be accepted as substitutes. The only exception to this Assistantships and Fellowships for Graduate rule is if the student is covered by his/her home Students country (documentation of this policy is necessary). Additionally, each international South Dakota School of Mines and student is required to carry at least $10,000 of life Technology has funds available from various insurance while enrolled at South Dakota School sources for graduate assistantships and of Mines and Technology. fellowships. Such awards are usually made on the As a result of the regulations that became basis of scholastic merit and the availability of effective on January 1, 2003, the Family funds. Assistantships are not available to students Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) is on probation. waived for F and J students with respect to these The Dean of Graduate Education grants the specific reporting requirements. The regulations award, acting upon the recommendation of the will be strictly enforced by the appropriate department chair, program coordinator, or major bureau(s) within the US Department of Homeland faculty advisor after evaluation of the student’s Security (DHS) and information will be reported academic record, overall qualifications, and electronically to DHS via Student and Exchange programmatic progress. Graduate assistants are Visitor Information System (SEVIS). The required to attend GTA/GRA training each consequences to students for non-compliance with semester prior to any release of funds. the new regulations are severe. Contact the Assistants and fellows must receive
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compensation of at least the current posted month in the summer (forty (40) hours per week) minimum stipend per semester unless special for a total of approximately $19,810.48 per approval of a lower value is granted by the Dean calendar year. A conventional full-time of Graduate Education. They must also be GRA/GTA (twenty (20) hours per week) for a registered for nine credit hours a semester in order Ph.D. degree pays $11,041.80 per academic year to be eligible for reduced tuition. Eligibility for and $2,899.81 per month in the summer (forty the special tuition rate is limited to graduate (40) hours per week) for a total of approximately assistants and fellows who are: a) unconditionally $21,191.14 per calendar year. admitted to a graduate degree program and are If funds are available, extra support can also registered at the university for its required be provided for work effort during the Christmas minimum number of credit hours; and, b) awarded break. A full-time GTA or GRA is expected to an assistantship or fellowship at or above the devote a minimum of twenty (20) hours per week minimum rate established annually by the Board. to assigned duties during the academic year. Part- Graduate students receiving a summer time service is compensated in accordance with assistantship and who have received a qualifying expected hourly effort and the above hourly rates. graduate assistantship or fellowship for the The student with a research assistantship preceding fall and spring are automatically (GRA) should recognize that the prescribed hours eligible for the special graduate assistant tuition of research work are minimum expectations rate for the following summer. Graduate mandated by employment practices and may not assistants and fellows who are eligible for the represent the effort which actually will be special tuition rate at one institution are eligible at necessary to produce a satisfactory thesis or other Regental institutions. dissertation within a reasonable period of time. Graduate students who are U.S. citizens or The graduate student must be registered as a eligible non-citizens may be eligible for other full-time student during the academic period in forms of financial aid such as Federal Stafford order to receive an assistantship. Up to eight (8) Student Loans, Federal Perkins Student Loans, or semester hours of research credit may be awarded Federal Work-Study. Application and requests for one summer of work. Continuing students for additional information on these programs must register before assistantships and fellowships should be made to the Academic and Enrollment are processed for the semester for which they are Services Office — Financial Aid. authorized. Pre-registration is required to prevent Graduate assistants under state contract are payment delays. subject to institutional policies set forth in the Faculty/Staff Handbook. Graduate Fellowships A growing number of fellowships from Graduate Assistantships industrial and governmental agency sources are Financial assistance is available for graduate currently available. Eligibility requirements and teaching assistants (GTA) and for graduate restrictions are parallel to those for research research assistants (GRA). A GTA handles assistantships. A fellowship award may not laboratory sections, grades papers, or performs always include reduced tuition as a benefit. Pre- other assigned instructional duties. A GRA is registration by continuing students is required to compensated to conduct supervised research, prevent payment delays. which generally relates to the student’s thesis or dissertation research. Change of Major The minimum compensation rate for graduate assistants is $15.64 per hour for M.S degree A student admitted to the graduate school in a candidates and $16.73 per hour for Ph.D. students. specified department/program must complete at A conventional, full-time GRA/GTA (twenty (20) least one semester in the original hours per week) for an M.S. degree pays department/program before being allowed to $10,322.40 per academic year and $2,710.88 per change to another department/program.
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A student who wishes to change majors 4. The Dean of Graduate Education will have should: the normal authority to either approve or 1. Obtain from the Graduate Office an “Intent disapprove this second program of study. to Transfer” form. If the M.S. program of study is approved by the Dean of Graduate Education, then 2. Complete the form and obtain appropriate the major professor of the student’s Ph.D. signatures at his/her current program will be appointed as the department/program. representative of the graduate school of the student’s M.S. graduate. committee. 3. Return the form to the Graduate Office. 5. The first two (2) semesters of the dual program will be considered probationary. Upon favorable recommendation from the The second program of study can be relevant departments/programs, the Dean of terminated based on recommendations of Graduate Education will usually issue a letter of the Ph.D. major professor and/or M.S. transfer and notify the appropriate offices and the major professor to the Dean of Graduate student of the change. Education.
Concurrent Enrollment in Ph.D./M.S. Special Students Programs An individual who holds a baccalaureate Concurrent enrollment in a Ph.D. program and degree and wishes to pursue further study without an M.S. program in a different department is a commitment to advanced degree candidacy may normally not allowed. Students who are pursuing apply to the Graduate Office for admission as a a Ph.D. may not take more than 15 graduate Special student at the graduate level. The credits in a second department. If the student applicant must provide evidence of the leaves the Ph.D. program and is admitted to the baccalaureate degree. Upon admission as a second department, no more than fifteen (15) Special student, he/she will be subject to Graduate credits may be counted toward the M.S. Office policies including the probation policy. A maximum of twelve (12) credit hours may be Exception Policy accumulated, after which the student must either A student who seeks an exception to the above apply for admission as a degree-seeking student or policy must follow the procedure set forth below. must petition for a variance from this policy. Students must be aware that exceptions to this Graduate students classified as Special students policy will only be granted under extraordinary are not eligible for assistantships. circumstances. 1. The Ph.D. student must obtain prior written Graduate College Registration approval for this dual-degree plan from his/her major professor and the A graduate student will report to the advisor chair/coordinator of the relevant Ph.D. specified in the admission letter and thereafter program. will follow the registration procedure for all South 2. If approval is granted in Step 1, then the Dakota School of Mines and Technology students. Ph.D. student must obtain written approval The advisor is responsible for counseling the for the M.S. degree plan from the chair of graduate student in the formulation of a program the corresponding M.S. program. of study until the student has selected a major 3. If approval is granted for Step 2, then the professor. student will need to establish a second graduate committee and file a separate Continuing Registration program of study for the M.S. degree with the Graduate Office. Note: Graduate-level Special students (as
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defined in another section) are exempt from the Course Retake Policy following continuing registration rule. The only other exception to the continuing registration A student will be allowed a total of two (2) policy is when a student has been granted a formal registrations for any particular graduate course leave of absence (see “Leave of Absence” section (course numbers of 500 and above) for which below). credit is to be counted toward graduation. The Degree-seeking graduate students must be student must petition the Dean of Graduate registered on a continuing basis during each fall Education and obtain the Dean’s approval to be and spring semester of the regular academic year permitted to take a graduate course more than two (see section on “Minimum Registration”). This (2) times. Only the LAST attempt of the course applies regardless of whether the graduate student will count in the grade point average calculations. is in residence, is off-campus, or is pursuing a A student will be allowed multiple degree on a part-time basis. Failure to maintain registrations for certain graduate courses for continuing registration will result in deactivation which credit toward graduation may be received of the graduate student’s program. Therefore, more than once (e.g., Independent Study, Thesis, graduate students who fail to comply and Research, etc.). Grades for all such courses will subsequently wish to return to their same program be used for grade point average calculations. of study will be required to obtain written Please note that individual departments/programs permission from the Dean of Graduate Education may limit the number of credits allowed toward and may be charged a minimum reinstatement fee graduation in these types of courses. of $50. All graduate students must register within the Leave of Absence designated period each semester. Beyond that point, the reinstatement fee may be imposed along A student who is unable to continue his/her with any other late registration fees. program of graduate study due to unanticipated major circumstances may request a Leave of Minimum Registration Absence from his/her program of study by completing and submitting a “Request for Leave The minimum registration for graduate of Absence” form, available in the Graduate students, including graduate-level Special Office. The form must be completed and signed students, is two (2) credits. Registration for two by the student, the student’s advisor, department (2) or more credits is required during any chair or program coordinator, and then submitted semester or summer when using departmental or to the Graduate Office. The Dean of Graduate institutional resources, including scheduling and Education will evaluate the request, and either taking exams. The number of credit hours taken approve or deny it. If the request is approved, the in excess of the minimum should accurately student will not be subject to continuing reflect the extent of the graduate student’s course registration and the Leave of Absence will not work and research activities. count toward the time limits to complete his/her Graduate students must also meet this program of study. A Leave of Absence is minimum registration requirement during the determined on a semester-by-semester basis and is specific semester or summer in which they usually limited to a maximum of one (1) calendar complete all requirements for their degree and year. become eligible for graduation. There will be no grace period; hence, students who fail to complete Academic Loads all degree requirements prior to the official closure date for a given semester or summer will Thirteen credit hours per semester are be required to register for a minimum of two (2) considered to be the normal maximum graduate credits during a subsequent semester or summer in load. Higher loads must be approved by the Dean order to graduate. of Graduate Education and may be permitted if
175 Graduate Student General Information the student is taking a combination of courses at Graduate Education l, and are included on the graduate and undergraduate level. A reduced the student’s program of study with all load may be recommended at the discretion of the necessary approvals listed thereon. (See student’s advisor and major professor for students also individual department restrictions on working as GTA’s or GRA’s. 300-400 level courses.) c. The courses in question are at the 400 Please refer to a previous section for level, are within the student’s major additional information on assistantships and department, do not appear on the waiver financial aid. list pre-approved by the committee for graduate education, but are included on Undergraduates Taking Graduate the student’s program of study along with Courses/Graduates Taking Undergraduate a petition of support from the student’s Courses major professor, with all necessary approvals listed thereon. 1. Graduate-level credits (500 level or above) taken as an undergraduate student are Upon written justification by the automatically placed on a graduate chair/coordinator of the graduate student’s major transcript, and may not be used toward an department/program, the Dean of Graduate undergraduate degree unless appropriate Education may approve a minor variance from approvals and credit transfers are obtained the twelve (12) credit hour limit. through Academic and Enrollment Services. Graduate-level credits taken as Forms mentioned above are available at the an undergraduate and used to fulfill Graduate Office in MI-235 or on the Graduate requirements for the undergraduate degree Education website. may not be used also toward a graduate degree. Regental and Institutional Credit 2. Up to twelve (12) semester hours of Requirements for Degree-Seeking Graduate graduate-level credits taken as an Students: undergraduate and not used to fulfill requirements for the undergraduate degree Minimum percentage of credit hours in the may be used toward a graduate degree only graduate degree program that must be completed after the courses in question are included from the institution granting the degree: 60 on the student’s program of study with all percent. necessary approvals listed thereon. 3. Undergraduate-level credits (300 or 400 Graduate Transfer Courses Received from United level) taken as a graduate student are States Colleges and Universities Accredited by a automatically placed on an undergraduate United States Regional Accrediting Association: transcript, and may not be used toward a graduate degree except under the following Graduate transfer courses and transfer grades circumstances: are recorded and evaluated by School of Mines, a. The courses in question are outside the calculated into grade point averages according to student’s major department, but are the South Dakota Regental grade scheme, and included on the student’s program of study recorded on the student’s academic transcript with all necessary approvals listed thereon. ONLY if these transfer courses are equivalent to a (See also individual department restrictions specific graduate course at South Dakota School on 300-400 level courses.) of Mines and Technology. b. The courses in question are within the student’s major department, appear on the waiver list pre-approved by the Council on
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Work Taken at Another Institution 4. The student’s thesis or dissertation research must be of a quality to earn a final grade of Credit for up to twelve (12) semester hours of “S.” graduate-caliber course work taken at another 5. The student who fails any course must institution may be transferred toward the repeat the course with a passing grade. requirements for the master’s degree at South The student may petition, through his/her Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Such advisor or major professor, advisory credit from institutions external to the South committee, the Dean of Graduate Dakota Regental system must be reviewed and Education for a potential waiver of this approved by the student’s committee and by the rule. Dean of Graduate Education. 6. The student cannot apply any credit hours The Dean of Graduate Education shall notify or grades for 100 and 200 level courses the Director of Academic and Enrollment (which are usually taken to overcome Services in writing of the credits to be accepted academic deficiencies) toward advanced and placed on the student’s transcript. An official degree requirements. If, in the opinion of transcript received directly from the issuing the student’s advisor, major professor, institution to support the request is required. The advisory committee, progress in these transferred course number, title, and semester courses is unsatisfactory, additional work hours will be entered on the student’s transcript. may be required to demonstrate Credits transferred from an institution outside the proficiency. South Dakota Regental system may be used to 7. Of credits counted for an advanced degree, reduce graduation requirements, but will not not more than 50 percent of the credit hours in affect the cumulative GPA earned at South any graduate program can be at the 500 Dakota School of Mines and Technology. level.
Advanced-Degree Grade Requirements If a course is repeated for a passing or improved grade, only the grade for the last To qualify for any advanced degree, the attempt will be included in the computation of the faculty has stipulated that the following cumulative grade-point average shown on the requirements must be satisfied: graduate student’s transcript. 1. The student must earn a minimum 3.00 A limitation of a total of nine credit hours average of grades in all 300- through 800- exists for advanced-degree credit for courses numbered courses taken (a) in all identified as “Special Topics in,” “Advanced departments AND (b) in his/her major Topics in,” or “Seminar in.” Refer to the specific department after admission to the graduate course description for any other restrictions. program, or taken for graduate credit at All graduate research credit hours are graded School of Mines as an undergraduate or according to regular grading standards. However, Special student. Note that thesis and for thesis research (courses numbered 700) and dissertation research credit hours and dissertation research (courses numbered 800) the grades will not be counted in the final grades for a completed program will be determination of these grade-point ratios. issued as either “U” for Unsatisfactory or “S” for 2. The student must earn a “C” grade or Satisfactory. These S and U grades will not be better in any graduate course (500 through used in the computation of grade-grade point 800 level), which is to be credited toward averages. advanced degree requirements. Research credit may be applied toward the 3. The student must earn a “B” grade or fulfillment of credit-hour requirements. The better in any 300 or 400 level course, number of credit hours so applied is identified in which is to be credited toward advanced the relevant sections under master of science and degree requirements. doctor of philosophy degree programs.
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Graduate Grading System: f. The course work must be completed within one calendar year; extensions may be granted by The Graduate Grades will be assigned to the the Dean of Graduate Education. Graduate Academic Level and to all courses and g. If the student completes the course within the sections with course numbers of 500 or greater. specified time, the grades that may be assigned Plus and minus grades are not used. are A, B, C, D, F, S, or U. The following grades are recommended to be h. If the student does not complete the course associated with the Graduate Grade System: within the specified time, the Incomplete grade remains on the transcript. 1. Standard Grades: IP In Progress A Exceptional Does not calculate into any GPA. An in progress 4.00 grade points per semester hour. (IP) grade may be granted only when all of the B Good following conditions apply: 3.00 grade points per semester hour. a. The requirements for the course (for every C Average student enrolled in the course) extend beyond the 2.00 grade points per semester hour. current term. D Unsatisfactory b. The extension beyond the current term must 1.00 grade points per semester hour. be defined before the class begins. F Failure c. The instructor must request permission to 0.00 grade points per semester hour. award IP grades for a course from their S Satisfactory Department Chair and Dean of Graduate Does not calculate into any GPA. Education, and then approval must be obtained U Unsatisfactory from the Vice President for Academic Affairs. Does not calculate into any GPA. d. A definite date for completion of the course W Withdrawal must be established in the course syllabus. Does not calculate into any GPA, NP Normal Progress no credit granted. Does not calculate into any GPA. A normal AU Audit progress (NP) grade calculates into attempted Does not calculate into any GPA. An audit (AU) credits but does not calculate into completed grade may be granted only when the student has credits or grade point averages. elected the AU option on or prior to the census A normal progress (NP) grade may be granted by date of the term. an instructor when the instructor determines that a I Incomplete graduate student is making normal progress in a Does not calculate into any GPA. An incomplete graduate Thesis/Dissertation course. If a graduate (I) grade may be granted only when all of the student does not enroll for a period of one following conditions apply: calendar year, the NP grade may change to I a. A student has encountered extenuating (Incomplete) upon approval by the Dean of circumstances that do not permit him/her to Graduate Education. A complete the course. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory (S/U) grade may be b. The student must be earning a passing grade at granted only when the entire course requires the the time the Incomplete is necessitated. S/U grade or the student has elected the S/U Anticipated course failure is not a justification for option on or prior to the census date of the term. an incomplete. NR Grade not reported by the Instructor c. The student does not have to repeat the course Does not calculate into any GPA. to meet the requirements. EX Credit by Exam d. The instructor must agree to grant an Does not calculate into any GPA. An incomplete grade. examination for credit (EX) grade may be granted e. The instructor and student must agree on a only for non course credit validation obtained plan to complete the course work. through a validation process. This grade is not
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used for any Regental university course. “U” grade received for research credit(s). Since a CR Credit “U” is a final grade, probation will be maintained Does not calculate into any GPA. A credit (CR) until at least one subsequent “S” credit is grade may be granted only for non-course credit awarded. A student may graduate with “U” that is not related to an examination or to equating grades, but must also accumulate “S” grades for transfer grades to the BOR grading system. This the required minimum number of research credits grade is not used for any Regental university in a given advanced degree program. A student course. who has transferred from a thesis to a non-thesis TR Transcripted program and who has received “U” grades as the Does not calculate into any GPA and last research grades in the thesis program will be no credit is granted. admitted to the new program on a probationary LR Lab grade linked to Recitation Grade status. Such probation may be removed by 0 credit course. satisfactory progress (according to the usual performance criteria) during the first semester in Probation and Reinstatement Policy the new program. A student may be placed on probation for An applicant who has a large number of failing to meet either general or specific program deficiencies, or whose undergraduate record is requirements, e.g., failure to meet the required relatively weak, may be admitted to the graduate deadline for filing the required program of study program on probationary status. For a student with the graduate office and/or failure to meet the admitted on probation, a deficiency in grade deadlines for taking and passing applicable requirements during the first semester of qualifying, comprehensive, and final exams, etc. enrollment may be considered sufficient grounds Probation for such deficiencies will be removed for terminating the student’s enrollment in the after the requirement(s) has been satisfied. A graduate program. Such a termination decision student’s probationary status will be reviewed at will be made by the Dean of Graduate Education the close of each semester for appropriate action- after consulting with the student’s major professor removal from probation, continuation of and the department chair or relevant program probation, or termination. A student may petition coordinator. the Dean of Graduate Education for A current graduate student who does not meet reconsideration of a termination decision. (Refer the following requirements (items 1-7 below) to section on “Appeal Procedure.”) during any semester will be placed on probation and will be so informed by the Dean of Graduate 1. A student must maintain a “B” (3.00) or Education. A failure to remove the deficiencies better grade point average in all 300 during the following semester may be considered through 800 level courses taken for sufficient grounds for terminating the student’s graduate credit at School of Mines. enrollment in the graduate program. For further Thesis and dissertation research credit information regarding restrictions on financial hours and grades will not be counted in the assistance to graduate students on probation, refer determination of this grade-point. to the section entitled “Assistantships and 2. A student must earn no less than a “C” Fellowships for Graduate Students.” Probation (2.00) grade in any graduate course (500 imposed because of grade deficiencies in specific through 800 level) taken for grade credit, courses (items 2-3 below) will continue each and which is to be credited toward semester until the course(s) has been retaken and advanced degree requirements. an acceptable grade(s) has been received.) 3. A student must earn no less than a Probation imposed because of overall GPA “B”(3.00) in any 300 or 400 level course deficiencies (item 1 below) will continue each taken for grade credit, and which is to be semester until GPA reaches the acceptable level. credited toward advanced degree A student will be placed on probation for a requirements.
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4. A student’s thesis or dissertation research graduate education. must be of a quality to warrant the issuance 5. All “F” grades will be incorporated into of a semester grade of “S” or an interim cumulative grade-point averages. grade of “NP.” 5. A student must earn no less than a Appeal Procedure “B” (3.00) in any 100 and 200 level courses taken for grade credit even though Procedures for appealing or petitioning for a they cannot be applied toward a graduate variance from certain policies are set forth in the degree. relevant sections of this document when such 6. A student must pass all courses taken on variances are permitted in unusual or exceptional the pass-fail basis. (Refer to section on circumstances. Appeals or petitions involving “Pass-Fail Option for Graduate Students.”) such matters as grade changes from “F” or “I” to 7. A student must remove all other program “W” and refund of late registration fees should be deficiencies, such as meeting stated lodged with the Academic Appeals Committee deadlines for applicable qualifying, through the Vice President for Academic Affairs, comprehensive, and final examinations; after review by the Dean of Graduate Education. selection of a graduate guidance Appeals concerning probation, suspension, or committee; and filing of a satisfactory potential variances in academic graduate policy program of study in the graduate office. should first be lodged with the student’s major department/program. Before rendering a decision Pass-Fail Option for Graduate Students on the appeal, the department chair or program coordinator will seek a recommendation from the The following policy pertains to the student’s advisory committee. If the student is not pass/fail option at the graduate level: satisfied with the decision on the appeal, the 1. 100 and 200 level courses, either within or student may petition the committee for graduate without the department, which cannot be education for reconsideration. Such petition must applied for credit toward a graduate degree be filed with the Dean of Graduate Education. may (with the consent of the student’s In those cases where this document does not graduate advisor or advisory committee) be provide appropriate information concerning the taken on a pass-fail basis under the same resolution of a conflict or problem encountered by rules that apply to undergraduate students. the graduate student, or if the student is 2. 300 through 800 level courses outside of the dissatisfied with a prior appeal decision, he/she student’s department/program may (with the should seek the advice of the Dean of Graduate consent of the student’s major professor Education or the dean of students to determine advisory committee) be taken on a pass-fail what recourse is available to assist in seeking a basis except that a “C” grade shall be solution to such problems. considered the lowest passing grade. The maximum number of hours of pass-fail work Certification for the Degree for which a master’s degree candidate may receive credit will be six (6) for the thesis Before a diploma can be released, the Dean of option and nine (9) for the non-thesis option. Graduate Education must certify that the 3. No 300 through 800 level courses offered candidate has fulfilled all degree requirements. by the student’s major department/program For certification of the degree for a given may be taken for credit under the pass-fail semester, ALL requirements must be complete on option. or before the day grades are due for that semester 4. Beyond the master’s level, the pass-fail or end of the summer session. Note that ALL option may be exercised at the discretion KEYS MUST BE RETURNED to the Physical of the candidate’s advisory committee, but Plant before the degree is granted. must still be approved by the dean of Candidates are cautioned not to make travel
180 Graduate Student General Information plans or other arrangements that will be difficult 6. Passing an examination on general or costly to change until they are certain that all knowledge and successfully defending the degree requirements can and will be satisfied. It thesis. is the responsibility of the candidate to know and comply with these degree requirements The non-thesis option requires: 1. A program of at least thirty-two (32) credit MASTER OF SCIENCE PROGRAMS hours of course work (refer to specific program requirements for exact number of Thesis and Non-Thesis Options minimum course work credit hours). 2. At least twenty (20) credit hours of With the thesis option, the minimum graduate course work (500 numbered and graduation requirement is thirty (30) credit hours above). including six (6) to nine (9) hours of thesis 3. Meeting or exceeding prescribed academic research credit. standards. At the discretion of the student’s major 4. Passing an examination on general department/program, thesis research and the knowledge in the field. submission of a thesis may be waived and additional course work substituted. Such course A candidate for the master’s degree is work may include a limited number of credits for expected to make up undergraduate non-thesis or project research. The graduation deficiencies as determined by the credit minimum in this option is thirty-two (32) department/program. Credit for such credit hours. Candidates for the non-thesis option makeup work is generally not allowed may not normally use thesis research credits for toward the degree. However, the policy the fulfillment of credit-hour requirements for the established by the faculty does allow for a master’s degree. However, when a student is certain number of upper-level transferring from a M.S. thesis degree program to undergraduate credits to be used for the a M.S. non-thesis program, the student may fulfillment of master’s degree requirements petition the Dean of Graduate Education to according to the following limitations and transfer up to 3 cr. hrs. of previous thesis research conditions1: with the documented support and approval of the 1. For the thesis option, the number of student’s major professor. undergraduate credits that may be used for the degree is limited to six (6) hours. M.S. Degree Requirements 2. For the non-thesis option, the number of undergraduate credits that may be used for The M.S. degree minimum requirements the degree is limited to nine hours. for the thesis option are: 3. Out-of-program courses at the 300 level 1. A program of at least thirty (30) credit may be accepted toward the fulfillment of hours of course work and research. degree requirements in exceptional 2. At least fifteen (15) credit hours of circumstances but only with the approval graduate course work (500 level courses of the Dean of Graduate Education. This and above). written justification should be submitted by 3. At least six (6) credit hours of thesis the chair/coordinator of the student’s major research. (No more than nine credit hours department/program to the Graduate Dean. of thesis research will count toward degree 4. Major department (or program) courses at requirements.) the 300 level are not acceptable for 4. A satisfactory thesis based upon individual graduate degree credit under any research. circumstances. 5. Meeting or exceeding academic standards 5. Out-of-program courses at the 400 level prescribed elsewhere in this bulletin. may be used to fulfill degree requirements
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at the discretion of the chair/coordinator of advisory committee. the student’s major department/program in accordance with the credit hour limitations prescribed above. Also, see individual Dual Majors departmental restrictions. 6. Major program courses at the 400 level South Dakota School of Mines and may be accepted toward the fulfillment of Technology does not permit, in general, credit degree requirements in exceptional hours that have been used to satisfy requirements circumstances. Such courses will only be for one master of Science degree to be applied considered after a written justification is toward another master’s degree from this submitted by the chair/coordinator of the institution. Under exceptional circumstances student’s major department/program to the however, a student may petition the committee for Dean of Graduate Education for his or her graduate education through his/her advisory review and potential approval. committee for a variance from this policy.
1 In the above sections (1-6) the term Supervision of the Master’s Program “program” refers to a division in a department such as environmental engineering program The supervision of the general study program within the department of civil and environmental of each master’s student, including compliance engineering, or a non-departmental unit such as with all the various Board of Regents, technology management, materials engineering institutional, and Graduate Division policies, is and science, or atmospheric and environmental primarily the responsibility of the advisor. The sciences. The maximum number of thesis credit graduate advisory committee, which consists of a hours required for the thesis option is determined major professor, a graduate office representative, by the department and the thesis committee. At and at least one additional member, assists in this least six credit hours and no more than nine credit role. The major professor is primarily responsible hours of thesis research will be permitted to count for supervision of the graduate student’s research toward the degree credit requirements for the and thesis preparation, as well as ensuring that thesis option. However, the student may register academic standards and requirements are met and for additional research credits for continuing satisfied. The advisor and the major professor registration purposes. may or may not be the same person, depending on restrictions/requirements within the student’s Language Requirement program and/or department. The major professor serves as chairperson of There is no standard language requirement by the graduate advisory committee, assists the the Graduate Division for the master’s degree. student in selection of other members of the However, departments/programs may establish committee, and is responsible for obtaining their own language requirement. approval from each prospective member for that person’s service on the committee. The graduate Minors office representative must be chosen from outside the major department/program. Faculty rules permit, but do not require, a A change in advisor may be accomplished at minor field of study for the master’s degree. the student’s request, only by submitting a Nevertheless, limited work outside of the major Request to Change Advisor form, with all department/program is encouraged. If such work appropriate approval signatures, to the Dean of is concentrated in one department, it may be Graduate Education. (Change of Advisor forms considered to informally constitute a minor and a are available from the graduate office.) faculty member from that department/program If staff changes or other valid reasons dictate a should be appointed to the graduate student’s change in major professor, such a transition can
182 Graduate Student General Information be made at the request of the student and with the style of captions, footnotes, and bibliographical consent the student’s committee as evidenced by references used by the leading technical journal in filing a revised program of study with the the student’s field. Students are urged to review graduate office. A written appeal by a student for carefully copyright ownership provisions in the a change in major professor may be filed with the “Instructions” document. committee for graduate education through the A final draft of the thesis should be submitted Dean of Graduate Education in contested cases. by the student to each member of his/her advisory The decision by the committee for graduate committee a minimum of two full weeks before education is final. When such changes occur, a the time and date of the student’s scheduled new program of study must be submitted to the examination. Earlier submission deadlines may graduate office. be required by the advisory committee. The final draft of the thesis, after all revisions Program of Study recommended by the committee have been made, must be signed by the author and approved and The student’s advisory committee will assist signed by the major professor, the the student in formulating a program of study chair/coordinator of the student’s major leading to the master’s degree. A copy of the department/program, and the Dean of Graduate program of study and advisory committee Education before final reproduction. The dean assignments must be filed with the student, the requires that the final draft of the thesis be student’s department/program, and the graduate submitted to the graduate office 21 calendar days office no later than the mid-term of the second before graduation to allow adequate time for semester of the student’s registration as a degree- review, corrections and revisions, and potential seeking candidate. The student must seek the approval. advisory committee’s approval for any subsequent The institution requires five (5) copies of the modification of the original plan of study. A copy thesis in final form: the original (unbound) of any amended program must be filed in a timely manuscript and one bound copy for the Devereaux manner by the student and with the same offices Library; two (2) bound copies for the student’s as the original schedule. Each program of study department/program, one of which will be or amendment thereof must have the signature forwarded to the major professor; and an unbound approval of the student and all members of the security copy for the department. An electronic student’s committee before it will be reviewed for version of the thesis will also be required in final approval by the Dean of Graduate Education. digital format. Contact the graduate office for instructions and requirements for this digital Thesis version. In case of a proprietary thesis, the original hard copy and digital version will be The thesis should represent an effort of such retained without reproduction in secured graduate quality and construction that it can be displayed in office files throughout the specified proprietary the school library with similar scholarly works, as period. well as providing material for publication(s) in an appropriate professional journal(s). Final Examination The thesis is written under the direction of the major professor, but the student should feel free to All master of Science degree candidates will seek guidance from all members of his/her be given a final examination covering course advisory committee. Before starting to write the material. The examination may be written, oral, thesis, the student is urged to consult or both at the discretion of the major department “Instructions for the Preparation of Theses and or program. Dissertations” on the graduate education website, Students pursuing the thesis option must also and to consult style manuals in the Devereaux defend their thesis in an oral examination. Final Library. In general, the thesis may follow the examinations covering both course work and
183 Graduate Student General Information thesis research may be combined. Oral normally eight (8) to twelve (12) weeks after the examinations are open to all interested faculty date of the first examination. members. Departmental or program policy shall determine whether non-faculty persons may Time Limitation attend the examination. The student shall obtain and complete the A master of science degree program must be relevant graduate office form to schedule the final completed within five (5) calendar years dating examination. The major professor shall seek the from the student’s formal entrance into a degree- approval of all committee members and shall file seeking program. Courses taken by the student at the form with the graduate office no less than five any institution that are requested to be part of the (5) working days before the exam. The graduate degree program and that were taken more than office will announce this exam information as five (5) years prior to the date of anticipated appropriate. graduation must be reviewed by the student’s The thesis defense oral examination will major department/program and the Dean of normally be held during the last six (8) weeks of Graduate Education for possible acceptance. the student’s last term, but it may be given at any Following this review, the student’s major time after the thesis has received committee department/program and the Dean of Graduate approval. No final examination may be scheduled Education will determine whether a reduction in during the period of course work final credits applicable toward the degree, a re- examinations. examination, or both is required for the student to The student’s committee constitutes the complete his or her degree program. examining board for a final oral examination. The major professor will chair the session. The major DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY PROGRAMS professor is responsible for ensuring that a majority of the committee, as well as the graduate Nature and Purpose of the Doctoral Programs office representative, is present. The examination will not be held if these conditions cannot be met. The doctoral program is designed to prepare a A negative vote by any two (2) or more members student for a lifetime of intellectual inquiry that of the student’s committee or a negative vote by manifests itself in creative scholarship and the graduate office representative will signify research, often leading to professional careers in failure of the examination. All committee social, governmental, business, industrial members must be given the opportunity for input organizations, and academia. The program to, and evaluation of, a written non-thesis final emphasizes freedom of inquiry and expression examination. Refer to the graduate office policies and development of the student’s capacity to for information on committees and exam make significant contributions to knowledge. An procedures for proprietary thesis programs. essential element is the development of the ability Results of all written or oral examinations will to understand and evaluate critically the literature be attested to by all committee members on a of the field and to apply appropriate principles form furnished to the graduate office and procedures to the recognition, evaluation, representative by the graduate office. The original interpretation, and understanding of issues and form with signatures and dates will be filed with problems at the frontiers of knowledge. These the graduate office and a copy with the goals are most effectively accomplished in close department/program. association with those experienced in research and If the candidate fails to satisfy the examiners teaching. on either course work or thesis, written or oral A central purpose of doctoral programs is the examinations, the committee may schedule a re- extension of knowledge, but this cannot be examination over general background, thesis, or accomplished on all fronts simultaneously. both. The re-examination will be scheduled at the Students must choose an area in which to discretion of the candidate’s advisory committee, specialize, a faculty member with whom to work,
184 Graduate Student General Information and a research topic of mutual interest to the 1 See AES program description for details of student and the faculty advisor. Individualized course work and research credits in the 90-credit programs of study are then developed, and program. committee members are selected cooperatively as course work and research are undertaken. When Between three (3) and four (4) academic years all course work has been completed, the research of full-time graduate study beyond the finished, the dissertation written, and all baccalaureate degree normally are required to examinations passed, the student will have earn a doctorate. acquired the knowledge and skills expected of a A candidate who has entered a Ph.D. program scholar and will have extended knowledge and directly from a baccalaureate program may be research capability in the field. allowed to use up to twelve (12) credits of upper- division undergraduate 400 level courses toward Ph.D. Degree Requirements the fifty to sixty (50-60) credit-hour course requirement for the degree with the same The requirements for the Doctor of restrictions and procedures as those specified for Philosophy degree are: master’s degrees. Ph.D. candidates already 1. Satisfactory completion of a holding an M.S. degree may use up to six (6) Comprehensive Examination. credits of 400 level course work toward the 2. A minimum of a total of eighty (80) twenty-six to thirty-six (26-36) credit course work semester credits (ninety (90) for the AES requirement. The chair of the student’s major program) beyond the bachelor’s degree. department must petition the committee for 3. A minimum of fifty (50) semester credit graduate education through the Dean of Graduate hours of course work (forty-five to sixty Education for use of 300 level credits for Ph.D. (45-60) for the AES program1) beyond programs. the bachelor’s degree. A maximum of The dissertation advisory committee approves twenty-four (24) semester credits are the total number of research credits that the allowed from appropriate M.S. course candidate may carry, consistent with work to apply to the Ph.D. credit departmental, continuing registration, and other requirement. requirements. The student’s advisory committee 4. A minimum of twenty (20) semester credit can recommend to the Dean of Graduate hours (thirty (30) for the AES program) Education a program requiring more credits than of appropriate research credits. A the minimum indicated above if it believes that maximum of six (6) semester credits of this is in the best interests of the student. acceptable M.S. research credits can be Furthermore, the committee may approve a plan applied to the Ph.D. research credits upon for the student to undertake work at some other approval of a corresponding petition by the institution of recognized standing, but may not candidate’s department/program and the reduce the two-semester residence requirement. Dean of Graduate Education. 5. Satisfaction of academic standards as Residence Requirements prescribed elsewhere in this catalog. 6. At least two (2) consecutive semesters of At least two (2) consecutive semesters of residence as a full-time student. residence as a full-time student are required at 7. Satisfaction of any departmental language South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. or other specific requirements. The comprehensive examination may not be taken 8. A dissertation written in grammatical before the last half of the second semester of English that represents results from at least residence. The final defense of the dissertation the equivalent of one academic year of will not be permitted within the first five (5) full-time research. months following the successful completion of the comprehensive examination.
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Language Requirements Minor or Supporting Fields
Atmospheric and environmental sciences In order to foster the principles upon which a (AES): No language requirement. Doctor of Philosophy degree is based, as set forth Materials engineering and science (MES): No in the introductory paragraphs to this section on language requirement. doctoral programs, a Ph.D. candidate and his/her Geology/geological engineering: The student, advisory committee are strongly encouraged to working with his/her committee, may select one formulate a program of study that comprises, of the following four options: minimally, one-quarter of the required course 1. A reading knowledge of two (2) foreign work in minor or supporting fields. These courses languages. may be completed in one or more departments in 2. A reading, writing, and speaking areas of study consistent with the student’s major competence in one foreign language program. Typically, therefore, twelve to eighteen pertinent to the field of study. (12-18) of the forty-five to sixty (45-60) credit 3. A reading knowledge of one foreign hours of required course work would be taken in language plus nine semester hours of non-major courses by a student entering a doctoral course work in a collateral field, credit for program with a baccalaureate degree. A Ph.D. which may not be applied toward the candidate who has already earned a master’s degree. A list of collateral courses should degree would be expected to satisfactorily be prepared by the student, approved by complete six (6) to twelve (12) of the twenty-six the advisory committee, and submitted to thirty-six (26-36) credit hours of required to the graduate office. course work in courses outside of the major field. 4. Competence in at least two (2) computer Because individual program requirements may languages and in software pertinent to the exceed these minimum institutional guidelines, student’s field of study (e.g., Geographic the student is urged to review carefully the Information Systems Software). curriculum for his or her field of study. Competence in computer languages shall be determined by a qualified faculty Supervision of the Doctoral Program member from outside of the department. Documentation of this competence shall be Until a student has earned the master’s degree approved by the advisory committee and or accumulated a comparable number of credits, submitted to the graduate office. he/she will be subject to the regulations governing A foreign national may satisfy the language master’s candidates regarding major professor, requirement by demonstrating competence in advisory committee, and course of study. reading, writing, and speaking English provided The study program of each doctoral student is that, in the opinion of the advisory committee, a under the supervision of a advisory committee significant scientific literature pertinent to the consisting of a major professor, graduate office field of study exists in his/her native language. representative, and at least three (3) additional Any language requirements should be department and/or affiliate department members. completed within the first two (2) years of For transfer students entering directly into the doctoral work and must be fulfilled before the doctoral program with a master’s degree or its student is admitted to the comprehensive equivalent, the major professor will be selected examination for the degree of Doctor of and assigned as soon as practicable after Philosophy. registration, but no later than the midterm of the A high standard of proficiency both in second semester of registration. In the interim, speaking and writing the English language is the department’s/program’s graduate advisor will expected of all graduate students. assist with registration and initial programming. The major professor is assigned by the chair/coordinator of the student’s major
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department/program after consultation with and Program of Study concurrence of the student and prospective major professor. If staff changes or other valid reasons The advisory committee shall be charged with dictate a change in major professor, such a assisting the student to formulate a program of transition can be made at the request of the study leading toward the Ph.D. degree. The student and with the consent of the student’s complete program of study including a statement committee, as evidenced by filing a revised of the language option selected (if any), the list of program of study with the graduate office. A members of the advisory committee, and a brief written appeal by a student for a change in major description of the proposed research project shall professor may be filed with the committee for be filed with the graduate office before the mid- graduate education through the Dean of Graduate term of the second semester of registration. The Education in contested cases. The decision by the student’s advisory committee shall have authority committee for graduate education is final. to approve subsequent modifications in the The policies that govern membership on, program, subject again to review and approval by selection of, and the formalization of the advisory the Dean of Graduate Education. A copy of any committee for a transfer student are the same as amended program will be filed with the student those that apply to the student’s advisory and the graduate office. Each program of study, committee for a master’s program. Refer to or amendment thereof, must have the signature “Supervision of Master’s Programs.” approval of the student and all members of the If a master’s candidate has expressed a desire student’s advisory committee and, in the case of to continue for a doctorate, then at some time the MES program, of the chair of the MES during the semester in which he/she expects to Advisory Council. attain thirty-six (36) credit hours beyond the baccalaureate degree, the student’s The Qualifying Examination department/program shall determine by qualifying examination or by review of his/her record to date Doctoral students admitted into all Ph.D. whether the student shall be permitted to continue disciplines must pass a qualifying examination, toward the doctoral degree. normally to be taken no later than the second Concurrently, the department chair or program semester of residence. A master’s candidate who coordinator, after consultation with the student proposes to continue into a doctoral program and the existing advisory committee, shall expand should so advise his/her major professor. the student’s committee to a total of five (5) Thereupon, the student will be given an members by the addition of one or two (2) examination by the advisory committee to members of the faculty who may eventually be determine whether to permit the student to called upon to assist with the student’s doctoral proceed to the doctoral level of graduate study. program. If there is an anticipated change in This qualifying examination may be scheduled in major professor for the doctoral program, one of the semester during which it is expected that the new members shall be the prospective major thirty-six (36) hours of credit beyond the B.S. professor. If only one additional member from degree, (which are deemed acceptable toward the outside the major department/program is selected student’s doctoral program) will be accumulated. for the doctoral advisory committee, that person The examination for the master’s degree may be shall represent the field identified as the used as the forum for the qualifying examination, candidate’s minor. The graduate office at the discretion of the department/program. representative is appointed by the Dean of Graduate Education upon the recommendation of The Comprehensive Examination the major professor and with the concurrence of the department chair/program coordinator. When the student’s program of course work has been substantially completed and the language requirement satisfied, he/she will undertake the
187 Graduate Student General Information comprehensive examination for admission to The Dissertation candidacy. This examination will consist of written and oral examinations covering his/her It is expected that the dissertation will field of study and related subjects. It will be represent the culmination of at least the equivalent prepared by the student’s advisory committee, of one academic year of full-time research. with potential suggestions from any faculty The dissertation need be of no specific length, member from whom the student has taken a but it must be written in grammatically proper graduate course. English. It must also advance or modify The student’s advisory committee schedules knowledge and demonstrate the candidate’s and arranges the written and oral examinations. technical mastery of the field. The dissertation Review of the examinations will be accomplished can consist of a compilation of published and/or as soon as possible by all members of the submitted journal manuscripts that are derived committee, and the results will be reported to the from the candidate’s doctoral research and are Dean of Graduate Education on the appropriate either authored or co-authored by the candidate. form supplied by the graduate office. The more conventional dissertation format is also Satisfactory completion of the comprehensive acceptable if recommended by the candidate’s examination requires that no more than one major department and the major professor. The member of the advisory committee votes against final dissertation must be accompanied by an passing. If the student passes with conditions, abstract of 250 to 600 words and vitae of the such as failure to pass a part of the examination, candidate. the committee shall inform him/her promptly as to The dissertation and abstract shall be how and when the conditions may be removed. approved by all members of the student’s advisory If, in the opinion of two (2) or more members of committee, and a preliminary acceptance page of the advisory committee, the student has failed the the dissertation shall bear the signed initials of comprehensive examination, another such each member of the committee. examination may not be attempted during the The final draft of the dissertation, after all same semester. After failure to pass a second revisions recommended by the committee have time, work toward the doctorate can be continued been made, must be signed by the student and only with the consent of the advisory committee, approved and signed by the major professor, the the committee for graduate education, and the chair/coordinator of the student’s major Dean of Graduate Education. department/program, and the Dean of Graduate The comprehensive examination should Education before final reproduction. The Dean of normally be passed at least five (5) months before Graduate Education requires that the final draft of the dissertation is defended. the dissertation must be delivered to the graduate office for a minimum of 21 days prior to Admission to Candidacy graduation to allow adequate time for review and potential approval. Four months before the dissertation defense, The institution requires five copies of the the doctoral student should apply to his/her major dissertation in final form: the original, unbound professor for admission to candidacy on a form manuscript and one bound copy for the Devereaux available from the graduate office. If the advisory Library; and two (2) bound copies for the committee and department chair/program student’s major department/program, one of coordinator approve the application by certifying which will be forwarded to the major professor that the candidate has passed the comprehensive and one unbound security copy for the examination, the signed form must be returned to department. An electronic version should also be the Dean of Graduate Education who, in turn, will submitted to the graduate office in digital format. admit the student to candidacy. Contact the graduate office for guidance in regard to the required digital format. A final draft of the dissertation must be
188 Graduate Student General Information submitted by the candidate to each member of department/program and the Dean of Graduate his/her advisory committee a minimum of two (2) Education to determine whether a reduction in full weeks before the scheduled dissertation credits applicable toward the degree is justified defense. Earlier submission deadlines may be before the student is permitted to proceed with the required by the advisory committee. degree program. The procedures described under “Time Limitation” for M.S. degree candidates Defense of the Dissertation also apply here.
The defense of the dissertation is an oral examination open to the public except in proprietary programs. It will be scheduled at the convenience of the candidate’s advisory committee at any time after the student has completed course work and after the major professor is satisfied that the dissertation is in an acceptable manuscript, both in terms of technical quality and proper expression. The student shall obtain and complete the graduate office form to schedule the defense. The major professor shall seek the approval of all committee members, and shall return the form to the graduate office no less than five (5) working days before the defense date. The graduate office will announce this exam information as appropriate. While the student’s committee determines the character and length of the examination, sufficient time should be devoted to a consideration of matters relating to the dissertation to test thoroughly the ability of the candidate to defend his/her work. Questions will, in general, be confined to the dissertation and to background material related to it. Satisfactory completion of the final examination requires a “pass” vote from the graduate office representative and no more than one “fail” vote from the other members of the advisory committee. If the student fails, another examination can be scheduled only with the approval of the student’s advisory committee and the Dean of Graduate Education.
Time Limitation
If the requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy degree are not completed within a maximum period of eight calendar years from the date of original enrollment in the doctoral program, the student’s program is subject to review by the staff of the student’s major
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Atmospheric and Environmental between all the earth's components, such as the biosphere, the atmosphere and oceans, as well as Sciences Ph.D. the influence of human activity on the global environment. These interactions occur across many spatio-temporal scales and can profoundly affect the living organisms, the atmosphere around them and the ecosystem. The atmosphere and biosphere are fundamentally coupled on a variety of time-scales and support a complex set of bi-directional interactions. Managing wildfire potential, for example, includes components of atmospheric dynamics, precipitation patterns, vegetation distribution and condition, topographic factors, and more. Similarly, in terrestrial ecosystems, rapid exchange of CO2, water and energy between the atmosphere and the land surface may dominate bi-directional interactions on short time-scales, whereas, on long time- scales, the interactions involve changes in ecosystem structure and composition in response to changes in climate. The key to success lies in training scientists to form interdisciplinary teams that can simultaneously tackle the broad range of processes needed to achieve understanding and prediction of such complex phenomena. Measuring, monitoring, and modeling earth and atmospheric systems increasingly demands an interdisciplinary approach, because problems in earth processes impacting society often cannot be Contact Information solved by studying the atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, and/or biosphere in isolation. Dr. P.V. Sundareshwar The Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences Institute of Atmospheric Sciences program links expertise in atmospheric science, Mineral Industries 206 biogeochemistry, geology, hydrology, water (605) 394-2492 quality and water resources to address regional e-mail: [email protected] and local issues that may also be nationally or globally significant. The fundamental objective Faculty lies in developing the predictive capability to address linkages between earth system Assistant Professor Sundareshwar, Program components and land management practices in a Director; Professors Davis, Detwiler, Duke, Fox, way that benefits decision-making at regional and Helsdon, Hjelmfelt, and Mott; Associate national levels. We use the Black Hills of South Professors Capehart, Fontaine, Kenner, Price, Dakota and the surrounding Great Plains as a Riley, and Stetler; Emeritus Professor Stone; natural laboratory for the development of Adjunct Professor Zimmerman. methodologies to link fundamental observations of the environment across a range of temporal and Program Description spatial scales, and integrate them with state-of- the-art modeling, visualization, and analysis. The Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences Key interrelated research themes drive the program aims to unravel the complex interactions 190 Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences Ph.D. research and teaching program, building on of course work and also perform original research ongoing research and disciplinary strengths in a focused area. A minimum total of eighty (80) already present at SDSMT, including credit hours beyond the bachelor’s degree is meteorology, biogeochemistry, ecology, geology, required. Students entering the AES program climatology, hydrology, remote sensing, and with a previous M.S. degree in a relevant geographic information systems. discipline are allowed to apply a maximum of twenty-four (24) course credit hours in an Specific examples include: appropriate field toward the course credit requirement and six (6) thesis research credits • Physical meteorology and storm processes, toward the research-credit requirement. There is including impacts on hydrology and fire no language requirement in the AES program. issues. However, all AES students are expected to be proficient in speaking, understanding, and writing • In situ atmospheric measurements of storms, the English language. Graduate students who are aerosols, trace gas concentrations, etc. using enrolled full time in the AES program should be specially adapted storm-penetrating aircraft. able to complete their degree requirements and graduate within three (3) to four (4) years starting • Wildfire dynamics and associated issues with a master’s degree, and four (4) to five (5) related to fire prevention, suppression, and years starting from a bachelor’s degree. The time post-fire mitigation. required to complete the degree will vary depending on the transfer of previously earned • Carbon cycling and the potential effects of credits, course work recommendations specified local and regional climate change, including by the student’s committee, and individual the frequency and severity of storms, drought research requirements. cycles, and wildfire potential. The following key learning outcomes will be • Nutrient transformations in aquatic and developed in all students: terrestrial ecosystems, including Black Hills a. A core of basic and specialized scientific and Forests and coastal salt marshes. technical knowledge; b. An understanding of the basic scientific tools • Water quality and quantity as it impacts of measuring, monitoring, and modeling; regional growth and environmental systems. c. The ability to apply these tools to understand atmospheric and land-surface interactions; Many School of Mines faculty members who d. The professional skills crucial to research, are actively involved in the AES program have including obtaining and reviewing research externally funded research projects. These literature, proposing research problems, projects provide research assistantship critically evaluating their own work and the opportunities for AES students. In addition to work of others, and communicating in writing graduate research assistantships, support is also and orally with their colleagues; possible through graduate teaching assistantships e. The understanding and application of and various fellowships and scholarships. AES professional methods and ethics in their work; students are strongly encouraged to work with and their advisors and faculty colleagues to apply for f. The ability to form interdisciplinary teams to research funding or fellowships to support their solve complex problems. studies. Students entering the program will normally Program Requirements already possess a foundational degree (typically Degree candidates in AES are expected to the M.S. degree) in atmospheric sciences, complete an approved multidisciplinary program meteorology, geology, hydrology, or
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environmental sciences/engineering. Students selected by the student’s committee. A will build on this foundation by pursuing elective selection of existing courses at SDSMT is courses that prepare them for advanced work in available to fulfill this requirement. (three (3) their chosen specialty. The student and his/her credits) committee are charged to prepare a course of study that will help the student become proficient A wide variety of courses are offered at the in a specific research area. Great emphasis is School of Mines to fulfill the elective course placed on the independent origination of a requirement. These courses are offered by the research problem that will yield a new, original Departments of Civil and Environmental scientific insight. Engineering, Geology and Geological Engineering, Atmospheric Sciences, Chemistry, Ph.D. in Atmospheric and Environmental and Chemical and Biological Engineering, and Studies Credit Hours Mathematics and Computer Sciences, and by M.S. academic core (24 cr) other departments on campus as well. Listed and research (6 cr) 30 below are examples of courses that might be Required academic courses 10 included as electives in an AES program of study. Elective academic courses 13 These lists are intended as examples and are not Research credits 27 intended to limit a student and committee as they Total required for the degree 80 construct an individual program.
The required academic courses include: Potential elective courses for AES: AES 790 Seminar ATM 501 Atmospheric Physics This course builds professional ATM 502 The Global Environmental Cycle communication skills, including writing ATM 503 Biogeochemistry and oral presentation, while exposing ATM 505 Air Quality students to examples of disciplinary and ATM 510 Introduction to Environmental interdisciplinary research. (one (1) credit) Remote Sensing ATM 515 Earth Systems Modeling AES 792 Topics (Interdisciplinary Problems) ATM 520 Remote Sensing for Research I This innovative course brings together faculty ATM 530 Radar Meteorology and students to create a working group that ATM 603 Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions selects a research problem, studies the ATM 540 Atmospheric Electricity literature, and develops a research plan that ATM 560 Atmospheric Dynamics integrates the multiple disciplines of all the ATM 612 Atmospheric Chemistry participants. Students participate in this course ATM 625 Scaling in Geosciences for 1 credit in their first year, and repeat the CEE 634 Surface Water Hydrology course in the second year for two credits, ATM 642 Physics and Dynamics of Clouds taking a correspondingly greater role in the ATM 643 Precipitation Physics and Cloud work of the group. This course is modeled Modification after traditional disciplinary research working ATM 644 Numerical Dynamics and Prediction groups, but is intended to facilitate the ATM 660 Atmospheric Dynamics II emergence of cohesive interdisciplinary ATM 670 Boundary Layer Processes teams, and to provide an incubator for new ATM 673 Mesometeorology research plans and funding proposals. (three CEE 521 Environmental Systems Analysis (3) credits) CEE 526/526L Environmental Engineering Physical/Chemical Process Design XXX Measuring/Modeling of Earth Systems CEE 527/527L Environmental Engineering Students must complete at least one course in Biological Process Design measuring and/or modeling techniques, to be
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CEE 528 Advanced Treatment Plant Design faculty representing different disciplines oversees CEE 533 Open Channel Flow the program, including setting policies and ATM 620 Remote Sensing for Research II reviewing the curriculum. The program CEE 628 Environmental Engineering committee will also take measures to facilitate Measurements interaction by all faculty and students CEE/GEOE 692 Environmental Remediation participating in the program. A program Processes coordinator chairs the program committee, and CEE 723 Environmental Contaminant Fate provides oversight of student affairs, including and Transport meeting with new and exiting students, tracking CEE 721 Principles of Environmental student progress, and conducting orientations for Engineering new students. CEE 733 Techniques of Surface Water The preceding committee is distinct from the Resource and Water Quality graduate student advisory committees that provide Investigations I guidance to individual AES students during the CEE 784 Modeling and Computation in Civil course of their academic studies. The graduate Engineering student’s major professor serves as the chair of CEE 785 Applications of Finite Element this advisory committee. Methods in Civil Engineering GEOL 516/517/519 GIS I/II/III GEOL 633 Sedimentation GEOE 663 Ground-water Geochemistry GEOE 682 Fluvial Processes
Student progress and mastery will be measured using the usual instruments in a doctoral program. A written or oral qualifying exam is used to assess the student’s mastery of the M.S. course work. A comprehensive examination is given to evaluate the student’s ability to formulate a research problem based on substantive literature review, and to test the student’s knowledge in the area of specialty. It is given in two parts: 1) a written examination consisting of a review paper © Tom Warner in the student’s field of study and a research Mines Matters: On June 28, 2006 the South proposal, and 2) an oral examination to evaluate Dakota School of Mines and Technology’s the research proposal and verify the student’s T-28 storm-penetrating aircraft flew into understanding of the basic sciences and history. The destination for the historic aircraft specialized field of study. The dissertation forms was the Strategic Air and Space Museum the final test of the student’s ability to perform located near Omaha, Nebraska. Developed and and communicate research. The student must promoted by Dr. Paul MacCready in the late prepare a doctoral dissertation and successfully 1950s, the T-28 was capable of performing complete a public defense covering the scientific hailstorm penetrations to altitudes up to about validity of the work, as well as the student’s basic 25,000 feet, and was able to withstand impacts and specialized knowledge in the field of study. of hailstones up to 7.5 cm in diameter at 100 m/s relative speed, with minimal damage.
Management of the AES Program The AES program is managed by the Graduate Office. A program committee composed of 3-5
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Atmospheric Sciences M.S. atmospheric phenomena, including solar and terrestrial radiation, the laws of fluid motion and thermodynamics, microphysical and electrical processes in clouds, ecology, atmospheric chemistry, and biogeochemistry. Instruction is offered in the interpretation of conventional weather data, satellite data, and radar data; observations collected by specially instrumented aircraft, trace-gas flux towers, tethered balloon systems, and laboratory gas analysis instrumentation; and output from numerical models of atmospheric processes. The graduate student is expected to carry out original research in the atmospheric sciences using some of these tools and resources. In addition, the student must Contact Information successfully complete the course work and program requirements enumerated below. Dr. Mark Hjelmfelt A student applying for admission to the Department of Atmospheric Sciences master’s degree program in the Department of Mineral Industries 212B Atmospheric Sciences should have a (605) 394-2291 baccalaureate degree in meteorology or e-mail: [email protected] atmospheric sciences, one of the biological or physical sciences, earth system sciences, Faculty mathematics, or engineering. It is desirable for applicants to have received undergraduate credit Professor Hjelmfelt, Chair; Professors Detwiler, for mathematics through Calculus 2 (for the earth and Helsdon; Associate Professor Capehart; systems science specialization — see below) or Assistant Professor Sundareshwar. Adjunct ordinary differential equations (for the Professors Benson and Zimmerman. meteorology specialization). For the meteorology specialization, undergraduate physics is required, Atmospheric Sciences and for the earth systems specialization, undergraduate physics and chemistry are The Department of Atmospheric Sciences desirable. Experience with computer offers advanced undergraduate and graduate programming is recommended. Graduate Record courses leading to the master of science degree in Examination (GRE) scores from the General Test atmospheric sciences with specializations in are optional. TOEFL scores are required of all meteorology or earth systems science, and doctor applicants from colleges outside the U.S. of philosophy degree in atmospheric and environmental sciences (AES). For more Course requirements for the M.S. degree information on the AES program, see pages 190 - 193 in this catalog. Faculty in the Department of 1. Fifteen (15) credit hours of course work in Atmospheric Sciences are members of the atmospheric sciences at the 500-level or Institute of Atmospheric Sciences (IAS), an active above. research group that conducts research with sponsorship from the State of South Dakota and 2. Nine (9) additional credit hours of non- various federal agencies. atmospheric sciences electives at the 400-level The primary objective of the atmospheric or above (300-level non-atmospheric sciences sciences graduate program is to give students a courses can be accepted if approved by the basic understanding of the factors influencing Graduate Education and Research Council), or 194 Atmospheric Sciences M.S.
atmospheric sciences electives at the 500- Atmospheric Dynamics I. level. Students entering the program with a bachelor’s degree in atmospheric sciences or 3. Thesis research — six (6) credit hours. meteorology from another institution are required (Please note undergraduate credit limitations only to take ATM 501 (Atmospheric Physics), given under “M.S. Degree Requirements” (p. presuming that they have completed 181) for Master of Science degrees.) undergraduate work in the other areas listed in the preceding paragraph. Other program requirements Earth System Science Specialization The following program requirements apply to All students will be required to take the all students in atmospheric sciences: following courses: ATM 502 - The Global Carbon Cycle, ATM 503 - Biogeochemistry, ATM 515 - • At least one course at the 500/600-levels must Earth Systems Modeling. They also must be taken in each of the following core areas: complete at least one remote sensing course. meteorology, earth system science, and A specific plan of study will be determined on techniques. Course descriptions in the catalog an individual basis with concurrence from the describe the area to which each ATM course student’s advisor and graduate advisory belongs. committee members. In either specialization, exceptions to these departmental requirements • Satisfactory performance on a general course may be granted by the student’s committee for work exam covering each of the core courses good cause. as well as selected elective course work. Elective courses offered by other departments are encouraged as long as the fifteen (15) hours of • Registration in ATM 700 Graduate Research course work in atmospheric sciences at the 500- (thesis) each semester the student is receiving level or above are completed as outlined in an assistantship, and in ATM 690 Graduate Course requirements for M.S. degree. Graduate Seminar each spring semester. students may take electives in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, • Completion of a master’s thesis. The thesis chemistry, engineering, technology management, must adhere to the format and content social sciences, or the humanities to further guidelines as set forth by the graduate school, integrate their course work in the atmospheric and be approved by the student’s graduate sciences with knowledge in other technical fields advisory committee and the Dean of Graduate and with the general concerns of society. Education. A student may choose the meteorology specialization with the intent to qualify for In addition, there are requirements specific to employment in the federal civil service as a the two (2) ATM M.S. specializations. Each meteorologist. Specific course distribution student will choose one of these specializations. requirements to do so are listed on page 146 The requirements are: earlier in this catalog within the general description of the Department of Atmospheric Meteorology Specialization Sciences. Students in either specialization may Students entering the program with a pursue an M.S. degree in atmospheric sciences bachelor’s degree in physics, mathematics, without satisfying these requirements and be computer science, chemistry, or engineering must qualified for careers in many non-federal and/or take the following courses: ATM 450 - Synoptic non-meteorological careers. Examples of such Meteorology I (not for graduate credit), ATM 550 career options include research in and applications - Synoptic Meteorology II, ATM 501 - of remote sensing techniques; work in air quality Atmospheric Physics, and ATM 560 - either for non-federal government agencies, or for
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industry or the consulting firms industries often ranging in size from small cumulus to severe employ; research and applications in the storms including storm electrification, lightning, environmental sciences with an emphasis on and lightning-influenced atmospheric chemistry; atmospheric issues, and further graduate work in analysis of field observations and numerical atmospheric or environmental sciences. simulations of lake effect snow storms; satellite Undergraduate students at School of Mines remote sensing; land-surface/atmosphere may decrease the time required to obtain a master exchange processes; fire weather prediction and of science degree in atmospheric sciences by modeling; biogeochemical cycling; trace-gas flux taking as electives the preparatory undergraduate measurements; and carbon sequestration and and entry-level graduate courses available to them ecological modeling. In addition, IAS scientists or by completing the Bachelor of Science in are currently involved in activities to disseminate Interdisciplinary Sciences program with an scientific knowledge to wider audiences and emphasis on atmospheric sciences. They may improve and enhance scientific literacy and then enter the graduate program with the educational opportunities for the people of South necessary background for graduate study in Dakota. atmospheric sciences as above.
Facilities and Resources
Students typically work directly with faculty on externally-funded research projects. Graduate research assistantships associated with these projects are available that provide part-time employment for students during the academic months and possible full-time employment during the summer. Facilities and resources of the IAS are utilized in these research efforts. These facilities comprise various meteorological instrument platforms and packages including several automated surface weather stations, a tethered-balloon sampling system, an instrumented flux measurement tower in the Black Hills National Forest, portable equipment for land surface and plant canopy ecosystem studies, and atmospheric analytical chemistry field and laboratory instrumentation. Sophisticated computer facilities are available on campus, including a state-of-the-art 3-D computer visualization facility and a high-speed multiple- node computer cluster, with additional access to the larger computer complexes elsewhere.
Faculty Research
Current research projects include field investigations of thunderstorms; applications of weather radar data to rainfall measurements and remote inference of cloud microphysical characteristics; numerical modeling of clouds
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Biomedical Engineering M.S. and student for research and development careers in biomedical industry and further research and at Ph.D. the doctoral level. The Ph.D. program will prepare a student for a career as a researcher who advances the frontiers of biomedical science and engineering with attention to generating new ideas for commercialization. Current focus areas of faculty activity within the program are (1) Biomaterials (nanomaterials, bioadhesives, tissue engineering, etc.), (2) Computational Biomedical Engineering (biomechanics, imaging, advanced modeling/simulations, etc.), and (3) Assistive Technology/Rehabilitation Engineering (advanced prosthetics, control, biomimetics, etc.). Students in the programs will be associated with one or Contact Information more of several existing and newly formed research centers and laboratories, e.g., the Dr. Mano Thubrikar Cardiovascular Research Institute, the Center for Professor Accelerated Applications at the Nanoscale, the Department of Mechanical Engineering Center for Development of Light Activated CM Building Materials, the Computational Mechanics (605) 394-2401 Laboratory, or the Direct Write Technology e-mail: [email protected] Laboratory. The program is administered by the Dean of Advisory Council Graduate Education with input from the program coordinator, who is advised by the program Professors Thubrikar (Program Coordinator), advisory council. The program advisory council Buck, Kalanovic, Kerk, Langerman, and Weiss, is comprised of faculty from the mechanical, Associate Professors Hemmelman, Korde, materials science and metallurgical engineering, Medlin, Muci; Assistant Professor Fong. electrical and computer engineering, chemistry, and mathematics and computer science Biomedical Engineering departments. Offered jointly with University of South Dakota Admission to the programs will be based on (USD) the established graduate admission standards at the South Dakota School of Mines and Biomedical engineering (BME) is concerned Technology. The Graduate Record Examination with the application of engineering and science (GRE), three (3) letters of recommendation, and a methodologies to the analysis of biological and GPA of 3.00 or better are expected of all physiological problems and to the delivery of applicants for the Ph.D. program. The TOEFL health care. exam is required for students whose native The biomedical engineer serves as an interface language is not English. Students seeking between traditional engineering disciplines and exceptions warranted by special circumstances are living systems and may work in either direction, requested to contact the biomedical engineering applying the patterns of living organisms to graduate program coordinator. engineering design or engineering new Students completing their M.S. degrees will approaches to human health. graduate with a high level of competence in: Both the master of science and doctor of philosophy degrees are cross-disciplinary degrees. The objective of the M.S. program is to prepare a 197 Biomedical Engineering M.S. and Ph.D.
• the application and characterization of various Group A (Required Courses for students entering forms of biomaterials, with a B.S. in BME)
• the acquisition and processing of medical Course # Course Title Credits signals and images, BME 603 Molecular Biology for Engineers 3 • the computation and simulation of phenomena BME 6731 Engineering Analysis I 3 in biomechanical systems, BME 7732 Engineering Analysis II 3 BME 790 Graduate Seminar 1 • transferring their understanding of BME 798 Master’s Thesis biomaterials, biomechanics, and signal (M.S. students) 6 processing to the creation of new applications; BME 896 Field Experience (Ph.D. students) 1 Students completing their Ph.D. degrees will BME 898 Ph.D. Dissertation graduate with a higher level of expertise in: (Ph.D. students) 30
• transferring their understanding of one of the Students entering with baccalaureate degrees program focus areas—biomaterials, in engineering disciplines other than biomedical computational biomedical engineering, or engineering are required to take the courses listed rehabilitation engineering/assistive technology to in the table below (Group B). Depending on the the creation of new applications. student’s background, the student’s advisory committee may recommend that one or more of Additionally, doctoral students will possess a the required courses below be substituted by high level of expertise in their specialized area of course(s) listed in the elective courses category. research. This competency will be developed through focused research objectives which Group B (Required courses for students entering culminate in the doctoral dissertation. with a B.S. in a non-BME engineering discipline)
Finally, graduates of the programs will also Course # Course Title Credits demonstrate: BME 601 Biomaterials 3 BME 602 Anatomy and Physiology for • the ability to communicate effectively in Engineers 3 written and oral presentations, BME 603 Molecular Biology for Engineers 3 • intellectual honesty when working with data BME 604 Sensing and and ideas, Signal Processing 3 One of the following two: • the ability to make an original contribution to BME 606 Occupational Biomechanics 3 their fields. BME 607 Biomechanics 3 BME 6731 Engineering Analysis I 3 Courses are offered at both School of Mines BME 7732 Engineering Analysis II 3 and USD campuses, and students may elect either BME 790 Graduate Seminar 1 campus as their campus of residence. Courses BME 798 Master’s Thesis offered at School of Mines are relayed to students (M.S. students) 6 resident at USD by video, and vice versa. BME 896 Field Experience Students entering with baccalaureate degrees (Ph.D. students) 1 in biomedical engineering are required to take the BME 898 Ph.D. Dissertation courses listed in the table below (Ph.D. students) 30
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Elective courses in the area of the student’s BME 733 Cardiovascular Fluid intended research are to be selected in Dynamics 3 consultation with the student’s advisory BME 734 Transport Phenomena in committee. These courses are listed in the Group Biomedical Engr. 3 C table below. The number of Group C elective BME 735 CAD/CAM in Medicine courses required will depend on the student’s and Surgery 3 background and educational goals, as summarized BME 737 Advanced Signal below. Processing and Imaging 3 BME 761 Bioadhesives 3 Elective Course Requirements BME 738 Information Technology in Medicine 3 M.S.: Five (5) Group C courses for those BME 792 Topics: Special Topics in entering with a B.S. in biomedical engineering; Computational one (1) Group C course for those entering with a Biomedical Engineering 4 B.S. in a non-biomedical engineering program. Ph.D.: Six (6) Group C courses including one Rehabilitation Engineering /Assistive (1) Special Topics course, and seven (7) Technology Area additional engineering or Group C courses; for Course # Course Title Credits those entering with a B.S. in biomedical BME 743 Bio/MEMS engineering. Nine (9) Group C courses including and Nano Systems 3 one (1) Special Topics course for those entering BME 732 Medical Imaging 3 with a B.S. in a non-biomedical engineering BME 745 Molecular Machines 3 program. BME 737 Advanced Signal Minimum of six (6) Group C courses along Processing and Imaging 3 with additional Group B and C courses for those BME 738 Information Technology entering with an M.S. degree. An additional 21 in Medicine 3 credits of prior graduate level course work may be BME 735 CAD/CAM in Medicine applied toward the Ph.D. program at the discretion and Surgery 3 of the student’s advisory committee. BME 761 Bioadhesives 3 BME 792 Topics: Special Topics in Group C (Elective Courses) Assistive Technology 4 Course # Course Title Credits Biomaterials Area Graduate courses from another university or BME 7213 Tissue Engineering 3 from a related engineering discipline 21 (max) BME 7224 Regeneration 3 BME 724 Biopolymers 3 Curriculum Notes BME 725 Biocomposites 3 1 May substitute: ME 673. BME 761 Bioadhesives 3 2 May substitute: ME 773. BME 726 Bio/MEMS and 3, 4, 5 Offered by USD. Nano Systems 3 BME 792 Topics: Special Topics in An assessment of the student’s qualifications Biomaterials 4 will be undertaken early in his or her program. BME 792 Topics: Special Topics in Tissue The assessment comprises preliminary and Engineering 3 qualifying examinations. Additional information is available in the Handbook of Biomedical Computational Biomedical Engineering Engineering. BME 731 Advanced Biomechanics 3 Each student is also required to pass a BME 732 Medical Imaging 3 comprehensive examination. There is no language requirement for the BME Ph.D.
199 Biomedical Engineering M.S. and Ph.D. program. For program supervision purposes, the BME graduate program coordinator is the graduate advisor until the major professor is appointed. The major professor is the person responsible for the student’s dissertation research. The graduate office representative on the student’s dissertation committee must be selected from outside of the department with which the major professor is affiliated, and also is to be a member of the BME advisory council. Each program of study must be approved by the BME advisory council. It is not necessary that the student be associated with the department of his or her major professor. Detailed information on examination policy, admission to candidacy, and defense of dissertation is included in the South Dakota School of Mines Biomedical Engineering M.S./Ph.D. Handbook.
Mines Matters: School of Mines students have access to cutting-edge technology and facilities such as the Black Hills Advanced Visualization Laboratory.
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Chemical Engineering M.S. depth understanding of the chemistry, mathematics, and physical laws describing systems at both molecular and macroscopic levels. With this knowledge, the chemical engineer should be able to participate in interdisciplinary research, development, and implementation of new and improved technologies in areas such as: biotechnology, catalysis, nanotechnology, chemical technology, energy, environmental processes, as well as manufacturing of high- performance materials for electronic and structural applications. A student who does not Contact Information have a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering will be expected to take some additional courses Dr. Jan A. Puszynski to provide a solid ChE foundation. The current Department of Chemical and Biological research interest of the faculty can be found on the Engineering departmental website at:
Mines Matters: In the 2005-2006 academic year, the School of Mines implemented a pilot Tablet PC program on campus. Following the success of the program, all incoming freshmen are issued a tablet PC. The tablet PCs have built in wireless capabilities so that any classroom on campus can be used as a computer lab and students can connect to the Internet and the campus’ file servers from anywhere on campus.
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Chemical and Biological provides graduate students the training to participate in biochemical and petrochemical Engineering Ph.D. processing, bio-based energy technologies, including biomass and biofuels; bio-based and bio-compatible materials; bioremediation; emerging energy technologies; synthesis and functionalization of nanomaterials, and processing of polymers and composite materials. These areas are aligned with the expertise of our current staff plus the additional expertise that is being added through newly hired faculty members. The State of South Dakota is recognized as a leader and major producer of ethanol from starch in the United States. Hence the State of South Dakota is well positioned to play an important role in development of new bio-based technologies and value-added agricultural Contact Information products. This Ph.D. program is integral with the recently established 2010 Center for Dr. Jan A. Puszynski Bioprocessing Research and Development Department of Chemical and Biological (CBRD) at the South Dakota School of Mines and Engineering C224 Technology and the South Dakota State (605) 394-1230 University. The CBRD Center focus is to develop Fax: (605) 394-1232 the fundamental understanding and technologies Dept: (605) 394-2421 to convert lignocellulose to fuels and key building e-mail: [email protected] block chemicals. The research foci of the CBRD; pretreatment, conversion, extremophiles, Faculty separations, and process simulation and economic analysis, relies on the fundamental underpinnings Professor Dixon, Chair; Professors Bang, taught in the Chemical and Biological Puszynski, and Winter; Assistant Professors Engineering Ph.D. program. Benjamin, Gilcrease, Menkhaus, and Sani. The Ph.D. program is also a strong supporter of State focused areas in advanced materials, Program Advisory Council polymers, composites, and nanotechnology. Opportunities exist for CBE Ph.D. students to Professors Bang; Dixon; Gilcrease; and participate in cutting-edge research funded by the Puszynski, Program Coordinator. National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, the Department of Defense, and industrial Chemical and Biological Engineering collaborators. The Ph.D. Program in Chemical and The Department of Chemical and Biological Biological Engineering is administered by a Engineering (CBE) offers, in addition to B.S. and Graduate Program Coordinator and Program M.S. degrees in Chemical Engineering, a Ph.D. Advisory Council consisting of appointed faculty degree in Chemical and Biological Engineering. members actively involved in the program. The The Ph.D. program provides the Chemical and Program Advisory Council is responsible for the Biological Engineering Ph.D. graduate a core curriculum and program policies. educational experience in transport phenomena, chemical kinetics, biochemical engineering, chemical thermodynamics, and biotechnology. This knowledge base, along with key electives, 203 Chemical and Biological Engineering Ph.D.
Curriculum exam is required for students whose native The current curriculum is designed to provide language is not English. the CBE Ph.D. graduate with the depth and All CBE Ph.D. candidates are required to breadth of engineering knowledge to become a successfully complete the required minimum leader in their chosen focus area. To facilitate credits and earn a grade of “C” or better, except this, each student is asked to complete a program for a final grade of “S” in CBE 898. of study plan that will provide the framework for Required courses (focus area — Chemical the student’s course work and research. This Engineering) should be filed with the Program Coordinator CBE 544 Reactor Design 3 before the midterm of the second semester in OR residence. The CBE Ph.D. Advisory Council CBE 728 Heterogeneous Kinetics 3 must approve all programs of study. Detailed CBE 550 System Analysis Applied to information on examination policy, admission to Chemical Engineering 3 candidacy, and defense of dissertation are CBE 612 Transport Phenomena: included in the Chemical and Biological Momentum 3 Engineering Ph.D. Program Handbook. Below is CBE 613 Transport Phenomena: Heat 3 the summary of the basic required courses: CBE 621 Advanced Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics I 3 Category Credits CBE 616 Computations in Required courses1 (minimum 6 credits from Transport Phenomena 3 Chemical Engineering and 6 credits from CBE 714 Transport Phenomena: Mass 3 Biological Engineering focus areas) 24 Required seminar 2 Required courses (focus area — Biological Minimum required research credits 30 Engineering) Minimum electives1,2 12 CBE 584 Fundamentals of Biochemical TOTAL 80 Engineering 3 CBE 584L Biochemical Engineering Lab 3 1Students entering with a M.S. degree in Chemical CBE 731 Industrial Microbiology and Engineering or a closely related discipline may Biotechnology 3 apply a maximum of twenty-four (24) course CBE 733 Metabolic Engineering 3 credit hours toward the required and elective CBE 734 Intro to Biocatalysis 3 course requirements subject to approval of the CBE 735 Bioseparations 3 Chemical and Biological Engineering Ph.D. CBE 792 Molecular Biology for Engineers 3 Program Advisory Council. 2Elective courses can be selected from other Required courses (Seminar and Research) School of Mines courses as a part of a student’s CBE 890 Graduate Seminar 1 program of study, subject to approval of his/her CBE 898 Ph.D. Dissertation 1-9 major professor and graduate committee. Example elective courses Students entering the program with B.S. or CBE 744 Environmental Biotechnology 3 M.S. degrees from disciplines other than CBE 746 Microbial Metabolism and Chemical or Biochemical Engineering will be Physiology 3 required to take several selected courses in CBE 750 Advanced Analysis for Chemical Chemical Engineering at the undergraduate level, Engineers 3 to provide a firm understanding of engineering CBE 791 Independent Study 1-3 principles. The Graduate Record Examination CBE 792 Topics 1-3 (GRE), three letters of recommendation, and a CBE 890 Graduate Seminar 1 GPA of 3.00 or better are required of all CBE 894 Adv Tech Internship 1-6 applicants for the Ph.D. program. The TOEFL CHE 574L Experimental Polymer
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Technology 1 CHE 574 Polymer Technology 3 CHE 676 Adhesion and Surface Engineering in Polymer Composites 3 CHEM 560 Biochemistry 3 CHEM 582 Environmental Chemistry 3 MES 708/708L Advanced Instrumental Analysis 3/1 MES 712 Interfacial Phenomena 3 NANO 701 Nano Materials 3 TM 631 Optimization Techniques 3 TM 720 Statistical Process Control 2
Mines Matters: School of Mines students design, build, and race vehicles such as the Formula SAE, Mini-Baja, Human-Powered Vehicle, Alternative Fuel Vehicle, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, and others. The teams give students the chance to apply the skills they learned in the classroom while gaining leadership and teamwork skills.
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Graduate Studies in Chemistry
Contact Information
Dr. Dan Heglund Department of Chemistry Chemistry/Chemical Engineering 220 (605) 394-1241 e-mail: [email protected]
Faculty
Associate Professor and Chair Heglund, Professor Boyles; Assistant Professors Fong, Meyer, and Zhu.
Chemistry
Students interested in pursuing graduate studies in chemistry should consider the following programs that the faculty of the Department of Chemistry participate: M.S. and Ph.D. in Materials Engineering and Science, Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, and the Ph.D. in Nanoscience and Nanoengineering.
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Civil Engineering M.S. engineering, and structural engineering. Any one of the above subject areas may be chosen as an area of emphasis. Additional courses can be taken from any one of the above subject areas. Emphasis within the department is on the professional development of the student and mastery of the technical and applied aspects of his or her specialty. Both thesis and non-thesis options are available to candidates for the master of science degree in civil engineering. A minimum of thirty (30) credit hours are required for the thesis option of which six (6) credit hours of Graduate Research (CEE 798) and 24 credits of course work are required. Independent study (CEE 692) and non-thesis research (CEE 789) are not applicable toward the thesis option. The non- thesis option requires a total of thirty-two (32) credit hours of which five (5) credits can be a combination of non-thesis research (CEE 789) and Independent study (CEE 692). Modeling and computation in civil engineering (CEE 784) is a required course for all MSCE students. Other specific course requirements may be applicable depending upon the student’s area of Contact Information specialization. Students who elect to major in environmental engineering or water resources Dr. Scott J. Kenner engineering must complete CEE 521 and CEE Department of Civil and Environmental 733. Students who select Geotechnical Engineering Engineering must complete CEE 643 and CEE Civil/Mechanical 118 647. All rules and regulations of the graduate (605) 394-2513 office, included elsewhere, apply to candidates for e-mail: [email protected] the degree of master of science in civil engineering. Faculty The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering has well equipped laboratories in Professor Kenner, Chair; Professors Bang, concrete and advanced composite materials Hansen, Mott, and Fontaine; Associate Professors preparation, materials testing, bench and pilot- Klasi; Assistant Professors Surovek, Stone, scale bridge testing, hydraulic engineering, soil Arneson-Meyer, Fazio and Roberts; Professor mechanics, and water and wastewater analysis. Emeritus Ramakrishnan. These laboratories are available for student thesis research. Students will make considerable use of Civil Engineering various computer labs for their course work and research. There are a number of computer labs The Department of Civil and Environmental open to all students as well as computers for Engineering offers graduate study programs departmental use. leading to the master of science degree in civil engineering in the following specialties: advanced materials, environmental engineering, geotechnical engineering, water resources 207 Civil Engineering M.S.
Computer Science M.S. • a CSC 2 course (e.g., CSC 250) • a data structures/algorithms course (e.g., CSC 300) • an assembly language or computer organization course (e.g., CSC 314) • an operating systems course (e.g., CSC 456) All students who do not have a computer science degree from this institution will be required to take a placement exam before registering for classes. The placement exam will be given on registration day. Any student who Contact Information fails to take the exam will be required to register for CSC 250 and will be required to take the Dr. Kyle Riley sequence of make-up courses designated for the Department of Mathematics and Computer graduate program. Based on the results of the Science placement exam, a student will be assigned a McLaury 308 deficiency program by the student’s advisor. (605) 394-2471 During registration, such students must give e-mail: [email protected] priority to courses in the deficiency program. The Department of Mathematics and Faculty Computer Science offers three (3) options for the M.S. computer science degree: a thesis option, a Professors Corwin, Logar, Penaloza, and Weiss; non-thesis option, and a course work only option. Associate Professor McGough; Assistant Professor Wei; Emeritus Professors Carda, and The candidate who qualifies for the thesis Opp. option must satisfy the following requirements: 1. After the first semester, the student may Computer Science apply for the thesis option. 2. A minimum of thirty (30) credits is The Department of Mathematics and required for this option. Computer Science offers a graduate program 3. A minimum of six (6) credits of CSC 798, leading to the master of science degree in Master’s Thesis, is required. computer science. The prospective graduate 4. A minimum of eighteen (18) credits of student should have completed the equivalent of computer science courses numbered 500 the South Dakota School of Mines and or above, exclusive of independent study, Technology bachelor of science degree in co-op, and CSC 798, is required. computer science and is strongly encouraged to 5. A maximum of two (2) courses may be provide Graduate Record Exam (GRE) scores taken outside of the program. These from the General Test. At a minimum, all courses must be at the 400 level or higher entering graduate students must have completed, and must be approved by the academic or must complete in addition to their graduate advisor prior to registration. program, the undergraduate courses listed below. 6. A maximum of three (3) credits of co-op or Credit by examination is available. three (3) credits of independent study may • one year of calculus be applied toward the degree. That is, the (e.g., MATH 123, 125) total number of independent study plus • one semester of discrete mathematics co-op credits must not exceed three (3) (e.g. CSC 251) credits. The approval of the department • a CSC 1 course (e.g., CSC 150) co-op director, currently Dr. Penaloza, is 208 Computer Science M.S.
required prior to enrolling in a co-op. The is found in the Graduate Handbook at permission of the student’s graduate
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Electrical Engineering M.S. may elect to do research in association with another engineering or science department. The prospective student should have completed a baccalaureate degree in electrical engineering or computer engineering. Applicants from universities that are not accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) are generally required to submit Graduate Record Exam (GRE) scores from the General Test with their application. Depending on the student’s undergraduate background, and at the discretion of the Electrical and computer engineering graduate committee, graduates of other institutions may also be required to take one or more courses of Contact Information preparatory undergraduate work in addition to their graduate program of study Dr. Brian Hemmelman, Graduate Coordinator The M.S. EE degree is available with thesis Department of Electrical and Computer and non-thesis tracks. The course requirements Engineering for these tracks are as follows: Electrical Engineering/Physics 314 (605) 394-1219 Thesis option e-mail: [email protected] The thesis M.S. EE degree consists of a program of graduate course work and thesis Faculty research. Candidature for the M.S. EE degree with Thesis is contingent on an aptitude to do Associate Professor Hemmelman, Chair; Steven research. A limited number of students are P. Miller Endowed Chair and Professor Whites; accepted into the M.S. EE Thesis option, on the Professors Batchelder and Hasan; William J. recommendation of a major professor. The Hoffert Professor Simonson; Assistant Professors requirements for the M.S. EE Thesis degree are as Fathelbab, Montoya, Zhang, and Anagnostou. follows:
Electrical Engineering 1. A program of at least thirty (30) credit hours of course work and research. The mission of the electrical and computer engineering graduate program is to provide 2. At least fifteen (15) credit hours of graduate quality student learning at an advanced level and course work (500 level courses and above). to disseminate new knowledge in electrical engineering, while at the same time working to 3. At least six (6) credit hours of thesis research. increase resources in support of these objectives. (No more than nine credit hours The graduate program in electrical of thesis research will count toward degree engineering consists of research and study leading requirements.) to the master of science degree in electrical engineering (M.S. EE) and multidisciplinary 4. A satisfactory thesis based upon individual Ph.D. degrees in materials engineering and research. science, nanoscience and nanoengineering, and biomedical engineering. In special cases, with the 5. Meeting or exceeding prescribed academic consent of the graduate committee of the electrical standards. and computer engineering department, students 210 Electrical Engineering M.S.
6. Passing an examination on general knowledge the advisor. M.S. EE thesis students form a and successfully defending the thesis. graduate committee with a major professor who has agreed to supervise the research of the Non-Thesis option student. In both cases, the student must arrange to The non-thesis MSEE degree consists of a have a faculty member external to the Department program of graduate course work. A project is of Electrical and Computer Engineering on his or not required and normally is not encouraged her committee. for the M.S. EE non-thesis option. The Each student must submit a program of study requirements for the M.S. EE non-thesis to the candidate’s graduate committee by the end degree are as follows: of the first semester of study. Approval of the program of study is necessary in order to register 1. A program of at least thirty-two (32) credit for the second and subsequent semesters. hours of course work. The student’s graduate committee has the right to disallow any course proposed in the 2. At least twenty (20) credit hours of graduate student’s program of study that they feel is not course work (500 level courses and above). appropriate for the graduate degree in electrical engineering. A student accepted into the Ph.D. 3. Meeting or exceeding prescribed academic program in materials engineering and science standards. must have his or her program approved by the graduate committee responsible for that program. 4. Passing an examination on general knowledge in the field. Research Areas and Resources The M.S. EE degree offers emphases in three Language Requirements (3) areas: Communications and Applied 1. Students whose native language is not English Electromagnetics, Digital Computers and VLSI, are generally required to take the Test of and Power and Control Systems. In addition to English as a Foreign Language Test (TOEFL). the more discipline-specific equipment listed below, the ECE department has well-equipped 2. Graduate students with a TOEFL score below laboratories of networked PCs and Sun 560 are required to attend a remedial course in workstations, general purpose test and English. measurement equipment such as high-speed oscilloscopes, arbitrary function generators, logic 3. There is no foreign language requirement for analyzers, and printed circuit board prototyping the M.S. EE degree. machines and software. Research activities in the Communications Graduate Credit Taken as an Undergraduate and Signal Processing area include: compact Undergraduate students taking 600 level antennas, electromagnetic propulsion of space graduate courses and petitioning these courses for sailcraft, engineered electromagnetic materials graduate credit should realize that application of using active and passive circuit particles, ultra- these credits to the program of study is subject to wideband and ground penetrating radar, and the approval of the student’s graduate committee. wavelet signal processing. Resources in support A student’s graduate program will come under the of this program include a number of vector control of the graduate committee at the time the network analyzers, impedance analyzers, Agilent student is accepted into the graduate program. Advanced Design System, Microwave Office, and Analog Devices DSP development tools. Graduate Committee and Program of Study Additionally, the Steven P. Miller Endowed Chair The ECE Graduate Committee is the graduate in Electrical Engineering was recently established committee for all M.S. EE non-thesis degree to support telecommunications in the ECE students, with the graduate coordinator serving as department.
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Research activities in the Digital Computers Power and Control Systems: and VLSI area include: neural network and fuzzy EE 618 Instrumentation Systems logic chips, intelligent systems, deep-submicron EE 633 Power System Analysis I ASIC design, FPGA- and CPLD-based embedded EE 634 Power System Analysis II system design, radiation-hardened VLSI design, EE 651 Digital Control Systems fault tolerant computer systems, residue and EE 652 Nonlinear and Optimal Control pseudo-floating point number architectures, and Systems voice recognition. Resources in support of this program several logic analyzers, a variety of microcontroller and microprocessor development systems, FPGA and CPLD prototyping boards, multiple VHDL and Verilog compilers, Mentor Graphics Computer Aided Design Toolset, a variety of microchip fabrication equipment, and printed circuit board manufacturing equipment. Research activities in the area of Power and Control systems include: modeling of power systems, power systems stability, generator dynamics, six-phase power system analysis, fault analysis, isolated power system operation and control, wind power, machine control, fuzzy logic control, nonlinear and adaptive control. Additionally, a number of robotics projects are performed in association with the School of Mines Center of Excellence in Advanced Manufacturing and Production (CAMP).
M.S. E.E. Course Offerings Each area of emphasis is supported by the following courses:
Communication Systems and Signal Processing: EE 612 High-Speed Digital Design EE 621 Information and Coding Theory EE 622 Statistical Communication Systems EE 623 Random Signals and Noise EE 624 Advanced Digital Signal Processing
Digital Computers and VLSI: EE 641 Digital Systems Design EE 642 Digital Systems Theory EE 643 Advanced Digital Systems EE 644 Fault Tolerant Computing EE 645 Adv Digital System/VLSI Testing EE 647 HDL Design EE 648 Advanced VLSI Design
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Geology and Geological 4. Mineral Deposits/Mineralogy/Petrology 5. Sedimentation/Stratigraphy/Paleontology Engineering M.S. and Ph.D. 6. Structural Geology
Geological Engineering Specialization Three options are available: 1. Ground water and environmental (with emphases in digital modeling and geochemistry)
2. Geomechanics and engineering geology (with emphases in geomorphology surficial processes, and engineering geophysics) and
3. Energy and mineral resources (with emphases in drilling engineering, petroleum production, Contact Information reservoir engineering, and minerals)
Dr. Maribeth H. Price Candidates for the M.S. or the Ph.D. must have Department of Geology and Geological had or shall complete the same undergraduate Engineering courses in the basic sciences, mathematics, and Mineral Industries 307 engineering as those required for the equivalent (605) 394-2461 B.S. degree in the department. Changes in make- e-mail: [email protected] up requirements must be approved by the student’s graduate committee and the department Geology Faculty chair. The Graduate Record Examination (GRE) is Associate Professor Price, Chair; Professors Fox, required of all applicants except School of Mines Duke, and Paterson; Assistant Professor Terry. graduates. The TOEFL exam is required for students whose native language is not English. Geological Engineering Faculty Master’s Program Professor Davis; Professor Roggenthen; Associate Professor Stetler. The M.S. degree program consists of research and study in various fields depending on the Geology and Geological Engineering student's interests. The M.S. thesis option includes six to eight (6-8) credits of thesis The Department of Geology and Geological research and one (1) credit of graduate seminar in Engineering offers opportunities for advanced fulfilling requirements of the graduate office, as study leading to an M.S. degree in geology and well as twenty-three to twenty-five (23-25) credits geological engineering and a Ph.D. degree in of course work. The non-thesis option is reserved geology and geological engineering. These are for students who have had extensive professional provided in the form of two (2) specializations: experience after the B.S. degree. Candidates for the M.S. degree must fulfill all Geology Specialization degree requirements of the graduate office and Six options are available: also the program requirements. Geological 1. Petroleum Geology engineering students are expected to have had or 2. Environmental/Exploration Geophysics shall take the equivalent of undergraduate courses 3. Ground Water Geology 213 Geology and Geological Engineering M.S. and Ph.D.
in engineering geology, ground water, structural Progress toward the Ph.D. degree is geology, stratigraphy/sedimentation, field undertaken in several parts including completion geology, and engineering. Geology students are of the curriculum, a qualifying exam, a language expected to have had or shall take the equivalent component, a dissertation proposal defense, the undergraduate courses for the B.S. in geology. preparation of a dissertation, a comprehensive Minor adjustments in course equivalency may be examination, and the defense of the dissertation. permitted by the candidate’s graduate committee, The following section outlines the general but shall be recorded by letter during the first requirements for all students and lists the specific semester of graduate enrollment and approved by requirements for the separate options in geology the department chair. and geological engineering. All entering graduate students are expected to take a core curriculum, which includes GEOL 633 Background Requirements (Sedimentation). In addition, geological engineering students take GEOE 766 (Digital Geology Specialization: Modeling of Ground-Water Flow Systems), and 1. All incoming students with a degree in a geology students take GEOL 604 (Advanced geological science shall have completed the Field Geology). Other courses appropriate to the equivalent of this department’s undergraduate area of specialization are selected by the student requirements in geology, chemistry, physics, and and the graduate committee. Geological mathematics. engineering students are encouraged to take 2. Students without a geology-related additional graduate courses in other engineering undergraduate degree are expected to complete departments. the undergraduate requirements of this department Additional requirements are specified in the in mathematics, physics, and chemistry and to departmental graduate handbook, which all take courses or show proficiency in: students may pick up from the departmental • Physical Geology office. • Historical Geology Master’s degree in Paleontology. See separate • Petrology paleontology section in this bulletin. • Mineralogy • Structural Geology Doctoral Program • Field Geology • Ground Water The course of study leading to the Ph.D. • Paleontology degree is developed by the student in conjunction with his or her committee and must prepare the Geological Engineering Specialization: candidate fully in basic geology/engineering in 1. All incoming students are expected to have order to provide the foundation and academic completed the equivalent of the department’s background for doctoral research. Candidates undergraduate requirements in basic must fulfill all requirements of the graduate office engineering. as well as the program requirements. Dissertation research topics will vary, depending on the 2. All incoming students are expected to be interests of the student, but must have the proficient in geological engineering and are approval of the student’s committee. A qualifying encouraged to become registered professional examination is required and will be developed on engineers. They are expected to take courses the basis of the student’s academic background or show proficiency in: and professional experience. All students must • Physical Geology take the core course GEOL 808 (Fundamental • Mineralogy Problems in Geology and Geological • Stratigraphy and Sedimentation Engineering). • Structural Geology
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• Engineering Field Geology • Statics 1. A reading knowledge of two (2) foreign • Mechanics of Materials languages (standardized test). • Fluid Mechanics • Geotechnical Engineering 2. A reading, writing, and speaking competence • Rock Mechanics in one foreign language pertinent to the field • Engineering/Environmental Geology of study (standardized test). • Ground Water 3. A reading knowledge of one foreign language Qualifying Exam plus nine semester hours of course work in a To monitor progress and to assess collateral field such as computer science, suitability of the candidate for continuation in credit for which may not be applied toward the Ph.D. program, all Ph.D. students are the degree. A list of collateral courses will be expected to take a qualifying exam. prepared by the student, approved by the The examination will be taken before the dissertation committee, and submitted to the end of the first month of the third semester of Graduate Division. residence at School of Mines unless specific permission is received to delay the 4. Competence in at least two (2) computer examination; such permission must be sought languages and in software pertinent to the from the department chair upon the student’s field of study (e.g., Geographic recommendation of the student’s major Information Systems software). Competence advisor. in computer languages shall be determined by Format and timing will be negotiated a qualified faculty member from outside of the between the student and the committee, but at department. Documentation of this least part of the examination will be oral. competence shall be approved by the Dissertation Proposal Defense dissertation committee and submitted to the For geology students, the student is graduate office. required to prepare a research proposal. The proposal is due one month prior to the week of Curriculum the proposal examination. This is necessary A minimum of eighty (80) credit hours are so that the candidate’s committee may review required beyond the B.S. degree. At least fifty the proposal to assure that it is defensible. (50) of these credits must be for course work. Up The proposal is defended for scientific merit to thirty (30) course credits from the M.S. degree and thoroughness in an oral examination, can be applied toward this requirement if the before the student commences dissertation student’s committee agrees. It is recommended research. The committee must pronounce that that six (6) to twelve (12) hours of course work be the proposal is of sufficient quality to be taken outside the department. All students are defensible. If not, then the student will have expected to show competence in the geology or an opportunity to resubmit, although this may geological engineering core curriculum. alter the final date of the examination. For geological engineering students, the Ph.D. Course Work Requirements for Geology dissertation proposal defense is part of the Specialization comprehensive examination. Core Courses: GEOL 633 Sedimentation 3 Language Requirements GEOL 604 Advanced Field Geology 3 The student, working with his/her graduate GEOL 790 Seminar 1 committee, may select one of the following GEOL 808 Fundamental Problems in four options:
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GEOL/GEOE 3 Resources CEE 731 Current Topics in Water Quality One course from: Assessment GEOL 516 Intro to GIS 3 CEE 526 Environmental Engineering GEOE 766 Digital Modeling of Physical/Chemical Process Design Ground-Water Flow Systems 3 CEE 723 Environmental Contaminant Fate MEM 533 Computer Applications in and Transport Geoscience Modeling 4 CHEM 480 Toxicology
One course from: Geomechanics Option: GEOL 621 Advanced Structural Geology 3 Required: GEOL 622 Geotectonics 3 GEOE 668 Engineering Geology of Surficial Deposits One course from: CEE 647 Earth Structures GEOE 626 Environmental Geophysics 3 CEE 646 Stability of Soil and Rock Slopes GEOE 641 Geochemistry 3 CEE 643 Advanced Soil Mechanics I GEOE 664 Advanced Ground Water 3 MEM 550 Rock Slope Engineering GEOL 652 Problems in Ore Deposits 3 MINE 512 Rock Mechanics III
Optional courses: Electives: Minimum of 10 credit hours in courses related GEOE 664 Advanced Ground Water to student’s research/specialty. CEE 645 Advanced Foundations CEE 648 Theory and Application of Earth Ph.D. Course Work Requirements for CEE 784 Modeling and Comp in Civil Engr Geological Engineering Specialization All Ph.D. students in the Geological Energy and Mineral Resources Option: Engineering option are expected to follow the Required: course outline for one of the tracks below. GEOE 525 Engineering Geophysics II GEOE 531 Principles of Well Logging3 OR Required of all GEOE students: GEOE 552 Geochemical Exploration4 GEOE 766 Digital Modeling of Ground- GEOE 661 Petroleum Geology3 or Water Flow Systems GEOL 652 Problems in Ore Deposits4 GEOL 633 Sedimentation GEOE 790 Graduate Seminar Electives: GEOL 808 Fundamental Problems in GEOL 513 Ore Microscopy GEOL/GEOE GEOE 626 Environmental Geophysics GEOE 641 Geochemistry Ground Water and Environmental Option: MEM 533 Computer Applications in Required: Geoscience Modeling GEOE 664 Advanced Ground Water GEOE 665 Bioremediation of Hazardous GEOE 641 Geochemistry Materials GEOE 663 Ground-Water Geochemistry GEOE 663 Ground-Water Geochemistry CEE 634 Surface Water Hydrology1 CEE 725 Treatment, Disposal, and CEE 523 Environmental Systems Analysis2 Management of Hazardous Waste GEOL 650 Seminar in Ore Deposits Electives: CEE 784 Modeling and Comp in Civil Engr GEOL 516 Intro to GIS 1 Suitable hydrology courses can be CEE 730 Statistical Methods in Water substituted with the approval of the student’s
216 Geology and Geological Engineering M.S. and Ph.D. graduate committee. Specific topics will be chosen from the 2 Suitable environmental engineering courses following list: can be substituted with the approval of the • Structural geology student’s graduate committee. • Sedimentation/stratigraphy 3 Energy Emphasis • Paleontology 4 Minerals Emphasis • Igneous/metamorphic petrology • Economic geology/mineral exploration Comprehensive Examination: Summary of • Crystal chemistry/mineralogy Rules and Organizations • Geomorphology • Geophysics Prior to completion and acceptance of the • Glacial and Pleistocene Geology Ph.D. dissertation and admission to the Ph.D. The oral examination will be on General candidacy, the student must demonstrate his or Geology, and the two (2) specific topics chosen her ability by successfully completing a for the written examination. comprehensive examination. This examination is open to any faculty member, but must include the Geological Engineering Specialization: candidate’s full committee. Geological Engineering, General If the student has not completed all Geology, and Fundamentals of requirements for the Ph.D. degree by the fifth year Engineering (written) 25% following the comprehensive examination, his/her Chosen Topic (written) 25% active status will be automatically terminated and Chosen Topic (written) 25% the comprehensive examination must be repeated. Oral Defense of Dissertation Proposal 25% Each part of the written examination, in 1. No later than two (2) months prior to the general, will be three (3) hours in length. Chosen examination date the student must make a topics will be from the following list: request to the student’s committee to take the • Ground Water Comprehensive Examination. • Engineering Geology • Petroleum Engineering 2. The examination will consist of four parts, all • Minerals of which must be completed within one • Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering working week. • Geophysical Exploration • Geochemistry 3. The written examinations will be graded prior • Geomorphology to the oral examination. • Rock Mechanics • Geotechnical Engineering 4. The examination may be scheduled for spring A student may substitute successful and fall semesters only, but not during the completion of the Fundamentals of Engineering week of final examinations and the last week (F.E.) examination for one of these three (3) of classes. fields. A student also may propose hybrid fields with other disciplines if approved by his or her 5. Details for each specialization follow: graduate committee. Geology Specialization: The oral defense of the dissertation General Geology (written) 25% proposal may follow the completion of the written Specific Topic (written) 25% examinations. Specific Topic (written) 25% Oral Examination 25% Each part of the written examination, in general, will be three (3) hours in length.
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Materials Engineering and Science combines the formerly separate M.S. in chemistry, M.S. in metallurgical engineering, and M.S. in M.S. physics. The program works in concert with other colleges and the Ph.D. in materials engineering and science (Ph.D./MES). The M.S./MES degree offers an education in the broad area of materials. Students pursuing this degree will expand their knowledge and understanding of the science and technology of materials synthesis, behavior, and production. Graduates of the program formulate solutions to materials problems through the use of multi- disciplinary approaches made possible with a broad background in basic materials science and engineering coupled with an area of specialization. Two options are available in this degree Contact Information program: one option involves a thesis component and the other option involves course work only. Dr. Jon J. Kellar In the thesis option, twenty-four (24) hours of Department of Materials and Metallurgical course work and a minimum six (6) credit hours Engineering of thesis research are required. With the second Mineral Industries 112 option, thirty-two (32) hours of course work must (605) 394-2343 be taken. In the latter option however, the e-mail: [email protected] students are required to undertake a project under the supervision of a faculty member. The Steering Committee program is administered by the chairs of the three (3) representative departments with the chair of Program Coordinator and Steering Committee M.S./MES Steering Committee serving as Chair; Professor Kellar with representatives from program coordinator. the Departments of Chemical and Biological, Because students graduating with this degree are Civil and Environmental, Electrical, Mechanical, expected to have a broad-based fundamental Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, and the knowledge in both materials engineering and Departments of Physics, and Chemistry. materials science, every student is required to take the following core courses. Faculty MES 601 Fundamentals of Materials Professors Bang, Boyles, Foygel, Howard, Engineering (4 cr.hr.) Douglas Fuerstenau Professor Kellar, and MES 603 Condensed Matter Physics Petukhov, Puszynski, and Sandvig; Associate (4 cr.hr.) Professors Corey, Cross, Heglund, Medlin, and MES 604 Chemistry of Materials (4 cr.hr.) Sobolev; Assistant Professors Fong, Meyer, West and Zhu; Emeritus Professor Stone, Distinguished Areas of research currently carried out include Professor Emeritus Han. inorganic, organic, and biological behavior/synthesis/treatments of materials, Master of Science in Materials Engineering polymer chemistry, solid state physics, interfacial and Science chemistry/physics, thermal, magnetic and transport properties of semiconductors, This interdisciplinary degree program, superconductors, metals and alloys, dielectric and introduced during the 1996-97 academic year, 218 Materials Engineering and Science M.S. composite materials, recovery and processing of engineering, chemical engineering, materials minerals/materials/scrap, process simulation and engineering, mechanical engineering, civil optimization, thermodynamics of various engineering, electrical engineering, and mining materials, corrosion and corrosion inhibition, engineering. Students with baccalaureate degrees strengthening mechanisms, deformation induced in other disciplines may gain admission to the transformation plasticity, artificial intelligence, program but may require remedial undergraduate kinetics of leaching and cementation processes, work prior to beginning their graduate course and behavior/properties/synthesis of composites. work.
Undergraduate Degrees That Prepare Students for the M.S./MES Program
The breadth of the field of materials engineering and science is such that graduates from any of the following disciplines should be prepared for graduate study in the M.S/MES program: chemistry, physics, metallurgical
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Materials Engineering and Science will study either a science or engineering emphasis within the MES Ph.D. program. For Ph.D. example, research emphasis may be placed on improving processes for the production of metallic, polymeric, ceramic, or other structural or electronic materials. Alternatively, the degree candidate may investigate mechanisms for improving material properties, which in turn, could lead to new or better applications. Classroom and individualized instruction will provide the necessary theory to complement such creative activities. Example areas of specialization include but are not limited to: • Activities of Multicomponent Systems Contact Information • Computational Modeling • Polymer Synthesis Dr. Jon J. Kellar • Concrete Technology Department of Materials and Metallurgical • Corrosion Inhibition Engineering • Development of Multiphase Materials Mineral Industries 112 • Fiber Reinforced Composites (605) 394-2343 • Geotechnology e-mail: [email protected] • Magnetic Nanocomposites • Nanoscale Electronic Materials Advisory Council • Polymer Matrix Composites • Reaction Kinetics Program Coordinator and Advisory Council • Semiconductor Materials and Devices Chair; Professor Kellar with representatives from • Strengthening Mechanisms the Departments of Chemical and Biological, • Surface Chemistry of Flotation Civil and Environmental, Electrical, Mechanical, • Thermophysical Properties Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, and the • Thin Films Departments of Physics, and Chemistry. The program is administered directly by the Materials Engineering and Science Dean of Graduate Education and sponsored programs, with the chair of the MES Ph.D. The doctor of philosophy program in materials advisory council serving as program coordinator. engineering and science (MES) offers a student The advisory council currently comprises faculty the opportunity to expand his/her knowledge and members from the Departments of Civil and understanding of the science and technology of Environmental, Electrical, Mechanical, Materials materials production, behavior, and applications. and Metallurgical Engineering, and the The student will undertake multidisciplinary Departments of Physics, Chemistry, and Chemical approaches, combining the basic elements of both Engineering. engineering and science, to the solution of The Graduate Record Examination (GRE), materials-related problems. Because such three (3) letters of recommendation, and a GPA of problems are found in every science and 3.00 or better are required of all applicants for the engineering discipline, the degree applicant has MES Ph.D. program. The TOEFL exam is considerable flexibility in the selection of the required for students whose native language is not department in which to pursue dissertation English. research, within the confines of the applicant’s All candidates for the MES Ph.D. program are academic preparation and interests. Candidates 220 Materials Engineering and Science Ph.D. required to successfully complete the following Research (twenty (20) credits) minimum credits and earn a grade of “C” or MES 898 (19) Dissertation better, except for a final grade of “S” in MES 800: MES 890 (1-0) Seminar A maximum of ten (10) additional research Category Credits credits may be included within the hours specified Analytical Mathematics 3 for the program major, subject to approval by the Numerical Mathematics 3 student’s advisory committee. The courses listed Program Major Emphasis in Sections II and III below are suggested courses (Engineering or Science) 44-54 for the science of engineering emphasis, but Dissertation Research 20-30 students are not limited to this selection. Students Total beyond the B.S. degree 80 may take courses out of each emphasis when developing their programs of study. General Program Requirements (Minimum program requirements: eighty (80) Science Emphasis Requirements credits) (Minimum program requirements: thirty (30) M.S. Degree (twenty-four (24) credits) credits) Programs-major courses may be used to satisfy course work hour requirements for Thermodynamics of Solids (3 credits) analytical mathematics, numeral mathematics, or MES 712 (3-0) Interfacial Phenomena fundamental science courses taken in the M.S. MET 636 (3-0) Thermodynamics of Solids program of study (subject to approval). MET 638 (3-0) Solid State Phase Transformations Analytical Mathematics (three (3) credits) PHYS 743 (3-0) Statistical Mechanics ME 673 (3-0) Applied Engineering Transport in Solids (three (3) credits) Analysis I CHE 613 (3-0) Transport Phenomena: PHYS 671 (3-0) Mathematical Physics I Heat PHYS 673 (3-0) Mathematical Physics II CHE 614 (3-0) Transport Phenomena: Mass Numerical Mathematics (three (3) credits) MES 728 (3-0) Heterogeneous Kinetics CEE 784 (3-0) Modeling and Computation in Civil Engineering Crystal Structure/Chemistry of Solids CEE 785 (3-0) Applications of Finite (three (3) credits) Element Methods in Civil CHEM 455/555 Engineering (3-0) Advanced Inorganic MATH 687 (3-0) Statistical Design and Chemistry Analysis of Experiments MES 603 (4-0) Condensed Matter Physics ME 773 (3-0) Applied Engineering MES 604 (4-0) Chemistry of Materials Analysis II MES 737 (3-0) Solid State Physics I MET 614 (3-0) Advanced Metallurgical PHYS 777 (3-0) Quantum Mechanics I Simulation Techniques PHYS 779 (3-0) Quantum Mechanics II MineE 533 (3-1) Computer Applications in Geoscience Modeling Bulk or Surface Analysis (three (3) credits) GEOL 643 (2-1) Intro to Microbeam Program Emphasis (thirty (30) credits) Instruments Two program emphasis areas are available: MES 708L (1-2) Experimental Advanced Materials Science and Materials Engineering. See Instrumental Analysis sections below. Fundamental Engineering Mechanics
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(six (6) credits) can also be used to fulfill this requirement. Courses from the Engineering emphasis section can also be used to fulfill this requirement. CHEM 420 (3-0) Organic Chemistry III ME 424 (3-0) Fatigue Design of CHEM 452/552 Mechanical Components (3-0) Inorganic Chemistry ME 425 (3-0) Probabilistic Mechanical CHEM 426/526 Design (3-0) Polymer Chemistry ME 442 (3-0) Failure Modes of MES 603 (4-0) Chemistry of Materials Engineering Materials MES 601 (4-0) Fundamentals of Materials MET 440/540 Engineering (3-0) Mechanical Metallurgy MES 604 (4-0) Condensed Matter Physics ME/MET 443 CHE 474/574 (3-0) Composite Materials (2 to 3) Polymer Technology MET 625 (3-0) Strengthening Mechanisms PHYS 439 (4-0) Solid State Physics in Materials MET 445/545 (3-0) Oxidation and Corrosion of Dissertation Related Topics (twelve (12) credits) Metals MET 421/521 Engineering Emphasis Requirements (3-0) Refractories and Ceramics (minimum program requirements: thirty (30) credits) An assessment of the student’s qualifications will be undertaken early in their program. The Analytical Mechanics assessment is comprised of performance in pre- ME 623 (3-0) Advanced Mechanical determined courses and a dissertation proposal. Vibrations Further information is available in the School of ME 613 (3-0) Advanced Heat Transfer Mines materials engineering and science Ph.D. MES 713 (3-0) Adv Solid Mechanics I Handbook. MES 770 (3-0) Continuum Mechanics Each student is also required to pass a comprehensive examination. There is no Elasticity/Plasticity language requirement for the MES doctoral CEE 643 (3-0) Advanced Soil Mechanics I program. CEE 644 (3-0) Advanced Soil Mechanics II For program supervision purposes, the MES CEE 646 (3-0) Stability of Soil and Rock Ph.D. program coordinator is the graduate advisor Slopes until the major professor is appointed. The major CEE 749 (1-2) Experimental Soil professor is the person responsible for the Mechanics student’s dissertation research. The graduate MES 713 (3-0) Advanced Solid office representative on the student’s dissertation Mechanics I committee must be selected from outside of the MINE 412/512 department with which the major professor is (3-0) Rock Mechanics III affiliated, and should also be a member of the MINE 450/550 MES Ph.D. Advisory Council. The MES Ph.D. (3-0) Rock Slope Engineering Advisory Council must approve all programs of Failure Analysis Fracture Mechanics study. It is not necessary that the student be CEE 616 (3-0) Advanced Engineering associated with the department of affiliation of his Materials Technology or her major professor. The detailed information MES 614 (3-0) Mechanics of Composite on examination policy, admission to candidacy, Materials and defense of dissertation are included in the Fundamental Materials Science (six (6) credits) School of Mines Materials Engineering and Courses from the Science Emphasis section Science Ph.D. Handbook.
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Mechanical Engineering M.S. features courses in continuum mechanics, computational methods in transport phenomena, advanced heat transfer, advanced fluid mechanics, engineering analysis, advanced solid mechanics, integrated manufacturing systems, robotics, applied intelligent control, theory of materials behavior, composite materials, advanced mechanical vibrations, advanced mechanical system control, and statistical approaches to reliability. The mechanical engineering department is one of the largest programs on campus and has well- equipped laboratories. Several faculty members within the department are associated with the Contact Information Computational Mechanics Laboratory (CML), where high-end workstations are available for Dr. Michael Langerman pursuing research and design in modeling. Department of Mechanical Engineering Several faculty members are associated with the Civil Mechanical 172 Center Advanced Manufacturing and Production (605) 394-2408 (CAMP), where research in advanced e-mail: [email protected] manufacturing, advanced composites, and advanced design methodologies is conducted. Faculty The department has a strong relationship with the Advanced Materials Processing (AMP) center. Professor Langerman, Chair; Professors Buck, Other labs include the Fluid Mechanics and Heat Dolan, Kalanovic, Kjerengtroen, and Krause; Transfer Lab, which houses a mach 3 supersonic Associate Professors Korde and Muci-Kuchler; wind tunnel, Vibrations Lab, Neural Networks Assistant Professor Yoon; Professors Emeritus and Controls Lab, and Micromechanics Lab. The Gnirk and Pendleton. campus fosters interdisciplinary research, and state-of-the-art equipment such as an electron Mechanical Engineering microscope, atomic force microscope, x-ray diffractometer, Raman spectrometer, laser The Department of Mechanical Engineering Vibration Pattern Imager, FADAL VMC40 offers a graduate program leading to the master of Vertical Machining Center, Bridgeport Romi science degree in mechanical engineering. The CNC lathe, Coordinate Measuring Machine, primary goals of the program are to develop the Injection Molding Machine, IBM 7540 Industrial scholastic ability, independent creativity, and Robot, and Universal Testing Machines are professional competence of an individual to a available in the department or on the campus. higher level than is possible in an undergraduate Graduate research laboratories also include program. equipment for modern digital controls and The graduate program offers opportunities for machine vision and image analysis. instruction and research in manufacturing, solid The graduate program in mechanical mechanics, transport phenomena, hydrodynamic engineering can be pursued using either of two (2) stability, computational mechanics, multiphase equal options. They are: thermal-hydraulic, vibrations, controls, experimental mechanics, fracture mechanics, 1. Non-Thesis: composite materials, finite element analysis, Total credit hours required 32 advanced materials processing, micro machines, and probabilistic design. The graduate program Seminar ME 790 1 223 Mechanical Engineering M.S.
Project ME 788 4 representative. The graduate office representative, whose appointment must be Remaining 27 hours are taken approved by the graduate dean, must be selected maximum at the 4001/500 level 9 from outside of the mechanical engineering minimum at the 600/700 level 18 department. The student and his/her supervising professor will nominate the out-of-department 2. Thesis: committee member after the student has received Total credit hours required 30 the nominee’s consent.
Seminar ME 790 1 The core curriculum required of all M.S. Thesis ME 798 6 students includes: ME 673 Applied Engineering Analysis I Remaining 23 hours are taken ME 773 Applied Engineering Analysis II maximum at the 4001/500 level 9 MES 770 Continuum Mechanics minimum at the 600/700 level 14 In addition, students should select one course Curriculum Notes from each of the three (3) areas listed below (or 1. 300 level acceptable if outside department approved substitutions) for a total of six (6) core and on approved blanket waiver list. courses. 2. Students may enroll in 300/400 level courses only if 500/600 level courses within the Thermal Sciences major are not being offered or by written ME 612 Transport Phenomena: Momentum permission of the student’s major professor and ME 613 Transport Phenomena: Heat the department chair. ME 616 Computations in Transport It is the belief and policy of the mechanical Phenomena engineering department that these two (2) options are equivalent in educational value to the student. Mechanical Systems Within the first semester in residence, each ME 623 Advanced Mechanical Vibrations student is requested to carefully evaluate their ME 722 Advanced Mechanical Design preference after discussion with the mechanical EM 680 Advanced Strength of Materials engineering faculty, and a decision must be made MES 713 Advanced Solid Mechanics I shortly after the beginning of the second semester in residence. In either case the student must by Manufacturing and Controls then choose a major professor, and with the major ME 683 Advanced Mechanical System professor’s assistance develop a plan of study. Control The plan is due by the end of the first full calendar ME 781 Robotics month of the student’s second semester (end of ME 782 Integrated Manufacturing Systems September or end of January) in residence. The plan will be submitted to: The details of the actual course selections 1. Graduate office must be developed by the student, the student’s 2. The department chair academic advisor, and the student’s committee. 3. Major professor Although there is a fair degree of flexibility, it is 4. Copy to the student assumed that the program will have some meaningful focus. Students should consult the Each master’s degree candidate must select a ME Department Graduate Studies Policy Manual advisory committee. In addition to the for additional important details. candidate’s major professor, the committee must Entering students usually have a bachelor’s consist of at least one other mechanical degree in mechanical engineering. Qualifying engineering professor and a graduate office examinations may be required of entering
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students. A minimum GPA of 3.00 is expected special investigation and with the approval of the for regular (non-probationary) admission. directing faculty member, the student will be Applicants who are graduates of institutions that given a formal oral examination over the are not accredited by the Accreditation Board of investigation. Rules concerning an oral Engineering and Technology (ABET) are required examination over course work taken by the to sit for the Graduate Record Exam and have student in their graduate program will be identical their scores submitted prior to consideration for to the rules stipulated above for those students admission. taking the thesis option.
Final Examination Thesis Program
Upon completion of the thesis, mechanical engineering graduate students electing this option will be examined orally over the written thesis and course work as prescribed in the Graduate section. A mechanical engineering graduate student with an accumulated GPA of 3.4 or better in those courses in their graduate program will have their course work exam combined with the thesis defense. For students having an accumulated GPA of less than 3.4 in courses in their graduate program, a separate focused course work oral examination will be administered by the student’s graduate committee. The GPA will be computed using midterm grades for the semester in which the student is currently enrolled. The course work examination will examine primarily concepts and fundamentals of those courses selected, rather than the mechanics of problem solution and will, in general, attempt to establish the student’s in-depth knowledge of the course content. The student’s graduate committee will select specific courses from the student’s graduate program in which the student has indicated possible deficiencies. The major professor will inform the student no less than three (3) weeks prior to the examination what courses have been selected. However, it is the student’s responsibility to secure this information from the major professor.
Final Examination Non-Thesis Option
Mechanical engineering graduate students selecting a non-thesis option will be required to pursue a special investigation under the direction of a faculty member. The report on this study will be written and formal although not of thesis quality nor extent. Upon the completion of the
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Graduate Study in Metallurgical Engineering
Contact Information
Dr. Jon J. Kellar Department of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering Mineral Industries 112 (605) 394-2343 e-mail: [email protected]
Faculty
Douglas W. Fuerstenau Professor Kellar, Chair; Professor Howard; Associate Professor Medlin; Associate Professor Cross; Assistant Professor West; Professor Emeritus Stone; Distinguished Professor Emeritus Han; Research Scientist Hong.
Metallurgical Engineering
Students interested in pursuing graduate studies focusing on materials engineering science, please see master of science in materials engineering and science.
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Nanoscience and Nanoengineering Applications at the Nanoscale (CAAN). The Ph.D. program is oriented toward focused Ph.D. applications of nanoscience, including nanoscale utilization of regional minerals. Faculty expertise exists in (i) semiconductor theory, modeling and computational physics; (ii) the theory and applications of nanocomposite materials; (iii) direct-write fabrication of sensors utilizing nano- inks; (iv) synthesis and processing of inorganic and organic nano-scaled materials, and (v) nano- scale spectroscopic and structural imaging of nano- and energy-materials. The curriculum capitalizes on existing faculty talents and expertise, the research thrusts of CAAN and the availability of facilities and equipment. Students in the program will take four science- based core courses that will be complemented by extensive laboratory work focused on hands-on applications. Students may select additional Contact Information courses specifically focused on nanoscience and nanoengineering, relevant to their particular Dr. Steve Smith research topic. Associate Professor of Nanoscience The program is administered by the NANO Nanoscience and Engineering Ph.D. Program Ph.D. program director and the Nano Ph.D. Director Advisory Council. The Advisory Council South Dakota School of Mines and Technology currently comprises faculty members from the (605) 394-5268 Departments of Electrical and Computer, e-mail: [email protected] Mechanical, Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Chemical Advisory Council Engineering, and CAAN. Students with an M.S. degree in science or Professors Boyles, and Kjerengtroen; Douglas engineering are eligible for admission. However, Fuerstenau Professor Kellar, Sandvig Professor students with a B.S. degree only will also be Puszynski and Miller Professor Whites; considered for admission when the student has Professors Petukhov, ; Center for Accelerated proven to possess exceptional qualifications. The Applications at the Nanoscale (CAAN) Director Graduate Record Examination (GRE), three (3) Decker. letters of recommendation, and a GPA of 3.00 or better are required of all applicants for the Ph.D. Nanoscience and Nanoengineering program. The TOEFL exam is required for students whose native language is not English. The doctor of philosophy program in All candidates for the Ph.D. program are nanoscience and nanoengineering is a cross- required to successfully complete the following disciplinary degree in the emerging minimum credits and earn a grade of “C” or interdisciplinary fields of nanoscience and better, except for a final grade of “S” in NANO nanotechnology. The Ph.D. curriculum integrates 898: fundamental science principles with the cross- The program of study must be filed with the cutting fields of nanoscience, nanoengineering, program coordinator before midterm of the and nanotechnology. second semester of residence, and again before The foci of the program align with the aims of the comprehensive exam. Below is the summary the State’s 2010 Center for Accelerated 227 Nanoscience and Nanoengineering Ph.D. of the required course of study. NANO 717: Nanochemistry 3 NANO 718: Small Scale Mechatronics 3 Category Credits NANO 719: Atomic Force Microscopy / NANO 701 Nano Materials 3 Nano-Mechanics 3 NANO 702 Theory and Applications of NANO 720: Contemporary Condensed Matter Nanoscale Material Systems 3 Physics 3 NANO 703 Instrumentation and Characterization of Nano-Materials 5 For program supervision purposes, the NANO NANO 890 Seminar 3 Ph.D. program director is the graduate advisor Program Major Emphasis 26-36 until the major professor is appointed. The major Dissertation Research 30-40 professor is the person responsible for the TOTAL 80 student’s dissertation research. The graduate office representative on the student’s dissertation General Program Requirements committee must be selected from outside of the department with which the major professor is (Minimum program requirements: (eighty (80) affiliated, and should also be a member of the credits) NANO Ph.D. Advisory Council. It is not necessary that the student be associated with the M.S. Degree (twenty-four (24) credits) department of affiliation of his or her major professor. Detailed information on examination Students entering the Ph.D. program with a policy, admission to candidacy, and defense of previous M.S. degree in a relevant discipline are dissertation are included in the School of Mines allowed to apply a maximum of twenty-four (24) Nano Science and Engineering Ph.D. Handbook. semester course credit hours toward the course credit requirements subject to approval of the advisory council.
The following is a list of electives for each focus area of the program. Graduate level courses which serve the needs of our other graduate programs are also available as electives.
Category Credits NANO 704: Crystallography and Structure of Nanomaterials 3 NANO 711: Introduction to Direct Write Technology 3 NANO 712: Electromagnetic Properties of Heterogeneous Materials 3 NANO 713: Dielectric and Magnetic Properties of Nano-Scale Materials 3
NANO 714: Functional Fillers and Nanoscale Minerals 3 NANO 716: Nanotechnology of Engineering and Construction Materials 3
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Paleontology M.S. Paleontology
The master’s program in paleontology emphasizes the opportunity for combining field work in western South Dakota with study of the extensive collections of the Museum of Geology. Fossiliferous deposits range from the Jurassic through the Holocene. A student may enter this program with an undergraduate degree in geology, anthropology, one of the biological sciences, or other science disciplines, but for the latter majors, deficiencies must be completed as listed below. Candidates for the M. S. degree must fulfill all degree requirements of the graduate office. The thesis option is the only option for the M.S. in paleontology. The prospective student in paleontology should have completed as part of his/her undergraduate training a minimum of one year in chemistry and one semester in physics and calculus. A course in statistics is required. No graduate credit will be granted for making up deficiencies. The GRE exam is required of all applicants except School of Mines graduates. The TOEFL exam is required for students whose native language is not English. The following geology courses, or their equivalents, must be presented by the candidate Contact Information either as part of the undergraduate record or taken as a graduate student in the M.S. program in Dr. Maribeth H. Price Vertebrate Paleontology: Department of Geology and Geological • Elementary Petrology Engineering • Field Geology Mineral Industries 307 • Physical Geology (605) 394-2461 • Historical Geology e-mail: [email protected] • Invertebrate Paleontology • Mineralogy and Crystallography Faculty • Museum Conservation and Curation • Sedimentation Professor Price, Chair; Professors Fox and Martin; • Stratigraphy and Sedimentation Assistant Professors Grellet-Tinner and Haslem • Structural Geology Post-doctoral Fellow Pagnac. • Vertebrate Paleontological Techniques and Exhibit Design Supporting Faculty The courses listed above are in the course Assistant Professor Terry section in this catalog. Thirty-two (32) semester credits are required for the M.S. degree. The following courses must be taken as part of 229 Paleontology M.S. the graduate program of study: GEOL 631 Rocky Mountain Stratigraphy I OR 632 Rocky Mountain Stratigraphy II GEOL 633 Sedimentation PALE 671 Advanced Field Paleontology PALE 673 Comparative Osteology PALE 676 Vertebrate Paleontology PALE 678 Vertebrate Biostratigraphy PALE 798 Master’s Thesis (a minimum of six (6) credits) PALE 770 Seminar in Vertebrate Paleontology PALE 790 Seminar
The following courses are recommended:
GEOL 517 Spatial Database Development GEOL 643 Intro to Microbeam Instruments PALE 672 Micropaleontology PALE 684 Paleoenvironments GEOL 604 Advanced Field Geology or other appropriate courses in geology.
The candidate will pass a reading examination in one of the following languages: French, German, Spanish, or Russian. All thesis samples, specimens, and their documentation collected while at School of Mines must be curated into the systematic collections of the Museum of Geology for future students, scientists, and technologies.
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Graduate Studies in Physics
Contact Information
Dr. Andre G. Petukhov Department of Physics Electrical Engineering/Physics 223 (605) 394-2364 e-mail: [email protected]
Faculty
Professor Petukhov, Chair; Professors Foygel and Sobolev; Associate Professor Corey.
Physics
Students interested in pursuing graduate studies focusing on solid state physics, please see master of science and Ph.D. in materials engineering and science as well as Ph.D. in nanoscience and nanoengineering.
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Technology Management M.S. program of advanced study in technically oriented disciplines for candidates anticipating a managerial career. It is a multi-disciplinary applications-oriented degree, which draws from the fields of engineering, management, business, operations research and management science.
The intent of the program is to provide an interface between training received in engineering and scientific disciplines with the management of resources and personnel in a technical environment. In addition to being available in distance mode, flexibility is built into the program in order to provide an optimum educational experience to students. Graduates of the TM program are likely to find an initial position as a mid level supervisor within a broad range of applications requiring the use of quantitative models to integrate human and material resources necessary to perform an integrated function. Program specific information and resources may be found at the department of industrial engineering web site website
Application should be made through the graduate office at School of Mines. Alternatively, students may apply for the program online by visiting School of Mines website at
bachelor’s degree from a four-year accredited Dr. Stuart D. Kellogg institution, in which satisfactory performance has Industrial Engineering been demonstrated. In addition to these Civil Mechanical 126 requirements, the following minimum bachelor’s (605) 394-1271 level credits shall have been completed: e-mail: [email protected]
1. Mathematics one year minimum, to include South Dakota School of Mines and Technology algebra and basic calculus (Equivalent to Faculty School of Mines MATH 123).
Ervin Pietz Professor Kellogg, Program 2. Six (6) semester hours of natural and physical Coordinator; Professor Kerk, Associate Professor science (fields of geology, astronomy, Matejcik; and Assistant Professors Karlin and biology, meteorology, chemistry, and physics) Jensen. and which must include at least three (3)
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3. Three (3) semester hours each of Probability The M.S. degree in Technology and Statistics. (Students may complete Management (MSTM) is designed to provide a 232 Technology Management M.S.
prerequisite requirements in probability and Core Course Requirements statistics through an Internet Based study option. Students desiring this option should A minimum of three (3) semester hours of contact the program coordinator.) required course work must be completed in each of four (4) discipline areas. Discipline areas and In addition, individual elective courses may allowable courses are shown below. have additional prerequisite requirements. A maximum of twelve (12) semester hours of credit Business/Finance may be transferred into the candidate’s program TM 661 Engineering Economics from another institution. This must be from a for Managers regionally accredited institution. Application TM 640 Business Strategy materials will be evaluated by an admission committee composed of the program director and Management such other faculty as deemed appropriate for the TM 742 Engineering Management review. Recommendations from this committee and Labor Relations will be made to the Dean of Graduate Education TM 665 Project Planning and Control and research at the School of Mines. Requirements for the degree include the Quantitative Methods completion of a minimum of twenty-four (24) TM 631 Optimization Techniques credits of course work and six (6) credits of TM 732 Stochastic Models in Operations research for the thesis option, or thirty-two (32) Research credits of course work for the non-thesis option. TM 745 Forecasting for Business and A cumulative GPA of 3.00 must be obtained by Technology the end of the program of study and other general and master’s level grade requirements must be Operations Management maintained as specified in this catalog. The TM 663 Operations Planning probation policy outlined in this catalog applies to TM 620 Quality Management all credits taken. The continuing registration requirement must Students wishing to utilize transfer courses to be satisfied at the School of Mines campus. satisfy core requirements should contact their Students utilizing transfer credits should plan advisor or the program coordinator for suitability accordingly and ensure that they are officially of transfer credits. In some cases, agreements enrolled in a minimum of the two credits from the with other state institutions are already available. School of Mines the semester in which they graduate. Recommended Elective Courses In the early stages of the candidate’s program, a student advisor will be appointed by the Any core course not used to satisfy core program director of School of Mines. The advisor requirements may be used as an elective. will meet with the student to prepare a program Students may use any graduate School of Mines along the direction of the specific emphasis course provided it is approved by their committee. desired. The advisor and student will then TM courses are available in distance learning organize a advisory committee, and file their mode and are listed below. committee program of study with the School of Mines graduate office according to the directions School of Mines Courses specified under “Supervision of the Master’s TM 640 Business Strategies 3 Program” of the Master of Science Programs TM 650 Safety Management 3 section of this catalog. TM 720 Quality Management 3 TM 745 Forecasting for Business and Technology 3
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TM 792 Advanced Topics in Technology Student B Management 3 TM 661 Engineering Economics for MATH 486 Statistical Quality and Process Managers 4 Control 3 TM 742 Engineering Management and Labor Relations 3 Approved USD Elective and Core Courses TM 665 Project Planning and Control 3 BAD 611 Investments 3 TM 663 Operations Planning 3 BAD 701 Readings and Business TM 631 Optimization Techniques 3 Problems 3 ECON 782 Managerial Economics 3 BAD 720 Quantitative Methods 3 MATH 486 Statistical Quality and Process BAD 722 Advanced Information Systems 3 Control 3 BAD 726 Decision Support Systems 3 TM 720 Quality Management 3 BAD 727 Database Management ME 685 Statistical Approaches to Administration 3 Reliability 4 BAD 728 Microcomputers and Small MATH 687 Statistical Design and Business Management Systems 3 Analysis of Experiments 3 BAD 761 Organizational Theory and TM 791 Independent Study 1 Behavior 3 Total 33 BAD 762 Business and its Environment 3 BAD 770 Marketing Administration 3 BAD 780 Administrative Policy 3 BAD 781 Managerial Accounting 3 BAD 794 Research Problems 3
The following are sample programs for the thesis option for a student with a mining engineering degree (Student A), and a non-thesis option for a student contemplating a career as a laboratory manager in a government laboratory (Student B).
Student A TM 661 Engineering Economics for Managers 3 TM 742 Engineering Management and Labor Relations 3 TM 665 Project Planning and Control 3 TM 663 Operations Planning 3 TM 631 Optimization Techniques 3 ECON 782 Managerial Economics 3 TM 720 Quality Management 3 TM 732 Stochastic Models in Operations Research 3 TM 650 Safety Management 3 TM 745 Forecasting for Business and Technology 3 TM 791 Independent Study 2 Total 32
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DEFINITIONS OF MES Materials Engineering and Science MET Metallurgical Engineering ABBREVIATIONS USED IN MSL Military Science COURSE DESCRIPTIONS MUAP Applied Music Abbreviation Definition MUEN Music Ensemble ACCT Accounting MUS Music AES Atmospheric and Environmental NANO Nanoscience and Nanoengineering Sciences PALE Paleontology ANTH Anthropology PE Physical Education ART Art PHIL Philosophy ARTH Art History PHYS Physics ATM Atmospheric Sciences POLS Political Science BADM Business Administration PSYC Psychology BIOL Biology READ Reading BME Biomedical Engineering REL Religion CBE Chemical and Biological SOC Sociology Engineering SPAN Spanish CEE Civil and Environmental SPCM Speech Engineering TM Technology Management CENG Computer Engineering CHE Chemical Engineering Courses above 400 level are normally CHEM Chemistry reserved for graduate studies; however, in some CP Career Planning cases, undergraduate students may take graduate CSC Computer Science level courses. ECON Economics EE Electrical Engineering Students must receive a passing grade of “D” EM Engineering Mechanics or better for any prerequisite course unless ENGL English specifically stated. ENTR Entrepreneurship ENVE Environmental Engineering COURSES EXCH Student Exchange - International FREN French GE General Engineering ACCT 210 PRINCIPLES OF ACCOUNTING I GEOE Geological Engineering (3-0) 3 credits each. Prerequisite: Sophomore GEOG Geography standing or permission of instructor. A study of GEOL Geology fundamental accounting principles and procedures GER German such as journalizing, posting, preparation of GES General Engineering and Science financial statements, and other selected topics. HIST History Accounting is emphasized as a service activity HUM Humanities designed to provide the information about IENG Industrial Engineering economic entities that is necessary for making IDL Interdisciplinary Learning sound decisions. This course cannot count as IS Interdisciplinary Sciences social science/humanities credit. This course is LAKL Lakota taught by Black Hills State University. MATH Mathematics ME Mechanical Engineering ACCT 211 PRINCIPLES OF ACCOUNTING II MEM Mining Engineering and (3-0) 3 credits each. Prerequisite: ACCT 210. A Management continuation of ACCT 210 with emphasis on partnership and corporate structures, management decision-making, cost control, and other selected 235 Courses topics. This course cannot count as social AES 898 DISSERTATION science/humanities credit. This course is taught Credit to be arranged; not to exceed 12 credits by Black Hills State University. toward fulfillment of Ph.D. degree requirements. Open only to doctoral candidates. Supervised ACCT 406/506 ACCOUNTING FOR original research investigation of a selected ENTREPRENEURS problem, with emphasis on independent work, (3-0) 3 credits. Accounting concepts and culminating in an acceptable dissertation. Oral practices for entrepreneurs/small business owners. defense of dissertation and research findings is Emphasis given to the use of accounting tools to required. solve small business problems. Students enrolled in ACCT 506 will be held to a higher standard ANTH 210 CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY than those enrolled in ACCT 406. This course is (3-0) 3 credits. Introduces the nature of human cross-listed with BADM 406/506 and ENTR culture as an adaptive ecological and evolutionary 406/506. This course cannot count as a social system, emphasizing basic anthropological science/humanities credit. This course is taught concepts, principles, and problems. Draws data by Black Hills State University. from both traditional and industrial cultures to cover such concepts as values and beliefs, social AES 790 SEMINAR organization, economic and political order, (1-0) 1 credit. Not to exceed one credit toward science, technology, and aesthetic expression. fulfillment of Ph.D. degree requirements. Preparation, oral presentation, and group ART 111/111A DRAWING I discussion of a research problem. Enrollment (3-0) 3 credits. Introduces various drawing required of all graduate students in residence. concepts, media, and processes developing perceptual and technical skills related to accurate AES 791 INDEPENDENT STUDY observing and drawing. 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Directed independent study of a topic ART 112/112A DRAWING II or field of special interest. This may involve (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: ART 111. readings, research, laboratory or field work, and Emphasizes the continuing development of preparation of papers, as agreed to in advance, by essential drawing skills and perceptual abilities as student and instructor. drawing concepts, compositional complexity, and creativity gain importance. AES 792 TOPICS 1 to 3 credits. Lecture course or seminar on a ART 491 INDEPENDENT STUDY topic or field of special interest, as determined by 1 to 12 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. instructor. Includes directed study, problems, readings, directed readings, special problems and AES 808 FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEMS IN special projects. Students complete ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE individualized plans of study which include (3-0) 3 credits. The course, available only for significant one-on-one student-teacher doctoral candidates, involves description, involvement. The faculty member and students analysis, and proposed methods of attack of long- negotiate the details of the study plans. standing, fundamental problems in science and Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. engineering. Independent work is emphasized Meeting depending upon the requirements of the with goals of understanding these basic questions topic. and proposing practical designs and experiments for the solution. This course is cross-listed with ARTH 211 HISTORY OF WORLD ART I GEOL 808. (3-0) 3 credits. Art and architecture in the historical and contextual development of the role
236 Courses of visual arts, including crafts, drawing, painting, ATM 391 INDEPENDENT STUDY sculpture and architecture, in the historical and 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of cultural development of world civilization from instructor. Includes directed study, problems, prehistory through the 14th century. readings, directed readings, special problems and special projects. Students complete ARTH 321 MODERN AND individualized plans of study which include CONTEMPORARY ART significant one-on-one student-teacher (3-0) 3 credits. An exploration of technological involvement. The faculty member and students and cultural influences on materials and content of negotiate the details of the study plans. art from the late 1800s to the present. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. Meeting frequency depends upon the ARTH 491 INDEPENDENT STUDY requirements of the topic. May be repeated to a 1 to 9 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of total of six credit hours. instructor. Includes directed study, problems, readings, directed readings, special problems and ATM 392 TOPICS special projects. Students complete 1 to 3 credits. Includes current topics, advanced individualized plans of study which include topics and special topics. A course devoted to a significant one-on-one student-teacher particular issue in a specified field. Course involvement. The faculty member and students content is not wholly included in the regular negotiate the details of the study plans. curriculum. Guest experts may serve as Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. instructors. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer Meeting depending upon the requirements of the students with significant one-on-one topic. student/teacher involvement. May be repeated to a total of six credit hours. ARTH 492 TOPICS 1 to 6 credits. Includes current topics, advanced ATM 401/501 ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS topics and special topics. A course devoted to a (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: PHYS 213, MATH particular issue in a specified field. Course 321, or equivalent. An introduction to physical content is not wholly included in the regular processes that govern the behavior of the curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as atmosphere. Topics will include atmospheric instructors. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer thermodynamics; absorption, scattering and students with significant one-on-one radiative transfer; convective motion, tropospheric student/teacher involvement. A maximum of six chemistry, cloud and precipitation development; (6) credits of special topics will be allowed for and atmospheric electricity. Satisfies the degree credit. meteorology distribution requirement for the ATM M.S. program. Students enrolled in ATM ATM 301 INTRODUCTION TO 501 will be held to a higher standard than those ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES enrolled in ATM 401. (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: PHYS 111 or PHYS 113 or equivalent. Basic physical principles are ATM 402/502 THE GLOBAL CARBON applied to the study of atmospheric phenomena. CYCLE Topics covered include the structure of the (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: One semester each atmosphere, radiative processes, atmospheric of college level biology, chemistry, and physics. motions, meteorological processes, air masses, The fundamental processes that describe the fronts, weather map analysis, weather forecasting, keystone position of carbon and life in the earth and severe storms including thunderstorms, hail, system will be covered in detail. The majority of tornadoes, hurricanes, and blizzards. the course will focus upon photosynthesis and respiration on land and in the oceans, and how these processes have shaped earth’s evolution.
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The interrelationships of the biogeochemical effects of air pollutants on weather processes, the cycles that couple photosynthesis and respiration technology of pollutant production, and pollutant will be introduced. Topics will cover scales from dispersal. A treatment of the chemistry and sub-cellular to global in scope. ATM 502 satisfies physics of reactions involving primary air the Earth Systems distribution requirement for the pollutants is included. Satisfies the Earth Systems ATM M.S. program. Students enrolled in ATM distribution requirement for the ATM M.S. 502 will be held to a higher standard than those program. Students enrolled in ATM 505 will be enrolled in ATM 402. held to a higher standard than those enrolled in ATM 405. ATM 403/503 BIOGEOCHEMISTRY (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: ATM 402/502 or ATM 406 GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL permission of instructor. The earth system is CHANGE tightly connected through biogeochemical (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CHEM 112 or interactions. This course will present a multi- equivalent, PHYS 111 or PHYS 113, BIOL 311, disciplinary array of intermediate and advanced or permission of instructor. Major global topics in terrestrial, aquatic, and atmospheric environmental changes will be addressed using an biogeochemistry. Instantaneous to decadal time- interdisciplinary approach. Topics will include scale interactions of carbon, water, and multiple basic processes and principles of ecosystems, nutrient cycles will be discussed, and a critical biogeochemical cycles, major climate controls, survey of the state-of-the-art field, modeling, and atmospheric chemistry and feedbacks between remote sensing methods for studying climate and various earth system processes. This biogeochemical cycles will be presented. ATM course is cross-listed with BIOL 403. 503 satisfies the Earth Systems distribution requirement for the ATM M.S. program. Students ATM 450/450L SYNOPTIC enrolled in ATM 503 will be held to a higher METEOROLOGY I standard than those enrolled in ATM 403. (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisite: ATM 301. Analysis of surface synoptic weather, upper air, and ATM 404 ATMOSPHERIC vertical temperature-moisture soundings; the THERMODYNAMICS structure of extratropical storms, synoptic-scale (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: PHYS 211 and processes responsible for development of MATH 225 or permission of instructor. This precipitation and severe weather phenomena. course will cover topics related to the thermodynamics of the atmosphere, particularly ATM 460/560 ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS as they apply to a parcel of air. It will include the (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: MATH 321 and history of gas laws leading to the ideal gas law, PHYS 211. Equations of motion, kinematics of the first and second laws of thermodynamics, fluid flow, continuity equation, vertical motion, adiabatic transformations and the introduction of theorems of circulation and vorticity, quasi- entropy, the thermodynamic properties of water in geostrophic systems, and wave motions in the its three phases, the effects of water vapor on the atmosphere. Satisfies the meteorology thermodynamics of atmospheric processes. distribution requirement for the ATM M.S. Vertical stability will be introduced and program. Students enrolled in ATM 560 will be atmospheric thermodynamic diagrams will be held to a higher standard than those enrolled in discussed. ATM 460.
ATM 405/505 AIR QUALITY ATM 491 INDEPENDENT STUDY (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: Math 125 or 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of equivalent and one semester of college chemistry. instructor. Includes directed study, problems, Up-to-date problems and trends in urban air readings, directed readings, special problems and quality, global effects of environmental pollution, special projects. Students complete
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individualized plans of study which include Satisfies the Techniques distribution requirement significant one-on-one student-teacher for the ATM M.S. program. involvement. The faculty member and students negotiate the details of the study plans. ATM 530 RADAR METEOROLOGY Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: MATH 123 or Meeting frequency depends upon the equivalent. Fundamentals of radar, scattering of requirements of the topic. May be repeated to a electromagnetic waves by water drops and other total of three (3) credit hours. hydrometeors, radar equations and the quantitative study of precipitation echoes, ATM 492 TOPICS hydrometeor size distributions, Doppler weather 1 to 3 credits. Includes current topics, advanced radars, and applications of radar in meteorology. topics and special topics. A course devoted to a Satisfies the Techniques distribution requirement particular issue in a specified field. Course for the ATM M.S. program. content is not wholly included in the regular curriculum. Guest experts may serve as ATM 540 ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY instructors. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: PHYS 213 or students with significant one-on-one equivalent or permission of instructor. This student/teacher involvement. May be repeated to course will cover topics in fair weather electricity a total of five (5) credit hours. including ions, conductivity, currents, and fields making up the global circuit. In addition, topics ATM 515/515L EARTH SYSTEMS in thunderstorm electricity including charge MODELING separation theories and the microphysical and (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisite: MATH 125 or dynamic interactions responsible for charging, equivalent. This course provides the background current balances, and the lightning discharge will for earth systems and climate modeling, with be introduced. Satisfies the meteorology student projects on 0-D, 1-D, and 2-D models. distribution requirement for the ATM M.S. The course will cover: radiation balance, climate program. feedback mechanisms, greenhouse gases, biogeochemical coupling, land and ocean surface ATM 550/550L SYNOPTIC processes, ecosystems, ocean circulations, and sea METEOROLOGY II ice. Course will include familiarization of (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisites: ATM 450 and systems modeling using the STELLA modeling concurrent enrollment in corresponding laboratory package. Students will also collaborate to module, or permission of instructor. Study and develop components of a larger modeling project. application of modern techniques for forecasting Satisfies the Techniques distribution requirement the development and movement of weather for the ATM M.S. program. systems and for forecasting various weather phenomena. Includes discussion of numerical ATM 520/520L REMOTE SENSING FOR weather prediction and suite of forecasting models RESEARCH run daily by the National Centers for (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisites: Math 125 or Environmental Prediction; use of current software equivalent, CSC 150 or equivalent, or permission packages such as McIDAS and GEMPAK for of instructor. Radiative transfer with respect to analyzing observed data and model output: satellite remote sensing. Basic IDL programming. interpreting weather phenomena in terms of Image processing. Image enhancement. Image dynamical theories; forecasting of convective classification and interpretation. Satellite weather phenomena; understanding the use of operations. Overview of operational and Model Output Statistics (MOS). Satisfies the research satellite platforms and select meteorology distribution requirement for the applications. The remote sensing of surface and ATM M.S. program. atmospheric features. Labs and student projects.
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ATM 570 WILDFIRE METEOROLOGY these natural processes will be revisited (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: ATM 301 or throughout the course, and overviews of trace gas equivalent. In this course students will learn measurement techniques will be presented. about basic physical processes related to fire Satisfies the Earth Systems distribution behavior and fire weather. Topics include requirement for the ATM M.S. program. combustion and heat, forest fuels, fire danger, fire behavior and spread, fire spread models, smoke ATM 608/608L AIR QUALITY MODELING management, prescribed fire, and case studies of (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisites: MATH 125 or significant large wildfires in recent history. Some equivalent. A treatment of diffusion and outdoor field instruction is included. dispersion modeling for point and area emissions. Gaussian diffusion, climatological screening ATM 591 INDEPENDENT STUDY techniques, dispersion in complex terrain, and 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of physical basis of dispersion model will be treated. instructor. Directed independent study of a topic Current EPA regulatory models will be or field of special interest. This may involve emphasized. Some knowledge of computer readings, research, laboratory or fieldwork, and programming is desirable. Satisfies the preparation of papers, as agreed to in advance, by Techniques distribution requirement for the ATM student and instructor. M.S. program.
ATM 592 TOPICS ATM 612 ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY 1 to 3 credits. Lecture course or seminar on a (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: One year of college topic or field of special interest, as determined by chemistry. Radiative, chemical, and biological the instructor. processes associated with formation of stratospheric ozone, tropospheric ozone, biogenic ATM 601 ADVANCED PHYSICAL emissions and human-caused emissions, METEOROLOGY “greenhouse” effects, and aqueous-phase (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of equilibria in clouds. The approach will include instructor. Thermodynamics and kinetics of aspects of classical chemistry, nucleation, homogeneous and heterogeneous nucleation instrumentation, and modeling of effects of processes primarily involving the various water chemical pollutants on cloud microphysics. phases. Physics and chemistry of atmospheric Interactions of biological and human-caused reactions involving natural and artificial aerosols. emission of trace gases with radiation and oxidant Satisfies the meteorology distribution requirement balance of the earth’s atmosphere. Topics to be for the ATM M.S. program. addressed include; stratospheric ozone formation and the “ozone hole,” Tropospheric ozone ATM 603 BIOSPHERE-ATMOSPHERE formation, field techniques to measure chemical INTERACTIONS fluxes, and photochemistry of the remote (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of troposphere. Satisfies the Earth Systems instructor. The biosphere and the atmosphere are distribution requirement for the ATM M.S. intimately connected. In this course, the program. biogeochemical sources and sinks of a wide range of gases affecting atmospheric chemistry, climate, ATM 625/625L SCALING IN GEOSCIENCES and ecosystem health are examined in detail. (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisites: MATH 125, CSC Microbial, plant, and animal processes relating to 150, or equivalent; MATH 441/442 or equivalent. nitrogen, sulfur, and carbon trace gas production Issues regarding the scaling of geophysical and consumption will be covered in detail. processes across various problem domains in the Relevant biophysical phenomena occurring in geosciences will be presented and explored vegetation canopies, soils, wetlands, and oceans through lectures, labs and course projects. Topics will be discussed. The role of humans in altering include Fourier Analysis, Taylor/Moment
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Expansion, Fractals, Power Laws, and instability; numerical methods; numerical Upscaling/Downscaling Techniques. prediction models; boundary layer; moisture and Applications include Climate, Turbulence, radiation parameterization, and data assimilation. Weather and Climate Prediction, Remote Sensing Satisfies the Techniques distribution requirement and GIS, Ecosystem Studies, Geology, and for the ATM M.S. program. Hydrology. Satisfies the Techniques distribution requirement for the ATM M.S. program. ATM 651/651L MEASUREMENT AND INSTRUMENTATION ATM 640 ADVANCED ATMOSPHERIC (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of ELECTRICITY instructor. An overview of the principles of (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: ATM 540, ATM measurement will be covered, in combination 642. This course is a continuation of ATM 540 with detailed investigations into instruments and will include a more in-depth look at the designed to measure some of the following processes involved in thunderstorm electrification. phenomena: radiation, temperature, humidity, Various charge separation mechanisms will be wind, precipitation, photosynthesis, surface examined through a review of the literature. The reflectance, and concentrations and fluxes of trace modeling of storm electrification and lightning gases. Multiple scale measurement techniques will also be presented. Satisfies the meteorology will be addressed. Students will learn to collect, distribution requirement for the ATM M.S. log, and download field data using both manual program. and automatic methods. An integral part of the course will be a field-based measurement project. ATM 642 PHYSICS AND DYNAMICS OF The topics covered in this course will vary CLOUDS depending on the research interests of students (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: ATM 501. enrolled and the contributing professors. Satisfies Thermodynamics and dynamics of clouds and the Techniques distribution requirement for the convective storms. Buoyancy, effects of ice ATM M.S. program. formation, shear-buoyancy relations and convective storm structure. Storm dynamics and ATM 660 ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS II microphysical processes. Numerical cloud (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: ATM 560. models. Structure and dynamics of severe storms, Derivation, solution, and physical interpretation of stratiform, and mesoscale cloud systems. the fundamental hydrothermodynamic equations Satisfies the meteorology distribution requirement as applied to atmospheric waves, mesoscale for the ATM M.S. program. motions, atmospheric energetics, general circulation, tropical and stratospheric flows. ATM 643 PRECIPITATION PHYSICS AND Introduction to numerical prediction. Satisfies CLOUD MODIFICATION the meteorology distribution requirement for the (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: ATM 501 or ATM M.S. program. equivalent. Aerosols, condensational drop growth, growth of ice particles by deposition of ATM 662 GENERAL (GLOBAL) vapor, accretion, and cloud modification CIRCULATION techniques. Emphasis on problem solving with (3-0) 3 credits. A study of the general circulation aid of computers. Satisfies the meteorology of the atmosphere including quasi-geostropic distribution requirement for the ATM M.S. equations; planetary waves; geostropic program. adjustment; barotropic, baroclinic instability; frontogenesis; and tropical cyclones. Satisfies the ATM 644 NUMERICAL DYNAMICS AND meteorology distribution requirement for the PREDICTION ATM M.S. program. (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: ATM 560. Basic governing equations; wave motions; baroclinic
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ATM 670 BOUNDARY LAYER PROCESSES defense of thesis and research findings are (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: ATM 501, ATM required. Graduate research assistants and 560, or permission of instructor. Atmospheric students under faculty supervision for their structure and processes near the ground. research are required to enroll in this course each Turbulence and the closure problem, buoyancy semester. and stress-driven mixed layers, mixed layer growth, heat, moisture, and momentum transfer, BADM 101 SURVEY OF BUSINESS surface balance of radiation, heat and moisture, (3-0) 3 credits. This course is an introduction to parameterization, and modeling of the boundary the basic business disciplines and the organization layer. Satisfies the meteorology distribution and management of the American enterprise requirement for the ATM M.S. program. system. It also introduces students to the necessary college level skills of critical thinking, ATM 673 MESOMETEOROLOGY effective communication and cooperative and (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: ATM 560 or effective learning. This course cannot count as permission of instructor. Observations and social science/humanities credit. This course is analysis of basic meteorological fields on the taught by Black Hills State University. mesoscale. Dynamics, phenomenology, and forecasting of mesoscale weather phenomena: BADM 221 MANAGERIAL STATISTICS Internally generated circulations, mesoscale (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: MATH 281. The convective systems, externally forced circulations. course is designed to provide students with an Mesoscale modeling and nowcasting. Satisfies understanding of the computations and subsequent the meteorology distribution requirement for the application of statistical methods used in business ATM M.S. program. management and economics. Particular emphasis is placed on such areas as: sampling methods (e.g. ATM 690 SEMINAR estimates for simple random, stratified, cluster, (1-0) 1 credit. Not to exceed one credit toward and systematic sampling), Total Quality fulfillment of M.S. degree requirements. Management (e.g. statistical process control and Enrollment required of all graduate students in its application to monitoring process variables), residence each spring semester. times series analysis and forecasting, smoothing techniques, and multiple regression techniques. INDEPENDENT STUDY This course cannot count as social 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of science/humanities credit. This course is taught instructor. Directed independent study of a topic by Black Hills State University. or field of special interest. This may involve readings, research, laboratory or field work, and BADM 293 WORKSHOP preparation of papers, as agreed to in advance, by 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of student and instructor. instructor. Special, intense sessions in specific topic areas. Approximately 45 hours of work is ATM 692 TOPICS required for each hour of credit. Workshops may 1 to 3 credits. Lecture course or seminar on a vary in time range but typically use a compressed topic or field of special interest, as determined by time period for delivery. They may include the instructor. lectures, conferences, committee work, and group activity. This course cannot count as social ATM 798 MASTER’S THESIS science/humanities credit. This course is taught Credit to be arranged. Not to exceed six credits by Black Hills State University. toward fulfillment of M.S. degree requirements. Open only to students admitted to the ATM M.S. BADM 310 BUSINESS FINANCE program. Supervised original or expository (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: ACCT 211. research culminating in an acceptable thesis. Oral Business finance is an overview of financial
242 Courses theory including the time value of money, capital product and pricing decisions, distribution and budgeting, capital structure theory, dividend promotion decisions, marketing management, and policies, asset pricing, risk and return, the evaluation and control aspects for both consumer efficient markets hypothesis, bond and stock and industrial goods. This course cannot count as valuation, business performance evaluation, and social science/humanities credit. This course is other financial topics. This course cannot count taught by Black Hills State University. for humanities/social science credit. This course is taught by Black Hills State University. BADM 406/506 ACCOUNTING FOR ENTREPRENEURS BADM 336 ENTREPRENEURSHIP I (3-0) 3 credits. Accounting concepts and (3-0) 3 credits. This course is an introduction to practices for entrepreneurs/small business owners. the concepts, terminology, and process of new Emphasis given to the use of accounting tools to venture creation, operation and growth, as well as solve small business problems. Students enrolled the introduction of entrepreneurial management in BADM 506 will be held to a higher standard practices into existing businesses. New ventures than those enrolled in BADM 406. This course is include public and non-profit institutions as well cross-listed with ACCT 406/506 and ENTR as for profit businesses. This course will assist in 406/506. This course cannot count as a social the identification of entrepreneurial opportunities science/humanities credit. This course is taught and strategies and the role of personal factors by Black Hills State University. (including creativity). Legal, ethical, and social responsibilities are emphasized. This course is BADM 438/538 ENTREPRENEURSHIP II cross-listed with ENTR 336. This course cannot (3-0) 3 credits. This course focuses on the count as a social science/humanities credit. This process of screening an opportunity, drafting a course is taught by Black Hills State University. personal entrepreneurial strategy, and understanding the business plan writing process. BADM 350 LEGAL ENVIRONMENT OF Building the entrepreneurial team and the BUSINESS acquisition and management of financial (3-0) 3 credits. This is a study of legal topics as resources are emphasized along with venture they apply to the business environment. Topics growth, harvest strategies, and valuation. include an introduction to the law, the U.S. court Students enrolled in BADM 538 will be held to a system, legal process, government regulation, and higher standard than those enrolled in BADM criminal, tort, and contract issues. This course is 438. This course is cross-listed with ENTR taught by Black Hills State University. 438/538. This course cannot count as a social science/humanities credit. This course is taught BADM 360 ORGANIZATION AND by Black Hills State University. MANAGEMENT (3-0) 3 credits. This course is a study of BADM 489 BUSINESS PLAN WRITING management, including the planning, directing, AND COMPETITION controlling and coordinating of the various (1-0) 1 credit. Students will write a business plan activities involved in operating a business and present it to a panel of faculty and business enterprise. This course is taught by Black Hills community members. The top three business plan State University. presenters will more on to a statewide competition. This course is cross-listed with BADM 370 MARKETING ENTR 489. This course is taught by Black Hills (3-0) 3 credits. This course introduces the State University. student to the basic concepts and practices of modern marketing. Topics include marketing and BADM 491 INDEPENDENT STUDY its linkages to business, consumer behavior, 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of marketing research, strategy and planning, instructor. Includes directed study, problems,
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readings, directed readings, special problems and BIOL 151 GENERAL BIOLOGY I special projects. Students complete (3-0) 3 credits. The introductory course for those individualized plans of study which include majoring in biology and microbiology. Presents significant one-on-one student-teacher the concepts of cell biology, evolution, heredity, involvement. The faculty member and students molecular genetics, and ecology. negotiate the details of the study plans. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. BIOL 151L GENERAL BIOLOGY I LAB Meeting depending upon the requirements of the (0-1) 1 credit. Prerequisite or corequisite: BIOL topic. This course cannot count as social 151. Laboratory experience that accompanies science/humanities credit. This course is taught BIOL 151. Laboratory exercises designed to by Black Hills State University. reinforce subject material covered in BIOL 151 lectures. BADM 493 WORKSHOP 1 to 3 credits. Special, intense sessions in specific BIOL 153 GENERAL BIOLOGY II topic areas. Approximately 45 hours of work is (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: BIOL 151. A required for each hour of credit. Workshops may continuation of BIOL 151, the introductory course vary in time range but typically use a compressed for those majoring in biology and microbiology. time period for delivery. They may include Presents the concepts of animal and plant lectures, conferences, committee work, and group structure and function, energetics, and activity. This course cannot count as social reproduction. science/humanities credit. This course is taught by Black Hills State University. BIOL 153L GENERAL BIOLOGY II LAB (0-1) 1 credit. Prerequisite or corequisite: BIOL BIOL 121 BASIC ANATOMY 153. Laboratory experience that accompanies (3-0) 3 credits. Anatomy of the human body to BIOL 153. Laboratory exercises designed to include basic biological principles and medical reinforce subject material covered in BIOL 153 nomenclature. This course is specifically lectures. designed for students in the pre-nursing curriculum. BIOL 231 GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: CHEM 106. BIOL 121L BASIC ANATOMY LAB Principles of basic and applied microbiology. (0-1) 1 credit. Prerequisite or corequisite: BIOL Topics covered are bacteriology, virology, 121. Laboratory experience that accompanies microbial genetics, immunology, and disinfection. BIOL 121. Exercises to complement material in BIOL 121 with special emphasis on the anatomy BIOL 231L GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY of the cat. LAB (0-1) 1 credit. Prerequisites: CHEM 106/106L. BIOL 123 BASIC PHYSIOLOGY Prerequisite or corequisite: BIOL 231. (3-0) 3 credits. The physiology of the human Laboratory experience that accompanies BIOL body. This course is specifically designed for 231. Basic laboratory skills necessary for general students in a pre-nursing curriculum. microbiology. Emphases are made on techniques of aseptic bacterial transfer, serial dilutions in BIOL 123L BASIC PHYSIOLOGY LAB bacterial cell counts, bacterial staining, and (0-1) 1 credit. Prerequisite or corequisite: BIOL serology. 123. Laboratory exercises to accompany BIOL 123 including non-invasive experimentation and BIOL 298 UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH computer demonstration materials. 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Includes senior project, and capstone experience. Independent research
244 Courses problems/projects or scholarship activities. The basic processes and principles of ecosystems, plan of study is negotiated by the faculty member biogeochemical cycles, major climate controls, and the student. Contact between the two may be atmospheric chemistry, and feedbacks between extensive and intensive. Does not include climate and various earth system processes. This research courses which are theoretical. course is cross-listed with ATM 406.
BIOL 311 PRINCIPLES OF ECOLOGY BIOL 423 PATHOGENESIS (3-0) 3 credits. Basic principles of ecology (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: BIOL 231and including the subdisciplines of physiological CHEM 112. Lecture/discussion course on ecology, population ecology, community ecology, principles of medical microbiology including the evolutionary ecology, and ecosystems ecology molecular basis of pathogensis, host-parasite from both a theoretical and applied aspect. relationship, and pathology of animal and human diseases. Emphasis on current literature in BIOL 330 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE pathogensis. (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: CHEM 114, and one semester of college physics. Environmental BIOL 423L PATHOGENESIS LAB science discussing concepts pertaining to (0-1) 1 credit. Prerequisites: BIOL 231L or environmental problems and their possible equivalent; pre- or corequisite: BIOL 423. Basic solutions. This course is cross-listed with CHEM laboratory skills necessary for pathogenic 330. microbiology. Emphasis is on bacteriological, biochemical and serological tests of medically BIOL 341 MICROBIAL PROCESSES IN important pathogens. ENGINEERING AND NATURAL SCIENCES (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CHEM 112. This BIOL 431 INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY course introduces and develops important (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: BIOL 231 or fundamental topics including: microbial structure equivalent. The roles of microbes in nature, and chemistry; cellular metabolism; and industry, and public health are considered. intercellular processes and extracellular Application of microbiology to engineering is conditions that control microbial behavior, emphasized. Concurrent registration in BIOL leading to applications such as biocatalysis, 431L recommended but not required. biofuels production, environmental bioremediation, food processing, microbial BIOL 431L INDUSTRIAL ecology, pharmaceuticals production, MICROBIOLOGY LABORATORY environmental microbiology, and wastewater (0-1) 1 credit. Prerequisites: BIOL 231L or renovation. equivalent; pre- or corequisite: BIOL 431. Basic laboratory skills necessary for applied BIOL 371 GENETICS environmental microbiology. Emphasis is on (3-0) 3 credits. Principles governing the nature, sampling of environmental microorganisms, transmission and function of hereditary material bacterial growth curve, analysis of water quality, with application to plants, animals, humans, and isolation of coliphages, and Ames test for microorganisms. chemical mutagens.
BIOL 403 GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL BIOL 491 INDEPENDENT STUDY CHANGE 1 to 4 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CHEM 112 or instructor. Includes directed study, problems, equivalent, PHYS 111 or PHYS 113, BIOL 311, readings, directed readings, special problems and or permission of instructor. Major global special projects. Students complete environmental changes will be addressed using an individualized plans of study which include interdisciplinary approach. Topics will include significant one-on-one student-teacher
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involvement. The faculty member and students of investigative devices exemptions and 510k negotiate the details of the study plans. submissions. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. Meeting depending upon the requirements of the BME 602 ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY topic. FOR ENGINEERS (3-0) 3 credits. Introduces biomedical BIOL 492 TOPICS engineering students to fundamentals of human 1 to 5 credits. Includes current topics, advanced anatomy and physiology. Topics include topics and special topics. A course devoted to a engineering anthropometry, the skeletal system, particular issue in a specified field. Course skeletal muscle, the neuromuscular control content is not wholly included in the regular system, the respiratory system, the circulatory curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as system, the metabolic system, the instructors. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer thermoregulatory system, body rhythms, and an students with significant one-on-one introduction to reengineering the human body. student/teacher involvement. BME 603 MOLECULAR BIOLOGY FOR BIOL 691 INDEPENDENT STUDY ENGINEERS 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of (3-0) 3 credits. This course is designed to provide instructor. Directed independent study of a topic a basic knowledge on molecular biology and or field of special interest. This may involve bioinformatics that is directly applicable to readings, research, laboratory, or fieldwork, and engineering and related science fields. Up-to-date preparation of papers, as agreed to in advance, by techniques in genetic engineering biotechnology, student and instructor. and bioinformatics will be introduced for the understanding of biological problems using BIOL 692 TOPICS engineering concepts or engineering/mechanical 1 to 3 credits. Lecture course or seminar on a problems through biological tools. topic or field of special interest, as determined by the instructor. BME 604 SENSING AND SIGNAL PROCESSING BME 601 BIOMATERIALS (3-0) 3 credits. Presentation of principles, (3-0) 3 credits. This course will provide students characteristics, and applications of with an overview of the field of biomaterials with instrumentation systems including, sensors, filters, the knowledge necessary to conduct biomedical instrumentation amplifiers, analog-to-digital and product development and/or biomaterials digital-to-analog conversions, and noise. This research. The first portion of the course will course will be useful to graduate students provide an introduction to the major classes of beginning their laboratory thesis research. It is materials used in medical devices including available to students from other departments with metals, polymers, ceramics, composites, and permission of instructor. natural materials. Topics covered will include material properties, material processing, testing, BME 606 OCCUPATIONAL corrosion, biocompatibility, tissue responses, etc. BIOMECHANICS The second portion of the course will cover (3-0) 3 credits. Anatomical and physiological specific biomaterial applications such as dental, concepts are introduced to understand and predict orthopedic, cardiovascular, drug delivery, and human motor capabilities, with particular tissue engineering. The topics of implant emphasis on the evaluation and design of manual cleanliness and sterilization methods will also be activities in various occupations. Quantitative discussed. In addition, the topic of national and models are developed to explain muscle strength international governmental regulations and performance; cumulative and acute requirements will be reviewed including examples musculoskeletal injury; physical fatigue; and
246 Courses human motion control. nano-systems to biological systems, interaction of living cells and tissues with MEMS substrates and BME 607 BIOMECHANICS nano-engineered materials, microfluidics, (3-0) 3 credits. This course presents and engineering of inputs and outputs. introduction to biomechanics from a continuum mechanics perspective. It covers fundamental BME 731 ADVANCED BIOMECHANICS concepts of solid and fluid mechanics with (3-0) 3 credits. The course presents the applications to living systems. Topics in biosolid fundamentals of continuum mechanics and mechanics include stress, strain, constitutive nonlinear theory of elasticity with applications to relations, equilibrium, response to basic loading the mechanical behavior of soft biological tissues. modes (extension, bending, and torsion), and buckling. Topics in biofluid mechanics include BME 732 MEDICAL IMAGING motion of a continuum, constitutive relations, (3-0) 3 credits. This course covers the physics of fundamental balance relations, control volume the major modalities commonly used in medical and semi-empirical methods. imaging. Also covered are the various principles and methods of constructing an image from the BME 724 BIOPOLYMERS physical interactions of energy with living tissue, (3-0) 3 credits. This course is to survey the and the influence on image quality of the different structure, function, properties and use of modalities. Medical imaging systems to be biopolymers. The course has three fifty minute analyzed include conventional X-ray, computed lectures per week on Monday, Wednesday and tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging Friday. Supporting reading materials will be (MRI), nuclear medicine (PET and SPECT), and assigned from the textbook and supplementary ultrasound. Each of these modalities will be reading materials (see the list above). Please note introduced from basic physical principles to the that the textbook is meant to supplement the process of image formation. The primary focus is lectures, not to substitute for them; you will on the physical principles, instrumentation ONLY be responsible for the materials presented methods, and imaging algorithms; however, the in the lectures. medical interpretation of images, and clinical, research and ethical issues are also included BME 725 BIOCOMPOSITES where possible to give students a deeper (3-0) 3 credits. This course focuses on composite understanding of the medical imaging field. materials applied to bioengineering. First part of the course introduces biocomposites for medical BME 733 CARDIOVASCULAR FLUID applications and biocompatibility. Second part DYNAMICS focuses on mechanical design and manufacturing (3-0) 3 credits. Mechanics of blood circulation, aspects of various fibrous polymer matrix fluid mechanics of the heart, blood flow in composites in terms of: i) material selection, arteries, unsteady flow in veins, current concepts fabrication, and characterization, ii) mechanics of in circulatory assist devices, biofluidics, and other composite materials, iii) design with composite selected topics. Review of cardiovascular materials. Third part deals with ceramic or nano physiology; introduction to fluid mechanics; composites and their applications in biomedical Models of blood flow and arterial wall dynamics; engineering. Final part introduces various case Fluid mechanics and arterial disease; heart valve studies such as dental, orthopedics, prosthetic fluid dynamics; Ventricular assist devices. socket, and external fixator applications. BME 734 TRANSPORT PHENOMENA IN BME 726 BIOCOMPOSITES BIO/MEMS BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING AND NANO SYSTEMS (3-0) 3 credits. The study of transport phenomena (3-0) 3 credits. Course Description: Application in biomedical systems including analysis of of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and engineering and physiological systems and
247 Courses incorporation of these principles into the design of BME 738 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY such systems. The objective of this course is for IN MEDICINE students to learn to think about, understand and (3-0) 3 credits. Software techniques used in model the dynamic behavior of complex medical treatment and diagnosis, including biological systems. The scope of the systems to be transform techniques. Medical reference software studied is restricted to an analysis of biotransport engineering. Data mining. Hardware and phenomena in the human body. connectivity issues. Bioinformatics.
BME 735 CAD/CAM IN MEDICINE AND BME 745 MOLECULAR MACHINES SURGERY (3-0) 3 credits. This course studies forces that (3-0) 3 credits. Introduction to computer aided determine molecular structure, transport, and design and modeling of prosthetic devices, and diffusion, macromolecular assemblies, protein their subsequent manufacture using computer synthesis, structural biology, molecular genetics, aided manufacturing techniques. Applications in enzymology. orthopedic implant design and fabrication, dental implant design and fabrication, as well as other BME 746 BIOMIMETICS types of prosthetics. An advanced level review of (3-0) 3 credits. This course will survey recent current computer modeling and manufacturing research at the intersection of biology and technology for medical applications. mechanical/structural engineering, in particular, applications where nature’s design philosophies BME 736 ADVANCED FINITE ELEMENT are applied in human-engineered structures. METHODS Multi-functional materials, hierarchical design, (3-0) 3 credits. Variational and weighted residual adaptive materials within closed loop systems, approach to finite element equations. Emphasis self-healing of natural structures, with a view to on two- and three-dimensional problems in solid self-healing human engineered structures. mechanics. Isoparametric element formulations, Applications in aerospace and rehabilitation higher order elements, numerical integration, engineering. imposition of constraints, convergence, and other more advanced topics. Introduction to geometric BME 790 SEMINAR and material nonlinearities. Introduction to the (1-0) 1 credits. May not be repeated for degree solution of dynamic problems and time credit. Preparation, oral and/or written integration. Use of finite element computer presentation, and group discussion of a research programs. problem. The student is expected to present orally the results of his/her own research. This BME 737 ADVANCED SIGNAL presentation normally will directly precede the PROCESSING AND IMAGING final defense of the thesis. Enrollment is generally (3-0) 3 credits. This course develops the theory limited to fewer than 20 students. essential to understanding the algorithms that are increasingly found in modern signal processing BME 792 TOPICS applications, such as speech, image processing, 1 to 4 credits. Lecture course or seminar on a digital radio and audio, statistical and adaptive topic or field of special interest, as determined by systems. Topics include: analysis of non- the instructor. stationary signals, transform techniques, Wiener filters, Kalman filters, multirate systems and filter BME 798 MASTER’S THESIS banks, hardware implementation and simulation Credit to be arranged; not to exceed 6 credits of filters, and applications of multirate signal toward fulfillment of M.S. degree requirements. processing. Matlab will be used extensively. Open only to students pursuing the M.S. thesis option. Supervised original or expository research culminating in an acceptable thesis. Oral defense
248 Courses of these and research findings are required. This 550 will be held to a higher standard than those course will be the basis for the student’s thesis enrolled in CBE 450. This course is cross-listed required in partial fulfillment of the requirements with CHE 450/550. for the master of science degree in the Biomedical Engineering program. CBE 484/584 FUNDAMENTALS OF BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING BME 896 FIELD EXPERIENCE (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CHE 343 and BIOL (0-1) 1 credits. Students will spend a minimum of 231 or BIOL 341. An introduction to the 3 hours per week in a hospital or another characterization of microorganisms, fermentation program-approved health care facility. They will pathways, unit processes in fermentation, observe and/or work with the technical and biochemical kinetics, and batch and continuous clinical staff in order to develop insights into the fermentation. The basic engineering concepts of health care profession and the role of engineering fermentation, separation, control, and operations in medicine as it applies to their focus area of will be discussed. Students enrolled in CBE 584 study and research. Required of doctoral students will be held to a higher standard than those only. enrolled in CBE 484. This course is cross-listed with CHE 484/584. BME 898 DISSERTATION Credit to be arranged; not to exceed 30 credits CBE 484L/584L BIOCHEMICAL toward fulfillment of Ph.D. degree requirements. ENGINEERING LABORATORY Open only to doctoral candidates. Supervised (0-1) 1 credit. Corequisite: CBE/CHE 484/584. original research investigation of a selected Laboratory experiments in biochemical problem, with emphasis on independent work, engineering. May include fermentation, dissolved culminating in an acceptable dissertation. Oral oxygen mass transfer measurements, defense of dissertation and research findings are bioseparations, and other experiments to correlate required. with selected lecture topics. Students enrolled in CBE 584L will be held to a higher standard than CBE 444/544 REACTOR DESIGN those enrolled in CBE 484L. This course is cross- (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: CHE 343, CHE listed with CHE 484L/585L. 250. Applications of chemical engineering principles to reactor design. Emphasis includes: CBE 612 TRANSPORT PHENOMENA: non-isothermal reactor modeling, homogeneous MOMENTUM and heterogeneous reactors, economic and (3-0) 3 credits. Introduction to momentum performance optimization, catalysis, and transport. Equations of continuity and motion. computer simulation. Students enrolled in CBE Velocity distributions. Boundary layer theory. 544 will be held to a higher standard than those Turbulent transport compressible flow. This enrolled in CBE 444. This course is cross-listed course is cross-listed with CHE/ME 612. with CHE 444/544. CBE 613 TRANSPORT PHENOMENA: CBE 450/550 SYSTEMS ANALYSIS HEAT APPLIED TO CHEMICAL ENGINEERING (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: ME 313, MATH 2 to 3 credits. Prerequisite or corequisites: CHE 373 (concurrent). An in-depth study of the 417, CHE 433, or permission of instructor. The fundamental laws of heat transfer. Major areas development of mathematical models for dynamic considered are: heat conduction, free and forced and steady state chemical engineering systems; convection, and radiative heat transfer. Emphasis simulation of these complex systems using is placed on the formulation and solution of computers and software, such as AspenPlus; engineering problems by analytical and numerical estimation of physical and equilibrium properties; methods. This course is cross-listed with and analysis of results. Students enrolled in CBE CHE/ME 613.
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CBE 616 COMPUTATIONS IN field of special interest, as determined by the TRANSPORT PHENOMENA instructor. (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: MATH 373 or permission of instructor. Various computerized CBE 890 SEMINAR techniques, including finite difference and finite (1-0) 1 credit. Prerequisite: Permission of element, will be used to solve transient and steady instructor. This course may be repeated for credit state heat transfer problems involving conduction and is designed to support the Ph.D. in Chemical and convection. This course is cross-listed with and Biological Engineering. The course may CHE/ME 616. consist of presentations by graduate students, faculty, and invited speakers, followed by CBE 621 ADVANCED CHEMICAL questions and discussions. ENGINEERING THERMODYNAMICS I (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CHE 321 or CBE 894 ADVANCED TECHNICAL permission of instructor. A mathematical INTERNSHIP development of fundamental laws of 1 to 6 credits. Prerequisite: Approval of advisor. thermodynamics and their application to chemical A single semester work experience in conjunction engineering operations and processes. with an industrial, state, governmental, or national Equilibrium and thermal effects in homogeneous laboratory employer. Each student will be asked and heterogeneous systems. This course is cross- to prepare a written report of their work listed with CHE 621. experience.
CBE 714 TRANSPORT PHENOMENA: CBE 898 DISSERTATION MASS 1 to 12 credits. Prerequisite: Approval of (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of advisor. An original investigation of a instructor. An in-depth study of the fundamental chemical/biological engineering subject, which laws of mass transfer. Emphasis is placed on the culminates in the oral and written presentation of formulation and solution of Chemical and a dissertation for the Ph.D. degree in Chemical Biological Engineering processes and problems and Biological Engineering. by analytical and numerical methods. This course is cross-listed with CHE/MES 714. CEE 117/117L COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN AND INTERPRETATION IN CIVIL CBE 728 HETEROGENEOUS KINETICS ENGINEERING (3-0) 3 credits. Principles of Absolute Rate (1-1) 2 credits. Students will learn to construct Theory are combined with thermodynamics to drawing documents using AutoCAD, the use of study the mechanisms of homogeneous and engineering and architectural scales, lettering heterogeneous reactions in metallurgical systems. practices, geometric construction (manually and This course is cross-listed with MES 728. AutoCAD), and the ability to visualize in three dimensions. CBE 791 INDEPENDENT STUDY 1 to 4 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of CEE 206/206L CIVIL ENGINEERING instructor. Directed independent study of topic or PRACTICE AND ENGINEERING SURVEYS I field of special interest. This may involve readings, research, laboratory or fieldwork, and (2-2) 4 credits. Prerequisite: An acceptable score preparation of papers, as agreed to in advance by on the Trigonometry Placement Examination; or student and instructor. trigonometry completed with a grade of “C” or better; or permission of instructor. An orientation CBE 792 TOPICS to the civil engineering profession including 1 to 4 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of historical development, civil engineering careers, instructor. Lecture course or seminar on topic or professional practice and ethics, and specialties in
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the profession. Mensuration with the application CEE 327/327L ENVIRONMENTAL of surveying techniques; basic surveying ENGINERING PROCESS ANALYSIS computations and field practice; theory of error (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisite or corequisite: CEE propagation and its analysis; fundamental 284 or CHE 250 and one of the following: EM concepts of horizontal, angular, and vertical 328, EM 331, CHE 218 or ME 331. As the measurements; control systems related to second course in the theory and practice of engineering-construction surveys. Horizontal and Environmental Engineering, emphasis is on vertical curves. Traverse computations. application of material balance concepts in environmental analysis and design with CEE 284/284L DIGITAL COMPUTATION consideration of water chemistry, environmental APPLICATIONS IN CIVIL ENGINEERING process kinetics, ideal and non-ideal reactors, and (3-1) 4 credits. Prerequisite: MATH 123. A one biological process fundamentals. These semester introductory course in programming fundamental principles are applied in selected with a language (Visual Basic) and with a spread natural and engineered environmental contexts sheet and MathCad. Elementary numerical spanning air, water and land systems and the methods and their application to civil engineering effects of society on environmental systems. problems will be illustrated by the programming Laboratory exercises will be completed and technique. reports with computer-generated text, tables and figures will be written. This course is cross-listed CEE 316/316L ENGINEERING AND with ENVE 327/327L. CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisites: Preceded by or CEE 336/336L HYDRAULIC SYSTEMS concurrent with EM 321, and CEE 284. DESIGN Principles that govern physical and mechanical (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisites: EM 331 and CEE properties of ferrous and nonferrous metals, 284. Analysis of flow in pipe systems, open plastics, bituminous materials, portland cement, channels, measuring devices, and model studies. aggregates, concrete, and timber. Laboratory Design of hydraulic systems associated with water exercises to demonstrate basic principles and supply, flood control, water storage and standard laboratory tests (ASTM Standards) of distribution, sewer systems, and other water structural materials. Computer-aided graphics resources. and word processing are required for lab reports. CEE 337 ENGINEERING HYDROLOGY CEE 326 INTRODUCTORY (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CEE 336 or EM 327 ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING or EM 328 or permission of instructor. A DESIGN quantification study of the components of the (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: CHEM 114 and hydrologic cycle with emphasis on engineering junior standing. As the first course in the theory applications involving the design of water and practice of environmental engineering, supplies, reservoirs, spillways, floodways, and emphases are on the acquisition of introductory urban drainage with computer applications. This knowledge pertaining to natural and engineered course is cross-listed with ENVE 337. environmental engineering systems, identification and mitigation of societal impacts upon the Earth, CEE 346/346L GEOTECHNICAL and application of environmental engineering ENGINEERING principles in the design and analysis of systems (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisites: EM 321. for water and wastewater treatment and Composition, structure, index, and engineering solid/hazardous waste management. This course properties of soils; soil classification systems; is cross-listed with ENVE 326. introduction to soil engineering problems involving stability, settlement, seepage, consolidation, and compaction; and laboratory
251 Courses work on the determination of index and CEE 421/521 ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS engineering properties of soils. Computer-aided ANALYSIS graphics and word processing required for lab (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: CEE/ENVE 327 or reports. graduate standing. Course emphasis is on applications of environmental chemistry and CEE 347 GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING II material balance in quantitative characterizations (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CEE 346. of operative processes in selected air, water, and Composition of soils, origin, and deposition, land systems and environmental health impacts. exploration, frost problems, swelling of soils, Analytical and computer solutions are performed. erosion protection, soil improvement, Students enrolled in CEE 521 will be held to a groundwater flow and dewatering, slope stability higher standard than those enrolled in CEE 421. of retaining structures, and rigid and flexible This course is cross-listed with ENVE 421/521. pavement design. The application of these topics to highway engineering will be stressed. CEE 426/526 ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING PHYSICAL/CHEMICAL CEE 353 STRUCTURAL THEORY PROCESS DESIGN (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: EM 321 and CEE (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: CEE/ENVE 326 284. Basic concepts in structural analysis of and CEE/ENVE 327, graduate standing, or beams, trusses, and frames. Determination of permission of instructor. A third course in the governing load conditions for moving loads by theory and practice of environmental engineering. use of influence lines. Development of basic Emphases are on the design and analysis of virtual work concept to obtain deflections for physical/chemical environmental engineering unit beams, trusses, and frames. Introduction to operations and processes. Students enrolled in approximate analysis. CEE 526 will be held to a higher standard than those enrolled in CEE 426. This course is cross- CEE 357/357L THEORY AND DESIGN OF listed with ENVE 426/526. METAL STRUCTURES I (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CEE 353. CEE 426L/526L ENVIRONMENTAL Correlation of analysis and design using the PHYSICAL/CHEMICAL PROCESS current building code requirements for steel LABORATORY structures. Design techniques are formulated for (0-1) 1 credit. Prerequisite or corequisite: axial, transverse and combined loading CEE/ENVE 426/526 or permission on instructor. conditions, for individual members and for A laboratory course to accompany CEE/ENVE connections between components of a structure. 426/526. Examination of processes employed in Comparisons between design requirements of design of environmental physical and chemical materials to illustrate relative benefits in structural systems for renovation of contaminated waters systems. and soils. Various bench-scale experiments will be performed with laboratory analysis using CEE 358 APPLIED STRUCTURAL DESIGN standard environmental web chemical and (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CEE 353 or instrumental analytical techniques. Laboratory permission of instructor. Elements of structural reports employing word processing, numerical design utilizing concrete, steel, or wood. Applied and statistical analysis, and interpretation of methods emphasizing practical, conservative, and process performance data will be written. economical solutions will be emphasized. Students enrolled in CEE 526L will be held to a Intended for students who will take no other higher standard than those enrolled in CEE 426L. structural design course. This course is cross-listed with ENVE 426L/526L.
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CEE 427/527 ENVIRONMENTAL Package and HEC-RAS Water Surface Profiles ENGINEERING BIOLOGICAL PROCESS computer programs. Each model is applied to an DESIGN actual watershed and conveyance channel. The (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: CEE/ENVE 326 student is responsible for two (2) project reports, and CEE/ENVE 327, graduate standing, or one for each model application. Data compilation permission of instructor. A fourth course in the and model development and execution will be theory and practice of environmental engineering. conducted in the lab portion of the class. Emphases are on the design and analysis of Development of the model inputs will include biological environmental engineering unit review of hydrologic and hydraulic processes operations and processes. Students enrolled in relating to model options. Students enrolled in CEE 527 will be held to a higher standard than CEE 537/537L will be held to a higher standard those enrolled in CEE 427. This course is cross- then those enrolled in CEE 437/437L. listed with ENVE 427/527. CEE 447/547 FOUNDATION CEE 427L/527L ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING BIOLOGICAL PROCESS LABORATORY (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CEE 346. (0-1) 1 credit. Prerequisite or corequisite: Application of the fundamental concepts of soil CEE/ENVE 427/527 or permission of instructor. behavior to evaluation, selection, and design of A laboratory course to accompany CEE/ENVE shallow and deep foundation systems. Related 427/527. Examination of processes employed in topics such as temporary support systems for design of environmental biological systems for excavations and pile driving are also included. renovation of contaminated waters and soils. Students enrolled in CEE 547 will be held to a Various bench-scale experiments will be higher standard than those enrolled in CEE 447. performed with laboratory analysis using standard environmental web chemical, microbiological, CEE 448/548 APPLIED GEOTECHNICAL and instrumental analytical techniques. ENGINEERING Laboratory reports employing word processing, (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: CEE 346 and CEE numerical and statistical analysis, and 347. Content will include the application of interpretation of process performance data will be principles taught in CEE 346 and 347 to practical written. Students enrolled in CEE 527L will be geotechnical engineering problems in the civil held to a higher standard than those enrolled in engineering Profession, such as exploration, CEE 427L. This course is cross-listed with pavement design, slope stability, geosynthetics, ENVE 427L/527L. geotechnical problems unique to the region, and dam design. Students enrolled in CEE 548 will be CEE 433/533 OPEN CHANNEL FLOW held to a higher standard than those enrolled in (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CEE 336. CEE 448. Application of continuity, momentum, and energy principles to steady flow in open channels; flow in CEE 453/453L DESIGN OF METAL the laminar and transition ranges; specific energy STRUCTURES II and critical depth; energy losses; channel controls; (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CEE 357. Analysis gradually and rapidly varied flow; and high and design of structural elements and connections velocity flow. Students enrolled in CEE 533 will for buildings, bridges, and specialized structures be held to a higher standard than those enrolled in that utilize structural metals. Behavior of CEE 433. structural systems under elastic and plastic design.
CEE 437/437L/537/537L WATERSHED AND CEE 456/456L CONCRETE THEORY AND FLOODPLAIN MODELING DESIGN (2-1) 3 credits. This course will consist of the (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CEE 353. application of the HEC-HMS Flood Hydrograph Properties and behavior of concrete and
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reinforcing steel. Analysis and design of engineer, and contractor organizational structures, structural slabs, beams, girders, columns, and project work break down structures, resource and footings with use of strength methods. Deflection asset allocation, computer and non-computer of flextural members. Development of scheduling by Critical Path Method (CPM) and reinforcement. Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT). Students enrolling will be required to CEE 457/457L INDETERMINATE perform an engineering project with written and STRUCTURES oral presentations. Students enrolled in CEE 574 (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CEE 353. Analysis will be held to a higher standard than those of indeterminate structures by classical and matrix enrolled in CEE 474. methods. The classical methods are the force method, the slope-deflection equations and the CEE 475/475L HIGHWAY ENGINEERING moment-distribution method. The classical (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Senior standing. methods also are used to determine influence lines This course is an introduction to the principles of for indeterminate structures. Stiffness matrices highway engineering. The course will cover the for truss and beam elements are derived and used integration of various levels of governmental to analyze trusses, beams, and frames. transportation systems along with aspects of safety and vehicle performance. Laboratory and CEE 463 CIVIL ENGINEERING lecture experiences will be provided in geometric PROFESSION design and materials selection, design and (1-0) 1 credit. Prerequisite: Senior in civil rehabilitation. Traffic planning methods and life engineering. Lecture and discussion with cycle cost analysis in highway engineering will emphasis on current civil engineering topics with also be covered. emphasis on professional, personal, and ethical development. CEE 491 INDEPENDENT STUDY 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of CEE 464 CIVIL ENGINEERING instructor. Includes directed study, problems, CAPSTONE DESIGN I readings, directed readings, special problems and (0-1) 1 credit. Prerequisite: Senior standing or special projects. Students complete permission of instructor. Content will include individualized plans of study which include major engineering design experience integrating significant one-on-one student-teacher fundamental concepts of mathematics, basic involvement. The faculty member and students science, engineering science, engineering design, negotiate the details of the study plans. communications skills, humanities, and social Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. science. Meeting depending upon the requirements of the topic. CEE 465 CIVIL ENGINEERING CAPSTONE DESIGN II CEE 492 TOPICS (0-2) 2 credits. Prerequisite: CEE 464. Content 1 to 3 credits. Includes current topics, advanced will include major engineering design experience topics and special topics. A course devoted to a integrating fundamental concepts of mathematics, particular issue in a specified field. Course basic science, engineering science, engineering content is not wholly included in the regular design, communications skills, humanities, and curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as social science. instructors. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one CEE 474/574 ENGINEERING PROJECT student/teacher involvement. MANAGEMENT (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Senior standing or permission of instructor. Study of owner,
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CEE 498 UNDERGRADUATE an equivalent course prior to enrolling in this RESEARCH/SCHOLARSHIP course. Topics include: methods employed in 1 to 6 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of assessment of environmental contamination and instructor. Includes senior project, and capstone remediation effectiveness; methods used in experience. Independent research obtaining and handling of water and soil samples; problems/projects or scholarship activities. The applications of analytical instrumentation (GC, plan of study is negotiated by the faculty member LC, AAS, UV/Vis, and total carbon) to assays of and the student. Contact between the two may be environmental samples; field and lab QA/QC; extensive and intensive. Does not include preparation of investigative reports. research courses which are theoretical. CEE 634 SURFACE WATER HYDROLOGY CEE 621 ENVIRONMENTAL (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: CEE 337 or CONTAMINANT FATE AND TRANSPORT permission of instructor. Review and advanced (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: CEE 421 or CEE study of hydrologic cycle including precipitation, 521 or permission of instructor. Mathematical infiltration, evapotranspiration, and runoff. analysis of the processes governing the fate and Applications to analysis and design of water movement of anthropogenic contaminants in supplies, reservoirs, spillways, floodways, urban natural systems. Topics include: liquid-solid, runoff, and protection systems. vapor-solid, and vapor-liquid partitioning; liquid and vapor phase convection and diffusion; biotic CEE 643 ADVANCED SOIL MECHANICS I and abiotic transformations; and mathematical (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CEE 346 or modeling of coupled processes. permission of instructor. One- and two- dimensional consolidation theory; field CEE 622 ADVANCED TREATMENT consolidation behavior; anisotropic consolidation; PLANT DESIGN geotechnical material failure criteria; constitutive (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: CEE 327, CEE 336, laws for geotechnical materials; flexible and rigid and CEE 426, or permission of instructor. beams on elastic foundations; analysis of single Advanced topics relating to the design of systems and group piles under various loadings; stress for the renovation of contaminated waters. development in soil mass. Several major design problems will be completed. CEE 644 ADVANCED SOIL MECHANICS II CEE 627 TREATMENT, DISPOSAL, AND (3-0) 3 credits. Methods of geotechnical analysis; MANAGEMENT OF HAZARDOUS WASTE composite finite element method; movement (3-0) 3 credits. Study of the types, sources and dependent lateral earth pressure development; properties of hazardous waste generated from limiting equilibrium method of soil-structure various industrial plants. Engineering systems analysis for bearing capacity, slope stability and and technologies for hazardous waste including: retaining structures; and earth reinforcing on-site handling, storage and processing; transfer techniques. and transportation; treatment and reuse; and ultimate disposal and destruction. Federal CEE 645 ADVANCED FOUNDATIONS regulations, especially those developed under the (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: CEE 284 and CEE Resource Conservation and Recovery Act will be 346 or permission of instructor. Application of described. the principles of soil mechanics to foundation engineering; subsurface exploration; lateral earth CEE 628/628L ENVIRONMENTAL pressures and retaining structures; bearing ENGINEERING MEASUREMENTS capacity and settlement of shallow and deep (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Senior or graduate foundations; field instrumentation and standing. It is highly recommended that the performance observation; and case studies. student have completed CEE 421 or CEE 521 or
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CEE 646 STABILITY OF SOIL AND ROCK CEE 653 REINFORCED CONCRETE SLOPES DESIGN (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CEE 346 or (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CEE 456. Design permission of instructor. Geologic aspects of for torsion, simple space structural elements such slope stability; shear strength of geologic as corner beams, curved beams, and free-standing materials; soil and rock mechanics approaches to staircases. Yield line theory and design of two- slope stability analysis; two-dimensional limiting way reinforced slabs and floor systems. Design of equilibrium methods of slope stability analysis a multi-story frame building system. including sliding block methods, Fellenius’ and Bishop’s methods of slices, and the Morgenstern- CEE 655/655L APPLIED COMPOSITES Price method of slices; introduction to three- (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CEE 353 or dimensional methods of stability analysis; field permission of instructor. Basic properties and instrumentation and performance observations; principles of advanced composite materials such and case studies. as fiberglass and graphite, and aramic design and testing of primary structural members including CEE 647 EARTH STRUCTURES prestressing elements. Application of composite (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CEE 346 or materials to engineering. permission of instructor. Engineering properties of compacted soils; use of the triaxial test in soil CEE 656/656L ADVANCED STRUCTURAL stability problems; methods of slope stability ANALYSIS analysis with emphasis on Bishop’s simplified (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Senior or graduate method of slices; design considerations for earth standing. Analysis of statically indeterminate embankments; field instrumentation and structural systems. Flexibility and stiffness performance observations; and case studies. methods of analysis for two- and three- dimensional orthogonal and non-orthogonal CEE 648 THEORY AND APPLICATION OF structures with reference to digital computer EARTH RETAINING STRUCTURES procedures. Special solution procedures including (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CEE 346 or use of substructures. Energy methods of structural permission of instructor. Application of analysis and introduction to finite element principles of geotechnical engineering to the method. design of retaining structures. Areas covered are lateral earth pressure theories, rigid and flexible CEE 691 INDEPENDENT STUDY retaining walls, anchored bulkheads, cofferdams, 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Senior or graduate earthquake induced earth pressures, braced standing and permission of instructor. Directed excavations, and underground structures. independent study of a topic or field of special Stabilization of slopes and reinforced earth interest. This may involve readings, research, applications are also treated. laboratory or fieldwork, and preparation of papers, as agreed to in advance, by student and CEE 652 PRESTRESSED CONCRETE instructor. A description of the work to be (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CEE 358 or CEE performed must be filed in the department office. 456 or permission of instructor. Principles of linear and circular prestressing. Behavior of steel CEE 692 TOPICS and concrete under sustained load. Analysis and 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Senior or graduate design of pretensioned and post-tensioned standing. Lecture course or seminar on a topic or reinforced concrete members and the combination field of special interest, as determined by the of such members into an integral structure. instructor.
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CEE 721 PRINCIPLES OF determination of soil properties with emphasis on ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING experimental techniques; index properties and (3-0) 3 credits. This course is a study of the classification tests; one-dimensional consolidation relationship of the environment to human health tests; controlled gradient consolidation test; from an engineering perspective. unconsolidated-undrained, consolidated- undrained, and consolidated-drained triaxial CEE 730 STATISTICAL METHODS IN compression tests; vacuum triaxial test; direct WATER RESOURCES shear tests; CBR test; and field boring test. (3-0) 3 credits. Stochastic process, probability and statistics applied to hydrologic problems. CEE 784 MODELING AND Data synthesis, frequency analysis, correlation, COMPUTATION IN CIVIL ENGINEERING time series, and spectral analysis. (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CEE 284 or permission of instructor. Applications of CEE 731 CURRENT TOPICS IN WATER statistical and advanced numerical and digital QUALITY ASSESSMENT computation methods to various problems in all (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of disciplines of civil engineering. instructor. A review and discussion of federal programs concerning water quality and of current CEE 785 APPLICATIONS OF FINITE literature on national and regional water-quality ELEMENT METHODS IN CIVIL assessments. Technical subjects covered may ENGINEERING include but are not limited to: hydrologic and (3-0) 3 credits. An introduction to the basic hydraulic modeling of watersheds, numerical concepts including: interpolation functions, water quality modeling, and total maximum daily element stiffness and load matrices, assembly of loads (TMDL’s); eutrophication; urban runoff; element matrices into global matrices, and non-point-source pollution. Oral presentations, solution techniques. Several one and two detailed literature review, and term paper are dimensional elements are studied and used to required. solve problems in solid mechanics, soils, and fluid mechanics using the variational method and CEE 733/733L TECHNIQUES OF SURFACE Galerkin’s method. WATER RESOURCE AND WATER QUALITY INVESTIGATIONS I CEE 788 MASTER’S RESEARCH (1-2) 3 credits. Prerequisites: CEE 326, CEE 327 PROB/PROJECTS and CEE 336 or permission of instructor. A study Credit to be arranged; not to exceed three (3) of the theory, design and techniques used in credits toward fulfillment of M.S. degree hydrologic and water quality investigations by requirements. Open only to students pursuing the environmental engineers, hydrologists, and M.S. non-thesis option. Directed research hydraulic engineers. Topics to be covered investigation of a selected problem culminating in include, but are not limited to: surface water an acceptable written report. Oral defense of the streamflow measurements and records report and research findings are required. compilation, water quality monitoring, stormwater runoff sampling and permit process, CEE 790 SEMINAR bioassessment of water quality, sediment (1-0) 1 credit. May not be repeated for degree sampling, lake water quality assessment, and non credit. Preparation and presentation of oral parametric statistics. seminar. Group discussion of a research problem or current civil engineering project. CEE 749/749L EXPERIMENTAL SOIL MECHANICS CEE 791 INDEPENDENT STUDY (1-2) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CEE 346 or 1 to 3 credits; not to exceed three (3) credits permission of instructor. Laboratory toward fulfillment of M.S. degree requirements.
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Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Directed content is not wholly included in the regular independent study of a topic or field of special curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as interest. This may involve readings, research, instructors. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer laboratory or fieldwork, and preparation of students with significant one-on-one papers, as agreed to in advance, by student and student/teacher involvement. A maximum of six instructor. A description of the work to be credits of special topics is allowed for degree performed must be filed in the department office. credits.
CEE 792 TOPICS CENG 314/314L ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE 1 to 3 credits. Lecture course or seminar on a (1.5-1.5) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CSC 250. A topic or field of special interest, as determined by thorough introduction to assembly language the instructor. programming and processor architecture. A study of low-level programming techniques, and the CEE 798 MASTER’S THESIS layout of a typical computer. The student will Credit to be arranged; not to exceed six credits gain insight into the memory layout, registers, toward fulfillment of M.S. degree requirements. run-time stack, and global data segment of a Open only to students pursuing the M.S. thesis running program. This course is cross listed with option. Supervised original or expository research CSC 314/314L. Graduation credit will not be culminating in an acceptable thesis. Oral defense allowed for both this course and CSC 314/314L. of the thesis and research findings are required. CENG 342/342L DIGITAL SYSTEMS CENG 244/244L INTRODUCTION TO (3-1) 4 credits. Prerequisite: CENG 244. DIGITAL SYSTEMS Presents the basic concepts and mathematical (3-1) 4 Credits. This course is designed to provide tools that are applicable to the analysis and design computer engineering, electrical engineering, and of digital systems, particularly state machines and computer science students with an understanding digital processing systems. The VHDL hardware of the basic concepts of digital systems and their description language is also introduced as a design hardware implementation. Topics covered tool. include combinational logic circuits, sequential logic circuits, and CPU control. CENG 391 INDEPENDENT STUDY 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of CENG 291 INDEPENDENT STUDY instructor. Includes directed study, problems, 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of readings, directed readings, special problems and instructor. Includes directed study, problems, special projects. Students complete readings, directed readings, special problems and individualized plans of study which include special projects. Students complete significant one-on-one student-teacher individualized plans of study which include involvement. The faculty member and students significant one-on-one student-teacher negotiate the details of the study plans. involvement. The faculty member and students Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. negotiate the details of the study plans. Meeting depending upon the requirements of the Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. topic. A maximum of six credits of special topics Meeting depending upon the requirements of the is allowed for degree credits. topic. A maximum of six credits of independent studies is allowed for degree credits. CENG 392 TOPICS 1 to 3 credits. Includes current topics, advanced CENG 292 TOPICS topics and special topics. A course devoted to a 1 to 3 credits. Includes current topics, advanced particular issue in a specified field. Course topics and special topics. A course devoted to a content is not wholly included in the regular particular issue in a specified field. Course curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as
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instructors. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer CENG 446/446L ADVANCED COMPUTER students with significant one-on-one ARCHITECTURES student/teacher involvement. A maximum of six (3-1) 4 credits. Prerequisite: CENG 342. This credits of special topics is allowed for degree course covers the basic principles of pipelining, credits. parallelism and memory management. Topics covered include cache and virtual memory, CENG 420/420L DESIGN OF DIGITAL pipelining techniques and vector processors, SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEMS multiprocessors and distributed computing (3-1) 4 credits. Prerequisite: EE 312. An systems. Graduation credit will not be allowed for introduction to the design of digital signal both this course and CSC 440. processing systems. Topics include discrete-time signals and systems, the Z transform, infinite CENG 447/447L EMBEDDED AND REAL- impulse-response digital filters, finite impulse- TIME COMPUTER SYSTEMS response digital filters, discrete Fourier (3-1) 4 credits. Prerequisites: EE 351 and CSC transforms, fast Fourier transforms. (Design 150. This course provides an introduction to content - two (2) credits) programming embedded and real-time computer systems. It includes design of embedded CENG 440/440L VLSI DESIGN interrupted driven systems and the use of (3-1) 4 credits. Prerequisite: EE 320. Provides commercial (for example: QNX) or open-source an introduction to the technology and design of (for example: Linux RT) RTOS operating VLSI integrated circuits. Topics include MOS systems. transistors, switch and gate logic, scalable design rules, speed and power considerations, CENG 456 OPERATING SYSTEMS floorplanning, layout techniques, and design tools. (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: CSC 300, CENG 314 or permission of instructor. This course will CENG 442/442L MICROPROCESSOR- cover operating systems principles for memory BASED SYSTEM DESIGN management, job scheduling, device management, (3-1) 4 credits. Prerequisite: CENG 342. paging, concurrent processing, and virtual Presents the concepts required for the design of systems. Graduation credit will not be allowed microprocessor-based systems. Emphasis is given for both this course and CSC 456. to the problems of system specification, choice of architecture, design trade-offs and the use of CENG 464 COMPUTER ENGINEERING development tools in the design process. Design DESIGN I projects will be implemented in the laboratory. (2-0) 2 credit. Prerequisites: CENG 342, EE 320. Prerequisite or corequisite: EE 311, EE 312, CSC CENG 444/444L COMPUTER NETWORKS 470, and ENGL 289. This course will focus on (3-1) 4 credits. Prerequisite: CENG 244, MATH the design process and culminate with the faculty 381 or MATH 441. This course presents the basic approval of design projects (including schematics principles of computer networks design and and parts list) for CENG 465. Typical topics analysis. Topics covered include the layers of the included are the development of a product mission OSI reference model. Current and proposed statement, identification of the customer and implementations of local, metropolitan and wide customer needs, development of target area networks are presented; inter-networking is specifications, consideration of alternate designs discussed. The different implementations are using a decision matrix, project management compared and their performance evaluated. techniques, legal and ethical issues, FCC Graduation credit will not be allowed for both this verification and certification, use of probability course and CSC 463. and statistics for reliable design, interpretation of data sheets, and component selection.
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CENG 465 COMPUTER ENGINEERING CHE 111 INTRODUCTION ENGINEERING DESIGN II MODELING (2-0) 2 credits. Prerequisite: CENG 464. The (0-1) 1 credit. Prerequisite or corequisites: course requires students to conduct their own CHEM 112. The primary objectives of this design projects in a simulated industrial course are: introduction to mathematical modeling environment. Requirements include detailed of physical and chemical systems; verification of laboratory notebook, periodic written and oral mathematical models by experiment; development progress reports, and a written and oral and interpretation of engineering drawings, presentation of a final project report. process flow diagrams (PFD’s), and piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&ID’s); use of a CENG 491 INDEPENDENT STUDY drawing program, such as Visiotec; and an 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of introduction to the process simulator AspenPlus. instructor. Includes directed study, problems, readings, directed readings, special problems and CHE 117/117L PROFESSIONAL special projects. Students complete PRACTICES IN CHEMICAL individualized plans of study which include ENGINEERING significant one-on-one student-teacher (1-1) 2 credits. Prerequisite or corequisite: involvement. The faculty member and students MATH 123. An introduction to chemical negotiate the details of the study plans. engineering through the development of Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. computational and laboratory skills. The Meeting depending upon the requirements of the extended use of spreadsheets, programming, and topic. A maximum of six credits of special topics computational software packages will be covered. is allowed for degree credits. Elementary numerical methods will be utilized in process modeling and laboratory experiments. CENG 492 TOPICS Students will participate in hands-on 1 to 3 credits. Includes current topics, advanced programming exercises in a computer laboratory, topics and special topics. A course devoted to a or in a lab, using a tablet-pc. particular issue in a specified field. Course content is not wholly included in the regular CHE 200 UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of instructors. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer instructor and freshman or sophomore standing. students with significant one-on-one Directed research or study of a selected problem student/teacher involvement. A maximum of six culminating in an acceptable written report. credits of special topics is allowed for degree credits. CHE 217 CHEMICAL ENGINEERING I (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites or corequisite: CENG 498 UNDERGRADUATE CHEM 114, GES 115 and PHYS 211. The first RESEARCH/SCHOLARSHIP course on the theory and practice of chemical Credits to be arranged; not to exceed four credits engineering with emphasis on material and energy toward fulfillment of B.S. degree requirements. balances. This course is cross-listed with ENVE Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Includes 217. senior project, and capstone experience. Independent research problems/projects or CHE 218 CHEMICAL ENGINEERING II scholarship activities. The plan of study is (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: CHE 217, MATH negotiated by the faculty member and the student. 125. The second course on the theory and Contact between the two may be extensive and practice of chemical engineering with emphasis intensive. Does not include research courses on momentum transfer. which are theoretical.
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CHE 222 CHEMICAL ENGINEERING control systems. THERMODYNAMICS I (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: CHE 217, CHE 343 CHEMICAL KINETICS AND concurrent registration in MATH 225. A study of REACTOR DESIGN the principles and applications of thermodynamics (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: CHE 217, CHE with emphasis on the first law, the energy 321. A study of chemical kinetics and reactor balance. design, including techniques for analyzing kinetic data, choosing reactor operating parameters, CHE 250 COMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN economic optimization of homogeneous reactions, CHEMICAL ENGINEERING and reactor modeling. (2-0) 2 credits. Prerequisites: CHE 117, CHE 217, concurrent with MATH 321 or permission of CHE 361 CHEMICAL ENGINEERING instructor. The application of digital computer LABORATORY II techniques to the solution of chemical engineering (0-2) 2 credits. Prerequisite or corequisite: CHE problems. 218 and CHE 333. Laboratory experiments in process measurements, feedback control loops, CHE 317 CHEMICAL ENGINEERING III industrial data acquisition and control, fluid flow, (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: CHE 217, fluid flow measurements, and design of fluid concurrent registration in MATH 321. The third handling systems. course on the theory and practice of chemical engineering with emphasis on heat transfer. Heat CHE 362 CHEMICAL ENGINEERING transfer by conduction, convection, and radiation LABORATORY III is studied. This course is cross-listed with ENVE (0-1) 1 credit. Prerequisite: CHE 317. 315. Laboratory experiments on heat transfer.
CHE 318 CHEMICAL ENGINEERING IV CHE 417 CHEMICAL ENGINEERING V (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CHE 317 or ENVE (2-0) 2 credits. Prerequisite: CHE 321. The fifth 315 or permission of instructor. The fourth course course on the theory and practice of chemical on the theory and practice of chemical engineering with emphasis on equilibrium staged engineering with emphasis on molecular separations. diffusion, membranes, convective mass transfer, drying, humidification, and continuous gas-liquid CHE 433 PROCESS CONTROL separation processes. This course is cross-listed (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: MATH 321 and with ENVE 318. senior standing. Analysis and design of process control systems for industrial processes, including CHE 321 CHEMICAL ENGINEERING controller tuning and design of multivariable THERMODYNAMICS II control schemes. This course is cross-listed with (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CHE 222. A MET 433. continuation of CHE 222 with emphasis on the second and third laws of thermodynamics. CHE 434/434L DESIGN OF SEPARATION Emphasis on thermodynamic properties of fluids, PROCESSES flow processes, phase and chemical equilibria. (1-1) 2 credits. Prerequisite: CHE 318. Separation technology and processes are studied CHE 333 PROCESS MEASUREMENTS with application to current industrial design AND CONTROL problems. Topics and design case studies may (1-0) 1 credit. Prerequisite: CHE 218 or include: absorption, adsorption, biological permission of instructor. A study of the separations, crystallization, distillation, equipment and techniques used in monitoring environmental separations, ion exchange, process measurements and the design of feedback membrane separations, molecular distillation,
261 Courses pervaporation, solid separations, supercritical CHE 455/555 POLLUTION PHENOMENA extraction, thermal stripping, and others. AND PROCESS DESIGN (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: CHE 218, CHE CHE 444/544 REACTOR DESIGN 317, and CHE 417, or equivalent, or permission of (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: CHE 343, CHE instructor. The study of the industrial sources of 250. Applications of chemical engineering and treatment of air, water, and land pollutants. principles to reactor design. Emphasis includes: The chemical and physical phenomena operating non-isothermal reactor modeling, homogeneous in pollution control equipment and the design of and heterogeneous reactors, economic and pollution control equipment will be examined. performance optimization, catalysis, and Waste minimization and pollution prevention computer simulation. Students enrolled in CHE strategies will be considered. Students enrolled in 544 will be held to a higher standard than those CHE 555 will be held to a higher standard than enrolled in CHE 444. This course is cross-listed those enrolled in CHE 455. This course is cross- with CBE 444/544. listed with ENVE 455/555.
CHE 445/545 OXIDATION AND CHE 461 CHEMICAL ENGINEERING CORROSION OF METALS LABORATORY IV (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: MET 320, or CHE (0-1) 1 credit. Prerequisite: CHE 318. 222 or ME 211 or permission of instructor. Laboratory experiments on mass transfer. Initially, the thermodynamics of electrochemical processes are covered; use of the Nernst equation CHE 464 CHEMICAL ENGINEERING and Pourbaix diagram is presented in this DESIGN I material. Fundamentals of electrode kinetics are (4-0) 4 credits. Prerequisites: CHE 317, CHE then discussed with special emphasis on the 318. A comprehensive treatment of problems derivation of the Butler-Volmer equation and involved in the design of a chemical process plant. application of the Evan’s diagram. Following The design of plant equipment with emphasis presentation of these fundamental concepts, upon the selection of materials and the elements phenomena observed in corrosion and oxidation of cost. Overall plant design with consideration such as uniform attack, pitting, stress corrosion of economics, political, and personnel factors. cracking, and corrosion fatigue are discussed. Finally, selection of materials for site specific CHE 465 CHEMICAL ENGINEERING applications is covered. Students enrolled in CHE DESIGN II 545 will be held to a higher standard than those (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CHE 464. A enrolled in CHE 445. This course is cross-listed continuation of CHE 464. with ENVE 445/545 and MET 445/545. CHE 474/574 POLYMER TECHNOLOGY CHE 450/550 SYSTEMS ANALYSIS 2 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Senior standing or APPLIED TO CHEMICAL ENGINEERING permission of instructor. A study of the 2 to 3 credits. Prerequisite or corequisites: CHE engineering aspects of polymer synthesis and 417, CHE 433, or permission of instructor. The reactor design, polymer testing, polymer development of mathematical models for dynamic characterization, rheology, macro-properties, and and steady state chemical engineering systems; fabrication. Students may enroll for two (2) or simulation of these complex systems using three (3) credits, depending upon the particular computers and software, such as AspenPlus; level of course matter that matches their interest. estimation of physical and equilibrium properties; Students taking two (2) credits will take two- and analysis of results. Students enrolled in CHE thirds of the course material. The instructor, in 550 will be held to a higher standard than those conjunction with the department chair, will enrolled in CHE 450. This course is cross-listed monitor student credit hours. Course is not with CBE 450/550. repeatable for credit. Students enrolled in CHE
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574 will be held to a higher standard than students individualized plans of study which include enrolled in CHE 474. significant one-on-one student-teacher involvement. The faculty member and students CHE 474L/574L EXPERIMENTAL negotiate the details of the study plans. POLYMER TECHNOLOGY Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. (0-1) 1 credit. Prerequisite or corequisite: CHE Meeting depending upon the requirements of the 474 or 574. Laboratory experiments in polymer topic. synthesis, chemical and mechanical property testing, extrusion, and modeling. Students CHE 492 TOPICS enrolled in CHE 574L will be held to a higher 1 to 3 credits. Includes current topics, advanced standard than students enrolled in CHE 474L. topics and special topics. A course devoted to a particular issue in a specified field. Course CHE 484/584 FUNDAMENTALS OF content is not wholly included in the regular BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CHE 343 and BIOL instructors. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer 231 or BIOL 341. An introduction to the students with significant one-on-one characterization of microorganisms, fermentation student/teacher involvement. A maximum of six pathways, unit processes in fermentation, (6) credits of special topics will be allowed for biochemical kinetics, and batch and continuous degree credit. fermentation. The basic engineering concepts of fermentation, separation, control, and operations CHE 498 UNDERGRADUATE will be discussed. Students enrolled in CHE 584 RESEARCH/SCHOLARSHIP will be held to a higher standard than those Credit to be arranged. Prerequisite: Permission of enrolled in CHE 484. This course is cross-listed instructor. Includes senior project, and capstone with CBE 484/584. experience. Independent research problems/projects or scholarship activities. The CHE 484L/584L BIOCHEMICAL plan of study is negotiated by the faculty member ENGINEERING LABORATORY and the student. Contact between the two may be (0-1) 1 credit. Corequisite: CHE 484/584. extensive and intensive. Does not include Laboratory experiments in biochemical research courses which are theoretical. A engineering. May include fermentation, dissolved maximum of six (6) credits of undergraduate oxygen mass transfer measurements, research will be allowed for degree credit. bioseparations, and other experiments to correlate with selected lecture topics. Students enrolled in CHE 612 TRANSPORT PHENOMENA: CHE 584L will be held to a higher standard than MOMENTUM those enrolled in CHE 484L. This course is cross- (3-0) 3 credits. Introduction to momentum listed with CBE 484L/585L. transport. Equations of continuity and motion. Velocity distributions. Boundary layer theory. CHE 487 GLOBAL AND CONTEMPORARY Turbulent transport compressible flow. This ISSUES IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING course is cross-listed with CBE/ME 612. (1-0) 1 credit. Prerequisite or corequisite: CHE 465. A study of contemporary global and societal CHE 613 TRANSPORT PHENOMENA: issues in the field of chemical engineering. HEAT (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: ME 313, MATH CHE 491 INDEPENDENT STUDY 373 (concurrent). An in-depth study of the 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of fundamental laws of heat transfer. Major areas instructor. Includes directed study, problems, considered are: heat conduction, free and forced readings, directed readings, special problems and convection, and radiative heat transfer. Emphasis special projects. Students complete is placed on the formulation and solution of
263 Courses engineering problems by analytical and numerical CHE 714 TRANSPORT PHENOMENA: methods. This course is cross-listed with MASS CBE/ME 613. (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. An in-depth study of the fundamental CHE 616 COMPUTATIONS IN laws of mass transfer. Emphasis is placed on the TRANSPORT PHENOMENA formulation and solution of Chemical and (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: MATH 373 or Biological Engineering processes and problems permission of instructor. Various computerized by analytical and numerical methods. This course techniques, including finite difference and finite is cross-listed with CBE/MES 714. element, will be used to solve transient and steady state heat transfer problems involving conduction CHE 788 MASTER’S RESEARCH and convection. This course is cross-listed with PROB/PROJECTS CBE/ME 616. Credit to be arranged; not to exceed six (6) credits toward fulfillment of M.S. degree requirements. CHE 621 ADVANCED CHEMICAL Open only to students pursuing the M.S. non- ENGINEERING THERMODYNAMICS I thesis option. Directed research investigation of a (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CHE 321 or selected problem culminating in an acceptable permission of instructor. A mathematical written report. Oral defense of the report and development of fundamental laws of research findings are required. thermodynamics and their application to chemical engineering operations and processes. CHE 798 MASTER’S THESIS Equilibrium and thermal effects in homogeneous Credit to be arranged; not to exceed six (6) credits and heterogeneous systems. This course is cross- toward fulfillment of M.S. degree requirements. listed with CBE 621. Prerequisite: Approval of advisor. An original investigation of a chemical engineering subject CHE 676 ADHESION AND SURFACE normally presented as a thesis for the master of ENGINEERING IN POLYMER science degree in chemical engineering. COMPOSITES (1-0) 1 credit. Prerequisites: Permission of CHEM 106 CHEMISTRY SURVEY instructor. The study of the scientific (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: MATH 101. A one- fundamentals leading to adhesion in polymer semester survey of chemistry. Not intended for composites and engineering of surface phenomena those needing an extensive chemistry background. to improve polymer composite properties. This Introduction to the properties of matter, atomic course is cross-listed with MET 676. structure, bonding, stoichiometry, kinetics, equilibrium, states of matter, solutions, and acid- CHE 691 INDEPENDENT STUDY base concepts. May not be used for credit toward 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of an engineering or science degree (except instructor. Directed independent study of a topic Interdisciplinary Science and Associate of Arts). or field of special interest. This may involve readings, research, laboratory or fieldwork, and CHEM 106L CHEMISTRY SURVEY LAB preparation of papers, as agreed to in advance, by (0-1) 1 credit. Prerequisite or corequisite: CHEM student and instructor. 106. Laboratory designed to accompany CHEM 106. May not be used for credit toward an CHE 692 TOPICS engineering or science degree (except 1 to 3 credits. Lecture course or seminar on a topic or Interdisciplinary Science and Associate of Arts). field of special interest, as determined by the instructor. A maximum of six (6) credits of advanced CHEM 108 ORGANIC AND special topics will be allowed for degree credit. BIOCHEMISTRY (4-0) 4 credits. Prerequisites: CHEM 106. A
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survey of the chemical principles important to supplemented with conferences with the biological systems. For students who do not plan instructor. to take additional chemistry. Not a prerequisite for any 200 level and above course. May not be CHEM 220L EXPERIMENTAL ORGANIC used for credit toward an engineering or science CHEMISTRY IA degree (except Interdisciplinary Science and (0-1) 1 credit. Prerequisite: CHEM 114L. A one- Associate of Arts). semester laboratory course. Experiments demonstrating techniques for the separation, CHEM 108L ORGANIC AND characterization and synthesis of organic BIOCHEMISTRY LAB compounds are performed. Functional groups are (0-1) 1 credit. Prerequisite: CHEM 106L, derivatized. Prerequisite or corequisite: CHEM 108 Laboratory designed to accompany CHEM 108. CHEM 230 ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY May not be used for credit toward an engineering FOR ENGINEERS or science degree (except Interdisciplinary (2-0) 2 credits. Prerequisite: CHEM 114. An Science and Associate of Arts). introduction to modern analytical chemistry. Topics include the theory and application of acid- CHEM 112 GENERAL CHEMISTRY I base and solubility equilibria, titrimetric and (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: MATH 102. An gravimetric analysis, statistical treatment of data, introduction to the basic principles of chemistry and an introduction to spectroscopy (UV-Vis, IR, for students needing an extensive background in and AA). chemistry (including chemistry majors, science majors, and pre-professional students). CHEM 252 SYSTEMATIC INORGANIC Completion of a high school course in chemistry CHEMISTRY is recommended. (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CHEM 114. A systematic survey of the chemistry of elements. CHEM 112L GENERAL CHEMISTRY I Periodic properties of the elements; fundamental LAB chemical bonding and structure; acid-base and (0-1) 1 credit. Prerequisite or corequisite: CHEM redox reactions; solid state chemistry; nonaqueous 112. Laboratory designed to accompany CHEM solvents; introduction to materials science. 112. CHEM 290 SEMINAR CHEM 114 GENERAL CHEMISTRY II (.5-0) .5 credits. A highly focused, and topical (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CHEM 112 and course. The format includes student presentations MATH 102. A continuation of CHEM 112. An and discussions of reports based on literature, introduction to the basic principles of chemistry practices, problems, and research. Seminars may for students needing an extensive background in be conducted over electronic media such as chemistry. Internet and are at the upper division or graduate levels. Enrollment is generally limited to fewer CHEM 114L GENERAL CHEMISTRY II than 20 students. LAB (0-1) 1 credit. Prerequisite: CHEM 112L, CHEM 316 FUNDAMENTALS OF Prerequisite or corequisite: CHEM 114 ORGANIC CHEMISTRY (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CHEM 114. A one- CHEM 200 INTRODUCTION TO semester introductory course in organic RESEARCH chemistry. Functional classes of organic 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of compounds are discussed in terms of instructor. Directed research in chemistry characteristic functional group, properties, including library and laboratory work structure, nomenclature, synthesis, and reactivity.
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CHEM 326 ORGANIC CHEMISTRY I CHEM 341 PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY FOR (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CHEM 114. A ENGINEERS I systematic treatment of the chemistry of carbon (2-0) 2 credits. Prerequisite: CHE 222. compounds, including nomenclature, structure- Prerequisite or corequisite: PHYS213. Physical reactivity relationships, reaction mechanisms, transformations of pure substances; simple synthesis, and spectroscopy. mixtures and phase diagrams; chemical equilibrium and equilibrium electrochemistry. CHEM 326L ORGANIC CHEMISTRY I LAB Duplicate credit for CHEM 341 and CHEM 342 (0-2) 2 credits. Prerequisites or corequisites: not allowed. CHEM 114L and CHEM 326. A laboratory designed to accompany CHEM 326. Introduction CHEM 342 PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY I to organic functional groups and methods for the (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: CHEM 114 and separation and purification of organic compounds. MATH 225. Prerequisite or corequisite: PHYS 213. A study of the fundamental principles CHEM 328 ORGANIC CHEMISTRY II governing the behavior of chemical systems. (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CHEM 326. A Topics covered in the two-semester sequence continuation of CHEM 326. A systematic include thermodynamics, chemical kinetics, treatment of the chemistry of carbon compounds, quantum mechanics, and statistical mechanics. including nomenclature, structure-reactivity Properties of gases; first and second laws of relationships, reaction mechanisms, synthesis, and thermodynamics; physical transformations of pure spectroscopy. substances; simple mixtures and phase diagrams; chemical equilibrium and equilibrium CHEM 328L ORGANIC CHEMISTRY II electrochemistry. Duplicate credit for CHEM 341 LAB and CHEM 342 not allowed. (0-2) 2 credits. Prerequisite: CHEM 326L, Prerequisite or corequisite: CHEM 328. CHEM 342L PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY I Laboratory designed to accompany CHEM 328. LAB Syntheses of organic compounds. Structural (0-1) 1 credit. Prerequsites: CHEM 326L, characterization is performed by instrumental CHEM 332L. Prerequisite or corequisite CHEM methods of analysis including infrared and 342. Laboratory designed to accompany CHEM nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometry. 342.
CHEM 332 ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY CHEM 343 PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY FOR (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CHEM 114. ENGINEERS II Fundamental concepts and principles of (2-0) 2 credits. Prerequisites:PHYS 213 and quantitative chemical analysis including CHEM 341 or CHEM 342. Kinetic theory of quantitative chemical equilibrium calculations and gases; statistical thermodynamics and properties error analysis applied to the evaluation of of solids; chemical kinetics and kinetics at experimental measurements and data. interfaces. Duplicate credit for CHEM 343 and CHEM 344 not allowed. CHEM 332L ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY LAB CHEM 344 PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY II (0-1) 1 credit. Prerequisite or corequisites: (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: CHEM 342 and CHEM 114L and CHEM 332 or CHEM 230. PHYS 213. A continuation of Physical Chemistry Laboratory to accompany CHEM 332 and CHEM I. A study of the fundamental principles 230. Experimental methods and techniques of governing the behavior of chemical systems. gravimetry, titrimetry, pH, and UV-Vis and AA Kinetic theory of gases; statistical spectrometry. thermodynamics and properties of solids;
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chemical kinetics and kinetics at interfaces; library and laboratory work. Students enrolled in quantum mechanics and spectroscopy. Duplicate CHEM 521 will be held to a higher standard than credit for CHEM 343 and CHEM 344 not those enrolled in CHEM 421. allowed. CHEM 426/526 POLYMER CHEMISTRY CHEM 344L PHYSCIAL CHEMISTRY II (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: CHEM 328 and LAB CHEM 340 or CHEM 342. An introduction to the (0-1) 1 credit. Prerequisite: CHEM 342L. fundamental chemistry, characterization, and Prerequisite or corequisite CHEM 344. fabrication of polymeric substances. Students Corequisite course to CHEM 344. Laboratory enrolled in CHEM 526 will be held to a higher designed to accompany CHEM 344. This course standard than those enrolled in CHEM 426. is cross-listed with CHEM 345L. CHEM 434 INSTRUMENTAL ANALYSIS CHEM 345L PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY FOR (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: CHEM 230 or ENGINEERS LAB CHEM 332 and CHEM 342. Theory and (0-1) 1 credit. Prerequisites: CHEM 220, CHEM application of modern instrumental methods to 332L, and CHEM 341. Corequiesite: CHEM 343. chemical analysis. Experimental methods used in modern physical chemistry. Spectroscopic, kinetic, thermostatic, CHEM 434L INSTRUMENTAL ANALYSIS and electrochemical techniques are studied. This LAB course is cross-listed with CHEM 344L. (0-2) 2 credits. Prerequisite or corequisite: CHEM 434. The laboratory designed to CHEM 370 CHEMICAL LITERATURE accompany CHEM 434. This laboratory includes (1-0) 1 credit. Prerequisites: CHEM 230 or an introduction to laboratory methods and CHEM 332 and CHEM 252 . Prerequisite or techniques of potentiometry, conductimetry, corequisite: CHEM 328. The use of the chemical electrogravimetry, voltametry, TLC, GC, and library. Character of the various chemical HPLC. journals, dictionaries, reference books, computer literature searching, and other sources of CHEM 446/546 INDUSTRIAL ORGANIC information. Written reports on chemical CHEMISTRY literature. (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: CHEM 328 and CHEM 340 or CHEM 342. A survey of industrial CHEM 420/520 ORGANIC CHEMISTRY III organic chemistry including characteristics of the (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CHEM 328. United States and international chemical industry, Advanced considerations of organic chemistry. global market forces affecting the industry, Case studies in the synthesis of complex organic standard industrial classifications and sectors of molecules are drawn from historical and recent the chemical industry, upstream and downstream organic chemical literature, which exemplify source and applications markets, raw materials particular conformational, synthetic, and technical processing and chemical transformations, fuels, challenges to the organic student. Students and major commodity and fine organic chemical enrolled in CHEM 520 will be held to a higher sectors. Students enrolled in CHEM 546 will be standard than those enrolled in CHEM 420. held to a higher standard than those enrolled in CHEM 446. CHEM 421/521 SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS CHEM 448/548 HETEROCYCLIC (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: CHEM 328 and ORGANIC CHEMISTRY CHEM 230 or CHEM 332. Determination of the (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: CHEM 328 or structure of organic compounds using permission of instructor, and CHEM 340 or spectroscopic methods. Problems involving CHEM 342. The nomenclature and chemistry of
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heterocyclic organic compounds. Emphasis is on and anabolism of sugars, triglycerides, steroids, systems of nomenclature leading to knowledge for amino acids, proteins, and polynucleotides are chemical literature access to information on detailed. Energetics, the potential fates of synthesis, properties, and reactions of mono- and chemical intermediates, and information storage polycyclic fused, bridged, and spiro compounds. and transmission are studied. Students enrolled in Students enrolled in CHEM 548 will be held to a CHEM 560 will be held to a higher standard than higher standard than those enrolled in CHEM 448. those enrolled in CHEM 460.
CHEM 452/552 INORGANIC CHEMISTRY CHEM 482/582 ENVIRONMENTAL (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: CHEM 252, CHEM CHEMISTRY 328, CHEM 342. Theoretical and periodic aspects (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: CHEM 316 or of inorganic chemistry. Discussion of the CHEM 328. Examination of the chemistry and important models and concepts of modern chemical processes of the environment, including inorganic chemistry. Students enrolled in CHEM the role of chemistry in current environmental 552 will be held to a higher standard than those issues. Students enrolled in CHEM 582 will be enrolled in CHEM 452. held to a higher standard than those enrolled in CHEM 482. CHEM 452L/552L INORGANIC CHEMISTRY LAB CHEM 482L/582L ENVIRONMENTAL (0-1) 1 credit. Prerequisites: CHEM 328L, CHEMISTRY LAB Prerequisite or corequisite: CHEM 452. (0-1) 1 credit. Prerequisite or corequisite: CHEM Synthesis and characterization of inorganic 482 or CHEM 582. Laboratory to accompany compounds. Laboratory techniques in inorganic CHEM 482 and CHEM 582. Experimental chemistry including: synthesis of air-sensitive methods and techniques used by the modern compounds, transition metal complexes and environmental chemist. Specific topics include silicon polymers, chemical characterization of sample preparation, environmental waste, inorganic compounds using spectroscopic, determination of inorganic and organic magnetic and analytical approaches. Students compounds in natural and anthropogenic waters. enrolled in CHEM 552L will be held to a higher Students enrolled in CHEM 582L will be held to a standard than those enrolled in CHEM 452L. higher standard than those enrolled in CHEM 482L. CHEM 455/555 ADVANCED INORGANIC CHEMISTRY CHEM 490 SEMINAR (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: CHEM 252 and (.5-0) .5 credits. A highly focused, and topical CHEM 342. Contemporary inorganic chemistry; course. The format includes student presentations emphasis placed on compounds of the main group and discussions of reports based on literature, elements and industrial inorganic chemical practices, problems, and research. Seminars may processes. Students enrolled in CHEM 555 will be conducted over electronic media such as be held to a higher standard than those enrolled in Internet and are at the upper division or graduate CHEM 455. levels. Enrollment is generally limited to fewer than 20 students. Repeatable for a maximum of CHEM 460/560 BIOCHEMISTRY two (2) credits. (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CHEM 328. A one-semester course in biomolecules, metabolism, CHEM 491 INDEPENDENT STUDY and transmission of genetic information. The 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of structures, properties, and biochemical functions instructor. Includes directed study, problems, of mono- and polysaccharides, lipids, amino readings, directed readings, special problems and acids, proteins, and nucleic acids are introduced. special projects. Students complete Metabolic pathways and cycles for the catabolism individualized plans of study which include
268 Courses significant one-on-one student-teacher CHEM 640 ADVANCED TOPICS IN involvement. The faculty member and students PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY negotiate the details of the study plans. 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: CHEM 344. Topics Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. that may be covered, according to student Meeting depending upon the requirements of the demand, include absorption, catalysis, colloids, topic. A maximum of six (6) credits of special electro-chemistry, heterogeneous equilibria (phase topics and independent study credits will be rule), etc. allowed for degree credit. CHEM 641 GEOCHEMISTRY CHEM 492 TOPICS (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: CHEM 342, MET 1 to 3 credits. Includes directed study, problems, 320, or permission of instructor. Geochemical readings, directed readings, special problems and principles, applications, and design special projects. Students complete considerations, including thermodynamics, individualized plans of study which include kinetics, and transport phenomena. Applications significant one-on-one student-teacher in low-temperature aqueous systems, carbonate involvement. The faculty member and students equilibria, geothermal and hydrothermal systems, negotiate the details of the study plans. petroleum generation, metamorphism, and Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. igneous processes. Computer solutions to Meeting depending upon the requirements of the geochemical problems will be used. An topic. A maximum of six (6) credits of special engineering design project is required. This topics and independent study credits will be course is cross-listed with GEOE 641. allowed for degree credit. CHEM 650 ADVANCED TOPICS IN CHEM 498 UNDERGRADUATE INORGANIC CHEMISTRY RESEARCH/SCHOLARSHIP 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: CHEM 452 or 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of equivalent. Topics selected to broaden the instructor. Includes senior project, and capstone background of the individual student. experience. Independent research problems/projects or scholarship activities. The CP 297/397/497 COOPERATIVE plan of study is negotiated by the faculty member EDUCATION and the student. Contact between the two may be 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of extensive and intensive. Does not include instructor. Applied, monitored and supervised, research courses which are theoretical. A field-based learning experience for which the maximum of six (6) credit hours of undergraduate student may or may not be paid. Students gain research will be allowed for degree credit. practical experience; they follow a negotiated and or directed plan of study established between the CHEM 620 ADVANCED TOPICS IN student, instructor and field experience supervisor. ORGANIC CHEMISTRY Due to the presence of a field experience 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisites: CHEM 328 and supervisor, a lower level of supervision is CHEM 340 or CHEM 344. Topics selected to provided by the instructor in these courses than is broaden the background of the individual student. the case with an internship or practicum course. Students must satisfy departmental co-op CHEM 630 ADVANCED TOPICS IN requirements, which include a written report of ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY the co-op work experience and an employer’s 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisites: CHEM 344 and CHEM evaluation, to earn credit for the course. Minimum 434 or permission of instructor. A thorough study of GPA and other co-op eligibility requirements vary any of the specialized fields of analytical chemistry among employers. Because the work performed such as optical methods of analysis, radiochemistry, by a student while on co-op is equivalent to the and spectral interpretation. workload of a full-time student, a student on co-
269 Courses op assignment who is registered for CP credit introduces students to the issues and techniques shall be considered to have full-time status. for creating interactive websites. Students explore the framework for web programming applications CP 697 COOPERATIVE EDUCATION with particular attention to the Microsoft Active 1 to 3 credits. A single semester work experience Server Pages (ASP) model. VBScript at the employer’s location. Students will be asked programming will be taught and used as the tool to utilize specialized skills learned in the for creating interactive websites. An introduction classroom and will be permitted to develop human to Active X controls will also be provided. This is relations skills and maturity in a degree-relevant a programming course and students should expect work environment. Each student must satisfy to spend a significant amount of time outside of departmental requirements in order to earn credit the classroom on course projects. for the course. Requirements will include but not be limited to a written report of the work CSC 212 WEB PROGRAMMING II experience and an employer’s evaluation of work (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: CSC 211 or performance. Students must have the approval of permission of instructor. This course explores their graduate committee in order to enroll. web programming languages. Emphasis will be on connecting interactive websites to databases. CSC 105 INTRODUCTION TO Students will use the ASP learned in CSC 211 as COMPUTERS well as learn Java and JavaScript for this course. (3-0) 3 credits. Overview of computer Students will also be introduced to PHP on UNIX applications with emphasis on word processing, and to XML. A comparison of the strengths and spreadsheets, database, presentation tools and weaknesses of the different models will be an Internet-based applications. May not be used for important part of this course. This is a credit toward an engineering or science degree programming course and students should expect (except interdisciplinary sciences and associate of to spend a significant amount of time outside of arts). the classroom on course projects.
CSC 150/150L COMPUTER SCIENCE I CSC 242 NT IN THE ENTERPRISE (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisite and corequisite: (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: CSC 131 or MATH 123. An introduction to computer permission of instructor. This course will prepare programming. Focus on problem solving, students to design, implement, and support algorithm development, design, and programming directory services on a Microsoft Windows NT concepts. Topics include sequence, selection, server network. Students will also have hands on repetition, functions, and arrays. experience in analyzing and optimizing Windows NT Servers and Troubleshooting Windows NT CSC 210 WEB AUTHORING Server in the Enterprise Environment. (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CSC 105 or permission of instructor. This course focuses on CSC 244/244L INTERNET INFORMATION techniques and methods for writing specifically SERVER AND NETWORK PROTOCOLS for the Internet. Topics will include designing (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisites: CSC 141 or and creating documents for the World Wide Web, permission of instructor. This course will prepare design considerations, and publishing and students to install and configure Internet maintaining websites. Students will use HTML, Information Server. Students will learn the web authoring software, and other software for different components to administer the Internet web development. Information Server. Students will learn about Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol CSC 211 WEB PROGRAMMING I (TCP/IP) and how it works with the Internet (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: CSC 210 and CSC Information Server. This course has a significant 115, or permission of instructor. This course laboratory component to give the student hands-
270 Courses on experience. CSC 292 TOPICS 1 to 5 credits. Includes current topics, advanced CSC 250 COMPUTER SCIENCE II topics, and special topics. A course devoted to a (4-0) 4 credits. Prerequisite: CSC 150 completed particular issue in a specified field. Course with a minimum grade of “C”. Problem solving, content is not wholly included in the regular algorithm design, standards of program style, curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as debugging and testing. Extension of the control instructors. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer structures and data structures of the high-level students with significant one-on-one language introduced in CSC 150. Elementary student/teacher involvement. May be repeated to data structures and basic algorithms that include a total of five (5) credit hours. sorting and searching. Topics include more advanced treatment of functions, data types such CSC 300 DATA STRUCTURES as arrays and structures, and files. (4-0) 4 credits. Prerequisite: CSC 250 completed with a minimum grade of “C” and CSC CSC 251 FINITE STRUCTURES 251. A systematic study of data structures and the (4-0) 4 credits. Prerequisite: CSC 150 or accompanying algorithms used in computing permission of instructor. Selected topics from problems; structure and use of storage; methods of Boolean algebra, set theory, congruencies, representing data; techniques for implementing equivalence relations, complexity, graph theory, data structures; linear lists; stacks; queues; trees combinatorics, induction, difference equations, and tree traversal; linked lists; and other and logic. structures.
CSC 284 DATABASE PROCESSING CSC 314/314L ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CSC 211; (2-2) 4 credits. Prerequisite: CSC 250. A corequisite: CSC 212 or permission of instructor. thorough introduction to assembly language Student will learn the fundamentals of database programming and processor architecture. A study management with specific attention to the most of low-level programming techniques, and the popular database systems currently in use on both layout of a typical computer. The student will NT and UNIX systems (Access, Sequel, and gain insight into the memory layout, registers, Oracle). Students will learn how data is stored run-time stack, and global data segment of a and retrieved, the basics of the entity-relationship running program. This course is cross listed with design methodology and table design, and an CENG 314/314L. Graduation credit will not be introduction to performance issues. This course allowed for both this course and CENG 314/314L. emphasizes using existing systems rather than writing these systems. Students interested in the CSC 317/317L COMPUTER programming details should take CSC 484. ORGANIZATION AND ARCHITECTURE (3-1) 4 credits. Prerequisite: CSC 314 and CSC 291 INDEPENDENT STUDY CENG 244. A course in computer organization 1 to 5 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of with emphasis on the hierarchical structure of instructor. Includes directed study, problems, computer systems. Covers such topics as: readings, directed readings, special problems and components of computer systems and their special projects. Students complete configuration, design of basic digital circuits, the individualized plans of study which include microprogram level, the conventional machine significant one-on-one student-teacher level, the operating system level, assembly involvement. The faculty member and students language, addressing modes, negotiate the details of the study plans. Enrollments interpreters/translators, computer arithmetic. are usually 10 or fewer students. Meeting depending upon the requirements of the topic. May be repeated to CSC 372 ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHMS a total of five (5) credit hours. (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: CSC 300 and
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MATH 125. Design and analysis of algorithms concepts will cover graphical user interface for numeric and nonnumeric problems, general elements and style, events, component and object problem-solving approaches, theory of oriented user interface models, and graphical computation. Topics will be selected from application programming issues. Topics will be searching, sorting, graph algorithms, numerical covered in the context of common graphical user algorithms, geometric algorithms, cryptography, interface environments and programming and parallel algorithms. languages. Possible topics include current GUI development languages such as Java, web CSC 391 INDEPENDENT STUDY interfaces, GUI design principles and standards, 1 to 5 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of and the role of the GUI in the overall application. instructor. Includes directed study, problems, Students enrolled in CSC 521 will be held to a readings, directed readings, special problems and higher standard than those enrolled in CSC 421. special projects. Students complete individualized plans of study which include CSC 433/533 COMPUTER GRAPHICS significant one-on-one student-teacher (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites CSC 300 and involvement. The faculty member and students MATH 225. Graphical programming concepts. negotiate the details of the study plans. Display media and device characteristics. Point, Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. line, and circle plotting. Coordinate systems and Meeting depending upon the requirements of the transformations. Polygon clipping and filling. topic. May be repeated to a total of five (5) credit Spline methods, hidden surface elimination, and hours. shading. Students enrolled in CSC 533 will be held to a higher standard than those enrolled in CSC 392 TOPICS CSC 433. 1 to 5 credits. Includes current topics, advanced topics and special topics. A course devoted to a CSC 440/440L ADVANCED DIGITAL particular issue in a specified field. Course SYSTEMS content is not wholly included in the regular (3-1) 4 credits. Prerequisites: CSC 317 or curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as permission of instructor. Memory and disk instructors. Enrol particular, software validation systems, bus and I/0 systems, parallel processing. and verification as well as scheduling and Applications of digital systems in real-time schedule assessment techniques will be discussed. processing. Graduation credit will not be allowed This course together with CSC 465 form a two- for both this course and CENG 446. course sequence. CSC 445/545 INTRO TO THEORY OF CSC 410/510 PARALLEL COMPUTING COMPUTATION (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CSC 456. The (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CSC 251. fundamental ideas and issues involved in Introduction to a series of models for computation programming and using parallel computers. A and their relationship to formal languages that are survey of modern architectures and operating useful in the definition of programming languages systems. Parallel programming applications in along with a look at the theoretical limits of business, economic modeling, and science. computers. Topics include finite and pushdown SDSM&T emphasizes scientific applications. automata, Turing machines, grammars, Students enrolled in CSC 510 will be held to a decidability and computational complexity. higher standard than those enrolled in CSC 410. Students enrolled in CSC 545 will be held to a higher standard than those enrolled in CSC 445. CSC 421/521 GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES CSC 447/547 ARTIFICIAL (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CSC 300. This INTELLIGENCE introductory course in graphical user interface (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CSC 300. Concepts
272 Courses in Artificial Intelligence: programming in CSC 464/564 INTRODUCTION TO languages such as Prolog or LISP; knowledge DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING AND representation; search algorithms. Students COMPUTER VISION enrolled in CSC 547 will be held to a higher (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: CSC 300 and standard than those enrolled in CSC 447. MATH 125. Introduction to digital image processing and computer vision, including image CSC 448/548 MACHINE LEARNING digitization and display, image enhancement and (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CSC 300. A restoration, frequency domain techniques using systematic study of the theory and algorithms that the Fourier transform, image encoding, constitute machine learning. It covers learning segmentation, and feature detection. Students based on examples including genetic algorithms, enrolled in CSC 564 will be held to a higher case-based reasoning, decision trees, and standard then those enrolled in CSC 464. Bayesian methods. Students enrolled in CSC 548 will be held to a higher standard than those CSC 465 SENIOR DESIGN PROJECT enrolled in CSC 448. (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: CSC 470 or permission of instructor. Normally open only to CSC 456/456L OPERATING SYSTEMS Computer Science majors in their senior year. (3-1) 4 credits. Prerequisites: CSC 314 and CSC This is a team project design course. The course 300. A study of the functions and structures covers topics of current interest in computer associated with operating systems with respect to science. process management, memory management, auxiliary storage management, and processor CSC 470 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING management. Topics include concurrent and (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: CSC 300. An distributed computing, deadlock, real and virtual introduction to the software engineering process, memory, job and processor scheduling, security including lifecycle phases, problem analysis, and protection. Graduation credit will not be specification, project estimation and resource allowed for both this course and CENG 456. estimation, design, implementation, testing/maintenance, and project management. In CSC 461 PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES particular, software validation and verification as (4-0) 4 credits. Prerequisite: CSC 300. This well as scheduling and schedule assessment course consists of two parts. The first part techniques will be discussed. This course introduces how programming languages are together with CSC 465 form a two-course designed, including an introduction to the sequence. concepts of parsing and compiling. Issues related to implementation such as type checking, binding, CSC 476 THEORY OF COMPILERS and memory management are discussed. (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: CSC 314 and CSC Secondly, the course will survey the spectrum of 461 or permission of instructor. Course covers programming languages paradigms, including formal languages, parsing, design of compilers, traditional imperative, object oriented, functional, assemblers, and translators. and logic languages. CSC 484 DATABASE MANAGEMENT CSC 463/563 DATA COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS (4-0) 4 credits. Prerequisite: CSC 250. A study (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CSC 300. The study of the principles of data communications, of formalized database design. This course will computer networks, and open systems, following focus on relational model design and the use of the outline provided by the ISO/OSI model. SQL. Students will use a modern relational Students enrolled in CSC 563 will be held to a database to implement designs and learn the higher standard than those enrolled in CSC 463. basics of data management.
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CSC 491 INDEPENDENT STUDY in advance, by student and instructor. May be 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of repeated to a total of five (5) credit hours. instructor. Includes directed study, problems, readings, directed readings, special problems, and CSC 692 TOPICS special projects. Students complete 1 to 3 credits. Student should have obtained individualized plans of study which include permission of an instructor in the Department of significant one-on-one student-teacher Mathematics and Computer Science prior to involvement. The faculty member and students registering for this course. Lecture course or negotiate the details of the study plans. seminar on a topic or field of special interest, as Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. determined by the instructor. May be repeated to Meeting depending upon the requirements of the a total of six credit hours. topic. May be repeated to a total of five (5) credit hours. CSC 713 ADVANCED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING CSC 492 TOPICS (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CSC 300 or 1 to 3 credits. Includes current topics, advanced permission of instructor. This course covers topics, and special topics. A course devoted to a concepts and techniques within the different particular issue in a specified field. Course phases of the software life cycle: requirements, content is not wholly included in the regular specifications, design, implementation, testing, curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as operation, and management. The emphasis will instructors. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer be on the study of activities related to software students with significant one-on-one configuration management and maintenance. student/teacher involvement. May be repeated to a total of three (3) credit hours. CSC 731 ADVANCED COMPUTER GRAPHICS CSC 498 UNDERGRADUATE (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: CSC 433 or RESEARCH/SCHOLARSHIP permission of instructor. Topics considered in Credit to be arranged; not to exceed six credits this course include the viewing/rendering toward fulfillment of B.S. degree requirements. pipeline, interaction strategies, curve and surface Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Includes models, visible-surface determination, senior project, and capstone experience. illumination and shading models, antialiasing. Independent research problems/projects or Also included will be project development using scholarship activities. The plan of study is PHIGS and GKS (C programming required). negotiated by the faculty member and the student. Contact between the two may be extensive and CSC 752 COMPUTER VISION intensive. Does not include research courses (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: Permission of which are theoretical. May be repeated to a total instructor. Low-level processing for extraction of of six credit hours. intrinsic image features (edges, range, surface orientation, motion and optical flow, texture), CSC 691 INDEPENDENT STUDY relaxation methods, image segmentation, pattern 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of recognition, geometric and relational structures, instructor. Student should have obtained knowledge representation, and neural network permission of an instructor in the Department of approaches. Mathematics and Computer Science prior to registering for this course. Directed independent CSC 761 ADVANCED ARTIFICIAL study of a topic or field of special interest. This INTELLIGENCE may involve readings, research, laboratory or (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: Permission of fieldwork, and preparation of papers, as agreed to instructor. The objective of this course is to provide students with a background in advanced
274 Courses artificial intelligence problem solving methods. presentation and group discussion of a research Topics covered include: Expert systems, fuzzy problem. logic and fuzzy expert systems, genetic algorithms, case-based reasoning, and current CSC 791 INDEPENDENT STUDY research work on new areas of problem solving. 1 to 5 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Student should have obtained CSC 762 NEURAL NETWORKS permission of an instructor in the Department of (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: CSC 300 or Mathematics and Computer Science prior to permission of instructor. This course presents a registering for this course. Directed independent survey of the architecture and algorithms of neural study of a topic or field of special interest. This networks. Topics covered include perceptrons, may involve readings, research, laboratory or competitive learning, multi-layer networks, back fieldwork, and preparation of papers, as agreed to propagation, and selected topics from pattern in advance, by student and instructor. May be recognition. repeated to a total of five (5) credit hours.
CSC 772 ADVANCED OPERATING CSC 792 TOPICS SYSTEMS 1 to 5 credits. Student should have obtained (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: CSC 456 or permission of an instructor in the Department of permission of instructor. Advanced topics in Mathematics and Computer Science prior to operating systems design for multiprocessing and registering for this course. Lecture course or distributed systems. Topics will include areas seminar on a topic or field of special interest, as such as methods of interprocess communication, determined by the instructor. May be repeated to reliability, maintainability, security, and large- a total of six credit hours. scale design considerations. CSC 798 MASTER’S THESIS CSC 784 DATABASE DESIGN Credit to be arranged; not to exceed six credits (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: CSC 300 or toward fulfillment of M.S. degree requirements. permission of instructor. This course will include Open only to students pursuing the M.S. thesis an overview of the relational and entity option. Supervised original or expository research relationship (E-R) models. It will cover database culminating in an acceptable thesis. Oral defense design, advanced data models, emerging trends in of thesis and research findings are required. the database field, including data warehouse, data mining, and distributed and parallel databases. ECON 201 PRINCIPLES OF Oracle database design tools and programming MICROECONOMICS will be taught. (3-0) 3 credits. Principles of microeconomics studies basic economic concepts as they relate to CSC 788 MASTER’S RESEARCH consumer, worker, and business decisions. PROBLEMS/PROJECTS Emphasis is given to satisfaction maximizing Credit to be arranged; not to exceed three (3) behavior by individuals and profit maximization credits toward fulfillment of M.S. degree by firms. Market structures are thoroughly requirements. Open only to students pursuing the analyzed regarding their effect on price, output, M.S. non-thesis option. Directed investigation of and competitiveness. This course is taught by a selected problem culminating in an acceptable Black Hills State University. written report. Oral defense of the report and findings are required. ECON 202 PRINCIPLES OF MACROECONOMICS CSC 790 SEMINAR (3-0) 3 credits. Principles of macroeconomics (1-0) 1 credit. May not be repeated for degree considers the economy as a whole, how its sectors credit. Preparation of an oral and/or written interact, and how monetary and fiscal policy can
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influence output, inflation, interest rates, student with an understanding of the basic unemployment, poverty, debt, and other factors. concepts of the profession. Topics covered This course is taught by Black Hills State include resistive circuits, transient circuits, and University. sinusoidal analysis. Students also investigate essential principles by conducting laboratory EE 199/199L INTRODUCTION TO experiments related to the topics studied in the CIRCUIT ANALYSIS classroom. P-spice is used to analyze electrical (2.5-0.5) 3 credits. Prerequisite or corequisite: circuits using personal computers. MATH 125. This course is designed to provide electrical engineering and computer engineering EE 291 INDEPENDENT STUDY students with an understanding of the basic 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of concepts of the profession – voltage, current, instructor. Includes directed study, problems, resistance, power, and energy. A heavy emphasis readings, directed readings, special problems and will be placed on gaining an appreciation for the special projects. Students complete fundamental problem solving methodology, individualized plans of study which include PSpice, and Matlab. Course topics will be limited significant one-on-one student-teacher to resistive circuits. (Experimental) involvement. The faculty member and students negotiate the details of the study plans. EE 299/299L SOPHOMORE DESIGN Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. (1-1) 2 credits. Prerequisite: GES 115. This Meeting depending upon the requirements of the course focuses on the design process including topic. project management and teamwork; formal conceptual design methods; acquiring and EE 292 TOPICS processing information; design management tools; 1 to 3 credits. Includes current topics, advanced design for manufacturability, reliability, topics and special topics. A course devoted to a maintainability, sustainability; design particular issue in a specified field. Course communication: reports and presentations; ethics content is not wholly included in the regular in design; prototyping designs; case studies. This curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as course is cross-listed with ME 299/299L. instructors. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer (Experimental) students with significant one-on-one student/teacher involvement. EE 220/220L CIRCUITS I (3-1) 4 credits. Prerequisites: MATH 125 EE 301/301L INTRODUCTORY CIRCUITS, completed with a grade of “C”. Corequisite: MACHINES, AND SYSTEMS MATH 321. This course is designed to provide (3-1) 4 credits. Prerequisites: GE 115 or the electrical engineering student with an equivalent, MATH 125 completed with a grade of understanding of the basic concepts of the “C” or better, and MATH 321 completed or profession. Topics covered include resistive concurrent. Not for majors in electrical circuits, transient circuits, and sinusoidal analysis. engineering or computer engineering. Introduces Students also investigate essential principles by the essential concepts of electrical engineering conducting laboratory experiments related to the concerning circuits, machines, electronics, and topics studied in the classroom. P-spice is used to systems. analyze electrical circuits using personal computers. EE 311/311L SYSTEMS (3-0.5) 3.5 credits. Prerequisites: EE 221 EE 221/221L CIRCUITS II completed with a grade of “C” or better, EM 216 (3-1) 4 credits. Prerequisites: EE 220 completed completed or concurrent. Mathematical, with a grade of “C” and MATH 321. This course topological, and circuit models of electro-systems, is designed to provide the electrical engineering such as electromagnetic, electromechanical,
276 Courses electrothermal, etc. and control systems. This course is cross-listed with ME 351/351L. EE 312/312L SIGNALS (3-0.5) 3.5 credits. Prerequisites: EE 221 EE 362 ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC completed with a grade of “C” or better. PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS Characterization of signals; the complex plane as (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: MATH 225, MATH a representative of the transient and frequency 321, and PHYS 213. This course studies the responses, continuous and discrete signal behavior of materials of interest to electrical processing. engineers and covers fundamental issues such as energy band theory, density of states, Fermi-Dirac EE 320/320L ELECTRONICS I statistics, equilibrium statistics in semiconductors, (3-1) 4 credits. Prerequisite or corequisite: EE and Fermi energy. This foundation is then used to 221. Presents concepts of electronic devices and study a variety of topics such as conduction, circuits including modeling of semiconductor semiconductor devices, ferromagnetism, lasers, devices, analysis and design of transistor biasing gaseous electronics, and thermoelectric circuits, and analysis and design of linear phenomena. amplifiers. Use of computer simulation tools and breadboarding as part of the circuit process is EE 381 ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC emphasized. Students are introduced to methods FIELDS for designing circuits that still meet specifications (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: MATH 225, MATH even when there are statistical variations in the 321, and PHYS 213. Fundamentals of field component values. theory (i.e., Maxwell’s equations) as applied to static electric and magnetic phenomena. Also, EE 322/322L ELECTRONICS II theory and applications of lossless transmission (3-1) 4 credits. Prerequisite: EE 221 and EE 320. lines are covered. A continuation of EE 320 with emphasis on design applications of linear and nonlinear EE 382/382L APPLIED integrated circuits. ELECTROMAGNETICS (2.5-0.5) 3 credits. Prerequisite: EE 381. Field theory (e.g., Maxwell’s equations) for time- EE 330/330L ENERGY SYSTEMS varying electromagnetic phenomena. (3-1) 4 credits. Prerequisite: EE 221. Production, Applications include transmission lines, plane transmission, and utilization of energy in systems waves, and antennas. Students are introduced to with major electrical subsystems, with particular typical laboratory equipment associated with emphasis on electromagnetic and applied electromagnetics (e.g., vector network electromechanical systems and devices. analyzer).
EE 351/351L MECHATRONICS AND EE 391 INDEPENDENT STUDY MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS 1 to 4 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. (3-1) 4 credits. Prerequisite: CSC 150 and EE Includes directed study, problems, readings, directed 220 or EE 301. This course will encompass readings, special problems, and special projects. general measurement techniques found in Students complete individualized plans of study mechanical and electrical engineering. These which include significant one-on-one student-teacher include measurement of force, strain, frequency, involvement. The faculty member and students pressure flow rates, and temperatures. Elements negotiate the details of the study plans. Enrollments of signal conditioning and data acquisition will be are usually 10 or fewer students. Meeting depending introduced. In addition to this material, the course upon the requirements of the topic. will have a Mechatronics approach reflected in the combined applications of electronic mechanical
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EE 392 TOPICS EE 322 and ENGL 289. This course will focus on 1 to 4 credits. Includes current topics, advanced the design process and culminate with the EE topics and special topics. A course devoted to a faculty approval of design projects (including particular issue in a specified field. Course schematics and parts list) for EE 465. Typical content is not wholly included in the regular topics included are the development of a product curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as mission statement, identification of the customer instructors. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer and customer needs, development of target students with significant one-on-one specifications, consideration of alternate designs student/teacher involvement. using a decision matrix, project management techniques, legal and ethical issues, FCC EE 421/421L COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS verification and certification, use of probability (3-1) 4 credits. Prerequisites: EE 312 and EE 322. and statistics for reliable design, interpretation of Fundamentals of analog- and digital-signal data sheets, and component selection. transmission. Performance characteristics such as channel loss, distortion, bandwidth requirements, EE 465 SENIOR DESIGN II signal-to-noise ratios, and error probability. (2-0) 2 credits. Prerequisites: EE 464. Sequel to EE 464. Seniors build project in simulated EE 431/431L POWER SYSTEMS environment incorporating engineering standards (3-1) 4 credits. Prerequisite: EE 311 and EE 330. and realistic constraints. Requirements include The principles of energy conversion and laboratory notebook, progress reports, final oral transmission in modern power systems. presentation, and written report. Specialized problems of design, control, and protection are included. EE 481/481L MICROWAVE ENGINEERING (3-1) 4 credits. Presentation of basic principles, EE 432/432L POWER ELECTRONICS characteristics, and applications of microwave (3-1) 4 credits. Prerequisites: EE 330. The devices and systems. Development of techniques conversion, regulation, and control of electric for analysis and design of microwave circuits. power by means of electronic switching devices; inverter and chopper circuits; pulse width EE 482/482L LASER AND OPTO- modulation; motor drives. ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS (3-1) 4 credits. Prerequisite: EE 362. EE 451/451L CONTROL SYSTEMS Presentation of basic principles, characteristics, (3-1) 4 credits. Prerequisite: ME 352 or EE 311. and applications of opto-electronic devices. Analysis and design of automatic control and Development of techniques for analysis and process systems by techniques encountered in design of opto-electronic systems. modern engineering practice, including both linear and nonlinear systems with either EE 483/483L ANTENNAS FOR WIRELESS continuous or discrete signals. This course is COMMUNICATIONS cross-listed with ME 453/453L (3-1) 4 credits. Prerequisite: EE 382. Introduction to antenna design, measurement, and EE 461/461L VLSI TECHNOLOGY theory for wireless communications including (3-1) 4 credits. Prerequisite: EE 362. fundamental antenna concepts and parameters Development of the theory of solid-state devices, (directivity, gain, patterns, etc.), matching and an introduction to the design, fabrication, and techniques, and signal propagation. Theory and packaging of integrated and hybrid circuits. design of linear, loop, and patch antennas, antenna arrays, and other commonly used antennas. EE 464 SENIOR DESIGN I Students will design, model, build, and test (2-0) 2 credits. Prerequisites: Senior standing antenna(s). and prerequisite or corequisite EE 311, EE 312,
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EE 491 INDEPENDENT STUDY decoupling, line termination, and multi-layer 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of routing strategies. The student is also introduced instructor. Includes directed study, problems, to high-speed measurement techniques and readings, directed readings, special problems, and equipment. special projects. Students complete individualized plans of study which include EE 618/618L INSTRUMENTATION significant one-on-one student-teacher SYSTEMS involvement. The faculty member and students (2-1) 3 credits. Presentation of principles, negotiate the details of the study plans. characteristics, and applications of Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. instrumentation systems including sensors, filters, Meeting depending upon the requirements of the instrumentation amplifiers, analog-to-digital and topic. digital-to-analog conversions, and noise. This course will be useful to graduate students EE 492 TOPICS beginning their laboratory thesis research. It is 1 to 4 credits. Includes current topics, advanced available to students from other departments with topics, and special topics. A course devoted to a permission of instructor. particular issue in a specified field. Course content is not wholly included in the regular EE 621 INFORMATION AND CODING curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as THEORY instructors. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer (3-0) 3 credits. Principles and techniques of students with significant one-on-one information theory and coding theory and their student/teacher involvement. application to the design of information handling systems. Topics include: Entropy, Shannon EE 498 UNDERGRADUATE theory, channel capacity, coding for data RESEARCH/SCHOLARSHIP translation, compaction, transmission and Credit to be arranged: not to exceed four credits compression, block codes, and Markov processes. toward fulfillment of B.S. degree requirements. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Includes EE 622 STATISTICAL COMMUNICATION senior project, and capstone experience. SYSTEMS Independent research problems/projects or (3-0) 3 credits. Concepts of probability and scholarship activities. The plan of study is random processes; linear systems and random negotiated by the faculty member and the student. processes; performance of amplitude angle and Contact between the two may be extensive and pulse modulation systems in noisy environments; intensive. Does not include research courses digital data transmission; and basic concepts of which are theoretical. information theory.
EE 612/612L HIGH-SPEED DIGITAL EE 623 RANDOM SIGNALS AND NOISE DESIGN (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of (2.5-0.5) 3 credits. Prerequisites: EE 220 and EE instructor. Selected topics in the theory of 320 or equivalent courses in introductory circuits probability and statistics; spectral analysis; shot and introductory electronics. This course is an noise and Gaussian processes; noise figures; introduction to signal integrity and the design of signal-to-noise ratios; random signals in linear high-speed circuits and interconnects. Topics systems; optimum linear systems. Taught as include signal Integrity issues such as ringing, required. ground bounce, clock skew, jitter, crosstalk, and unwanted radiation, time-domain analysis and EE 624/624L ADVANCED DIGITAL spice simulation of lumped and distributed high SIGNAL PROCESSING speed circuits, micro-strip and strip-line design, (2.5-0.5) 3 credits. Prerequisites: CENG 420 or ground and power plane design, proper capacitor equivalent. This course develops the theory
279 Courses essential to understanding the algorithms that are a background in the various techniques used in increasingly found in modern signal processing fault tolerant approaches. After an introduction to applications, such as speech, image processing, fault tolerance, deterministic testing and digital radio and audio, statistical and adaptive probabilistic testing will be presented. Important systems. Topics include: analysis of non- topics in the area of fault tolerant computing will stationary signals, transform techniques, Wiener be covered, such as random testing, error filters, Kalman filters, multirate rate systems and detection and correction, reliability analysis, fault- filter banks, hardware implementation and tolerant design techniques, and design faults simulation of filters, and applications of multriate including software reliability methods. signal processing. Matlab will be used extensively. EE 645 ADVANCED DIGITAL SYSTEMS AND VLSI TESTING EE 633 POWER SYSTEM ANALYSIS I (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CENG 342 or (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: EE 431 or equivalent or permission of instructor. The equivalent. Synchronous machine theory and objective of this course is to provide students with modeling; short-circuit, load flow, and stability background of the various techniques in testing of studies in large scale systems. Taught as required. digital and VLSI systems, with emphasis on CMOS logic circuits. Fault Modeling will first be EE 634 POWER SYSTEM ANALYSIS II introduced. Various test generation algorithms for (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: EE 633. Advanced static and dynamic circuits will then be presented. topics in power system analysis; excitation and Important topics in CMOS, BiCMOS testing will speed-control systems; protective relaying and be covered, such as: test invalidation, testing for relay applications. Taught as required. bridging faults, design for robust restability. Other current issues in testing will be discussed as EE 641 DIGITAL SYSTEMS DESIGN well, such as, memory testing, delay testing, etc. (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Design of digital systems (including EE 647/647L HDL DESIGN computer systems) and implementation by fixed (2.5-0.5) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CENG 342 or logic and programmed logic (microprocessors and permission of instructor. This course explores microprogramming). Taught as required. modern design techniques utilizing hardware description languages (HDLs) such as VHDL, EE 642 DIGITAL SYSTEMS THEORY VHDL-A, and Verilog. Fundamental language (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CENG 342 or syntax will be covered in addition to advanced equivalent. Theory of digital systems including language constructs. Various hierarchical design switching algebra, minimization, function styles such as dataflow, structural, and behavioral decomposition, fault diagnosis, sequential circuits, descriptions will be presented. Emphasis will be state identification, linear sequential machines, placed on both design simulation and synthesis. and automata theory. Taught as required. Synthesis platforms (e.g., FPGAs and ASICs) will also be examined. Other current issues will also EE 643 ADVANCED DIGITAL SYSTEMS be discussed such as reconfigurability, system-on- (3-0) 3 credits. Study of current advanced topics a-chip solutions, testbenches, soft processors, etc. in digital systems; multiprocessors; computer networks; digital communication; pattern EE 648/648L ADVANCED VLSI DESIGN recognition systems. Taught as required. (2.5-0.5) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CENG 440. This course presents more advanced material related to EE 644 FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTING the technology and design of modern VLSI (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CENG 342 or integrated circuits including topics such as mixed equivalent or permission of instructor. The logic design, BiCMOS logic design, memory objective of this course is to provide students with design, low power design, silicon-on-insulator
280 Courses chips, deep sub-micron design issues, crosstalk, EE 798 MASTER’S THESIS parasitic parameter extraction and optimization, Credit to be arranged; not to exceed six (6) credits gallium arsenide logic devices, design-for-test, toward fulfillment of the M.S. degree fault-tolerant VLSI architectures, etc. requirements. Supervised original or expository research culminating in an acceptable thesis. Oral EE 651 DIGITAL CONTROL SYSTEMS defense of the thesis and research findings are (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: EE 451 or required. equivalent. Study of topics in digital control systems, digital compensation techniques; real- EM 214 STATICS time digital control of dynamic systems; (3-0) 3 credits. Corequisite: MATH 125. The optimization of digital systems; digital control of study of the effects of external forces acting on robotic systems, digital to continuous system stationary rigid bodies in equilibrium. Vector interfacing. Taught as required. algebra is used to study two and three dimensional systems of forces. Trusses, frames and machines, EE 652 NONLINEAR AND OPTIMAL shear and moment in beams, friction, centroids, CONTROL SYSTEMS moments of inertia, and mass moments of inertia (3-0) 3 credits. The study of nonlinear and are discussed. optimal systems using the phase plane method, describing functions, Lyapunov’s theory, EM 215 DYNAMICS nonlinear control systems design, linear, dynamic (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: EM 214. Newton’s and integer programmer, parameter optimization, laws of motion are applied to particles and rigid and system optimization using calculus of bodies. Absolute and relative motion; force, mass variation. and acceleration; work and energy; and impulse and momentum. EE 691 INDEPENDENT STUDY 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of EM 216 STATICS AND DYNAMICS instructor. Directed independent study of a topic (4-0) 4 credits. Prerequisite: MATH 125. Statics: or field of special interest. This may involve the study of effects of external forces acting on readings, research, laboratory or fieldwork, and stationary rigid bodies in equilibrium. Frames preparation of papers, as agreed to in advance, by and machines, friction, centroids and moments of student and instructor. inertia of areas and mass are discussed. Dynamics: Newton’s laws of motion are applied T EE 692 TOPICS particles and rigid bodies. Topics considered are 1 to 3 credits. Lecture course or seminar on a absolute and relative motion; force, mass, and topic or field of special interest, as determined by acceleration (or particles and rigid bodies); work the instructor. and energy; and impulse and momentum (of particles). EE 791 INDEPENDENT STUDY 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of EM 217 STATICS AND MECHANICS OF instructor. Directed independent study of a topic MATERIALS or field of special interest. This may involve (4-0) 4 credits. Prerequisite: MATH 125. readings, research, laboratory or fieldwork, and Integrated course involving the study of force preparation of papers, as agreed to in advance, by systems in equilibrium and the mechanics of student and instructor. deformable bodies. Emphasis is placed on the basic concepts of the static behavior of rigid EE 792 TOPICS bodies and the behavior of deformable bodies 1 to 3 credits. Lecture course or seminar on a under loadings common to engineering problems. topic or field of special interest, as determined by the instructor.
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EM 218 EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF properties of real and ideal fluids; application of STRESS AND STRAIN continuity, energy, and momentum principles to (0-1) 1 credit. Prerequisite: Preceded by or laminar, turbulent, compressible, and concurrent with EM 321 or EM 217. Laboratory incompressible flows; and laminar and turbulent procedures common to the mechanical design area flow of fluids in closed conduits and around are studied and developed. Methods and immersed bodies. applications of tension and bending tests will be explored. Procedures studied will include topics EM 680 ADVANCED STRENGTH OF such as strain rosette analysis, tension, torsion, MATERIALS and bending tests, fatigue, photoelasticity, and (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: EM 321, MATH brittle coatings. 225, MATH 321. Study of advanced concepts in strength of materials. Topics will be selected EM 321 MECHANICS OF MATERIALS from the following: theories of stress and strain, (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: EM 214. Basic failure criteria, energy methods, torsion, concepts of stress and strain that result from axial, nonsymmetrical beams on elastic foundation, transverse, and torsional loads on bodies loaded plates, shells, stress concentrations, contact within the elastic range. Shear and movement stresses, finite element methods, and plastic equations and diagrams; combined stresses; behavior of solids. Mohr’s circle; beam deflections; and column action and equations. ENGL 031 BASIC WRITING (1-0) 1 credit. Prerequisite: Appropriate student EM 327 APPLIED FLUID MECHANICS placement based on entry level assessment. (4-0) 4 credits. Prerequisites: EM 321, EM 217, Intensive work in grammar and usage, or permission of instructor. An introduction to the punctuation, and paragraph development. Does static and dynamic properties of real and ideal not count toward graduation. fluids; application of continuity, energy, and momentum principles to laminar, turbulent, ENGL 032 BASIC WRITING compressible, and incompressible flows; laminar (2-0) 2 credits. Prerequisite: Prerequisite: and turbulent flow of fluids in closed conduits and Appropriate student placement based on entry open channels; flow through orifices, weirs, and level assessment. Intensive work in grammar and venturi meters; and flow in pipe networks and usage, punctuation, and paragraph development. pumping systems. Does not count toward graduation.
EM 328 APPLIED FLUID MECHANICS ENGL 033 BASIC WRITING (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: EM 214 or (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Prerequisite: concurrent enrollment in EM 217, or EM 216. Appropriate student placement based on entry Topics will include an introduction to the static level assessment. Intensive work in grammar and and dynamic properties of real and ideal fluids; usage, punctuation, and paragraph development. application of continuity, energy, and momentum Does not count toward graduation. principles to laminar, turbulent, compressible, and incompressible flows; laminar and turbulent flow ENGL 101 COMPOSITION I of fluids in closed conduits and open channels; (3-0) 3 credits. Appropriate student placement flow through orifices, weirs, and venturi meters. based on entry level assessment or completion of Flow in pipe networks and pumping systems will ENGL 031, 032, or 033. Practice in the skills, be investigated using a projectized team approach. research, and documentation needed for effective academic writing. Analysis of a variety of EM 331 FLUID MECHANICS academic and non-academic texts, rhetorical (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites or corequisite: EM structures, critical thinking, and audience will be 321. An introduction to the static and dynamic included.
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ENGL 201 COMPOSITION II delivery of complex technical documents. (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: ENGL 101 or permission of instructor. Study of and practice in ENGL 300 THE LITERARY EXPERIENCE writing persuasive prose, with the aim to improve OF NATURE writing skills in all disciplines. Includes literary (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Junior or senior analysis and requires a research report. standing. An interdisciplinary survey of writing about nature, examining the relationship between ENGL 221 BRITISH LITERATURE I literary, cultural, and scientific perspectives. (3-0) 3 credits. A chronological survey of British literature from Old English through the 18th ENGL 330 SHAKESPEARE Century. ENGL 221 and ENGL 222 need not be (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: ENGL 101 or taken in sequence. permission of instructor. Representative comedies, tragedies, and histories of Shakespeare. ENGL 222 BRITISH LITERATURE II (3-0) 3 credits. A chronological survey of British ENGL 343 SELECTED AUTHORS literature from the 19th century to the present. (1-0) 1 credit. Prerequisite: ENGL 101 or ENGL 221 and ENGL 222 need not be taken in permission of instructor. A study of the work of sequence. one or several major literary figures. Authors may change each time the course is offered. May ENGL 241 AMERICAN LIT I be taken up to three (3) times with different (3-0) 3 credits. Background to and survey of authors. major works from the beginnings to the Civil War. ENGL 241 and ENGL 242 need not be ENGL 350 HUMOR IN AMERICAN taken in sequence. CULTURE (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Junior or senior ENGL 242 AMERICAN LIT II standing. The interdisciplinary study of American (3-0) 3 credits. Background to and survey of literary humor and its relationship to significant major works from the Civil War to the present. historical and regional issues. ENGL 241 and ENGL 242 need not be taken in sequence. ENGL 360 STUDIES IN EUROPEAN LITERATURE ENGL 250 SCIENCE FICTION (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Junior or senior (3-0) 3 credits. A survey of short stories and standing. The interdisciplinary study of a facet of novels from the 19th century to the present. European literature through focus on literature of a particular century, a specific country or ENGL 279 TECHNICAL individual authors such as 19th century COMMUNICATIONS I nationalism, literature of France, or James Joyce. (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: ENGL 101 or May be repeated to maximum of credit of six equivalent and sophomore standing. Introductory hours on different topics. written and oral technical communications with emphasis on research and explanations of ENGL 374 STUDIES IN AMERICAN scientific and engineering topics. LITERATURE 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Junior or senior ENGL 289 TECHNICAL standing. The interdisciplinary study of American COMMUNICATIONS II literature through focus on a particular facet of the (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: ENGL 279 or American experience, such as a national issue or equivalent and sophomore standing. Advanced concern, a unique historical period or literary written and oral technical communications with genre, or a distinct segment of U.S. society. May emphasis on the research, preparation, and be repeated to maximum credit of six (6) hours on
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ENGL 383 CREATIVE WRITING ENTR 406/506 ACCOUNTING FOR (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Junior standing. ENTREPRENEURS Study and practice in the techniques of writing (3-0) 3 credits. Accounting concepts and fiction, poetry, and/or drama. practices for entrepreneurs/small business owners. Emphasis given to the use of accounting tools to ENGL 391 INDEPENDENT STUDY solve small business problems. Students enrolled 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of in BADM 506 will be held to a higher standard instructor. Includes directed study, problems, than those enrolled in BADM 406. This course is readings, directed readings, special problems and cross-listed with ACCT 406/506 and BADN special projects. Students complete 406/506. This course cannot count as a social individualized plans of study which include science/humanities credit. This course is taught by significant one-on-one student-teacher Black Hills State University. involvement. The faculty member and students negotiate the details of the study plans. ENTR 438/538 ENTREPRENEURSHIP II Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. (3-0) 3 credits. This course focuses on the Meeting depending upon the requirements of the process of screening an opportunity, drafting a topic. personal entrepreneurial strategy, and understanding the business plan writing process. ENGL 392 TOPICS Building the entrepreneurial team and the 1 to 3 credits. Includes current topics, advanced acquisition and management of financial topics and special topics. A course devoted to a resources are emphasized along with venture particular issue in a specified field. Course growth, harvest strategies, and valuation. content is not wholly included in the regular Students enrolled in ENTR 538 will be held to a curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as higher standard than those enrolled in ENTR 438. instructors. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer This course is cross-listed with BADM 438/538. students with significant one-on-one This course is taught by Black Hills State student/teacher involvement. A maximum of six University. (6) credits of special topics will be allowed for degree credit. ENTR 489 BUSINESS PLAN WRITING AND COMPETITION ENGL 468 CONTEMPORARY FICTION (1-0) 1 credit. Students will write a business plan (3-0) 3 credits. A study of the significant trends and present it to a panel of faculty and business in contemporary fiction. community members. The top three business plan presenters will more on to a statewide ENTR 336 ENTREPRENEURSHIP I competition. This course is cross-listed with (3-0) 3 credits. This course is an introduction to BADM 489. This course is taught by Black Hills the concepts, terminology, and process of new State University. venture creation, operation and growth, as well as the introduction of entrepreneurial management ENVE 120 INTRODUCTION TO MINING , practices into existing businesses. New ventures SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND include public and non-profit institutions as well INTRODUCTORY MANAGEMENT as for profit businesses. This course will assist in (2-0) 2 credits. This course presents an the identification of entrepreneurial opportunities introductory overview of current surface and and strategies and the role of personal factors underground mining practices, new and emerging (including creativity). Legal, ethical, and social mining technology, mining terminology, and responsibilities are emphasized. This course is mining economics. Mining engineering faculty cross-listed with BADM 336. This course is members are introduced and career paths
284 Courses available to the mining engineering graduate are ENVE 220L MINERAL PROCESSING AND discussed. The concept of sustainable RESOURCE RECOVERY LABORATORY development as it relates to minerals venture is (0-1) 1 credit. An introductory laboratory course introduced, and the interrelationships between in mineral processing highlighting relevant unit mining, the environment, societal needs, and operations. This course is cross-listed with MET governance is discussed. Also included is an 220L. introduction to management concepts, presentation skills, meeting skills, negotiation ENVE 302 MINERAL ECONOMICS AND skills, and basic project management tools. This FINANCE course is cross-listed with MEM 120. (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Junior standing. An introduction to the concepts of the time value of ENVE 204 SURFACE MINING METHODS money and the application of time value of money AND UNIT OPERATIONS decision criteria to mineral project evaluation (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: ENVE/MEM 120 situations. Both before-tax and after-tax or permission of instructor. A study of surface investment situations are discussed. A discussion mining techniques and unit operations applicable of the financing options available to a company to metal mining, coal mining, quarrying and other for expansion, new project development or surface mining operations. Topics include mine acquisitions. This course is cross-listed with design and planning, surface drilling and blasting, MEM 302. the applicability and performance characteristics of earthmoving equipment, and an introduction of ENVE 310 AQUEOUS EXTRACTION, mine drainage. This course is cross-listed with CONCENTRATION, AND RECYCLING MEM 204. (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: MET 220 and MET 320. Scientific and engineering principles ENVE 217 CHEMICAL ENGINEERING I involved in the winning of metals from ores and (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite or corequisite: scrap. Areas covered include the unit operations CHEM 114, GES 115 and PHYS 211. The course of comminution, sizing, solid/liquid separations, on the theory and practice of chemical leaching, ion exchange, solvent extraction, and engineering with emphasis on material and energy surface phenomena as related to flocculation, balances. This course is cross-listed with CHE froth floatation, and electrostatic separation. This 217. course is cross-listed with MET 310.
ENVE 220 MINERAL PROCESSING AND ENVE 310L AQUEOUS EXTRACTION, RESOURCE RECOVERY CONCENTRATION, AND RECYCLING (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing. LAB An introductory course in mineral processing (0-1) 1 credit. Prerequisites: Concurrent highlighting unit operations involved including registration in ENVE 310 or permission of comminution, sizing, froth flotation, gravity instructor. Laboratory experiments in design of separation, electrostatic separation, magnetic processing equipment and cost estimation, zeta separation and flocculation. Other topics potential, surface tension, leaching kinetics, discussed include remediation of contaminant electrowinning, and solvent extraction. This effluents and the unit operations associated with course is cross-listed with MET 310L. recycling of post-consumer materials using mineral processing techniques. This course is ENVE 315 FUNDAMENTALS OF HEAT cross-listed with MET 220. TRANSFER (2-0) 2 credits. Prerequisites: CHE/ENVE 217, completion of or concurrent registration in MATH 321. Course topics address theory and application of principles of heat transfer by conduction,
285 Courses convection and radiation. Completion of ENVE This course is cross-listed with MET 321/321L. 315 will not meet the requirement for completion of CHE 317 for a B.S. in Chemical Engineering. ENVE 322/322L STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY This course is cross-listed with CHE 317. (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisites GEOL 201 and GEOL 201L, or GEOE 221; and GEOL 341. A ENVE 317 CHEMICAL ENGINEERING III study of the character and genesis of large-scale (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: CHE 217, and small-scale deformational structures and their concurrent registration in MATH 321. The third patterns in the earth’s crust. Laboratory work course on the theory and practice of chemical includes various trigonometric, geometric, and engineering with emphasis on heat transfer. Heat stereographic methods applicable to structural transfer by conduction, convection, and radiation analysis and presents open-ended problems in is studied. This course is cross-listed with CHE geologic, structure contour, and isopach map 317. interpretation, as well as engineering design problems including drilling exploration projects. ENVE 318 CHEMICAL ENGINEERING IV This course is cross-listed with GEOE 322/322L. (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: CHE 317 or ENVE 315 or permission of instructor. The fourth course ENVE 324/324L ENGINEERING on the theory and practice of chemical GEOPHYSICS I engineering with emphasis on molecular (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisites MATH 125 and diffusion, membranes, convective mass transfer, PHYS 213. Application of the more commonly drying, humidification, and continuous gas-liquid used methods of geophysical prospecting in separation processes. This course is cross-listed mineral exploration, petroleum exploration, and with CHE 318. engineering construction. Includes field design and interpretation of surveys using the ENVE 320 METALLURGICAL engineering seismograph, gravity meter, electrical THERMODYNAMICS resistivity equipment, scintillometers, and (4-0) 4 credits. Prerequisites: PHYS 211, CHEM magnetometers. Extensive use of computers is 114, MATH 125. The principles of chemical made in the laboratory work. This course is thermodynamics and their application to cross-listed with GEOE 324/324L. metallurgical engineering processes. Topics covered include the zeroth, first, and second laws ENVE 326 INTRODUCTORY of thermodynamics, the fundamental equations of ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING state for open and closed systems, criterion of DESIGN equilibrium, heat capacities, reaction equilibrium (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: CHEM 114 and constants and their dependence upon temperature junior standing. As the first course in the theory and pressure, chemical potential, standard and and practice of environmental engineering, reference states, stability diagrams, and solution emphases are on the acquisition of introductory thermodynamics. This course is cross-listed with knowledge pertaining to natural and engineered MET 320. environmental engineering systems, identification and mitigation of societal impacts upon the Earth, ENVE 321/321L HIGH TEMPERATURE and application of environmental engineering EXTRACTION, CONCENTRATION, AND principles in the design and analysis of systems RECYCLING for water and wastewater treatment and (3-1) 4 credits. Prerequisite: MET 320. solid/hazardous waste management. This course Thermodynamic principles involved in the is cross-listed with CHE 326. winning of metals. Areas covered include calcination, oxidation, reduction processes, smelting, high -temperature refining, electrorefining, slags, and slag-metal interactions.
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ENVE 327/327L ENVIRONMENTAL ENVE 390 SEMINAR ENGINERING PROCESS ANALYSIS 0 to 1 credit. Prerequisite: Junior standing. A (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisite or corequisite: CEE highly focused, and topical course. The format 284 or CHE 250 and one of the following: EM includes student presentations and discussions of 328, EM 331, CHE 218 or ME 331. As the reports based on literature, practices, problems, second course in the theory and practice of and research. Seminars may be conducted over Environmental Engineering, emphasis is on electronic media such as Internet and are at the application of material balance concepts in upper division or graduate levels. Enrollment is environmental analysis and design with generally limited to fewer than 20 students. The consideration of water chemistry, environmental course is repeatable up to three times for a total of process kinetics, ideal and non-ideal reactors, and one credit. biological process fundamentals. These fundamental principles are applied in selected ENVE 405 MINE PERMITTING AND natural and engineered environmental contexts RECLAMATION spanning air, water and land systems and the (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Junior standing. A effects of society on environmental systems. study of environmental problems associated with Laboratory exercises will be completed and both surface and underground mining and the reports with computer-generated text, tables and reclamation practices that have been developed or figures will be written. This course is cross-listed are being evaluated to alleviate these problems. with CEE 327/327L. Federal, state and local reclamation regulations are examined for their effects on present and ENVE 331/331L STRATIGRAPHY AND future mining practices and costs. Field trips to SEDIMENTATION mining operations in the Black Hills region or the (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisites: GEOL 201 and Powder River Basin will be taken for on-site GEOL 201L, or GEOE 221, or permission of observation of actual reclamation practices. This instructor. The principles of correlation and course is cross-listed with MEM 405. sediment analysis are discussed. A background in sedimentary source materials, depositional ENVE 421/521 ENVIRONMENTAL environments, nomenclature and classification of SYSTEMS ANALYSIS stratigraphic units, and the interpretation of (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: CEE/ENVE 327 or stratigraphic units will be presented. Emphasis is graduate standing. Course emphasis is on placed on modern depositional systems and their applications of environmental chemistry and ancient counterparts. Laboratory exercises stress material balance in quantitative characterizations field trips to local sections, facies descriptions, of operative processes in selected air, water, and rock analysis, and interpretation of an exploration land systems and environmental health impacts. prospect. This course is cross-listed with GEOL Analytical and computer solutions are performed. 331/331L. Students enrolled in ENVE 521 will be held to a higher standard than those enrolled in ENVE 421. ENVE 337 ENGINEERING HYDROLOGY This course is cross-listed with CEE 421/521. (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: CEE 336 or EM 327 or EM 328 or permission of instructor. A ENVE 426/526 ENVIRONMENTAL quantification study of the components of the ENGINEERING PHYSICAL/CHEMICAL hydrologic cycle with emphasis on engineering PROCESS DESIGN applications involving the design of water (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: CEE/ENVE 326 supplies, reservoirs, spillways, floodways, and and CEE/ENVE 327, graduate standing, or urban drainage with computer applications. This permission of instructor. A third course in the course is cross-listed with CEE 337. theory and practice of environmental engineering. Emphases are on the design and analysis of physical/chemical environmental engineering unit
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operations and processes. Students enrolled in performed with laboratory analysis using standard ENVE 526 will be held to a higher standard than environmental web chemical, microbiological, those enrolled in ENVE 426. This course is and instrumental analytical techniques. cross-listed with CEE 426/526. Laboratory reports employing word processing, numerical and statistical analysis, and ENVE 426L/526L ENVIRONMENTAL interpretation of process performance data will be PHYSICAL/CHEMICAL PROCESS written. Students enrolled in ENVE 527L will be LABORATORY held to a higher standard than those enrolled in (0-1) 1 credit. Prerequisite or corequisite: ENVE 427L. This course is cross-listed with CEE/ENVE 426/526 or permission on instructor. CEE 427L/527L. A laboratory course to accompany CEE/ENVE 426/526. Examination of processes employed in ENVE 429L/529L ENVIRONMENTAL design of environmental physical and chemical ENGINEERING LAND SYSTEMS systems for renovation of contaminated waters LABORATORY and soils. Various bench-scale experiments will (0-1) 1 credit. Prerequisites: Senior or graduate be performed with laboratory analysis using standing or permission of instructor. Students standard environmental web chemical and will complete selected laboratory exercises from instrumental analytical techniques. Laboratory the chemical, civil and materials/metallurgical reports employing word processing, numerical engineering emphases areas of the B.S. and statistical analysis, and interpretation of environmental engineering program, embodying process performance data will be written. the examination of fundamental principles Students enrolled in ENVE 526L will be held to a applicable to design or analysis of land systems higher standard than those enrolled in ENVE and associated environmental health aspects. 426L. This course is cross-listed with CEE Students will design and conduct experiments, 426L/526L. collect and analyze data both deterministically and statistically, and write detailed laboratory ENVE 427/527 ENVIRONMENTAL reports. Students enrolled in ENVE 529L will be ENGINEERING BIOLOGICAL PROCESS held to a higher standard than those enrolled in DESIGN ENVE 429L. (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: CEE/ENVE 326 and CEE/ENVE 327, graduate standing, or ENVE 433/433L/533/533L COMPUTER permission of instructor. A fourth course in the APPLICATIONS IN GEOSCIENCE theory and practice of environmental engineering. MODELING Emphases are on the design and analysis of (3-1) 4 credits. Prerequisite: Junior standing. biological environmental engineering unit The use of computer techniques in modern operations and processes. Students enrolled in geoscience modeling of mining, geology and ENVE 527 will be held to a higher standard than environmental problems such as exploration, those enrolled in ENVE 427. This course is geological characterization and mining cross-listed with CEE 427/527. exploitation. Practical application of state-of-the- art Vulcan modeling software will be essential ENVE 427L/527L ENVIRONMENTAL part of the course. Students enrolled in ENVE BIOLOGICAL PROCESS LABORATORY 533 will be held to a higher standard than those (0-1) 1 credit. Prerequisite or corequisite: enrolled in ENVE 433. This course is cross-listed CEE/ENVE 427/527 or permission of instructor. with MEM 433/433L/533/533L. A laboratory course to accompany CEE/ENVE 427/527. Examination of processes employed in ENVE 440/540 ENVIRONMENTAL AND design of environmental biological systems for RECLAMATION PRACTICES IN THE renovation of contaminated waters and soils. MINING INDUSTRY Various bench-scale experiments will be (3-0) 3 credits. A study of various environmental
288 Courses problems that is associated with mining and the jointed rock mass and discontinuities. Projection reclamation practices that have been developed or methods. Vectoral analysis of 3-D problems by are being evaluated to alleviate these problems. means of the stereographic projection method. Federal, state, and local reclamation regulations Analytical, graphical and computer analysis of are examined for their effects on present and planar, wedge and toppling failures. Probabilistic future mining practices and costs. Field trips to methods. Students enrolled in ENVE 550 will be several mining operations are taken for on-site held to a higher standard than those enrolled in observation of actual reclamation problems and ENVE 450. This course is cross-listed with MEM the mining practices used to resolve these 450/550. problems. Students enrolled in ENVE 540 will be held to a higher standard than those enrolled in ENVE 455/555 POLLUTION PHENOMENA ENVE 440. AND PROCESS DESIGN (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: CHE 218, CHE ENVE 441 ECONOMICS OF MINING 317, and CHE 417, or equivalent, or permission of (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Junior standing. The instructor. The study of the industrial sources of significance of the mineral industries in the and treatment of air, water, and land pollutants. economy, mineral and engineering economics The chemical and physical phenomena operating with special emphasis on the valuation of mineral in pollution control equipment and the design of properties, and mine administration economic pollution control equipment will be examined. decision methodologies. Waste minimization and pollution prevention strategies will be considered. Students enrolled in ENVE 445/545 OXIDATION AND ENVE 555 will be held to a higher standard than CORROSION OF METALS those enrolled in ENVE 455. This course is (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: MET 320 or CHE cross-listed with CHE 455/555. 222 or ME 211 or permission of instructor. Initially, the thermodynamics of electrochemical ENVE 464 ENVIRONMENTAL processes are covered; use of the Nernst equation ENGINEERING DESIGN I and Pourbaix diagram is presented in this (0-2) 2 credits. Prerequisites: Senior standing. material. Fundamentals of electrode kinetics are Students in this course will undertake a design then discussed with special emphasis on the effort integrating principles from prior course derivation of the Butler-Volmer equation and work into completion of an overall project that application of the Evan’s diagram. Following will require both individual and team efforts. This presentation of these fundamental concepts, first design course will concentrate on definition phenomena observed in corrosion and oxidation of the design problem, preliminary design with such as uniform attack, pitting, stress corrosion investigation of various options, and screening of cracking, and corrosion fatigue are discussed. the various design options prior to undertaking Finally, selection of materials for site specific detailed design. Economic and legal constraints, applications is covered. Students enrolled in general social considerations and personnel ENVE 545 will be held to a higher standard than factors will be considered along with the technical those enrolled in ENVE 445. This course is aspects of the design. Both oral and written cross-listed with MET 445/545 and CHE 445/545. engineering reports delineating project activities and results will be completed. ENVE 450/550 ROCK SLOPE ENGINEERING ENVE 465 ENVIRONMENTAL (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: MEM 304 or CEE ENGINEERING DESIGN II 346 or equivalent. Modes of slope failure. (0-2) 2 credits. Prerequisites: ENVE 464. Economic consequences of instability in mining Students in this course will undertake a design and construction. Geological factors controlling effort integrating principles from prior course stability of rock slopes. Shear strength of highly work into completion of the overall project that
289 Courses will require both individual and team efforts. This ENVE 491 INDEPENDENT STUDY second design course will involve completion of 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of the detailed design, construction of bench or pilot- instructor. Includes directed study, problems, scale units in accord with detailed design and readings, directed readings, special problems and demonstration of design effectiveness. Economic special projects. Students complete and legal constraints, general social individualized plans of study which include considerations and personnel factors will be significant one-on-one student-teacher considered along with the technical aspects of the involvement. The faculty member and students design. Both oral and written engineering reports negotiate the details of the study plans. delineating project activities and results will be Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. completed. Meeting depending upon the requirements of the topic. ENVE 466/466L/566/566L ENGINEERING AND ENVIRONMENTAL GEOLOGY ENVE 492 TOPICS (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Junior or senior 1 to 3 credits. Includes current topics, advanced standing. The application of geology to topics and special topics. A course devoted to a engineering, including topics such as landslides, particular issue in a specified field. Course earthquakes, fluvial processes, land subsidence, content is not wholly included in the regular and their global context. Field trips and curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as laboratory exercises illustrate the influence of instructors. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer geology on the environment. Computer students with significant one-on-one applications are required for problem assignments student/teacher involvement. and a final comprehensive report (oral and written) involving the design of engineering ENVE 498 UNDERGRADUATE works in complex geological terrain. Students RESEARCH/SCHOLARSHIP enrolled in ENVE 566 will be held to a higher 1 to 6 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of standard than those enrolled in ENVE 466. This instructor. Includes senior project, and capstone course is cross-listed with GEOE experience. Independent research 466/466L/566/566L. problems/projects or scholarship activities. The plan of study is negotiated by the faculty member ENVE 475/475L GROUND WATER and the student. Contact between the two may be (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisites: GEOL 201 or extensive and intensive. Does not include GEOE 221 and MATH 225, or permission of research courses which are theoretical. instructor. Note: Engineering majors must complete the equivalent of Calculus III before EXCH 289 STUDENT EXCHANGE- registration. Geohydrologic principles, INTERNATIONAL applications, and design considerations 0 to 18 credits. This course allows students to concerning ground-water occurrence, flow, and register as full- time SDSMT students while quality. Ground-water and surface-water taking part in an Exchange Program. Students will relations; theory of aquifer tests; flow nets; head register on the SDSMT campus for the amount of distribution by graphical, analytical, and digital credit hours they intend to take while enrolled at models; ground-water contamination. another campus. Laboratories include water budgets, chemistry of ground water, design of exploration programs and EXCH 389 STUDENT EXCHANGE- aquifer tests, computer solutions, and field trips to INTERNATIONAL areas of geohydrologic interest. A design project 0 to 16 credits. This course allows students to with written and oral presentations is required. register as full- time SDSMT students while This course is cross-listed with GEOE 475/475L. taking part in an Exchange Program. Students will register on the SDSMT campus for the amount of
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credit hours they intend to take while enrolled at engineering problems in the earth system. another campus. Typical problems will include those found in energy systems, ground water and environmental EXCH 489 STUDENT EXCHANGE- systems, and economic evaluations having a INTERNATIONAL significant geologic aspect. Examples and 0 to 18 credits. This course allows students to problems from the Black Hills region will be register as full- time SDSMT students while emphasized. taking part in an Exchange Program. Students will register on the SDSMT campus for the amount of GEOE 221/221L GEOLOGY FOR credit hours they intend to take while enrolled at ENGINEERS another campus. (2-1) 3 credits. Basic concepts in the study of the earth, with emphasis on geological processes FREN 101 INTRODUCTORY FRENCH I acting on the earth’s surface. Topics include rock FREN 102 INTRODUCTORY FRENCH II forming processes and identification, mass (4-0) 4 credits each. Prerequisite: for FREN 102 is wasting, ground water, streams, glaciers, coastal FREN 101. Fundamentals of language structure erosion, and earthquakes. Emphasis is given to and introduction to French culture enabling engineering significance of processes and their students to converse, read, and write simple resulting deposits. French. Classwork may be supplemented with required aural/oral practice outside of class. GEOE 322/322L STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisites GEOL 201 and GE 100 ENTERPRISE TEAMS GEOL 201L, or GEOE 221; and GEOL 341. A 0 credits. This zero credit course will be used to study of the character and genesis of large-scale track student participation in enterprise teams, i.e. and small-scale deformational structures and their teams of two or more students working under the patterns in the earth’s crust. Laboratory work direction of faculty member on a project that includes various trigonometric, geometric, and involves the participation of an external company, stereographic methods applicable to structural government agency, etc. analysis and presents open-ended problems in geologic, structure contour, and isopach map GE 130/130L INTRODUCTION TO interpretation, as well as engineering design ENGINEERING problems including drilling exploration projects. (1-1) 2 credits. Prerequisite: MATH 102. This This course is cross-listed with ENVE 322/322L. course serves as an introduction to engineering profession and to its various disciplines. This GEOE 324/324L ENGINEERING course is designed to give students the opportunity GEOPHYSICS I to learn how to solve engineering analysis and (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisites MATH 125 and design problems. Students will develop various PHYS 213. Application of the more commonly computational skills, sharpen communication used methods of geophysical prospecting in skills, and be exposed to professional mineral exploration, petroleum exploration, and development in the form of team building, engineering construction. Includes field design technology tools, and project management. In and interpretation of surveys using the addition, students will have the opportunity to engineering seismograph, gravity meter, electrical learn from professional engineers and scientists resistivity equipment, scintillometers, and through interaction with industry. magnetometers. Extensive use of computers is made in the laboratory work. This course is GEOE 211/211L EARTH SYSTEMS cross-listed with ENVE 324/324L. ENGINEERING ANALYSIS (1-1) 2 credits. Application of computational analysis using spreadsheets to geological
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GEOE 399 ENVIRONMENTAL FIELD GEOE 431/531 PRINCIPLES OF WELL METHODS LOGGING (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: Junior standing in a (3-0) 3 credits. Fundamentals of borehole science or engineering degree program in the measurements. Petrophysical considerations. geosciences, environment, or a related field, or Wellbore environment. Qualitative log evaluation permission of instructor. A three-week field methods. Interpretation and analysis of formation course for geology, geological engineering, properties. Students enrolled in GEOE 531 will environmental engineering and mining be held to a higher standard than those enrolled in engineering majors. Basic field applications of GEOE 431. environmental problems such as ground water contamination, acid rock drainage, spills, and GEOE 451/451L ECONOMIC GEOLOGY related problems. Sampling methods and (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisites: Junior or senior procedures for analysis will be conducted using standing. Corequisite: GEOE 322 Study of the ICP/MS, SEM-TEM, and XRD facilities, and will economics and distribution of mineral resources, include data interpretation. geologic characteristics and origins of metallic ore deposits, and the application of genetic models, GEOE 410 ENGINEERING FIELD geochemical techniques, and geophysical methods GEOLOGY to the design of mineral exploration programs. 5 to 6 credits. Prerequisite: Completion of junior- Laboratory work includes ore mineralogy and year studies. Instruction, practice, and textures, sample suites from ore deposits, independent work involving field techniques for calculation of ore reserves (manual and geological engineering. Includes use of aerial computer), and design and implementation of photography and field mapping for completing exploration programs (computer exercises). A large-scale and intermediate-scale geologic maps, term paper is required on the design of structural sections, and structural contour maps of exploration programs. Field trips are arranged to designated areas in the Black Hills region. nearby ore deposits. Written reports will accompany the maps and sections. Three weeks of the five-week course are GEOE 452/452L/552/552L GEOCHEMICAL devoted to engineering problems including EXPLORATION surface-water and ground-water hydrology, (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisites: GEOE 451 or geotechnics, and minerals. Conducted for five (5) permission of instructor. An integrated weeks during the summer in the northern Black application of geochemical principles, trace- Hills. Arrangements for transportation, room, and element analytical techniques, basic statistical board are made through the Black Hills Natural methods, and computer techniques to the design Sciences Field Station. and implementation of geochemical exploration programs for the detection of mineral deposits. GEOE 425/425L/525/525L ENGINEERING An area of the Black Hills will be selected for the GEOPHYSICS II design and implementation of a geochemical (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisites: MATH 125, GEOE exploration program. A term paper will result 324, and GEOE 211. The course concentrates on from this study. Students enrolled in GEOE 552 geophysical techniques applicable to petroleum will be held to a higher standard than those exploration and production, including the enrolled in GEOE 452. acquisition of seismic data, its preparation, interpretation, and use in engineering design. Use GEOE 461 PETROLEUM PRODUCTION of computer packages and individual program (3-0) 3 credits. Characteristics of hydrocarbon design is emphasized. Students enrolled in GEOE reservoirs and geological considerations in well 525 will be held to a higher standard than those completion design. Well in-flow performance. enrolled in GEOE 425. Tubing string and packer completion design. Design and analysis of artificial lift systems.
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Acidizing and stimulation operations Computer- standing. The application of geology to aided design. Single-phase and multi-phase flow engineering, including topics such as landslides, measurements, physical modeling of oil earthquakes, fluvial processes, land subsidence, production, and permeability tests. Global oil and their global context. Field trips and production and use, and societal implications. laboratory exercises illustrate the influence of geology on the environment. Computer GEOE 462 DRILLING ENGINEERING applications are required for problem assignments (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: EM 321 or and a final comprehensive report (oral and permission of instructor. Introduction to oil and written) involving the design of engineering gas field terminology. Design and analysis of an works in complex geological terrain. Students oil or gas well drilling operation including enrolled in GEOE 566 will be held to a higher equipment, tubulars, completion, casing and standard than those enrolled in GEOE 466. This cementing. Computer-aided design of well course is cross-listed with ENVE control and rig hydraulics. Rheological properties 466/466L/566/566L. of drilling fluids will be studied in the laboratory. A comprehensive design project is required. Field GEOE 475/475L GROUND WATER trips to a local drilling operation as available. (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisites: GEOL 201 or GEOE 221, and MATH 225, or permission of GEOE 464 GEOLOGICAL ENGINEERING instructor. Note: Engineering majors must DESIGN PROJECT I complete the equivalent of Calculus III before (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Completion of registration. Geohydrologic principles, junior-year studies. Independent engineering applications, and design considerations design work by students on a comprehensive concerning ground-water occurrence, flow, and geological engineering project that integrates 1) quality. Ground-water and surface-water ground-water resources and contaminant relations; theory of aquifer tests; flow nets; head remediation, or 2) exploration for and distribution by graphical, analytical, and digital development of fuels or minerals. Economic and models; ground-water contamination. legal constraints, environmental concerns, safety, Laboratories include water budgets, chemistry of and aesthetic considerations will be included. ground water, design of exploration programs and Engineering reports (oral and written) with aquifer tests, computer solutions, and field trips to analysis, specifications, and results are required. areas of geohydrologic interest. A design project with written and oral presentations is required. GEOE 465 GEOLOGICAL ENGINEERING This course is cross-listed with ENVE 475/475L. DESIGN PROJECT II (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Completion of GEOE 482/482L APPLIED junior-year studies. Independent engineering GEOMORPHOLOGY design work by students on a comprehensive (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisites: GEOL 201 and geological engineering project that integrates 1) GEOL 201L, or GEOE 221; GEOE 322. A environmental site planning and natural hazards, systematic analysis of landform evolution with or 2) geomechanics and geotechnics. Economic emphasis on process and terrain analysis. Topics and legal constraints, environmental concerns, include process-response in geomorphic systems safety, and aesthetic considerations will be and quantitative techniques used in engineering included. Engineering reports (oral and written) design applications. Laboratory consists of aerial with analysis, specifications, and results are photos, topographic map interpretation and the required. application of geomorphology as an engineering tool. Field trips taken to regional areas of interest. GEOE 466/466L/566/566L ENGINEERING Computer solutions in engineering analysis and a AND ENVIRONMENTAL GEOLOGY design project are required. (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Junior or senior
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GEOE 491 INDEPENDENT STUDY phenomena. Applications in low-temperature 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of aqueous systems, carbonate equilibria, geothermal instructor. Includes directed study, problems, and hydrothermal systems, petroleum generation, readings, directed readings, special problems, and metamorphism, and igneous processes. Computer special projects. Students complete solutions to geochemical problems will be used. individualized plans of study which include An engineering design project is required. This significant one-on-one student-teacher course is cross-listed with CHEM 641. involvement. The faculty member and students negotiate the details of the study plans. GEOE 661 PETROLEUM GEOLOGY Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: GEOE 322 and Meeting depending upon the requirements of the GEOL 331. Part 1. Worldwide occurrence, topic. May be repeated to a total of three (3) current and future demand, OPEC cartel and credit hours. Research findings are required. prices, and ethics of exploitation. Part 2. Petroleum source rocks and generation, migration, GEOE 492 TOPICS and entrapment. Geology of major oil-producing 1 to 3 credits. Includes current topics, advanced regions of world. Petroleum exploration methods. topics and special topics. A course devoted to a particular issue in a specified field. Course GEOE 662 ANALYTICAL METHODS IN content is not wholly included in the regular GROUND WATER curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: GEOE 475 or instructors. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer equivalent. Quantitative methods used to evaluate students with significant one-on-one ground-water resources, including pumping tests student/teacher involvement. A description of the as well as physical and computer methods. work to be performed must be filed in the Department of Geology/Geological Engineering. GEOE 663/663L GROUND-WATER GEOCHEMISTRY GEOE 615 ADVANCED FIELD METHODS (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisite: GEOE 475 or IN GROUND WATER equivalent. A study of the natural chemistry of (0-3) 3 credits. Prerequisites: GEOE 475 or ground water and the effects of man’s activities equivalent. Advanced instruction and on ground-water quality. Laboratories include independent work involving field techniques such dispersion experiments and several field trips to as aquifer mapping, water quality sampling and areas of interest relating to ground-water interpretation, piezometer tests, and the design, geochemistry. conduct, and analysis of aquifer tests. GEOE 664/664L ADVANCED GROUND GEOE 626/626L ENVIRONMENTAL WATER GEOPHYSICS (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisites: GEOL 201 or (2-1) 3 credits. The most frequently used GEOE 221 or equivalent. Basic hydrologic geophysical techniques for the investigation of principles with emphasis on hydrologic and environmental problems are covered. These geologic interrelationships. Design problems of include electrical resistivity, electromagnetic location, development, and conservation of surveys, shallow seismic refraction and reflection ground water. Use of quantitative techniques for surveys, and ground-probing radar. The design aquifer evaluation. Studies of ground-water and performance of field surveys is emphasized. contamination. Laboratories, field trips, and problem assignments require use of analytical GEOE 641 GEOCHEMISTRY methods. (3-0) 3 credits. Geochemical principles, applications, and design considerations, including thermodynamics, kinetics, and transport
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GEOE 665 BIOREMEDIATION OF GEOE 691 INDEPENDENT STUDY HAZARDOUS MATERIALS 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of (3-0) 3 credits. Main thrust of the course is to instructor. Directed independent study of a topic introduce various techniques (both in-situ and ex- or field of special interest. This may involve situ) of bioremediation to the cleanup of readings, research, laboratory of fieldwork, and hazardous wastes, such as petroleum, heavy preparation of papers, as agreed to in advance, by metals, cyanide, nitrates, nuclear materials, etc. student and instructor. A description of the work Fundamentals of bacterial metabolic behavior will to be performed must be filed in the Department be covered. The physiology of bacteria will be of Geology/Geological Engineering. emphasized in terms of their physicochemical requirements, pH, etc. Mathematical models for GEOE 692 TOPICS bacterial growth versus material degradation and 1 to 3 credits. Lecture course or seminar on a seeping will be presented. Focus will be on topic or field of special interest, as determined by practical application of bioremediation in the field the instructor. A description of the work to be by means of biological and engineering performed must be filed in the Department of approaches. Geology/Geological Engineering.
GEOE 667 FLUID FLOW IN POROUS GEOE 766/766L DIGITAL MODELING OF MEDIA GROUND-WATER FLOW SYSTEMS (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: MATH 321, EM (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisite: GEOE 475 or CEE 321, EM 327, CEE 346, or equivalents. 634, or equivalent. Practical applications of Introduction to flow of fluids through porous digital models as tools in the study of ground- media. Formulation of basic flow equations for water flow systems. Methods of simulating incompressible, slightly compressible, and aquifer systems and solute transport will be used. compressible fluid flow. One-dimensional steady Specific emphasis will be placed on the state flow. Two-dimensional steady state flow development, application, and limitations of with single well or multi wells. Unsteady state finite-difference and finite-element computer flow problems. models.
GEOE 668 ENGINEERING GEOLOGY OF GEOE 790 SEMINAR SURFICIAL DEPOSITS (1-0) 1 credit. May not be repeated for degree (3-0) 3 credits. Review of weathering, soils, and credit. Preparation, oral and/or written Quaternary deposits. Emphasis on engineering presentation, and group discussion of a research design problems such as those found in highway problem. The student is expected to present orally construction, landfills, water supply, waste the results of his/her own research. This disposal, landslides, and land subsidence. presentation normally will directly precede the Engineering geology of surficial deposits final oral defense of the thesis. including alluvium, loess, clay, and glacial and periglacial deposits. Two field trips are required. GEOE 798 MASTER’S THESIS Credit to be arranged; not to exceed 6 credits GEOE 682/682L FLUVIAL PROCESSES toward fulfillment of M.S. degree requirements. (2-1) 3 credits. A systematic study of the evolution Open only to students pursuing the M.S. thesis of drainage basins and stream systems. Emphasis is option. Supervised original or expository research placed on basin morphometry, stream channel culminating in an acceptable thesis. Oral defense ‘equilibrium’, fluvial mechanics and resulting fluvial of thesis and research findings are required. landforms. Laboratory consists of basin analysis, stream flow, sediment transport and at least two field GEOE 898 DISSERTATION trips to surrounding areas of interest. Credit to be arranged; not to exceed 30 credits
295 Courses toward fulfillment of Ph.D. degree requirements. GEOG 250 WORLD REGIONAL Open only to doctoral candidates. Supervised GEOGRAPHY II - THE DEVELOPED original research investigation of a selected REGIONS problem, with emphasis on independent work, (3-0) 3 credits. This course examines the culminating in an acceptable dissertation. Oral developed regions of the world. The focus is on defense of dissertation and research findings are the changing economic and political relationship required. between these regions-Europe and North America, in particular-and the developing regions GEOG 101 INTRODUCTION TO of the world. GEOGRAPHY (3-0) 3 credits. The course presents a broad, GEOG 400 CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY introductory overview of geographic concepts, (3-0) 3 credits. A detailed analysis of the concept themes, and elements designed to help students of culture in a geographical context, including better understand and analyze the world from a such applications as culture and nature, cultural geographic perspective. It provides a background growth and change, cultural universals, culture to earth’s physical and human elements and and economy, cultural relativity, cultural systems. It also emphasizes the unique quality of landscape, cultural region, and cultural conflict. world regions, and the spatial interaction of people, elements, and regions, as well as major GEOL 103 INTRODUCTION TO BLACK global and regional problems and prospects. HILLS GEOLOGY (2-0) 2 credits. An introductory view of GEOG 212 GEOGRAPHY OF NORTH geological features unique to Black Hills, e.g., AMERICA Devil’s Tower, Harney Peak granite and (3-0) 3 credits. A regional and topical analysis of pegmatites, gold deposits, caves, and fossils such the geographic patterns of the United States and as those of the Badlands. Also includes an Canada. Focus is upon the interaction of groups introduction to the general principles used to of people with the natural environment to produce study the evolution of the Earth. regional differentiation. Geographic aspects of the physical geography, population, culture GEOL 162 WATER RESOURCES OF THE groups, economy, settlement system, land BLACK HILLS division, and use of natural resources. (2-0) 2 credits. A study of the basic concepts of hydrology with emphasis on precipitation, lakes, GEOG 240 WORLD REGIONAL streams, and ground water in the Black Hills. The GEOGRAPHY I - THE LESS DEVELOPED course will concentrate on data collection REGIONS techniques such as stream gauging and pumping (3-0) 3 credits. This course surveys the tests and on the use of hydrologic data for developing regions of the world in the context of watershed, pollution, and management studies. post-cold war economic and political change. Field trips will emphasize engineering projects Emphasis will be placed on the demography, such as dams, reservoirs, municipal water natural resource use, and pace of modernization in supplies, and monitoring well systems. East Asia, in particular the country of China, and on the rapidly industrializing countries of GEOL 201 PHYSICAL GEOLOGY Southeast Asia. Other significant regions include (3-0) 3 credits. Basic concepts in the study of the South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and the Islamic earth and its history. Brief introduction to the realm of North Africa and Western Asia. earth’s place in the universe and solar system and the evolution, composition and structure of the earth. Introduction to minerals, and igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks. Survey of geological processes acting at the surface of the
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earth such as wind, rivers, glaciers, ground water GEOL 235 GEOLOGY OF NATIONAL and the sea; introduction to internal processes PARKS regarding plate tectonics theory and growth of (3-0) 3 credits. A survey of the U.S. National mountains. Societal implications of geological Park system to understand the geologic diversity processes are emphasized throughout the course. and significance of the preserved natural and Students taking GEOL 201L should take it historic areas of the United States. Field trip to an concurrently with GEOL 201. area park is required.
GEOL 201L PHYSICAL GEOLOGY GEOL 276 DINOSAURS LABORATORY (3-0) 3 credits. An introduction to the study of (0-1) 1 credit. Prerequisite or corequisite: GEOL dinosaurs with emphasis on their origin, 201. Classification and identification of the diversification, ecology, and extinction. important rocks and minerals. Interpretation of topographic and geologic maps. Field trips to GEOL 321 SEARCH FOR OUR PAST view representative rock types of the Black Hills (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: GEOL 201 or GEOE area. 221. Study of the geologic history of North America. The formation and early history of the GEOL 207 EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE earth, the tectonic evolution of the continents, and (3-0) 3 credits. A non-technical interdisciplinary the history of evolution of life are studied. course for majors or non-majors. The goal is to Current scientific issues regarding tectonics and introduce the major processes affecting global the biosphere are also discussed, such as change in the interdisciplinary context. The evolutionary theory, the Gaia hypothesis, and course will include a brief introduction to Earth biocomplexity. history, the evolution of life on earth, and the geologic record of past climate and environmental GEOL 331/331L STRATIGRAPHY AND changes. The main emphasis of the course will be SEDIMENTATION the interdependence of processes in the solid (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisites: GEOL 201 and Earth, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere. GEOL 201L or GEOE 221, or permission of Humans’ role in influencing the course of global instructor. The principles of correlation and change will also be critically examined, along sediment analysis are discussed. A background in with various societal, political, and economic sedimentary source materials, depositional aspects of environmental change. environments, nomenclature and classification of stratigraphic units, and the interpretation of GEOL 212/212L MINERALOGY AND stratigraphic units will be presented. Emphasis is CRYSTALLOGRAPHY placed on modern depositional systems and their (2-1) 3 credits. A study of morphological and ancient counterparts. Laboratory exercises stress geometrical crystallography followed by field trips to local sections, facies descriptions, determinative mineralogy. The 32 crystal classes rock analysis, and interpretation of an exploration and about 120 minerals are studied in detail. prospect. This course is cross-listed with ENVE Course includes a brief introduction to optical 331/331L. microscopy. Emphasis in the laboratory is directed toward descriptive and determinative GEOL 341/341L ELEMENTARY mineralogy. PETROLOGY (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisites: GEOL 201L or GEOL 214L MINERALOGY FOR MINING GEOE 221, and GEOL 212 or GEOL 214L. ENGINEERS Identification and classification of igneous, (0-1) 1 credit. Prerequisite: CHEM 114. Systematic metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks in hand description and identification of silicate and non- sample and thin section. Emphasis is on silicate minerals are address in this course. environments of formation as deduced from
297 Courses textures and structures. Lecture, laboratory, and geologic and scenic features such as Mt. field trips. Rushmore, the Needles, Devil’s Tower, the Homestake Gold Mine’s open cut, pegmatite GEOL 351 EARTH RESOURCES AND THE mines, Spearfish Canyon, the Hot Springs ENVIRONMENT Mammoth Site, and many others will be visited (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: GEOL 201, or and studied. The cause, composition, unique permission of instructor. This course will features, economic potential, the possible examine the distribution, origin, use, and future of alteration of land forms will be emphasized to earth’s energy, metallic, and non-metallic gain an understanding of how exposed rock forms resources. Economic, political, sociological, and originated and changed. Taught in the Black Hills environmental implications of the resource Natural Sciences Field Station. Students enrolled industries will be emphasized. Resource issues of in GEOL 507 will be held to a higher standard topical interest will be discussed. than those enrolled in GEOL 407.
GEOL 361 OCEANOGRAPHY I GEOL 410 FIELD GEOLOGY (3-0) 3 credits. An introductory course in (0-6) 6 credits. Prerequisites: Completion of junior oceanography that focuses on ocean basins of the year studies. This five-week course focuses on the world, their composition and processes by which instruction and practice in the use of surveying they formed. Other subjects to be examined instruments and aerial photographs for the purpose of include the “hot springs” of the deep oceans, completing large and intermediate-scale geologic patterns of sediment distribution, life in the maps, structure sections, and structure contour maps oceans, the role of the oceans as an integral part of of Precambrian metasediments, Phanerozoic global climatic cycles including the “greenhouse sedimentary rocks, and Tertiary intrusions within effect.” designated areas of the Black Hills region. A written geologic report will accompany the maps and GEOL 371 FIELD PALEONTOLOGY sections conducted for five (5) weeks during the (0-2) 2 credits. An introduction to the methods of summer in the northern Black Hills. Field equipment prospecting, collecting, and documenting fossils will be furnished by the department. Arrangements for exhibition and research. Field trips will be for transportation, room, and board are made through made to the productive fossil sites in western the Black Hills Natural Sciences Field Station. South Dakota and elsewhere. This course can only be taken twice to fulfill graduation GEOL 413/413L/513/513L ORE requirements. MICROSCOPY (1-2) 3 credits. Prerequisite: GEOE 451. GEOL 403/503 REGIONAL FIELD Polished surfaces of ores and rocks are examined GEOLOGY in reflected light to identify opaque minerals, (0-1) 1 credit. Prerequisites: GEOL 201 or GEOE study textures and their interpretation, and 211. A one-week guided field trip to an area of determine paragenesis. Additional techniques of outstanding geological interest in a global context. ore mineral identification such as micro-hardness Students enrolled in GEOL 503 will be held to a determination, reflectivity measurements, SEM, higher standard than those enrolled in GEOL 403. and electron microprobe will be covered. There will be a project involving preparation and GEOL 407/507 GEOLOGY OF THE BLACK description of polished sections, and their HILLS interpretation. Students enrolled in GEOL 513 (0-2) 2 credits. Prerequisites: Junior or senior will be held to a higher standard than those standing or permission of instructor. A field enrolled in GEOL 413. course which entails inspection of major rock types and structures in the Black Hills area. Daily field trips in the Black Hills and Badlands. Major
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GEOL 416/416L/516/516L INTRODUCTION work individually or on small research teams. TO GIS Students enrolled in GEOL 519 will be held to a (2-1) 3 credits. Introduction to principles and higher standard than those enrolled in GEOL 419. application of geographic information systems, May be repeated once for additional credit. with emphasis on GIS analysis techniques. Laboratory work will involve introduction to PC- GEOL 420/520 INTRODUCTION TO based GIS software, and data sets. A semester REMOTE SENSING project and presentation is required. Students are (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: MATH 123 and expected to have basic computer system, word PHYS 113 or permission of instructor. An processing, and spreadsheet skills prior to taking introduction to the theory and applications of this class. Students enrolled in GEOL 516 will be remote sensing. Students will study the held to a higher standard than those enrolled in electromagnetic spectrum as it applies to remote GEOL 416. sensing as well as the physical principles of imaging system technologies. Imaging and GEOL 417/517 GIS DATABASE applications of visible, near-infrared, thermal DEVELOPMENT infrared, and microwave band remote sensing are (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: GEOL 416 or GEOL discussed. Environmental remote sensing 516 or permission of instructor. Building on basic applications to be covered include terrestrial and principles of Geographic Information Systems ocean ecology, resource exploration, land use and developed in GEOL 416, this course launches land cover change, natural hazards, and students into developing GIS databases for atmospheric constituents. Image processing research projects in geology, engineering, or techniques will be introduced. This course is the environmental science. Students learn to compile first remote sensing course in the Remote and analyze spatial data with ArcGIS, the most Sensing/GIS study sequence. Students enrolled in utilized GIS software in science, government, and GEOL 520 will be held to a higher standard than industry. Assignments include hands-on practice those enrolled in GEOL 420. downloading, processing, editing, scanning and digitizing data. The class also includes an GEOL 442/442L/542/542L OPTICAL extensive introduction to the software PETROLOGY documentation to build independent learning and (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisites: GEOL 341. The problem-solving ability. Students are expected to study of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic complete a semester GIS project that relates to rocks and ore samples in thin and polished their own research interests. Students are expected section, with emphasis on their identification, to complete a semester GIS project that relates to classification, and genesis. Students enrolled in their own research interests. Students enrolled in GEOL 542 will be held to a higher standard than GEOL 517 will be held to a higher standard than those enrolled in GEOL 442. those enrolled in GEOL 417. GEOL 461/461L INVERTEBRATE GEOL 419/519 ADVANCED GIS ANALYSIS PALEONTOLOGY (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: GEOL 416 or (2-1) 3 credits. A systematic study of the GEOL 516 or permission of instructor. This structure and classification of selected course will introduce those already familiar with invertebrate taxa. The course will provide a GIS systems to advanced spatial analysis useful tool for field and laboratory work involving techniques. Specific topics may change from year fossil-bearing rocks and will form a background to year depending on student interests, and may for advanced work in paleontology or include advanced vector and raster analysis, 3-D paleontological stratigraphy. surface modeling, GIS programming or and network modeling. Students will complete one or GEOL 464 SENIOR RESEARCH I more real-life GIS projects and may be required to (1-0) 1 credit. Prerequisite: GEOL 410. A study
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of scientific research methodology with emphasis involvement. The faculty member and students on identifying research problems and formulating negotiate the details of the study plans. a methodology to address a specific research Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. question. Students will identify a topic of study Meeting depending upon the requirements of the chosen with the advise and approval of an topic. May be repeated to a total of three (3) instructor, and develop a proposal for their senior credit hours. research project. GEOL 492 TOPICS GEOL 465 SENIOR RESEARCH II 1 to 3 credits. Includes current topics, advanced (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: GEOL 464. The topics and special topics. A course devoted to a student undertakes a field and/or laboratory study particular issue in a specified field. Course of a topic chosen with the advice and approval of content is not wholly included in the regular an instructor. This work is the basis for a thesis curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as written in a standard format. instructors. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one GEOL 472/472L/572/572L MUSEUM student/teacher involvement. CONSERVATION AND CURATION (2-1) 3 credits. Ethics, theories, and methodology GEOL 585 GLACIAL AND PLEISTOCENE behind conservation and curation in natural GEOLOGY history museums. Laboratory covers conservation (3-0) 3 credits. A systematic study of glacial techniques and curation training in systematically geology and related geologic and climatologic organizing a collection, in addition to training in effects during the Pleistocene Epoch. Focus is on computer database collection management glacial mechanics and sedimentary deposits of systems. Students enrolled in GEOL 572 will be both continental and alpine settings. An extended held to a higher standard than those enrolled in field trip to a nearby glaciated region will GEOL 472. acquaint the student with glacial settings and resulting landforms. Laboratory work consists of GEOL 473/473L/573/573L MUSEUM analysis of aerial photos and topographic maps PREPARATION TECHNIQUES AND that illustrate glacial principles. EXHIBIT DESIGN (1-2) 3 credits. Techniques in vertebrate fossil GEOL 604 ADVANCED FIELD GEOLOGY preparation and museum exhibit design will be the (0-3) 3 credits. Prerequisite: GEOL 410. Field focus in this course. Students will be required to techniques and related laboratory methods of prepare fossils and design an exhibit for actual investigation in moderately complicated geologic display in the museum or other designated environments. Includes data collection, locations. Proposal writing is another important presentation, and interpretation. Laboratory work facet of this course and will provide the involving aerial photographs, drilling projects, background needed to those that pursue a museum and miscellaneous work may be introduced during career. Students enrolled in GEOL 573 will be inclement weather in December. held to a higher standard than those enrolled in GEOL 473. GEOL 621/621L ADVANCED STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY GEOL 491 INDEPENDENT STUDY (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisite: GEOE 322 or 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of permission of instructor. Examination of selected instructor. Includes directed study, problems, geologic terrains such as fold-thrust belts, readings, directed readings, special problems and Laramide foreland uplifts and basins, wrench and special projects. Students complete rift systems, etc., concentrating on geometric individualized plans of study which include styles, sequential and mechanical development significant one-on-one student-teacher and regional models. Includes selected readings
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GEOL 622 GEOTECTONICS GEOL 643/643L INTRO TO MICROBEAM (3-0) 3 credits. The course examines INSTRUMENTS development of regional and world-wide (2-1) 3 credits. An introduction to electron optics, structures of the earth in regard to plate tectonic electron-beam - specimen interactions, and processes and current thought regarding concepts qualitative and quantitative x-ray microanalysis in of sea-floor spreading, continental drift, the scanning electron microscope and electron paleomagnetism, origin of continents, ocean microprobe. One three (3)-hour laboratory basins, and mountain building. demonstration per week.
GEOL 623/623L REGIONAL TECTONICS GEOL 644/644L PETROLOGY OF THE (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisite: GEOE 322. IGNEOUS ROCKS Detailed study by the student of a region, (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisite: GEOL 341. preferably in the U.S., in order to synthesize Discussion of partial melting in mantle and crustal existing maps and reports into a tectonic map. source regions, transport, fractionation and final Analysis of structures and litho-tectonic rock emplacement. Heavy emphasis will be placed on packages leads to a final report outlining phase diagrams, equilibria, and geochemistry of structural development of the region. Lectures igneous rocks from the standpoint of constraining detail techniques of synthesis, analysis and report evolutionary models. Basaltic and granitic preparation. systems will be emphasized. Problems involving the use of the petrographic microscope will be GEOL 631 ROCKY MOUNTAIN assigned and several field trips are planned. STRATIGRAPHY I GEOL 632 ROCKY MOUNTAIN GEOL 650 SEMINAR IN ORE DEPOSITS STRATIGRAPHY II 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: GEOE 451 or (3-0) 3 credits each. Prerequisite: Senior or permission of instructor. Studies by a group of graduate standing in geology or geological advanced students, under the guidance of one or engineering. Stratigraphic sequences in the more selected instructors, of topics of special and Rocky Mountain area are studied with emphasis current interest to the group. Involves a on the paleoenvironmental and tectonic conditions combination of lectures, papers, readings, oral under which the strata were deposited. First and/or written presentations, and discussions. semester considers Paleozoic strata; the second Course focuses on different themes in ore semester considers Mesozoic and Cenozoic rocks. deposits, and varies each time offered. Themes that will be offered include such topics as the GEOL 633/633L SEDIMENTATION geology of gold deposits, uranium deposits, (2-1) 3 credits. Sedimentary process-response porphyry copper deposits, volcanogenic massive models are studied. The procedures for sulfides, and sediment-hosted metal deposits. classification and description of sedimentary Emphasis is placed on gaining an in-depth rocks are reviewed. Numerous field trips to knowledge on the controls of localization of a localities illustrating a variety of sedimentary specific class of mineral deposits. facies are conducted. Laboratory determinations are made of such parameters of sedimentary GEOL 652 PROBLEMS IN ORE DEPOSITS particles as size, shape, and degree of roundness, (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: GEOE 451 or mineralogy, and chemical composition. An permission of instructor. Emphasis is placed on analysis is made of field and laboratory data by the principles of hydrothermal ore deposits, and graphical and statistical methods and a geological techniques used to study hydrothermal ore interpretation is made of the results. Natural deposits. Modern theories on metallic ore
301 Courses deposition will be applied to the critical study of GEOL 676/676L VERTEBRATE major classes of metallic ore deposits. PALEONTOLOGY (3-1) 4 credits. An in-depth assessment of the GEOL 672/672L MICROPALEONTOLOGY fossil record of vertebrates with special emphasis (2-1) 3 credits. A study of the morphology, on current problems in the evolution of ecology, and stratigraphic significance of selected vertebrates and the tangible record preserved in groups of protozoans and invertebrate and plant the collections of the Museum of Geology. This microfossils with special emphasis on course is cross-listed with PALE 676/676L. Foraminifera and conodonts. This course is cross- listed with PALE 672/672L. GEOL 678/678L VERTEBRATE BIOSTRATIGRAPHY GEOL 673/673L COMPARATIVE (3-1) 4 credits. Prerequisite: GEOL/PALE 676. OSTEOLOGY The principles and practices for establishing the (2-1) 3 credits. A comparison of recent and fossil distribution of vertebrate fossils in the rock vertebrate skeletons and dentitions with emphasis record. This course will include a brief history of on the skeletons and teeth of sharks, bony fish, biostratigraphy, methodology, and the content and salamanders, frogs, turtles, alligators, lizards, assessment of vertebrate ages, particularly of birds, and mammals to establish a thorough Mesozoic and Cenozoic mammals. This course is understanding of diversity of the form and cross-listed with PALE 678/678L. function of the vertebrate skeleton. A major objective is the identification of vertebrates based GEOL 684/684L PALEOENVIRONMENTS on osteology and odontology. This course is (2-1) 3 credits. This course will integrate topics cross-listed with PALE 673/673L. from paleobotany, vertebrate paleontology, and paleoclimatology in a study of paleontological GEOL 674/674L STRATIGRAPHIC communities through time. Laboratories will PALEONTOLOGY OF THE include studies of fossil materials. Note: This CONTINENTAL MESOZOIC AND course is to be offered both through Black Hills PALEOGENE State University and South Dakota School of (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisite: GEOL/PALE 676. Mines and Technology. This course is cross- The stratigraphic section of the Mesozoic and listed with PALE 684/684L. Paleogene vertebrate-bearing formations of North America is reviewed. Evolution of mammalian GEOL 691 INDEPENDENT STUDY faunas and the succession of land-mammal ages is 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of coordinated with this section. Extensive use is instructor. Directed independent study of a topic made of the published literature and the Museum or field of special interest. This may involve of Geology collections. This course is cross-listed readings, research, laboratory or field work, and with PALE 674/674L. preparation of papers, as agreed to in advance, by student and instructor. A description of the work GEOL 675/675L STRATIGRAPHIC to be performed must be filed in the department PALEONTOLOGY OF THE office. This course is cross-listed with PALE 691. CONTINENTAL NEOGENE (2-1) 3 credits. The stratigraphic section of the GEOL 692 TOPICS Neogene vertebrate bearing formations of North 1 to 3 credits. Lecture course or seminar on a America is reviewed. Evolution of mammalian topic or field of special interest, as determined by faunas and the succession of land-mammal ages the instructor. A description of the work to be are coordinated with this section. Extensive use is performed must be filed in the Department of made of the published literature and the Museum Geology/Geological Engineering. This course is of Geology collections. This course is cross-listed cross-listed with PALE 692. with PALE 675/675L.
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GEOL 770 SEMINAR IN VERTEBRATE problem, with emphasis on independent work, PALEONTOLOGY culminating in an acceptable dissertation. Oral (2-0) 2 credits. Studies by a group of advanced defense of dissertation and research findings are students, under the guidance of one or more required. selected instructors, on topics of special and current interest to the group. Involves a GER 101 INTRODUCTORY GERMAN I combination of lectures and discussions. Review GER 102 INTRODUCTORY GERMAN II of current literature in vertebrate paleontology of (4-0) 4 credits each. Becoming sensitized to special topics and/or analysis of new procedures authentic listening, speaking, reading, writing and and techniques. Emphasis will be on mammalian culture skills at the elementary level. Introduction paleontology. This course is cross-listed with to basic functional grammar and sentence PALE 770. structure. GER 102-Prerequisite: GER 101 or permission of instructor. Continued emphasis on GEOL 790 SEMINAR authentic listening, speaking, reading, writing, and (1-0) 1 credit. May not be repeated for degree culture skills at the elementary level. credit. Preparation, oral and/or written presentation, and group discussion of a research GES 115M UNIVERSITY MENTORING problem. The student is expected to present orally (0-0) 0 credit. This course is designed to provide the results of his/her own research. This new college students the opportunity to learn how presentation normally will directly precede the to succeed at the South Dakota School of Mines final oral defense of the thesis. This course is and Technology. Students will be introduced and cross-listed with PALE 790. matched to a professional mentor who will provide academic and career advice that will help GEOL 798 MASTER’S THESIS insure professional development. In addition, Credit to be arranged; not to exceed six (6) credits students will have the opportunity to learn from toward fulfillment of M.S. degree requirements. peer advisors who are successful upper-classmen Open only to students pursuing the M.S. thesis in selected majors. option. Supervised original or expository research culminating in an acceptable thesis. Oral defense of thesis and research findings are required. This HIST 121 WESTERN CIVILIZATION I course is cross-listed with PALE 798. (3-0) 3 credits. Surveys the evolution of western civilization from its beginnings into the GEOL 808 FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEMS Reformation and religious wars. IN ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE (3-0) 3 credits. The course, available only for HIST 122 WESTERN CIVILIZATION II doctoral candidates, involves description, (3-0) 3 credits. Surveys the development of analysis, and proposed methods of attack of long- western civilization from the Reformation era to standing, fundamental problems in science and the present. engineering. Independent work is emphasized with goals of understanding these basic questions HIST 151 UNITED STATES HISTORY I and proposing practical designs and experiments (3-0) 3 credits. Surveys the background and for the solution. This course is cross-listed with development of the United States from its colonial AES 808. origins to the Civil War and Reconstruction.
GEOL 898 DISSERTATION HIST 152 UNITED STATES HISTORY II Credit to be arranged; not to exceed 30 credits (3-0) 3 credits. Surveys development of the toward fulfillment of Ph.D. degree requirements. United States since the Civil War and Open only to doctoral candidates. Supervised Reconstruction. original research investigation of a selected
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HIST 492 TOPICS students with significant one-on-one 1 to 4 credits. Includes current topics, advanced student/teacher involvement. A maximum of six topics and special topics. A course devoted to a (6) credits of special topics will be allowed for particular issue in a specified field. Course degree credit. content is not wholly included in the regular curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as HUM 300 MATERIALS AND instructors. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer CIVILIZATION students with significant one-on-one (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Junior or senior student/teacher involvement. May be repeated standing. Details the development of civilization once for credit when the topic is different and with the advancement of new materials, including with permission of department chair. the role of metals and advanced materials in the larger cultural context. HUM 100 INTRODUCTION TO HUMANITIES HUM 350 AMERICAN SOCIAL HISTORY (3-0) 3 credits. This interdisciplinary course (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Junior or senior introduces students to humanistic knowledge, standing. A study of the lives, customs, and inquiry, and values by focusing on connections beliefs of ordinary Americans, using fiction and among humanities disciplines (such as art, nonfiction from various periods. languages, literature, music, philosophy, and religion). HUM 375 COMPUTERS IN SOCIETY (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Junior or senior HUM 200 CONNECTIONS: HUMANITIES standing. Examines the social impact of AND TECHNOLOGY computers with emphasis on the development of (3-0) 3 credits. A thematic approach to human the computer establishment, the cultural blueprint values stressing the relationship between being shaped for the future, and the question of technology and the humanities; traces the values and social responsibility in personal, development and social impact of our major business, and governmental sectors. technologies.
HUM 291 INDEPENDENT STUDY HUM 491 INDEPENDENT STUDY 1 to 4 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of 1 to 4 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Includes directed study, problems, instructor. Includes directed study, problems, readings, directed readings, special problems and readings, directed readings, special problems and special projects. Students complete special projects. Students complete individualized plans of study which include individualized plans of study which include significant one-on-one student-teacher significant one-on-one student-teacher involvement. The faculty member and students involvement. The faculty member and students negotiate the details of the study plans. negotiate the details of the study plans. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. Meeting depending upon the requirements of the Meeting depending upon the requirements of the topic. topic.
HUM 292 TOPICS HUM 492 TOPICS 1 to 3 credits. Includes current topics, advanced 1 to 3 credits. Includes current topics, advanced topics and special topics. A course devoted to a topics and special topics. A course devoted to a particular issue in a specified field. Course particular issue in a specified field. Course content is not wholly included in the regular content is not wholly included in the regular curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as instructors. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer instructors. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer
304 Courses students with significant one-on-one IENG 301 BASIC ENGINEERING student/teacher involvement. A maximum of six ECONOMICS (6) credits of special topics will be allowed for (2-0) 2 credits. Junior or higher standing degree credit. preferred. Introduces the concepts of economic evaluation regarding capital investments, IENG 215 COST ESTIMATING FOR including the time value of money and income tax ENGINEERS I effects. Graduation credit cannot be given for (1-0) 1 credit. Prerequisite: MATH 123. This both IENG 301 and IENG 302. course covers the fundamentals of financial statements and analysis. Topics include the IENG 302 ENGINEERING ECONOMICS structure of accounts, the balance sheet, the (3-0) 3 credits. Junior or higher standing income statement, changes in owner equity, preferred. Studies economic decision making statement of cash flows, and analysis of financial regarding capital investment alternatives. Covers statements to determine the financial health of a compound interest and depreciation models, business entity. replacement and procurement models. Analysis is made variously assuming certainty, risk and IENG 216 COST ESTIMATING FOR uncertainty. Graduation credit cannot be given ENGINEERS II for both IENG 301 and IENG 302. (1-0) 1 credit. Prerequisite: MATH 123. This course covers the fundamentals of building the IENG 311/311L WORK METHODS AND operational budgets needed for modern industrial MEASUREMENT practice. Topics include sales forecasting, sale (2-1) 3 credits. Corequisite: IENG/MATH 381. budget, production budget, material budget, direct This course presents the underlying theory and labor budget, factory overhead, cost-of-goods basic methodology for work methods and sold, and budget variances. measurement techniques. Emphasis is placed on knowledge of the basis for selection of a IENG 217 COST ESTIMATING FOR technique appropriate for the individual as related ENGINEERS III to the task to be performed. (1-0) 1 credit. Prerequisite: MATH 123. This course covers the fundamentals of cost accounting IENG 321/321L ERGONOMICS/HUMAN and cost estimating. Topics include estimation of FACTORS ENGINEERING factory overhead, operation estimating, product (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisite: PSYC 101. estimating, job order costing, process costing, and Corequisite: MATH 281 or higher statistics. activity based costing. Topics covered include: Engineering anthropometry methods, workplace design, IENG 241L INTRO TO QUALITY electrophysiologic models and measurement, METHODS AND TEAMS biomechanical modeling, work kinesiology, and (0-2) 2 credits. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing hand-tool evaluation. or permission of instructor. Quality improvement methods, team processes, and related ways of IENG 331 SAFETY ENGINEERING thinking are introduced. Students will be exposed (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Junior or senior to the data collection and analysis tools often used standing. Overview to the field of Safety for quality improvement across multiple Engineering emphasizing quantitative problem disciplines. Laboratory activities involve teams solving. Will draw on fundamental knowledge and team processes including decision making, from the fields of chemistry, physics, mechanics, communications, and customer relations. This mathematics, and statistics. Contents: course meets the quality requirement for the six- fundamental concepts and terminology, injury and sigma greenbelt certificate. accident statistics, ethics, certification, regulations, standards, hazards and their control,
305 Courses and management aspects. issues they will encounter over the course of their career. Professionalism topics include: IENG 341 INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE networking, business etiquette, and professional (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: CHEM 112/112L, dress. Ethics topics include: harassment, MATH 281 or higher statistics course. Overview necessary disclosure, and the Whistle Blower Act. of the field of industrial hygiene. Examines the identification, evaluation, and control of IENG 381 INTRO TO PROB AND STAT occupational health hazards in the workplace that (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: MATH 125 and can cause illness among workers or citizens of the prerequisite or corequisite: MATH 225. surrounding community with routes of entry Introduction to probability, discrete and through the lungs, skin, ears, and eyes. Specific continuous distributions, sampling distributions, hazard classifications of chemical, physical, and central limit theorem, and general principles for biological origin will be addressed. statistical inference. This course is cross-listed with MATH 381. Individuals may apply at most IENG 345 ENTREPRENEURSHIP 4 credits toward a degree from the following list (4-0) 4 credits. Prerequisites: ACCT 211 and of courses: MATH 281, IENG/MATH 381, IENG 301 or IENG 302 or permission of MATH 441/442. instructor. Covers topics on the legal aspects, management skills, business plans, and sources of IENG 382 PROBABILITY THEORY AND capital as well as case studies of successful and STATISTICS II unsuccessful entrepreneurial initiatives. (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: IENG 381. Review of general principles for statistical inference, IENG 362 STOCHASTIC MODELS linear regression and correlation, multiple linear (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: IENG/MATH 381 or regression, ANOVA, and statistical design of permission of instructor. This course covers experiments. This course is cross-listed with stochastic models in operations research and is a MATH 382. complementary course to MATH 353. Topics include queuing theory, Markov chains, IENG 425 PRODUCTION AND Pert/CPM, decision theory, dynamic OPERATION programming and inventory control models. (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: MATH 123; IENG/MATH 381 or BADM 221. Management IENG 366 ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT of the production environment. Topics such as (3-0) 3 credits. A course designed to acquaint the bills of materials, inventory control, production student with engineering management discipline control, production scheduling and MRP will be through the formation and operation of business discussed. The impact of production management and industrial enterprises. In addition to on the design process and how products can be engineering management decision tools, students designed for better manufacture. will be exposed to emergent trends in learning organizations, systems thinking, change IENG 441 SIMULATION management, and processes utilizing all four (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: IENG 381 or MATH quadrants of Herrmann Whole Brian model for 441. Development of computer simulation advanced problem solving. models of real or conceptual systems. Interpretation of results of computer simulation IENG 375 ETHICS AND experiments. PROFESSIONALISM FOR ENGINEERS AND SCIENTISTS IENG 451/451L OPERATIONAL (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Junior standing or STRATEGIES higher preferred. This course will introduce (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Junior standing or students to many of the professional and ethical permission of instructor. Review of philosophies,
306 Courses systems, and practices utilized by world-class to apply their knowledge and techniques to real organizations to meet current operational problems in business and industry. As applicable, challenges. Focuses include “lean production” in these are continuation projects started in IENG the manufacturing industries, including material 464. flow, plant-floor quality assurance, job design, work and management practices as well as the IENG 466/566 PROJECT PLANNING AND most effective practices in the service industries. CONTROL Students complete lab projects and tour (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: PSYC 101 organizations to analyze the extent and potential preferred. Project planning, execution and control of the philosophies. of less repetitive types of work. This includes quantitative aspects such as costs, time and IENG 452 INTRODUCTION TO SIX SIGMA performance specifications; and qualitative (1-0) 1 credit. This course introduces students to aspects such as organization structures, the philosophy of Six Sigma. Topics include the psychological and sociological relationships. history of Six Sigma and the Six Sigma problem Students enrolled in IENG 566 will be held to a solving methodology. higher standard than those enrolled in IENG 466.
IENG 461 SIX SIGMA GREENBELT EXAM IENG 471 FACILITIES PLANNING (1-0) 1 credit. This self-paced, pass/fail course (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Senior standing or culminates in a written exam. Passing this exam graduation within three (3) semesters. Topics is necessary component of the Six Sigma covered include: material handling, computerized Greenbelt Certification. layout planning, storage facilities, flexible manufacturing systems, and “Factory of the IENG 463 SIX SIGMA GREENBELT Future.” PROJECT (1-0) 1 credit. Taken in conjunction with another IENG 475/475L COMPUTER- course requiring a project, students in this course CONTROLLED MANUFACTURING will use the Six Sigma problem solving SYSTEMS AND ROBOTICS philosophy in the completion of the project. (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Senior standing or Students will then document how they use the Six permission of instructor. Fundamental concepts Sigma process and the results of the project in a of using computers in the design of a computer written report. integrated, discrete-item, manufacturing facility are covered. Basic ideas of Computer Aided IENG 464 SENIOR DESIGN PROJECT I Design (CAD), Group Technology (GT), process (0-3) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Senior standing or planning, integrated production control and graduation within three (3) semesters. Small computer numerical control are covered. The groups of students work on original design manufacturability issues and concepts of selecting projects. Topics are solicited from local and using robots in the workplace are explored. companies, hospitals, banks, mines, government agencies, thus providing students the opportunity IENG 486 STATISTICAL QUALITY AND to apply their knowledge and techniques to real PROCESS CONTROL problems in business and industry. (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: IENG 381 or MATH 441 or permission of instructor. This IENG 465 SENIOR DESIGN PROJECT II course covers the development of statistical (0-3) 3 credits. Continuation of IENG 464. Small methods for application to problems in quality and groups of students work on original design process control. Statistical topics include: basics projects. Topics are solicited from local of processes and variability, statistically companies, hospitals, banks, mines, government controlled processes, variable and attribute control agencies, thus providing students the opportunity charts, moving averages, individual trend and
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others, process capability, sampling plans for visiting lecturers and opportunities to gain attributes and variables. This course is cross- regional, national, and global perspectives through listed with MATH 486. organized trips.
IENG 491 INDEPENDENT STUDY IS 191 INDEPENDENT STUDY 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Includes directed study, problems, instructor. Includes directed study, problems, readings, directed readings, special problems and readings, directed readings, special problems and special projects. Students complete special projects. Students complete individualized plans of study which include individualized plans of study which include significant one-on-one student-teacher significant one-on-one student-teacher involvement. The faculty member and students involvement. The faculty member and students negotiate the details of the study plans. negotiate the details of the study plans. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. Meeting depending upon the requirements of the Meeting depending upon the requirements of the topic. topic. This course can not be counted for social science/humanities credit. IENG 492 TOPICS 1 to 3 credits. Includes current topics, advanced IS 192 TOPICS topics and special topics. A course devoted to a 1 to 3 credits. Includes current topics, advanced particular issue in a specified field. Course topics and special topics. A course devoted to a content is not wholly included in the regular particular issue in a specified field. Course curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as content is not wholly included in the regular instructors. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as students with significant one-on-one instructors. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer student/teacher involvement. students with significant one-on-one student/teacher involvement. A maximum of six IDL 399 ISSUES OF THE YELLOWSTONE credits will be allowed for degree credit. This ECOSYSTEM course can not be counted for social (3-0) 3 credits. This course will begin with a one- science/humanities credit. week experience in Yellowstone National Park, examining a number of controversial public IS 201 INTRODUCTION TO SCIENCE, policy issues associated with management of the TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIETY nation’s first national park. The week-long (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: ENGL 101 and experience will be followed by a semester of sophomore standing. Prerequisite or corequisite: small group work involving students from all IS 110. Includes study of current issues within Regental institutions, independent study, and the IS specializations. Introduces students to how state-wide interaction on a natural resource issue science and technology affect individual, societal, of importance to South Dakota. The culminating and global change (e.g., how science and event will be presentation to appropriate policy- technology influence ethical choices, the political makers in the state capitol. Enrollment is limited and economic systems, and the relationship to 24 students system-wide. (Experimental) between humans and the natural world.) Required for all students seeking a B.S. in interdisciplinary IS 110 EXPLORATIONS sciences. (2-0) 2 credits. This course will provide a theme- based interdisciplinary approach to studying the IS 291 INDEPENDENT STUDY relationships between science and society. The 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of course will consist of lectures, student-led instructor. Includes directed study, problems, activities, and fieldwork, complemented by readings, directed readings, special problems, and
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special projects. Students complete IS 391 INDEPENDENT STUDY individualized plans of study which include 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of significant one-on-one student-teacher instructor. Includes directed study, problems, involvement. The faculty member and students readings, directed readings, special problems and negotiate the details of the study plans. special projects. Students complete Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. individualized plans of study which include Meeting depending upon the requirements of the significant one-on-one student-teacher topic. This course can not be counted for social involvement. The faculty member and students science/humanities credit. negotiate the details of the study plans. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. IS 292 TOPICS Meeting depending upon the requirements of the 1 to 3 credits. Includes current topics, advanced topic. This course can not be counted for social topics and special topics. A course devoted to a science/humanities credit. particular issue in a specified field. Course content is not wholly included in the regular IS 392 TOPICS curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as 1 to 3 credits. Includes current topics, advanced instructors. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer topics and special topics. A course devoted to a students with significant one-on-one particular issue in a specified field. Course student/teacher involvement. A maximum of six content is not wholly included in the regular credits will be allowed for degree credit. This curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as course can not count for social science/humanities instructors. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer credit. students with significant one-on-one student/teacher involvement. A maximum of six IS 370 APPLICATIONS OF RESEARCH credits will be allowed for degree credit. This METHODS USING COMPUTER SYSTEMS course can not be counted for social (1-0) 1 credit. Prerequisite: CSC 210 or science/humanities credit. permission of instructor. Course on advanced research methods, which involves analyzing IS 401 WRITING AND RESEARCH IN THE electronic database systems and preparing INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES research based on those systems. Resources to be (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: IS 201, ENGL 289, utilized include the Internet, CD-ROM products, and senior standing. Advanced writing in the and/or private bulletin board systems. Methods of interdisciplinary sciences with emphasis on study include guest lectures, field trips to Internet research and explanation of science topics in the providers, topical discussion of issues, and a IS specializations. This course provides students major research project involving accessing, with a basic understanding of the various styles of retrieving, and evaluating information. This science writing, including writing for popular and course can not be counted for social professional audiences, and the use of library science/humanities credit. and/or laboratory research in formal research papers. This course is required for all students IS 380 INTERNSHIP IN pursing the B.S. degree in interdisciplinary INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES sciences. 1 to 4 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of Instructor. The opportunity for a student to IS 491 INDEPENDENT STUDY complete a plan for an internship and thereby 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of acquire practical job-related experience. A instructor. Includes directed study, problems, maximum of six credits will be allowed for degree readings, directed readings, special problems and credit. This course can not be counted for social special projects. Students complete science/humanities credit. individualized plans of study which include significant one-on-one student-teacher
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involvement. The faculty member and students social science/humanities credit. negotiate the details of the study plans. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. LAKL 101 LAKOTA LANGUAGE I Meeting depending upon the requirements of the (4-0) 4 credits. An introduction to the Lakota topic. This course can not be counted for social language with emphasis on basic conversation, science/humanities credit. language structure, and vocabulary.
IS 492 TOPICS LAKL 102 LAKOTA LANGUAGE II 1 to 3 credits. Includes current topics, advanced (4-0) 4 credits. Prerequisite: LAKL 101 or topics and special topics. A course devoted to a permission of instructor. A continued particular issue in a specified field. Course introduction to the Lakota language with content is not wholly included in the regular emphasis on basic conversation, language curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as structure, and vocabulary. instructors. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one MATH 021 BASIC ALGEBRA student/teacher involvement. A maximum of six (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Appropriate credits will be allowed for degree credit. This mathematics placement. This course prepares course can not be counted for social students for college level mathematics. Topics science/humanities credit. generally include: basic properties of real numbers, exponents and radicals, rectangular IS 498 UNDERGRADUATE coordinate geometry, solutions to linear and RESEARCH/SCHOLARSHIP quadratic equations, inequalities, polynomials and (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Senior standing, factoring. Students may also be introduced to permission of instructor, an approved Letter of functions and systems of equations. Note: This is Intent on file in the IS Office and successful remedial level course and no credit for MATH completion of IS 401. Includes senior project, 021 will be granted for graduation. and capstone experience. Independent research problems/projects or scholarship activities. The MATH 101 INTERMEDIATE ALGEBRA plan of study is negotiated by the faculty member (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: MATH 021 or and the student. Contact between the two may be appropriate mathematics placement. Basic extensive and intensive. Does not include properties of real numbers, linear equations and research courses which are theoretical. This inequalities, quadratic equations, systems of course is required for all students pursuing the equations, polynomials and factoring, rational B.S. degree in interdisciplinary sciences. expressions and equations, and radical expressions and equations, and an introduction to IS 691 INDEPENDENT STUDY functions such as polynomial, exponential and .5 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of logarithmic functions. May not be used for credit instructor. Directed independent study of a topic toward a baccalaureate degree, but may be used or field of special interest. This may involve toward the associate degree. readings, research, laboratory or fieldwork, and preparation of papers, as agreed to in advance, by MATH 102/102L COLLEGE ALGEBRA student and instructor. This course can not be (3-1) 4 credits. Prerequisite: MATH 101 or counted for social science/humanities credit. appropriate mathematics placement. Corequisite: MATH 102L. Equations and inequalities; IS 692 TOPICS polynomial functions and graphs; exponents, 1 to 3 credits. Lecture course or seminar on a radicals, binomial theorem, zeros of polynomials; topic or field of special interest, as determined by systems of equations; exponential, logarithmic, the instructor. This course can not be counted for and inverse functions, applications and graphs. Other topics selected from sequences, series, and
310 Courses complex numbers. This course may not be used Placement Examination and MATH 123 for credit toward an engineering or science degree completed with a minimum grade of “C.” A (except for interdisciplinary science, chemistry, continuation of the study of calculus, including and associate of arts). the study of sequences, series, polar coordinates, parametric equations, techniques of integration, MATH 115 PRECALCULUS applications of integration, indeterminate forms, (5-0) 5 credits. Prerequisite: MATH 101 or and improper integrals. appropriate mathematics placement. A preparatory course for the calculus sequence. MATH 140 THE NATURE OF Topics include: polynomial, rational, exponential, MATHEMATICS logarithmic and trigonometric functions and their (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: MATH 102 graphs; systems of equations, inequalities and (College Algebra) or MATH 115 completed with complex numbers. May not be used for credit a “C” or better or an acceptable score on the toward an engineering or science degree (except Algebra Placement Examination, and ENGL 101. for interdisciplinary science, chemistry, and The intent of this course is to give the student an associate of arts). appreciation for the mathematical approach to problem solving and an overall perspective of the MATH 120 TRIGONOMETRY role of mathematics in the history of technology (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: MATH 102 “C” or and society. Major themes in mathematics are better, or an acceptable score on the COMPASS explored from several points of view: the Placement Examination. Topics include: mathematics involved, the historical development trigonometric functions, equations, and identities; of ideas, and the utilization of these ideas in other inverse trigonometric functions; exponential and fields of endeavor. logarithmic functions, and applications of these functions. This course may not be used for credit MATH 225 CALCULUS III toward an engineering or science degree (except (4-0) 4 credits. Prerequisite: MATH 125 for interdisciplinary science, chemistry, and completed with a minimum grade of “C.” A associate of arts). continuation of the study of calculus, including an introduction to vectors, vector calculus, partial MATH 123 CALCULUS I derivatives, and multiple integrals. (4-0) 4 credits. Prerequisite: MATH 115 with a minimum grade of “C” or appropriate MATH 241 MATHEMATICS OF FINANCE mathematics placement or permission of (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: MATH 102 or instructor. Students who are initially placed into permission of instructor. Topics include simple MATH 102 or below must complete MATH 102 and compound interest including annuities, and MATH 120 with grades of “C” or better amortization, sinking funds, valuation of bonds, before enrolling in MATH 123. Students who are depreciation and capitalized cost. placed in MATH 120 should consult their advisor to determine whether their placement score was MATH 281 INTRODUCTION TO sufficiently high to allow concurrent registration STATISTICS in MATH 123. The study of limits, continuity, (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: MATH 102 or MATH derivatives, applications of the derivative, 115. A study of descriptive statistics including antiderivatives, the definite and indefinite integral, graphs, measures of central tendency and variability and the fundamental theorem of calculus. and an introduction to probability theory, sampling and techniques of statistical inference with an MATH 125 CALCULUS II emphasis on statistical applications. Individuals may (4-0) 4 credits. Prerequisite: MATH 120 apply at most 4 credits toward a degree from the completed with a minimum grade of “C” or following list of courses: MATH 281, IENG/MATH appropriate score on departmental Trigonometry 381, MATH 441/442.
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MATH 291 INDEPENDENT STUDY MATH 353 LINEAR OPTIMIZATION 1 to 5 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: MATH 321 or instructor. Includes directed study, problems, MATH 315 or permission of instructor. Convex readings, directed readings, special problems and sets and functions, linear inequalities and special projects. Students complete combinatorial problems; topics in linear individualized plans of study which include programming from fundamental theorems of significant one-on-one student-teacher simplex method through sensitivity analysis, involvement. The faculty member and students duality, transportation, and assignment problems. negotiate the details of the study plans. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. MATH 354 NON-LINEAR OPTIMIZATION Meeting depending upon the requirements of the (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: MATH 225. topic. May be repeated to a total of five (5) credit Numerical methods for constrained and hours. unconstrained problems. Emphasis on algorithms such as simplex method, direct search methods, MATH 292 TOPICS conjugate gradient methods, shortest-path 1 to 5 credits. Includes current topics, advanced problems, and integer programming. topics and special topics. A course devoted to a particular issue in a specified field. Course MATH 373 INTRODUCTION TO content is not wholly included in the regular NUMERICAL ANALYSIS curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: MATH 321 and instructors. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer CSC 150 or permission of instructor. This course students with significant one-on-one is an introduction to numerical methods. Topics student/teacher involvement. May be repeated to include elementary discussion of errors, a total of five (5) credit hours. polynomial interpolation, quadrature, non-linear equations, and systems of linear equations. The MATH 315 LINEAR ALGEBRA algorithmic approach and efficient use of the (4-0) 4 credits. Prerequisite: MATH 225 and computer will be emphasized. Additional topics MATH 321 or permission of instructor. Course may include: calculation of eigenvalues and topics include: the theory and applications of eigenvectors, numerical differentiation and systems of linear equations, matrices, integration, numerical solution of differential determinants, vector spaces, linear equations. transformations and applications. MATH 381 INTRO TO PROB AND STAT MATH 321 DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: MATH 125 and (4-0) 4 credits. Prerequisite: MATH 125 with a prerequisite or corequisite: MATH 225. minimum grade of “C.” Selected topics from Introduction to probability theory, discrete and ordinary differential equations including continuous distributions, sampling distributions development and applications of first order, and the Central Limit Theorem with general higher order linear and systems of linear principles for statistical inference and equations, general solutions and solutions to applications of random sampling to hypothesis initial-value problems using matrices. Additional testing, confidence limits, correlation, and topics may include Laplace transforms and power regression. This course is cross-listed with IENG series solutions. MATH 225 and 321 may be 381. Individuals may apply at most 4 credits taken concurrently or in either order. In addition toward a degree from the following list of to analytical methods this course will also provide courses: MATH 281, IENG/MATH 381, MATH an introduction to numerical solution techniques. 441/442.
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MATH 382 PROBABILITY THEORY AND including groups, rings, and fields. STATISTICS II (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: MATH 381. Review MATH 421 COMPLEX ANALYSIS of general principles of statistical inference, linear (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: MATH 225. The regression and correlation, multiple linear algebra of complex numbers; complex functions; regression, ANOVA, and statistical design of contour integration and Cauchy integral theorems; experiments. This course is cross-listed with Taylor and Laurent series and the residue IENG 382. theorem; the evaluation of real definite integrals; elementary mapping problems. MATH 391 INDEPENDENT STUDY 1 to 5 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of MATH 423 ADVANCED CALCULUS I instructor. Includes directed study, problems, MATH 424 ADVANCED CALCULUS II readings, directed readings, special problems and (4-0) 4 credits each. Prerequisite: MATH 225 or special projects. Students complete permission of instructor. Prerequisite for MATH individualized plans of study which include 424 is MATH 423. A theoretical treatment of significant one-on-one student-teacher Calculus that covers: limits; continuity and involvement. The faculty member and students differentiability of functions of a single variable negotiate the details of the study plans. and of several variables; convergence of Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. sequences and series; integration; and Meeting depending upon the requirements of the applications. topic. May be repeated to a total of five (5) credit hours. MATH 431 DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: MATH 315 or MATH 392 TOPICS permission of instructor. This course is a study of 1 to 5 credits. Includes current topics, advanced both discrete and continuous dynamical systems. topics and special topics. A course devoted to a Topics include analysis of planar autonomous particular issue in a specified field. Course systems, stability analysis, bifurcation, chaos, and content is not wholly included in the regular strange attractors. In addition, this course may curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as include the study of Van der Pol’s equation, instructors. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer Lorenz equations, Duffing’s equation, students with significant one-on-one Hamiltonian systems, and Poincare maps. student/teacher involvement. May be repeated to a total of five (5) credit hours. MATH 432 PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS MATH 402 COMMUNICATING (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: MATH 225 and MATHEMATICS MATH 321. Fourier series, partial differential (1-0) 1 credit. Prerequisite: MATH 498. The equations, Frobenius series, Bessel functions, and student will produce a word-processed technical transform methods. report of research conducted in MATH 498 and give a department colloquium talk summarizing MATH 441 ENGINEERING STATISTICS I her or his work. Department faculty member(s) (2-0) 2 credits. Prerequisite: MATH 225. An will provide guidance in the production of the introduction to the core ideas in probability and technical report and in the preparation for the statistics. Computation of probabilities using, for colloquium talk. instance, counting techniques and Bayes’ rule. Introduction to discrete and continuous random MATH 413 ABSTRACT ALGEBRA I variables, joint and conditional distributions, (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: CSC 251 or expectation, variance and correlation, random permission of instructor. Introduction to the sampling from populations, hypothesis tests and theory and applications of algebraic structures confidence intervals, and least squares. This
313 Courses course is the first in a sequence of two (2) two- course covers the development of statistical credit mini-courses in probability and statistics methods for application to problems in quality and offered in a single term, the second being MATH process control. Statistical topics include: basics 442. Individuals may apply at most 4 credits of processes and variability, statistically toward a degree from the following list of controlled processes, variable and attribute control courses: MATH 281, IENG/MATH 381, MATH charts, moving averages, individual trend and 441/442. others, process capability, sampling plans for attributes and variables. This course is cross- MATH 442 ENGINEERING STATISTICS II listed with IENG 486. (2-0) 2 credits. Prerequisite: MATH 441. In part, covers topics from MATH 441 in more depth MATH 491 INDEPENDENT STUDY including additional standard distributions used to 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of model real-world phenomena, additional standard instructor. Includes directed study, problems, hypothesis tests and confidence intervals. Other readings, directed readings, special problems and topics include building multiple regression special projects. Students complete models, parameter estimation, and reliability. individualized plans of study which include Selected non-parametric and computer-intensive significant one-on-one student-teacher methods may also be covered. This course is the involvement. The faculty member and students second in a sequence of two (2) two-credit mini- negotiate the details of the study plans. courses in probability and statistics offered in a Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. single term, the first being MATH 441. Meeting depending upon the requirements of the Individuals may apply at most 4 credits toward a topic. May be repeated to a total of three (3) degree from the following list of courses: MATH credit hours. 281, IENG/MATH 381, MATH 441/442. MATH 492 TOPICS MATH 451 MATH MODELING 1 to 6 credits. Includes current topics, advanced (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: MATH 321 or topics and special topics. A course devoted to a permission of instructor. The primary goal of this particular issue in a specified field. Course course is to present the mathematical formulation content is not wholly included in the regular and analysis utilized in scientific modeling. curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as Applications from both Science and Engineering instructors. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer will be covered. The types of models will include students with significant one-on-one deterministic and stochastic models. Topics may student/teacher involvement. May be repeated to include: epidemiology, biomass, elasticity, heat a total of six credit hours. flow, electrical circuits, mechanical vibrations and optimization. MATH 498 UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH/SCHOLARSHIP MATH 471 NUMERICAL ANALYSIS I (1-0) 1 credit. Prerequisite: Permission of (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: MATH 373 or CSC instructor. Includes senior project, and capstone 372. Analysis of rounding errors, numerical experience. Independent research solutions of nonlinear equations, numerical problems/projects or scholarship activities. The differentiation, numerical integration, plan of study is negotiated by the faculty member interpolation and approximation, numerical and the student. Contact between the two may be methods for solving linear systems. extensive and intensive. Does not include research courses which are theoretical. MATH 486 STATISTICAL QUALITY AND PROCESS CONTROL MATH 685 STATISTICAL APPROACHES (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: IENG 381 or TO RELIABILITY MATH 441 or permission of instructor. This (4-0) 4 credits. Prerequisite: MATH 441 or
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permission of instructor. This course covers the ME 211 INTRODUCTION TO development of statistical methods for application THERMODYNAMICS to problems in reliability engineering. Statistical (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: MATH 125 and topics include: basics of reliability and life- PHYS 211. An introduction to the basic concepts testing, probabilistic reliability, patterns of of energy conversion, including the first and failures, probability concepts and distributions in second laws of thermodynamics, energy and reliability, analysis of reliability data, prediction entropy, work and heat, thermodynamic systems and modeling, reliability measurements and analysis, and the concepts of properties and state. problems. This course is cross-listed with ME Application of these fundamentals to energy 685. conversion systems will be presented.
MATH 687 STATISTICAL DESIGN AND ME 216 INTRODUCTION TO SOLID ANALYSIS OF EXPERIMENTS MECHANICS (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: MATH 381 or (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: EM 214. This MATH 441 and MATH 442 or permission of course covers the fundamental concepts of solid instructor. Sampling distribution and inference mechanics including the definition of stress, for normal distribution parameters, single and transformations and states of stress; plane stress, multifactor experiments, ANOVA, randomized plane strain, octahedral stresses, three dimensional blocks, Latin square and related designs, simple stresses, and principal stresses in two and three and multiple regression, analysis of covariance. dimensions. Additional topics include strain Use of computer subroutines. analysis, strain measurements and rosette analysis, generalized Hooks law, and orthotropic materials. MATH 691 INDEPENDENT STUDY Specific applications are an introduction to 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of composite materials, analysis of thin and thick instructor. Student should have obtained cylinders, statically indeterminate members, permission of an instructor in the Department of torsional loading of shafts, power transmission Mathematics and Computer Science prior to and the shaft analysis, torsional loads in non- registering for this course. Directed independent circular components and thin tubes, stress study of a topic or field of special interest. This concentrations, and combined loads. may involve readings, research, laboratory or fieldwork, and preparation of papers, as agreed to ME 221 DYNAMICS OF MECHANISMS in advance, by student and instructor. May be (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: PHYS 211, EM repeated to a total of six credit hours. 214, MATH 125. Brief review of dynamics of a particle. Kinetics and kinematics of two and MATH 692 TOPICS three-dimensional mechanisms. Emphasis will 1 to 3 credits. Lecture course or seminar on a include free body diagrams, vector methods, and topic or field of special interest, as determined by various coordinate systems. Newton’s law and the instructor. May be repeated to a total of six energy methods will both be used. credit hours. ME 262/262L PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT ME 110/110L INTRODUCTION TO (3-1) 4 credits. Prerequisites GES 115, ME 110, MECHANICAL ENGINEERING MATH 123 and sophomore standing. The course (1-1) 2 credits. An introductory course for presents in a detailed fashion useful tools and incoming mechanical engineering freshmen which structured methodologies that support the product will introduce the student to the profession they development practice. Also, it attempts to have chosen. Topics to be covered include: Solid develop in the students the necessary skills and modeling, CAD lab, professional development, attitudes required for successful product engineering design, technical communication, development in today’s competitive marketplace. personal development, and academic success skills. The cornerstone is a semester-long project in
315 Courses which small teams of students plan, conceive, 262. Applications of the fundamentals of design, and prototype a simple physical product. strength of materials, basic elastic theory, material Each student brings his/her own background to science and how they apply to the design and the team effort, and must learn to synthesize selection of machine elements. Elements include his/her perspective with those of the other shafts, gears, fasteners, and drive components students in the group to develop a marketable such as gears and chains. product. An introduction to manufacturing aspects that must be taken into consideration ME 331 THERMO FLUID DYNAMICS during product development is provided in the (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: ME 211 and ME context of a mini-project. 221. A study of the nature of fluids, constitutive relations, fluid statics/buoyancy, and the equations ME 299/299L SOPHOMORE DESIGN governing the motion of ideal (inviscid) and (1-1) 2 credits. Prerequisite: GES 115. This viscous, incompressible fluids, as well as inviscid, course focuses on the design process including compressible fluids (1-dimensional gas project management and teamwork; formal dynamics). Internal and external flows, including conceptual design methods; acquiring and viscous pipe flow, the Moody diagram, lift, drag processing information; design management tools; and separation. Laminar and turbulent boundary design for manufacturability, reliability, layer theory, and dimensional analysis, modeling, maintainability, sustainability; design and similitude. communication: reports and presentations; ethics in design; prototyping designs; case studies. This ME 351/351L MECHATRONICS AND course is cross-listed with EE 299/299L. MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS (Experimental) (3-1) 4 credits. Prerequisite: CSC 150 and EE 220 or EE 301. This course will encompass ME 312 THERMODYNAMICS II general measurement techniques found in (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: ME 211and ME mechanical and electrical engineering. These 221. Thermodynamic power cycles using vapors include measurement of force, strain, frequency, and gases. One-dimensional compressible flow. pressure flow rates and temperatures. Elements of Energy analysis. Refrigeration cycles. Mistures signal conditioning and data acquisition will be and psychrometry. Maxwell’s relations. introduced. In addition to this material, the course Combustion and thermochemistry. will have a Mechatronics approach reflected in the combined applications of electronic mechanical ME 313/313L HEAT TRANSFER and control systems. This course is cross-listed (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisites: ME 211 and MATH with EE 351/351L. 373 (concurrent). A study of the transfer of heat by conduction, convection and radiation. ME 352 INTRODUCTION TO DYNAMIC Application to thermal systems. SYSTEMS (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: MATH 321, ME ME 316 SOLID MECHANICS 221. This is an introductory course in the control (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: ME 216 and ME of dynamic systems. The course presents the 221. Covers stress analysis and failure theories of methodology for modeling and linearizing of both brittle and ductile materials and energy electrical, mechanical, thermal, hydraulic and methods. Also includes such topics as elastic pneumatic systems. The course also covers impact, stability, axisymmetrically loaded control system analysis and synthesis in the time members in flexure and torsion, and an and the frequency domains. introduction to plastic behavior of solids. ME 380 INTRODUCTION TO ME 322 MACHINE DESIGN I BIOMECHANICS (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: ME 316 and ME (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: EM 321 or EM 217,
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MET 231, and MET 232. This course will (concurrent), ME 313 (concurrent), ME 331. A provide an introduction to the important field of study of space heating and cooling systems and biomechanics. It will cover topics such as: equipment, building heating and cooling load engineering based on biological design; human calculations, solar radiation concepts, and moist anatomy; neural systems; locomotion; and air properties/conditioning processes. Indoor air biological materials. quality/comfort and health issues will be discussed. Basic heat and mass transfer processes ME 391 INDEPENDENT STUDY will be introduced; pump and fan performance 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of issues along with duct and piping system design. instructor. Includes directed study, problems, Heat exchangers and mass transfer devices will readings, directed readings, special problems and also be studied. special projects. Students complete individualized plans of study which include ME 411/411L INTERNAL COMBUSTION significant one-on-one student-teacher ENGINES I involvement. The faculty member and students (3-1) 4 credits. Prerequisites: ME 312 negotiate the details of the study plans. (concurrent), ME 313 (concurrent), ME 331, ME Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. 351. Otto and diesel cycle analysis; combustion Meeting depending upon the requirements of the in engines; exhaust gas analysis; engine topic. mechanical design features. Laboratory includes experiments designed to coordinate with the ME 392 TOPICS lectures and special investigations to topics of 1 to 3 credits. Includes current topics, advanced current interest such as noise and pollution. topics and special topics. A course devoted to a particular issue in a specified field. Course ME 416 THERMOSCIENCE LAB content is not wholly included in the regular (0-1) 1 credit. Prerequisites: ME 351, ME 312, curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as ME 313 and ME 331. A hands-on experience instructors. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer with experimental methods in mechanical students with significant one-on-one engineering thermoscience; measurement student/teacher involvement. techniques for temperature, pressure, flow and velocity; data acquisition systems and uncertainty ME 402/502 GAS DYNAMICS analysis will be covered. Group projects to (3-0) 3 credits. This course will review illustrate design of experiments will be assigned, fundamental concepts from thermodynamics in addition to conducting various heat transfer, including isentropic flow and normal shock fluid mechanics, and thermodynamics functions. The equations of motion will be experiments. derived in differential form and wave theory will be introduced. Multidimensional flows and ME 419/419L THERMO-FLUID SYSTEMS oblique shock theory will be discussed. Integral DESIGN methods for inviscid, compressible flow will be (3-1) 4 credits. Prerequisites: ME 312, ME 313, developed and numerical methods (including the and ME 331. Investigation and design of thermal method of characteristics for hyperbolic and fluid systems and components, emphasizing equations) will be employed in the second half of the major thermal/fluid design issues that arise in the course. Students enrolled in ME 502 will be internal combustion engine power conversion; held to a higher standard than those enrolled in analysis and synthesis involving modeling and ME 402. optimization of thermo-fluid systems, components and processes. Development and application of ME 404 HEATING, VENTILATING, AND fundamental numerical tools and algorithms for AIR CONDITIONING thermal and fluid problems. A central design (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: ME 312 problem for a thermal/fluid system or component
317 Courses will be selected to meet an existing or future macroscopic aspects of fracture and fatigue, project need and will be decomposed into the fatigue characteristics of materials, stress relevant thermal and fluid aspects which will concentration factors, environmental effects, and studied throughout the course. Review of the surface treatments. (Design Elective) basics of the design process and physical processes important to thermal-fluid problems ME 425 PROBABILISTIC MECHANICAL (basic thermodynamics, heat transfer and fluid DESIGN mechanics), the fundamentals of building and (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: ME 322. Basic solving mathematical models, and design issues concepts of probability and statistics are and concepts unique to internal combustion introduced including Gaussian, Exponential, and engines will be discussed. Students will be Weibul distributions. Primary emphasis is placed required to implement one or more previously on treating stresses, strains, deformations, and developed Fluent learning modules to study the strength limitations as random variables and use of CFD in thermal/fluid system design. The computing probability of failure under required final project will incorporate skills developed in loads. Considerable time is devoted to converting the learning modules into the required design of data into meaningful engineering parameters for the system or component. The laboratory will making engineering decisions. Statistical include experiments to compliment the lecture methods applied to topics in mechanical design. material and provide a means for hands on (Design Elective) validation of concepts. ME 426 MECHANICAL SYSTEMS ME 422 MACHINE DESIGN II ANALYSIS LABORATORY (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: ME 322. This (0-1) 1 credit. Prerequisites: ME 423 course will explore advanced structural design (concurrent). Use of experimental methods and concepts within an integrated framework of modern instrumentation techniques to understand theory, simulation, experiment, and materials. Of the free and forced oscillations of machines and particular importance will be the study of modern machine components, as well as the control of topics, such as plastic materials and their response these vibrations. Laboratory exercises are to service loads. Structural mechanics and designed to reinforce material learned in the materials response will be brought together in companion lecture class ME 423, extend support of machine component design. knowledge into new areas, and help to make the connection between theory and practice. ME 423 MECHANICAL VIBRATIONS (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: ME 352. Study of ME 427/427L COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN the oscillatory nature and vibration design of AND MANUFACTURE mechanical systems. One, two, multi, and infinite (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Senior standing or degree of freedom systems are analyzed for their permission of instructor. Discussion of methods response in both free and forced vibration and topics in computer-aided design and regimes. Particular emphasis is given to manufacture. How to bridge the gap between the designing for vibration control. Brief design/analysis phase and the actual manufacture introductions are made to vibration testing and phase. Database requirements of CNC machine measurement, and human response to vibrations. tools and how they can be constructed.
ME 424 FATIGUE DESIGN OF ME 428/428L APPLIED FINITE ELEMENT MECHANICAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: ME 322. The (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisites: ME 316 or analysis and prevention of fatigue related failures permission of instructor. Basic mathematical in mechanical components. Topics covered concepts of finite element analysis will be include historical background, failure theories, covered. The students will learn finite element
318 Courses modeling using state of the art software, including using the standard bicycle model is covered in solid modeling. Modeling techniques for beams, detail. Laboratory work involves shock absorber frames, two and three-dimensional solids, and thin and spring testing and the setup and evaluation of walled structures will be covered in the course. Formula SAE and Baja SAE chassis. Students must complete a chassis design project. ME 442 FAILURE MODES OF ENGINEERING MATERIALS ME 456 CONTROLS LABORATORY (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: ME 322. (0-1) 1 credit. Prerequisite: ME 453 (concurrent). Discussion of various material failure modes with The purpose of this laboratory is to expose the emphasis on understanding how to design students to real-time control applications. During components to avoid failures. Topics covered the course of this lab the students get acquainted will include deformation, fatigue, fracture, creep with the TMS320C30 board, its data acquisition and corrosion. The course will include examples capabilities as well as its control capabilities. of typical failures, discussion of case studies and Two major set-ups exist in this laboratory. The laboratory demonstrations. first one consists of a servo motor - C30 board combination, while the ECP’s inverted pendulum ME 443 COMPOSITE MATERIALS is the other experimental configuration. The (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: ME 316 or students are asked to design, investigate, concurrent enrollment in MET 440. This course implement, and evaluate various control strategies will cover heterogeneous material systems; basic on these two control systems. design concepts and preparation; types of composite materials; advances in filaments, fibers ME 477 MECHANICAL ENGINEERING and matrices; physical and mechanical properties; DESIGN I failure modes; thermal and dynamic effects; and (0-2) 2 credits. Prerequisite: Senior standing or application to construction, transportation and graduation within three (3) semesters, ME 322, communication. This course is cross-listed with ME 351 (concurrent). The first semester of a two MET 443. (2) course sequence in senior design practice. Integrates concepts from all areas in mechanical ME 453/453L CONTROL SYSTEMS engineering into a practical design project. (3-1) 4 credits. Prerequisite: ME 352 or EE 311. Fundamentals of the design process, Analysis and design of automatic control and specifications, decision making, and preliminary process systems by techniques encountered in design will be the focus, with the major part of the modern engineering practice, including both course being the project. linear and nonlinear systems with either continuous or discrete signals. This course is ME 479 MECHANICAL SYSTEMS DESIGN II cross-listed with EE 451/451L. (0-2) 2 credits. Prerequisite: ME 477 and senior standing. Corequisite: ME 351. The second ME 454 INDUSTRIAL HYDRAULICS semester continuation of Mechanical Systems (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: ME 331, ME 352. Design. Integrates concepts from all areas in Design and use of high pressure hydraulic pumps, mechanical engineering into a practical design valves, systems and computer control systems. project. Detailed design and analysis, manufacturing, and assembly will be the focus. ME 455/455L VEHICLE DYNAMICS (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisite: ME 352. ME 481L ADVANCED PRODUCT Fundamental principles and practices of modern DEVELOPMENT LAB I automotive chassis and suspension design, (0-1) 1 credit. Corequisite: ME 477. Advanced operation and testing are presented in the course. laboratory experience in product development. The dynamics of acceleration, braking, ride and Students will perform activities in support of handling are covered. Steady-state cornering preliminary product design and trade studies,
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including virtual prototyping, computational ME 613 TRANSPORT PHENOMENA: investigations and proof-of-concept experiments. HEAT During the time of this course and in order to (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: ME 313, MATH broaden their views on globalization, students will 373 (concurrent). An in-depth study of the be required to attend a seminar series. fundamental laws of heat transfer. Major areas considered are: heat conduction, free and forced ME 482L ADVANCED PRODUCT convection, and radiative heat transfer. Emphasis DEVELOPMENT LAB II is placed on the formulation and solution of (0-2) 2 credits. Corequisite: ME 479. Advanced engineering problems by analytical and numerical laboratory experience in product development. methods. This course is cross-listed with Students will perform activities in support of CBE/CHE 613. detailed product design, including virtual prototyping, computational investigations, and ME 616 COMPUTATIONS IN TRANSPORT testing of components and systems. During the PHENOMENA time of this course and in order to broaden their (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: MATH 373 or views on globalization, students will be required permission of instructor. Various computerized to attend a seminar series. techniques, including finite difference and finite element, will be used to solve transient and steady ME 499/599 RESEARCH state heat transfer problems involving conduction PROBLEMS/PROJECTS and convection. This course is cross-listed with 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of CBE/CHE 616. instructor. Independent research problems/projects that lead to a research or design ME 623 ADVANCED MECHANICAL paper but not to a thesis. The plan of study is VIBRATIONS negotiated by the faculty member and the (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: ME 423 or candidate. Contact between the two may be equivalent. Study of the vibration of systems of extensive and intensive. Does not include particles both forced and free. Included is the research courses which are theoretical. Students study of transient vibrations and system natural enrolled in ME 599 will be held to a higher frequencies. Classical studies of the vibration of standard than those enrolled in ME 499. continuous systems, free and forced, damped and undamped using computer solutions are ME 555/555L ADVANCED APPLICATIONS emphasized. Introduction to Theoretical and IN COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS Experiment Modal Analysis. (Design Elective) (1-2) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Senior or higher standing. Introduction to solid modeling ME 673 APPLIED ENGINEERING techniques using advanced solid modeling ANALYSIS I software. Use of Computational Fluid Mechanics (3-0) 3 credits. Advanced topics in engineering codes for the solution of complex fluid mechanics analysis. Special mathematical concepts will be and heat transfer problems. Use of finite element applied to mechanical engineering problems. Topics codes for the solution of non-linear and transient will be selected from the following: Fourier series and problems in solid mechanics. boundary value problems applied to heat conduction and convection, Laplace transforms and complex ME 612 TRANSPORT PHENOMENA: variable analysis applied to vibrations and dynamic MOMENTUM system analysis, series solutions of differential (3-0) 3 credits. Introduction to momentum equations, partial differential equations, general matrix transport. Equations of continuity and motion. applications to a variety of large systems of equations Velocity distributions. Boundary layer theory. in engineering, calculus of variation, and Ritz method Turbulent transport compressible flow. This for various engineering problems. course is cross-listed with CBE/CHE 612.
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ME 683 ADVANCED MECHANICAL some advanced concepts required for design of SYSTEM CONTROL mechanical systems. Included are a review of (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: ME 673, ME 453, basic concepts of mechanics and failure theories, MATH 315 or permission of instructor. in elastic responses, thermal stresses and Derivation of state equations for continuous and introduction into design for composite structures. discrete control systems. A study of optimal and Special topics such as non-homogeneous beams, adaptive control of mechanical systems. twisting of beams, torsion of non-circular (Manufacturing Elective) sections, beams on an elastic foundation, plates, and shells are covered. (Design Elective) ME 685 STATISTICAL APPROACHES T0 RELIABILITY ME 773 APPLIED ENGINEERING (4-0) 4 credits. Prerequisite: MATH 441 or ANALYSIS II permission of instructor. This course covers the (3-0) 3 credits. Applications of numerical development of statistical methods for application methods to mechanical engineering problems. to problems in reliability engineering. Statistical Topics will include data processing techniques, topics include: basics of reliability and life- curve fitting and interpolation of experimental testing, probabilistic reliability, patterns of information, solutions to systems of ordinary failures, probability concepts and distributions in differential equations, solutions to partial reliability, analysis of reliability data, prediction differential equations, and numerical integration and modeling, reliability measurements and both of known functions and functions described problems. This course is cross-listed with MATH only by experimental data. 685. ME 781 ROBOTICS ME 691 INDEPENDENT STUDY (3-0) 3 credits. The course covers the following 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission on topics as related to modern industrial robots, instructor. Directed independent study of a topic sensors and actuators, motion trajectories, or field of special interest. This may involve synthesis, control, computers and languages, readings, research, laboratory or fieldwork, and available robots, and applications. preparation of papers, as agreed to in advance, by (Manufacturing Elective) student and instructor. ME 782 INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING ME 692 TOPICS SYSTEMS 1 to 3 credits. Lecture course or seminar on a (3-0) 3 credits. The course deals with the role of topic or field of special interest, as determined by the computer in modern manufacturing plants. Its the instructor. use in all divisions of manufacturing is discussed, including shop floor control, scheduling, routing, ME 715 ADVANCED COMPOSITE inventory, etc. Several case studies are presented. MATERIALS (Manufacturing Elective) (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Includes classification and mechanical ME 788 GRADUATE RESEARCH (Non- behavior of composite materials, macro- Thesis) mechanical behavior of lamina and laminates. Credit to be arranged. A course designed to Course emphasizes study of advanced composite provide an opportunity for the graduate student to laminates including failure theories, experimental do applied research work in his/her major field. methods, stresses, strains, and deformations. This course will be the basis for the project required when the student has opted for the non- ME 722 ADVANCED MECHANICAL thesis option, for the master of science degree in DESIGN the mechanical engineering department. (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: ME 422. Study of
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ME 790 SEMINAR MEM 201L SURVEYING FOR MINERAL (1-0) 1 credit. May not be repeated for credit. ENGINEERS Oral presentations followed by group discussions (0-2) 2 credits. Prerequisites: Sophomore on a weekly basis. Speakers will be drawn standing. Principles of surface and underground primarily from the graduate student body but may surveying, including measurements, data also include faculty and invited lecturers. collection, calculations, error analysis, topographic mapping, and applications of the ME 791 INDEPENDENT STUDY Global Positioning System. 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Directed independent study of a topic MEM 202 MATERIALS HANDLING AND or field of special interest. This may involve TRANSPORTATION readings, research, laboratory or fieldwork, and (2-0) 2 credits. Prerequisites: EM 216 and MEM preparation of papers, as agreed to in advanced, 120. The theory of operation of mining by student and instructor. equipment, and its selection and application to materials handling in surface and underground ME 792 TOPICS mines. Emphasis is on economics, productivity, 1 to 3 credits. Lecture course or seminar on a reliability, maintenance, and safety. topic or field of special interest, as determined by the instructor. MEM 203 INTRODUCTION TO MINE HEALTH AND SAFETY ME 798 MASTER’S THESIS (1-0) 1 credit. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing. Credit to be arranged. A course designed to Instruction in the safety aspects of mining in provide an opportunity for the graduate student to accordance with MSHA rules. A study of mine do research work in his major field. This course regulations and the recognition of mine hazards will be the basis for the thesis required when the along with their prevention and control. student has opted for the thesis option, for the master of science degree in the mechanical MEM 204 SURFACE MINING METHODS engineering department. AND UNIT OPERATIONS (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: ENVE/MEM 120 MEM 120 INTRODUCTION TO MINING , or permission of instructor. A study of surface SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND mining techniques and unit operations applicable INTRODUCTORY MANAGEMENT to metal mining, coal mining, quarrying and other (2-0) 2 credits. This course presents an surface mining operations. Topics include mine introductory overview of current surface and design and planning, surface drilling and blasting, underground mining practices, new and emerging the applicability and performance characteristics mining technology, mining terminology, and of earthmoving equipment, and an introduction of mining economics. Mining engineering faculty mine drainage. This course is cross-listed with members are introduced and career paths ENVE 204. available to the mining engineering graduate are discussed. The concept of sustainable MEM 301/301L COMPUTER development as it relates to minerals venture is APPLICATIONS IN MINING introduced, and the interrelationships between (1-1) 2 credits. Prerequisite: GE 115 or mining, the environment, societal needs, and permission of instructor. Computer hardware and governance is discussed. Also included is an software. Applications in exploration and introduction to management concepts, resource modeling, equipment selection and presentation skills, meeting skills, negotiation simulations, mine planning and design, rock skills, and basic project management tools. This stability analysis, and economics and cost course is cross-listed with ENVE 120. estimates. Emphasis on three-dimensional modeling and visualization. Vulcan software and
322 Courses other software applications. MEM 306 MINE POWER AND PUMPING SYSTEMS MEM 302 MINERAL ECONOMICS AND (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: MEM 301 and FINANCE MEM 303. Fundamentals of electric circuits, (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Junior standing. An basic mine power systems, and power distribution introduction to the concepts of the time value of system design. Applications of pumping in money and the application of time value of money surface and underground mines. decision criteria to mineral project evaluation situations. Both before-tax and after-tax MEM 307 MINERAL EXPLORATION AND investment situations are discussed. A discussion GEOSTATISTICS of the financing options available to a company (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: GEOE 221. The for expansion, new project development or application of the theory of geostatistics to qualify acquisitions. This course is cross-listed with the geological concepts of (1) area of influence of ENVE 302. a sample, (2) the continuity of the regionalized variable within a deposit, and (3) the lateral MEM 303 UNDERGROUND MINING changes in the regionalized variable according to METHODS AND EQUIPMENT (3-0) 3 the direction. Basic concepts and theory of credits. Prerequisite: MEM 204. A study of probability and statistics will be introduced, underground mining techniques, unit operations, including probability distributions, sampling and equipment applicable to coal mining, metal distributions, treatment of data, the mean, mining, quarrying and tunneling operations. variance, and correlation. Computer techniques Topics include mining method selection, mine will be extensively used for geostatistical design and planning, drilling and blasting, and estimation of grade, volume, and variance. novel underground mining methods. MEM 401/401L THEORETICAL AND MEM 304/304L THEORETICAL AND APPLIED MINE VENTILATION APPLIED ROCK MECHANICS (3-1) 4 credits. Prerequisite: Senior standing. (3-1) 4 credits. Prerequisite: EM 216 and Junior Analysis of mine atmosphere and the control of standing. Principles of rock mechanics and airflow in an underground mine. Basic principles mechanics of materials. Concept of stress, strain of thermodynamics and air conditions. Emphasis and the theory of elasticity. Applications in is on solutions of airflow networks and the design mining, geological engineering and tunneling. principles of mine ventilation systems. Emphasis on the design of safe structures in rocks. Laboratory experience for determining the basic Laboratory experience for determining the basic pressure and airflow parameters, ventilation physical and mechanical properties of rocks. network analysis, and fan characteristics.
MEM 305 INTRODUCTION TO MEM 405 MINE PERMITTING AND EXPLOSIVES ENGINEERING RECLAMATION (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: MEM 202. An (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Junior standing. A introduction to explosives products; the theory of study of environmental problems associated with rock breakage by explosives; and the design of both surface and underground mining and the blast patterns for different applications including reclamation practices that have been developed or surface blasting techniques, underground blasting are being evaluated to alleviate these problems. techniques, controlled blasting and specialized Federal, state and local reclamation regulations techniques. The techniques and equipment used are examined for their effects on present and to control and/or monitor airblast, ground future mining practices and costs. Field trips to vibration and flyrock are studied. mining operations in the Black Hills region or the Powder River Basin will be taken for on-site observation of actual reclamation practices. This
323 Courses course is cross-listed with ENVE 405. underground) starting with drill hole data following through with a complete feasibility MEM 433/433L/533/533L COMPUTER study (based on financial returns on investment APPLICATIONS IN GEOSCIENCE and sensitivity analysis) covering ore reserve MODELING calculations, and selection of mining methods and (3-1) 4 credits. Prerequisite: Junior standing. equipment. Computerized approach will be an The use of computer techniques in modern integral part of the course: SurvCADD software geoscience modeling of mining, geology and and Vulcan software are available to use. In environmental problems such as exploration, addition to a computerized model of the mine, a geological characterization and mining final written report and presentation in front of the exploitation. Practical application of state-of-the- class will be required. art Vulcan modeling software will be essential part of the course. Students enrolled in MEM 533 MEM 466 MINE MANAGEMENT will be held to a higher standard than those (2-0) 2 credits. Prerequisite: Senior standing or enrolled in MEM 433. This course is cross-listed permission of instructor. The study of critical with ENVE 433/433L/533/533L. management issues of fundamental importance to the mining industry: forms of management, MEM 450/550 ROCK SLOPE organizational structures, project management and ENGINEERING mine administration, risk management, and (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: MEM 304 or CEE modern management tools. Development of 346 or equivalent. Modes of slope failure. leadership skills. Management of human Economic consequences of instability in mining resources. and construction. Geological factors controlling stability of rock slopes. Shear strength of highly MEM 491 INDEPENDENT STUDY jointed rock mass and discontinuities. Projection 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of methods. Vectoral analysis of 3-D problems by instructor. Includes directed study, problems, means of the stereographic projection method. readings, directed readings, special problems, and Analytical, graphical and computer analysis of special projects. Student complete individualized planar, wedge and toppling failures. Probabilistic plans of study which include significant one-on- methods. Students enrolled in MEM 550 will be one student/teacher involvement. The faculty held to a higher standard than those enrolled in member and students negotiate the details of the MEM 450. This course is cross-listed with ENVE study plans. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer 450/550. students. Meeting depending on the requirements of the topic. MEM 464 MINE DESIGN AND FEASIBILITY STUDY MEM 492 TOPICS (4-0) 4 credits. Prerequisites: MEM 204, MEM 1 to 3 credits. Includes current topics, advanced 302, MEM 303, MEM 304, MEM 305, MEM topics and special topics. A course devoted to a 306, MEM 307 and MEM 401. A complete mine particular issue in a specified field. Course feasibility study conducted as a senior design content is not wholly included in the regular project. Students will have a choice of designing curriculum. Guest artists or experts may service one of the following: a surface or underground as instructors. Enrollments are usually 10 or coal mine, a quarry, a surface or underground fewer students with significant one-on-one hard rock metal mine, or a sub-surface student/teacher involvement. underground space (tunneling, large excavations, industrial/environmental underground storage site, MES 601 FUNDAMENTALS OF or underground science laboratory). A MATERIALS ENGINEERING comprehensive study of principles and practices (4-0) 4 credits. Prerequisite: Admission to involved in developing an ore deposit (surface or M.S./MES or Ph.D./MES program or permission
324 Courses of instructor. The course is taught when the readings, research, laboratory or fieldwork, and required seven student minimum is reached. The preparation of papers, as agreed to in advanced, objective of this course is to provide students with by student and instructor. the working knowledge required to understand principles governing engineering aspects of MES 692 TOPICS materials synthesis and manufacturing. Students 1 to 3 credits. Lecture course or seminar on a are able to analyze the effect of transport topic or field of special interest, as determined by phenomena, surface chemistry, solution the instructor. This course is cross-listed with thermodynamics and kinetics on design, control MES 792. and process optimization of various materials processes. MES 708/708L ADVANCED INSTRUMENTAL ANALYSIS MES 603 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS (3-1) 4 credits. Prerequisites: Admission to (4-0) 4 credits. Prerequisite: Admission to M.S./MES or Ph.D./MES program or permission M.S./MES or MES Ph.D. program or permission of instructor. The objective of this course is to of instructor. The objective of this course is to provide the students a working knowledge of the provide students with working knowledge principles of modern analytical instrumentation. required to understand the principles of condensed Specific topics of the course include how matter physics with application to materials electromagnetic radiation interacts with matter, science and engineering. The students will be atomic and molecular spectroscopy and able to analyze basic experiments related to chromatography. The laboratory portion of this electronic structure of atoms and chemical course will include experiments in atomic and bonding in solids, diffraction of x-rays and molecular spectroscopy. In addition, electrons by crystal lattices, lattice dynamics, chromatographic experiments are also covered. elastic and thermal properties of solids, electronic band structure, classification of solids, dynamics MES 712 INTERFACIAL PHENOMENA of electrons in crystals, optical properties of (3-0) 3 credits. A course in the surface properties solids, doped semiconductors, p-n junctions and of solids and liquids. Areas covered include the hetero-junctions, dielectric properties of thermodynamics of surfaces, material transfer insulators, piezoelectricity, electrostriction, across interfaces, nucleation, surface energies of ferroelectricity, and magnetic properties of solids solids, three-phase contact, wetting phenomena, (dia-, para-, and ferro-magnetism). and adsorption.
MES 604 CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS MES 713 ADVANCED SOLID MECHANICS I (4-0) 4 credits. Prerequisite: Admission to (3-0) 3 credits. Presented and discussed. M.S./MES or MES Ph.D. program or permission Emphasis is placed on the mathematical of instructor. The object of this course is to description of phenomenological behavior, provide students with the working knowledge deformation and flow. Practical solutions from required to understand the theoretical chemical the classical theories of solid mechanics are basis for chemical and physical properties of discussed. crystalline, ceramic, polymeric and metallic materials. Students will be able to analyze MES 714 TRANSPORT PHENOMENA: macroscopic properties on the basis of underlying MASS chemical concepts. (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. An in-depth study of the fundamental MES 691 INDEPENDENT STUDY laws of mass transfer. Emphasis is placed on the 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of formulation and solution of Chemical and instructor. Directed independent study of a topic Biological Engineering processes and problems or field of special interest. This may involve by analytical and numerical methods. This course
325 Courses is cross-listed with CHE/MES 714. oral presentation, and group discussion of a research problem. Students enrolled in MES 890 MES 721 THEORY OF MATERIALS will be held to a higher standard than those BEHAVIOR I enrolled in MES 790. (3-0) 3 credits. An advanced course covering the properties of crystalline, amorphous, and MES 792 TOPICS multiphase solids. Study of the mechanical, 1 to 3 credits. Lecture course or seminar on a thermal, electrical, chemical, magnetic, and topic or field of special interest, as determined by optical behavior of metals, semiconductors, the instructor. This course is cross-listed with ceramics, polymers, concretes, and composites, MES 692. including time-dependent and environmental effects. MES 798 MASTER’S THESIS Credit to be arranged; not to exceed 6 credit hours MES 728 HETEROGENEOUS KINETICS toward fulfillment of the master of science in (3-0) 3 credits. Principles of Absolute Rate materials engineering and science (M.S./MES). Theory are combined with thermodynamics to Prerequisite: approval of advisor. An original study the mechanisms of homogeneous and investigation of a materials engineering or heterogeneous reactions in metallurgical systems. materials science subject normally presented as a This course is cross-listed with CBE 728. thesis for the M.S./MES degree. MES 737 SOLID STATE PHYSICS I (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: PHYS 431 or MES 898 DISSERTATION equivalent. The structure of solids, lattice Credit to be arranged; not to exceed 30 credits vibrations, free electron and energy band theory. toward fulfillment of Ph.D. degree requirements. Applications to the thermal, electrical, magnetic, Open only to doctoral candidates. Supervised and optical properties of solids. original research investigation of a selected problem, with emphasis on independent work, MES 770 CONTINUUM MECHANICS culminating in an acceptable dissertation. Oral (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of defense of dissertation and research findings are instructor. Introduction to tensor algebra and required. calculus. Derivation of kinematic, stress, strain, and thermodynamic field equations governing MET 220 MINERAL PROCESSING AND continuous media. Development of constitutive RESOURCE RECOVERY relations for real materials. Applications to (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing. problems in fluid and solid mechanics. An introductory course in mineral processing highlighting unit operations involved including MES 788 MASTER’S RESEARCH comminution, sizing, froth flotation, gravity PROB/PROJECTS separation, electrostatic separation, magnetic Credit to be arranged; not to exceed 5 credit hours separation and flocculation. Other topics toward fulfillment of the master of science in discussed include remediation of contaminant materials engineering and science (M.S./MES). effluents and the unit operations associated with Prerequisite: approval of advisor. Directed recycling of post-consumer materials using research investigation of a selected problem mineral processing techniques. This course is culminating in an acceptable written report. Oral cross-listed with ENVE 220. defense of the report and research findings are required. MET 220L MINERAL PROCESSING AND MES 790/890 SEMINAR RESOURCE RECOVERY LABORATORY (1-0) 1 credit. May not be repeated for degree (0-1) credit. An introductory laboratory course in credit. Open only to candidates for the Ph.D. in mineral processing highlighting relevant unit Materials Engineering and Science. Preparation, operations. This course is cross-listed with ENVE
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220L. 112, MATH 125. The principles of chemical thermodynamics and their application to MET 231 STRUCTURES AND metallurgical engineering processes. Topics PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS LAB covered include the zeroth, first and second laws (0-1) 1 credit. Prerequisites: Concurrent of thermodynamics, the fundamental equations of registration in MET 232, or permission of state for open and closed systems, criterion of instructor. A laboratory involving quantitative equilibrium, heat capacities, reaction equilibrium metallography, heat treating practice, mechanical constants and their dependence upon temperature property measurements and metallurgical design and pressure, chemical potential, standard and of the thermal mechanical treatment of metals. reference states, stability diagrams, and solution thermodynamics. This course is cross-listed with MET 232 PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS ENVE 320. (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: MATH 123 and PHYS 111. A course in engineering materials and MET 321/321L HIGH TEMPERATURE their applications. The different technological EXTRACTION, CONCENTRATION, AND uses of metals, ceramics, plastics, and composite RECYCLING materials are discussed and explained in terms of (3-1) 4 credits. Prerequisite: MET 320. their basic atomic structure, and mechanical, Thermodynamic principles involved in the thermal, optical, electrical, and magnetic winning of metals. Areas covered include properties. Material selection in engineering calcination, oxidation, reduction processes, design is emphasized. smelting, high -temperature refining, electrorefining, slags, and slag-metal interactions. MET 310 AQUEOUS EXTRACTION, This course is cross-listed with ENVE 321/321L. CONCENTRATION, AND RECYCLING (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: MET 320 or CHE MET 330 PHYSICS OF METALS 321, or CHEM 342. Scientific and engineering (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: MET 232. The principles involved in the winning of metals from fundamental principles of physical metallurgy ores and scrap. Areas covered include the unit with emphasis on the mathematical description of operations of comminution, sizing, solid/liquid mechanisms that control the structure of materials. separations, leaching, ion exchange, solvent Topics covered are structure of metals, x-ray extraction, and surface phenomena as related to diffraction, elementary theory of metals, flocculation, froth floatation, and electrostatic dislocations, slip phenomena, grain boundaries, separation. This course is cross-listed with ENVE vacancies, annealing, and solid solutions. 310. MET 330L PHYSICS OF METALS LAB MET 310L AQUEOUS EXTRACTION, (0-1) 1 credit. Prerequisites: MET 232 and MET CONCENTRATION, AND RECYCLING 231. Practical laboratory exercises that involve LAB (1) x-ray diffraction methods, (2) transmission (0-1) 1 credit. Prerequisites: Concurrent electron microscopy as it applies to dislocations in registration in MET 310 or permission of materials, (3) recovery, recrystallization and grain instructor. Laboratory experiments in design of growth as it applies to annealing of materials, (4) processing equipment and cost estimation, zeta optional and scanning electron microscopy as it potential, surface tension, leaching kinetics, applies to the microstructure of materials, and (5) electrowinning, and solvent extraction. This thermomechanical processing of metals with course is cross-listed with ENVE 310L. limited regions of solid solubility.
MET 320 METALLURGICAL MET 332 THERMOMECHANICAL THERMODYNAMICS TREATMENT (4-0) 4 credits. Prerequisites: PHYS 211, CHEM (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: MET 232 and
327 Courses concurrent registration in MET 330, and MET and their application to metallurgical engineering. 320 or ME 211. The relationship between the Topics covered include thermal conductivity, structure and properties of materials. Topics mass diffusion, mechanisms of transport, covered are the iron-carbon system, hardenability Fourier’s and Fick’s Laws, shell balance, of iron base alloys, stainless steels, cast irons, boundary conditions, equations of change, aluminum, copper and magnesium, rubber and unsteady-state transport, mass and heat copper polymers. Concepts of heat treatment, age distributions in turbulent flow, and interphase hardening, dispersion hardening, and hot and cold transport. working correlated with modification of the structure and physical properties of materials. MET 426/526 STEELMAKING (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: MET 320 or MET 351 ENGINEERING DESIGN I graduate standing. Chemical reactions and heat (2-0) 2 credits. Prerequisites: MET 220 and MET and mass transport phenomena associated with the 232. Introduction to engineering design. production of steel. Unit operations studied Compare the scientific method with the include the blast furnace, the basic oxygen engineering design method. Define the concept of furnace, the electric arc furnace, and selected need as it pertains to the design process. Develop direct reduction processes. Students enrolled in skills associated with the use of modern and MET 526 will be held to a higher standard than classic sources of information. In addition, those enrolled in MET 426. material selection processes, interaction of materials, and materials processing topics are MET 430 WELDING ENGINEERING AND presented. Focus on the design process, and the DESIGN OF WELDED STRUCTURES design method. The development of (3-0)3 credits. Introduces the state-of-art in interdisciplinary teams is a high priority. welding processes and technology. Discusses fundamentals of the fabrication welded structures MET 352 ENGINEERING DESIGN II by introducing basics of solidification in welds, (1-0) 1 credit. Prerequisite: MET 351. A metallurgy of welds, fatigue and fracture in welds, continuation of the design sequence. joint design and weld defects and inspection. The technology focus is friction stir and laser welding. MET 421/521 REFRACTORIES AND CERAMICS MET 433 PROCESS CONTROL (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: MET 232 and MET (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: MATH 321 and 320 or graduate standing. This fundamental senior standing. Analysis and design of process course on the properties of refractory and ceramic control systems for industrial processes, including materials covers the production of ceramic and control tuning and design of multi-variable refractory materials including concentration, control scheme. This course is cross-listed with purification, and forming. Refractory selection, CHE 433. practice, and service in high-temperature thermochemical processes and environments; MET 440/540 MECHANICAL thermal anal electrical properties; the relationship METALLURGY among structure, bonding imperfections, and (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: MET 232 and properties; and failure diagnosis and avoidance is concurrent or completion of ME 216 or EM 321. included. Students enrolled in MET 521 will be held A course concerned with responses of metals to to a higher standard than those enrolled in MET 421. loads. Areas covered include elastic and plastic deformation under different force systems, MET 422 TRANSPORT PHENOMENA dislocation theory, fracture, internal friction, (4-0) 4 credits. Prerequisite: MATH 321 and fatigue, creep, residual stresses, and general concurrent enrollment in MET 320. The fundamentals of metal working. Students enrolled principles of momentum, heat and mass transfer in MET 540 will be held to a higher standard than
328 Courses those enrolled in MET 440. of the Butler-Volmer equation and application of the Evan’s diagram. Following presentation of MET 440L/540L MECHANICAL these fundamental concepts, phenomena observed METALLURGY LABORATORY in corrosion and oxidation such as uniform attack, (0-1) 1 credit. Prerequisites: MET 232, and pitting, stress corrosion cracking, and corrosion concurrent or completion of ME 216 or EM 321. fatigue are discussed. Finally, selection of A course designed to expose the student to materials for site specific applications is covered. practical experience on the mechanical behavior Students enrolled in MET 545 will be held to a of metals and alloys including deformation higher standard than those enrolled in MET 445. processing and failure analysis. This course is cross-listed with ENVE 445/545 and CHE 445/545. MET 443 COMPOSITE MATERIALS (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: ME 316 or MET 454/554 AQUEOUS MATERIALS concurrent enrollment in MET 440. The course PROCESSING will cover heterogeneous material systems; basic (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: MET 320 or CHE design concepts and preparation; types of 321 or CHEM 342. An advanced level course in composite materials; advances in filaments, fibers aqueous materials processing. It covers the and matrices; physical and mechanical properties; physical chemistry of aqueous solutions, ionic failure modes; thermal and dynamic effects; and processes of solution, complex ions and applications to construction, transportation and coordinate compounds, reaction kinetics, high communication. This course is cross-listed with temperature and pressure aqueous chemistry ME 443. electrolysis and crystallization. Students enrolled in MET 554 will be held to a higher standard than MET 444/544 INTRODUCTION TO those enrolled in MET 454. BIOMATERIALS (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: MET 232, EM 321. MET 464 ENGINEERING DESIGN III The first portion of the course will provide an (0-2) 2 credits. Prerequisite: MET 352. A introduction to the major classes of materials used continuation of the design sequence. in medical devices. Topics covered will include material properties, material processing, testing, MET 465 ENGINEERING DESIGN IV corrosion, biocompatibility, and tissue responses. (1-0) 1 credit. Prerequisite: MET 451. A The second portion of the course will cover continuation of the design sequence, which specific biomaterial applications such as dental, includes a final technical design report and orthopedic, cardiovascular, drug delivery, and appropriate display material for the School of tissue engineering. The topics of implant Mines Design Fair. cleanliness and sterilization methods will also be reviewed. Students enrolled in MET 544 will be MET 491 INDEPENDENT STUDY held to a higher standard than those enrolled in 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of MET 444. instructor. Includes directed study, problems, readings, directed readings, special problems and MET 445/545 OXIDATION AND special projects. Students complete CORROSION OF METALS individualized plans of study which include (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: MET 320 or CHE significant one-on-one student-teacher 222 or ME 211 or graduate standing. Initially, the involvement. The faculty member and students thermodynamics of electrochemical processes are negotiate the details of the study plans. covered; use of the Nernst equation and Pourbaix Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. diagram is presented in this material. Meeting depending upon the requirements of the Fundamentals of electrode kinetics are then topic. discussed with special emphasis on the derivation
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MET 492 TOPICS point defects, stacking faults, dislocation 1 to 3 credits. Includes current topics, advanced dynamics (motion and multiplication). topics and special topics. A course devoted to a Application of defect theory to the phenomena of particular issue in a specified field. Course slip, plastic yielding, thermally-activated plastic content is not wholly included in the regular flow, microstrain, internal friction, strain curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as hardening, and mechanical twinning. instructors. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one MET 636 THERMODYNAMICS OF SOLIDS student/teacher involvement. (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: MET 320 or permission of instructor. The principles of MET 614 ADVANCED METALLURGICAL chemical thermodynamics applied to solids SIMULATION TECHNIQUES encountered in metallurgical engineering. Topics (3-0) 3 credits. An advanced course in the covered include the effect of temperature and simulation of metallurgical processes. Topics pressure upon phase equilibria, surface free covered include numerical solution of partial energy and its relationship to nucleation and differential equations, optimization techniques crystal structure, statistical estimation of and numerical integration and interpolation. thermodynamic functions, calculation of Although the course is intended primarily for thermodynamic functions from phase diagrams metallurgy majors, the coverage is sufficiently and the compositional variation of the activity of broad that non-metallurgy majors are encouraged components comprising non-stoichiometric to enroll. compounds.
MET 624 ADVANCED CHEMICAL MET 638 SOLID STATE PHASE METALLURGY TRANSFORMATIONS (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: MET 320, MET (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: MET 332, MET 321 and MET 422. Application of metallurgical 440 or permission of instructor. Advanced study thermodynamics and transport phenomena to of phase transformations in condensed systems. extractive metallurgical processes. Topics covered include kinetic theory of nucleation, rate and morphology of precipitate MET 625 STRENGTHENING growth, significance of crystallographic factors, MECHANISMS IN METALS role of lattice defects on transformation, (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of martensitic phase transformation, and relation instructor. Study of the scientific fundamentals between structure and properties. leading to the improvement of the mechanical properties of metallic materials. The treatment MET 676 ADHESION AND SURFACE includes strengthening by strain hardening, grain ENGINEERING IN POLYMER and twin boundaries, solute atoms, precipitates, COMPOSITES dispersed particles and fibers, martensitic (1-0) 1 credit. Prerequisites: Permission of transformations, texturing, point defects, and instructor. The study of the scientific thermomechanical treatments. Enhancement of fundamentals leading to adhesion in polymer fracture, fatigue, and creep behavior is also composites and engineering of surface phenomena treated. to improve polymer composite properties. This course is cross-listed with CHE 676. MET 632 THEORY OF DISLOCATIONS (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: MET 440 or MET 791 INDEPENDENT STUDY permission of instructor. A study of defect theory 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of in solids and their role in governing material instructor. Directed independent study of a topic behavior. Topics covered include the concept, or field of special interest. This may involve properties, and mutual interaction of dislocations, readings, research, laboratory or fieldwork, and
330 Courses preparation of papers, as agreed to in advance, by to accompany MSL 102. Provides the students student and instructor. with hands-on experience to supplement and reinforce classroom instruction. Subjects MET 792 TOPICS addressed include drill and ceremonies, physical 1 to 3 credits. Lecture course or seminar on a fitness training, marksmanship first aid, rappelling topic or field of special interest, as determined by and basic mountaineering skills, voluntary off the instructor. campus activities reinforce course work. This course will count for 1 credit hour of physical MSL 101 LEADERSHIP AND PERSONAL education credit. DEVELOPMENT (1-0) 1 credit. Corequisite: MSL 101L. Make MSL 120/120L ORIENTEERING your first peer group at college one committed to (1-2) 3 credits. Students participate in in-depth performing well and enjoying the experience. instruction and practical application of land Increase self-confidence through team study and navigation techniques with emphasis on activities in basic drill, physical fitness, orienteering in both an urban and field setting. rappelling, leadership reaction course, first aid, Students will participate in one hour of instruction making presentations and basic marksmanship. and two (2) hours of lab per week. Practical Learn fundamental concepts of leadership in a application will include team orienteering in the profession in both classroom and outdoor local community and in the surrounding Black laboratory environments. Hills. Types of orienteering will include Route, Line, Cross Country, and Score Orienteering. MSL 101L LEADERSHIP AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT LAB MSL 201 INNOVATIVE TEAM (0-1) 1 credit. Corequisite: MSL 101. Designed LEADERSHIP to accompany MSL 101. Provides the students (1-0) 12 credit. Corequisite: MSL 201L. with hands-on experience to supplement and Learn/apply ethics-based leadership skills that reinforce classroom instruction. Subjects develop individual abilities and contribute to the addressed include drill and ceremonies, physical building of effective teams of people. Develop fitness training, marksmanship first aid, rappelling skills in oral presentations, writing concisely, and basic mountaineering skills, voluntary off planning events, coordination of group efforts, campus activities reinforce course work. This advanced first aid, land navigation, and basic course will count for 1 credit hour of physical military tactics. Learn fundamentals of ROTC’s education credit. leadership assessment program.
MSL 102 INTRODUCTION TO TACTICAL MSL 201L INNOVATIVE TEAM LEADERSHIP LEADERSHIP LAB (1-0) 1 credit. Corequisite: MSL 102L. Learn (0-1) 1 credit. Corequisite: MSL 201. Students and apply principles of effective leadership. will develop leadership and management skills by Reinforce self-confidence through participation in being given the opportunity to perform duties in physically and mentally challenging exercise various leadership positions. Emphasis is placed with upper-division ROTC students. Develop on the development of leadership and managerial communication skill to improve individual skills. Course is supplemented with instruction on performance and group interaction. Relate the use of a lensatic compass and a topographic organizational ethical values to the effectiveness map. As well as various survival skills. Voluntary of a leader. off campus activities reinforce course work.
MSL 102L INTRODUCTION TO MSL 202 FOUNDATIONS OF TACTICAL TACTICAL LEADERSHIP LAB LEADERSHIP (0-1) 1 credit. Corequisite: MSL 102. Designed (1-0) 1 credit. Corequisite: MSL 202L.
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Introduction to individual and team aspects of MSL 294 ROTC SUMMER LEADERSHIP military tactics in small unit operations. Includes INTERNSHIP use of radio communications, making safety (0-4) 4 credits. The mission of ROTC Basic assessments, movement techniques, planning for Camp is to serve as an alternative for the first two team safety/security and methods of pre-execution (2) years of on-campus ROTC enrollment. Basic checks. Practical exercises with upper-division Camp offers students who did not take ROTC ROTC students. Learn techniques for training courses during their first two (2) years of school others as an aspect of continued leadership the opportunity to enroll in ROTC at the start of development. their junior year. Basic Camp is a six week training period in which the student undergoes MSL 202L FOUNDATIONS OF TACTICAL basic military training within a regular Army LEADERSHIP LAB environment. Instruction consists of both (0-1) 1 credit. Corequisite: MSL 202. Students classroom instruction and practical exercises are provided the opportunity to reinforce along with considerable field training. All classroom leadership and management training students are closely supervised and carefully with practical experience. Students will also evaluated by military officers. receive training in small unit tactics and use of the m-16 rifle. Voluntary off campus activities MSL 301 ADAPTIVE TEAM LEADERSHIP reinforce course work. (2-0) 2 credits. Corequisite: MSL 301L. Series of practical opportunities to lead small groups, MSL 290 BASIC SMALL UNIT receive personal assessments and encouragement, LEADERSHIP and lead again in situations of increasing (2-0) 2 credits. Concurrent registration in either complexity. Uses small unit tactics and MSL 101/111 or MSL 201/211 is required. opportunities to plan and conduct training for Provides the student with practical experience in lower division students both to develop such skills small unit leadership development, team building, and as vehicles for practicing leadership. and the technical and tactical skills needed to be a professional officer in the United States Army. MSL 301L ADAPTIVE TEAM Course includes instruction in and practical LEADERSHIP LAB application of rifle marksmanship, orienteering, (0-2) 2 credits. Corequisite: MSL 301. Provides mountaineering, weapons proficiency, physical the student with practical experience to training, and small unit leadership skills. May be supplement and reinforce classroom instruction. repeated for a maximum of four (4) credit hours. Subjects include drill and ceremonies, physical training instruction techniques and leadership, MSL 291 INTERNSHIP IN LEADERSHIP I which will complement the student’s preparation (2-0) 2 credits. This course is designed for ROTC for ROTC advanced camp. Off campus. Cadets who have completed M.S. I and II but are not academically aligned to contract as M.S. III’s. MSL 302 LEADERSHIP IN CHANGING The course will expand on their applied leadership ENVIRONMENTS skills. Upon approval of the instructor, students (2-0) 2 credits. Prerequisite: MSL 301. will develop training plans, schedules, evaluation Continues methodology of MSL 301. Analyze outlines and classroom instruction. Students may tasks; prepare written or oral guidance for team also do department approved research. The class members to accomplish tasks. Delegate tasks and may be repeated up to two (2) times, for a supervise. Plan for and adapt to the unexpected in maximum of four (4) credits, with permission of organizations under stress. Examine and apply department chair. lessons from leadership case studies. Examine importance of ethical decision making in setting a positive climate that enhances team performance.
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MSL 302L LEADERSHIP IN CHANGING MSL 402L LEADERSHIP IN A COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS LAB WORLD LAB (0-2) 2 credits. Corequisite: MSL 302. Provides (0-2) 2 credits. Corequisite: MSL 402. Provides student with additional training in land navigation, practical experience supplementing and drill and ceremonies, physical training, instruction reinforcing classroom instruction, including drill techniques and leadership, which will and ceremonies, physical fitness training, complement the students’ preparation for ROTC instructional techniques, small unit leadership and advanced camp. Off campus training is required. familiarization with duties of commissioned officers. Off-campus training is required. MSL 394 ADVANCED MILITARY SCIENCE INTERNSHIP MSL 403 THIRD YEAR ADVANCED (0-4) 4 credits. Contracted ROTC Advanced MILITARY SCIENCE Course Cadets will attend a six-week intensified (2-0) 2 credits. Prerequisites: MSL 401 and MSL military training phase at Ft. Lewis, Washington 402. Provides a transition to entering active or which will provide both classroom and practical reserve commissioned service, including an in- experience in the military and leadership skills depth study of military decision making, giving required by a commissioned officer. experience in planning and conducting squad and platoon level military exercises and leadership. MSL 401 DEVELOPING ADAPTIVE LEADERS MSL 404 THIRD YEAR ADVANCED (2-0) 2 credits. Corequisite: MSL 401L. MILITARY SCIENCE Introduces formal management skills including (2-0) 2 credits. Prerequisite: MSL 401 and MSL problem analysis, planning techniques, and the 402. Provides an in-depth study of military delegation and control of activities, providing an decision-making, giving experience in planning understanding of the command and staff and conducting military exercises at squad and organization used in the modern army and platoon level, including an opportunity to develop creating a forum for discussing professional and leadership techniques. ethical decisions faced by commissioned officers. MSL 411 DEVELOPING SUBORDINATE MSL 401L DEVELOPING ADAPTIVE LEADERS I LEADERS LAB (2-0) 2 credits. Corequisite: MSL 401 Provides (0-2) 2 credits. Corequisite: MSL 401. Provides practical experience supplementing and practical experience supplementing and reinforcing classroom instruction, including drill reinforcing classroom instruction, including drill and ceremonies, physical fitness training, and ceremonies, physical fitness training, instruction techniques, and operation of the cadet instruction techniques, and operation of the cadet battalion. Off-campus training required. battalion. Off-campus training required. MSL 412 DEVELOPING SUBORDINATE MSL 402 LEADERSHIP IN A COMPLEX LEADERS II WORLD (2-0) 2 credits. Corequisite: MSL 402 Provides (2-0) 2 credits. Corequisite: MSL 412. Provides practical experience supplementing and information for transition to active or reserve reinforcing classroom instruction, including drill commissioned service, developing administrative and ceremonies, physical fitness training, controls essential in managing a military instructional techniques, small unit leadership and organization, introducing the management of familiarization with duties of commissioned financial and personal affairs, and allowing time officers. Off-campus training is required. for discussion and analysis of the ethical decision- making process.
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MSL 480 ADVANCED SMALL UNIT hours of credit. Adequate preparation through LEADERSHIP practice is expected of all students. (May be used (2-0) 2 credits. Corequisite: MSL 301/301L or to fulfill the humanities credit for graduation.) MSL 401/411 Provides practical experience in small unit leadership development, team building, MUAP 201 APPLIED MUSIC-VOICE and officers’ technical/tactical skills, including 1 to 4 credits. Class voice instruction is open to rifle marksmanship, orienteering, mountaineering, anyone interested. Emphasis is placed on the weapons proficiency, physical training, and small development of the fundamental voice techniques. unit leadership skills. May be repeated for a (May be used to fulfill the humanities credit for maximum of four (4) credit hours. graduation.)
MSL 491 ADVANCED INTERNSHIP IN MUEN 101 CHORAL ENSEMBLES LEADERSHIP 1 to 2 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of (2-0) 2 credits. This course is designed for ROTC instructor. An ensemble performing Cadets who have completed M.S. IV, but have not accompanied and unaccompanied literature for completed graduation requirements. The course mixed voices. Membership determined by will allow students to fully develop and conduct instructor’s permission and audition only. School training on advanced military subjects. Students of Mines does not require an audition. (Any may also do department approved research. The combination of P.E. and MUEN 101/121/122 may class may be repeated two (2) times, for a be allowed toward fulfillment of the physical maximum of four (4) credits, with the permission education credit for graduation.) of department chair. MUEN 121 SYMPHONIC BAND MSL 494 LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT (1-0) 1 credit. Members are selected by audition AND ASSESS COURSE to perform the finest in original and transcribed 3 to 4 credits. This course is designed for ROTC literature in concert performances on and off- Cadets who have completed M.S. IV but have not campus. (Any combination of P.E. and MUEN completed graduation requirements. The course 101/121/122 may be allowed toward fulfillment will allow students to fully develop and conduct of the physical education credit for graduation.) training on advanced military subjects. Students may also do department approved research. The MUEN 122 CONCERT BAND class may be repeated two (2) times, for a (1-0) 1 credit. A joint enterprise open to maximum of four (4) credits, with the permission university students and interested area musicians. of department chair. Includes rehearsals and performance of band literature culminating in a public performance. MUAP 102 CLASS INSTRUCTION-VOICE (Any combination of P.E. and MUEN- (1-0) 1 credit. One to two semester hours credit 101/121/122 may be allowed toward fulfillment for class instruction is given for two one hour of the physical education credit for graduation.) class meetings. Adequate preparation through practice is expected of all students. (May be used MUEN 260 NON-CREDIT MUSIC to fulfill the humanities credit for graduation) ENSEMBLE No credit. Development of vocal or instrumental MUAP 200 APPLIED MUSIC-VOICE skills and aesthetic perception through the study 1 to 4 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of and performance of music. This course cannot instructor. One (1) to two (2) semester hours count as social science/humanities credit. credit for private lessons is given for one half- hour lesson per week. Music majors studying in MUS 100 MUSIC APPRECIATION the major performance area may elect two (2) (3-0) 3 credits. A non-technical discussion half-hour lessons per week for two (2) to four (4) designed to increase the enjoyment and
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appreciation of music. Fulfills the music nanoscale property measurements. Finally, the requirement in the general education program. course will cover applications of nanomaterials, particularly focusing upon inorganic MUS 110 BASIC MUSIC THEORY I nanomaterials. Students enrolling in NANO 545 2 to 4 credits. An integrated study and application will be held to a higher standard than those of tonality, melody, harmony, texture and form, enrolled in NANO 445. from basic notation through modulation. Includes sight singing, ear training, and dictation. NANO 504 NANOPHOTONICS Introduction to composition and arranging, ie: (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: Introductory instrument ranges, transposition, tessitura and quantum mechanics and electricity and preliminary score analysis. magnetism; ability to solve ordinary differential equations and linear systems. The course deals MUS 217/217L MUSIC IN PERFORMANCE I with optical phenomena in materials and (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. structures with subwave-length dimensions. This course introduces the functions and techniques of Topics will include the quantum theory of light, the craft of music through the study of music from both laser theory, beam propagation, and the unique western and non-western cultures. It establishes properties of nanophotonics structures. fundamental performance tools and develops basic systematic processes and skills in musical analysis that NANO 604 NANOPHOTONIC MATERIALS through the study, rehearsal, and performance of (3-0) 3 credits. This graduate course will study ensemble music, developing cultural understandings. the analysis and properties of nanostructured photonic materials such as photonic crystals and MUS 317/317L MUSIC IN PERFORMANCE II plasmonic materials. (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Three previous semesters of any combination of MUEN 101/122 NANO 701 NANO MATERIALS or MUS 217 and/or permission of instructor. This (3-0) 3 credits. This course will focus on the course builds on concepts introduced in MUS 217 formation of nanomaterials via gas and liquid to develop advanced understandings of cultural, phase routes. Theory of homogeneous and historical and aesthetic perceptions through in- heterogeneous nucleation, growth mechanisms depth study and performance of ensemble music and kinetics as well as population balances will be of both western and non-west cultures. discussed. The second part of the course will cover particle surface functionalization, colloidal MUS 326 SPECIAL STUDIES IN MUSIC properties and stability, processing of nanoparticle (1-0) 1 credit. Prerequisite: Junior or senior suspensions, and chemical and physical standing or permission of instructor. Studies on fabrication techniques. Application of specific topics related to the field of music (e.g. nanostructures and nanomaterials will be History of Rock and Roll, Recording and discussed as well. Mastering Compact Disc Recordings, etc.). May be taken up to three (3) times with different NANO 702 THEORY AND APPLICATION topics. OF NANOSCALE MATERIALS (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: Introductory NANO 445/545 INTRODUCTION TO quantum mechanics, ability to solve ordinary NANOMATERIALS differential equations and linear systems. The (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: MET 232, EM 321. course will survey current research in nanoscience This course will introduce the theoretical basis and nanotechnology, providing the essential and synthetic processes of nanomaterials. background and theory at the level accessible to Specifically, this course will focus on the students from varied scientific and engineering synthesis and fabrication of nanostructures and backgrounds. Special emphasis will be placed on nanomaterials, and also include content on the nano-scaled materials and their practical
335 Courses applications. nanotechnology of the most widely used building materials such as concrete, asphalt, and wood. NANO 703/703L INSTRUMENTATION AND Structural design properties, including strength CHARACTERIZATION OF NANO- and durability, will be related to nanoscale MATERIALS considerations. Laboratory exercises will relate (3-1) 4 credits. This is an introductory course on gross properties, such as strength and instrumentations used in characterization of nano- permeability, to nanoscale measurements and scaled materials. The course is aimed at entry imaging. level graduate students who want to learn characterization of nano-scale materials using NANO 717 NANOCHEMISTRY state-of-the-art instruments. (3-0) 3 credits. The course introduces both the fundamentals and frontiers of the rapidly NANO 704 CRYSTALLOGRAPHY AND developing interdisciplinary field of STRUCTURE OF NANOMATERIALS nanomaterials from a chemist’s point of view. (3-0) 3 credits. This graduate course covers The course covers synthesis and fabrication crystallographic characteristics and structural methods of nanomaterials including “top-down” properties of nanomaterials. Emphasis is placed nanofabrication, “bottom-up” chemical synthesis, on electron and x-ray diffraction signatures of and self-assembly. The course discusses the nanoparticle size, shape and configuration. unique properties and the structure-property relationship of nanomaterials. NANO 712/712L ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF HETEROGENEOUS NANO 791 INDEPENDENT STUDY MATERIALS 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of (2-1) 3 credits. Focuses on macroscopic instructor. Directed independent study of a topic electromagnetic properties of heterogeneous or field of special interest. This may involve materials and their applications. With readings, research, laboratory or fieldwork, and nanotechnology, it is possible to manufacture preparation of papers, as agreed to in advance, by materials with totally new properties that cannot student and instructor. be attained by conventional methods. Through the combined use of analysis (such as mixing NANO 792 TOPICS theory) and numerical methods, the macroscopic 1 to 3 credits. Lecture course or seminar on a material properties will be computed directly from topic or field of special interest, as determined by microscopic composition of the material. the instructor.
NANO 715 POLYMERIC NANO 890 SEMINAR NANOMATERIALS (1-0) 1 credit. May not be repeated for degree (3-0) 3 credits. This course is an introduction of credit. Preparation, oral and/or written fundamental concepts, synthesis, presentation, and group discussion of a research characterizations, structural and physical problem. The student is expected to present orally properties of polymeric nanomaterials. The the results of his/her own research. This contents include, but not limited to, nanofibers, presentation normally will directly precede the carbon nanotubes, nanocomposites, polymer self- final oral defense of the thesis. assembly, biopolymers in nanosciences, and nanoparticle coatings. NANO 898D DISSERTATION Credit to be arranged; not to exceed 30 credits NANO 716/716L NANOTECHNOLOGY OF toward fulfillment of Ph.D. degree requirements. ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION Open only to doctoral candidates. Supervised MATERIALS original research investigation of a selected (2-1) 3 credits. This course would cover the problem, with emphasis on independent work,
336 Courses culminating in an acceptable dissertation. Oral PALE 675/675L STRATIGRAPHIC defense of dissertation and research findings are PALEONTOLOGY OF THE required. CONTINENTAL NEOGENE (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisite: GEOL/PALE 676. PALE 671 ADVANCED FIELD The stratigraphic section of the Neogene PALEONTOLOGY vertebrate bearing formations of North America is (0-2) 2 credits. A field-oriented course stressing reviewed. Evolution of mammalian faunas and collection and detailed documentation of the succession of land mammal ages are vertebrate fossils. Taphonomic factors, measured coordinated with this section. Extensive use is sections, and some geologic maps may be made of the published literature and the Museum required, as well as detailed field notes. of Geology collections. This course is cross listed with GEOL 675/675L. PALE 672/672L MICROPALEONTOLOGY (2-1) 3 credits. A study of the morphology, PALE 676/676L VERTEBRATE ecology, and stratigraphic significance of selected PALEONTOLOGY groups of protozoans and invertebrate and plant (3-1) 4 credits. An in-depth assessment of the microfossils with special emphasis on fossil record of vertebrates with special emphasis Formaminifera and conodonts. This course is on current problems in the evolution of cross-listed with GEOL 672/672L. vertebrates and the tangible record preserved in the collections of the Museum of Geology. This PALE 673/673L COMPARTIVE course is cross-listed with GEOL 676/676L. OSTEOLOGY (2-1) 3 credits. A comparison of recent and fossil PALE 677 CLADISTICS SEMINAR vertebrate skeletons and dentitions with emphasis (2-0) 2 credits. Prerequisites: PALE 676 or on the skeletons and teeth of sharks, bony fish, permission of instructor. A seminar including the salamanders, frogs, turtles, alligators, lizards, review of basic principles of cladistic analysis birds, and mammals to establish a thorough with an emphasis on current biases and benefits understanding of the diversity of the form and associated with computer algorithms, matrix function of the vertebrate skeleton. A major scoring, and choice of MPTs. The seminar objective is the identification of vertebrates based combines weekly literature reviews, abstract upon osteology and odontology. This course is writing, and power-point presentations by each cross-listed with GEOL 673/673L. student and ends with a final written examination, whose subject rests on topics reviewed during the PALE 674/674L STRATIGRAPHIC seminar. Students will present a final project that PALEONTOLOGY OF THE consists of a phylogenetic analysis centered on a CONTINENTAL MESOZOIC AND taxonomic group of their choice. PALEOGENE (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisite: GEOL/PALE 676. PALE 678/678L VERTEBRATE The stratigraphic section of the Mesozoic and BIOSTRATIGRAPHY Paleogene vertebrate-bearing formations of North (3-1) 4 credits. Prerequisite: GEOL/PALE 676. America is reviewed. Evolution of mammalian The principles and practices for establishing the faunas and the succession of land-mammal ages distribution of vertebrate fossils in the rock are coordinated with this section. Extensive use is record. This course will include a brief history of made of the published literature and the Museum biostratigraphy, methodology, and the content and of Geology collections. This course is cross-listed assessment of vertebrate ages, particularly of with GEOL 674/674L. Mesozoic and Cenozoic mammals. This course is cross-listed with GEOL 678/678L.
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PALE 684/684L PALEOENVIRONMENTS presentation normally will directly precede the (2-1) 3 credits. This course will integrate topics final oral defense of the thesis. This course is from paleobotany, vertebrate paleontology, and cross-listed with GEOL 790. paleoclimatology in a study of paleontological communities through time. Laboratories will PALE 798 MASTER’S THESIS include studies of fossil materials. Note: This Credit to be arranged; not to exceed six (6) credits course is to be offered both through Black Hills toward fulfillment of M.S. degree requirements. State University and South Dakota School of Open only to students pursuing the M.S. thesis Mines and Technology. This course is cross- option. Supervised original or expository research listed with GEOL 684/684L. culminating in an acceptable thesis. Oral defense of thesis and research findings are required. This PALE 691 INDEPENDENT STUDY course is cross-listed with GEOL 798. 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Directed independent study of a topic PE 100 ACTIVITY COURSES or field of special interest. This may involve (1-0) 1 credit. Activities stressing individual readings, research, laboratory or fieldwork, and physical fitness and lifetime activities according preparation of papers, as agreed to in advance, by to student needs and interests. The same activity student and instructor. A description of the work course can not be counted toward graduation to be performed must be filed in the Department credit. of Geology/Geological Engineering. This course is cross-listed with GEOL 691. PE 103 NUTRITION FOR EVERYDAY LIVING PALE 692 TOPICS (1-0) 1 credit. This course will teach nutritional 1 to 3 credits. Lecture course or seminar on a components of healthy diet, impact on body topic or field of special interest, as determined by composition, and overall health. Course includes the instructor. A description of the work to be lecture and activity. This course can only be performed must be filed in the taken one time for credit. Geology/Geological Engineering Office. This course is cross-listed with GEOL 692. PE 105 WELLNESS AND PHYSICAL FITNESS PALE 770 SEMINAR IN VERTEBRATE (1-0) 1 credit. For men and women. An activity PALEONTOLOGY course with lecture instructing students in many (2-0) 2 credits. Studies by a group of advanced different aspects of personal wellness and students, under the guidance of one or more physical fitness with practical application. This selected instructors, on topics of special and course can only be taken one time for credit. current interest to the group. Involves a combination of lectures, and discussions. Review PE 113 VARSITY SPORTS I of current literature in vertebrate paleontology of (1-0) 1 credit. This course is an special topics and/or analysis of new procedures introduction/conditioning course offered fall and techniques. Emphasis will be on mammalian semester. A student must be a member of a paleontology. This course is cross-listed with varsity sports team that is sponsored by SDSM&T GEOL 770. to be enrolled in this course. This course can only be taken four times for credit, however it may PALE 790 SEMINAR only be used two times to fulfill physical (1-0) 1 credit. May not be repeated for degree education graduation requirements. credit. Preparation, oral and/or written presentation, and group discussion of a research PE 118 BEGINNING AND INTERMEDIATE problem. The student is expected to present orally SWIMMING (MEN AND WOMEN) the results of his/her own research. This (1-0) 1 credit. This course will provide
338 Courses instruction in basic skills and fundamental strokes PHYS 111 INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICS I of swimming. After developing basic skills, the (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: MATH 102 or fundamental strokes are perfected along with MATH 123 or permission of instructor. This is elementary forms of rescue. This course can only the first course in a two (2) semester algebra-level be taken one time for credit. sequence, covering fundamental concepts of physics. This sequence is appropriate for pre- PE 160 MODIFIED PHYSICAL professional majors requiring two (2) semesters of EDUCATION ACTIVITY physics. Topics include classical mechanics, (1-0) 1 credit. This course is designed to adapt a thermodynamics, and waves. SDSM&T covers variety of activities to the special needs and classical mechanics only. May not be used for interests of students who qualify under the credit toward an engineering or science degree Americans with Disabilities Act. The course will (except interdisciplinary science, geology seek to adapt physical fitness and sports activities (paleontology emphasis), applied chemistry, and for the special needs student within the limitations associate of arts). of current staffing and facilities. Course can be repeated once for additional credit. PHYS 111L INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICS I LAB PHIL 100 INTRODUCTION TO (0-1)1 credit. Prerequisite or corequisite: PHYS PHILOSOPHY 111. This laboratory accompanies PHYS 111. (3-0) 3 credits. Introduces competing May not be used for credit toward an engineering philosophical views of reality, perception, or science degree (except interdisciplinary learning, and values, emphasizing their relevance science, geology (paleontology emphasis), applied to the contemporary world. chemistry, and associate of arts).
PHIL 200 INTRODUCTION TO LOGIC PHYS 113 INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICS II (3-0) 3 credits. Introduces the formal study of (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: PHYS 111. This argumentation, including forms of logic, inductive course is the second course in a two (2) semester and deductive reasoning, proofs, refutations, and algebra-level sequence, covering fundamental fallacies. concepts of physics. Topics include electricity and magnetism, sound, light, optics, and some PHIL 220 INTRODUCTION TO ETHICS modern physics concepts. SDSM&T course (3-0) 3 credits. Examines the major currents and covers electricity and magnetism only. May not components of ethical theory from classical times be used for credit toward an engineering or to the present, investigating problems arising from science degree (except interdisciplinary science, specific theories, as well as critically analyzing geology - paleontology emphasis, chemistry - the validity of these theories for current ethical applied chemistry option, and associate of arts). concerns. PHYS 113L INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICS PHIL 233 PHILOSOPHY AND II LAB LITERATURE (0-1) 1 credit. Prerequisite or corequisite: PHYS (3-0) 3 credits. Examination of selected topics 113 This laboratory accompanies PHYS 113. from the Western World’s literary tradition and May not be used for credit toward an engineering analysis of their contributions in the areas of or science degree (except interdisciplinary philosophy of life, philosophy of religion, and the science, geology - paleontology emphasis, applied concepts of duty and human nature. Study and chemistry, and associate of arts). discussion of topics in relation to their significance for the individual. PHYS 183 ELEMENTS OF MODERN ASTRONOMY (3-0) 3 credits. This course presents a broad view
339 Courses of astronomy in a straightforward and descriptive Lorentz Transformations, clock paradox, manner without complex mathematics. It momentum-energy 4-vector, equivalence of introduces students to basic concepts and the energy and rest mass, the principle of equivalence, historic and modem foundations of the science of curved space-time and qualitative features of astronomy. Students will gain some insight into general relativity and cosmology, relevance of the basic physics underlying conclusions drawn relativity to space travel. from observational and theoretical astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology. The course PHYS 291 INDEPENDENT STUDY provides descriptions of a wide variety of objects 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of found in the universe, from gas and dust particles instructor. Includes directed study, problems, of stars, planets, and galactic clusters. readings, directed readings, special problems and special projects. Students complete PHYS 211/211A UNIVERSITY PHYSICS I individualized plans of study which include (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: MATH 123 or significant one-on-one student-teacher permission of instructor. This is the first course in involvement. The faculty member and students a two (2) semester calculus-level sequence, negotiate the details of the study plans. covering fundamental concepts of physics. This Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. is the preferred sequence for students majoring in Meeting depending upon the requirements of the physical science or engineering. Topics include topic. classical mechanics and thermodynamics. SDSM&T course covers classical mechanics only. PHYS 292 TOPICS 1 to 3 credits. Includes current topics, advanced PHYS 213/213A UNIVERSITY PHYSICS II topics and special topics. A course devoted to a (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: PHYS 211. This particular issue in a specified field. Course course is the second course in a two (2) semester content is not wholly included in the regular calculus-level sequence, covering fundamental curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as concepts of physics. This is the preferred instructors. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer sequence for students majoring in physical students with significant one-on-one science or engineering. Topics include electricity student/teacher involvement. and magnetism, sound, light, and optics. SDSM&T course covers electricity and PHYS 312 EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS magnetism only. DESIGN I PHYS 314 EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS PHYS 213L UNIVERSITY PHYSICS II DESIGN II LABORATORY (0-2) 2 credits each. Prerequisite: CENG 244 or (0-1) 1 credit. Prerequisite or corequisite: PHYS permission of instructor. This course is structured 213. This laboratory accompanies PHYS 213. to acquaint the student with the experimental Introduction to physical phenomena and design methods. The experiments are chosen to measurements. Recording and processing data, cover as many areas as possible in keeping with determining uncertainties, reporting results. The the backgrounds of faculty and abilities of the experiments supplement the work in PHYS 211 students. and PHYS 213. PHYS 341 THERMODYNAMICS PHYS 275 RELATIVITY (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: PHYS 213 and (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisites: A working MATH 225 or permission of instructor. This is an knowledge of elementary algebra and intermediate level thermodynamics course dealing trigonometry. Michelson-Morley experiment, with systems from a macroscopic perspective. inertial reference frames, the principle of Topics include the first and second laws of relativity, space-time coordinates of an event, thermodynamics, phase diagrams, and equilibria.
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PHYS 361 OPTICS significant one-on-one student-teacher (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: PHYS 113 or PHYS involvement. The faculty member and students 213 and MATH 225 or permission of instructor. negotiate the details of the study plans. This is an intermediate level study of geometrical Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. and physical optics. Topics include analysis of Meeting depending upon the requirements of the refraction phenomena, thick lenses, wave nature topic. of light, interference, diffraction, and polarization. PHYS 392 TOPICS PHYS 363 ACOUSTICS 1 to 3 credits. Includes current topics, advanced (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: PHYS 213. Basic topics and special topics. A course devoted to a principles of vibration and sound with particular issue in a specified field. Course applications to musical instruments, sound content is not wholly included in the regular reproduction systems, architectural acoustics, and curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as control of noise and vibration. instructors. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students with significant one-on-one PHYS 386/386L OBSERVATIONAL student/teacher involvement. ASTRONOMY (2-1) 3 credits. Prerequisite: PHYS 185. This PHYS 412 ADVANCED DESIGN PROJECTS I course is designed to help students expand their PHYS 414 ADVANCED DESIGN knowledge of astronomy through interactive PROJECTS II seminars and observing sessions. The focus of this (0-2) 2 credits each. The student designs and course will be on: 1) developing a more carries out original projects. The aim is to involve comprehensive background in stellar and galactic the student in project design and the application of astronomy as well as solar system structure, and knowledge to a realistic problem. Students will 2) developing observational and data collection be significantly engaged in the research efforts of skills using state of the art telescopes. Background the department. knowledge in the above mentioned subjects will be fostered through instructor-supervised PHYS 421/521 ELECTROMAGNETISM seminars led by the students. Students will use (4-0) 4 credits. Prerequisite: PHYS 213 and current web-based and advanced MATH 321. This is a course in the principles of amateur/professional publications to lead the electricity and magnetism, with applications to seminar sessions. Current theories on the dielectric and magnetic materials. Topics include formation of the solar system, stars, galaxies, and the development of Maxwell’s equations, and the universe will also be covered. Advanced applications. Students enrolled in PHYS 521 will observing sessions will be held off-campus at the be held to a higher standard than those enrolled in Badlands Observatory in Quinn, SD. Observing PHYS 421. sessions will incorporate advanced 18 inch and 26 inch telescopes provided by the instructors also PHYS 433/533 NUCLEAR AND with CCD cameras and software for data ELEMENTARY PARTICLE PHYSICS collection and image manipulation. Observing (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: PHYS 471 or sessions will involve students in ongoing searches permission of instructor. This course covers for near-earth asteroids. fundamental topics in nuclear physics and elementary particles. Topics include PHYS 391 INDEPENDENT STUDY radioactivity, nuclear spectra and structure, 1 to 4 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of nuclear models, elementary particle theories and instructor. Includes directed study, problems, high energy physics. Students enrolled in PHYS readings, directed readings, special problems and 533 will be held to a higher standard than those special projects. Students complete enrolled in PHYS 433. individualized plans of study which include
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PHYS 439/539 SOLID STATE PHYSICS mathematical applications to physics. Students (4-0) 4 credits. Prerequisite: MATH 321 or enrolled in PHYS 581 will be held to a higher permission of instructor. This course looks at standard than those enrolled in PHYS 481. solid materials from a microscopic level. Topics include basic crystal structure, mechanical and PHYS 491 INDEPENDENT STUDY thermal properties, and electronic processes with 1 to 4 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of reference to electrical properties of metals, instructor. Includes directed study, problems, semiconductors, and insulators. Students enrolled readings, directed readings, special problems and in PHYS 539 will be held to a higher standard special projects. Students complete than those enrolled in PHYS 439. individualized plans of study which include significant one-on-one student-teacher PHYS 445 STATISTICAL MECHANICS involvement. The faculty member and students (4-0) 4 credits. Prerequisite: PHYS 451 and negotiate the details of the study plans. MATH 321 or permission of instructor. This Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. course provides a systematic introduction to the Meeting depending upon the requirements of the use of statistical principles applied to the study of topic. thermodynamic systems. PHYS 492 TOPICS PHYS 451/551 CLASSICAL MECHANICS 1 to 3 credits. Includes current topics, advanced (4-0) 4 credits. Prerequisite: PHYS 113 or PHYS topics and special topics. A course devoted to a 213 and prerequisite or corequisite MATH 321. particular issue in a specified field. Course This is a systematic introduction to classical content is not wholly included in the regular mechanics emphasizing motion in three curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as dimensions. Topics include central forces, instructors. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer harmonic oscillations, non-inertial reference students with significant one-on-one frames, rigid body motion, and Lagrangian and student/teacher involvement. Hamiltonian Mechanics. Students enrolled in PHYS 551 will be held to a higher standard than PHYS 671 MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS I those enrolled in PHYS 451. (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: MATH 432 or equivalent. The formulation and solution of PHYS 471/571 QUANTUM MECHANICS problems in the various fields of physics. Topics (4-0) 4 credits. Prerequisite: MATH 321 or include the use of series, complex variables, permission of instructor. This is a systematic Green’s functions, transform methods, variational introduction to quantum mechanics, emphasizing methods, eigenfunctions, and an introduction to the Schrödinger equation. Topics include simple perturbation theory. soluble problems, the hydrogen atom, approximation methods and other aspects of PHYS 673 MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS II quantum theory. Students enrolled in PHYS 571 (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: MATH 432 or will be held to a higher standard than those equivalent. The formulation and solution of enrolled in PHYS 471. problems in the various fields of physics. Topics include the use of series, complex variables, PHYS 481/581 MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS Green’s functions, transform methods, variational (4-0) 4 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of methods, eigenfunctions, and an introduction to instructor. This course looks at mathematical perturbation theory. methods used to formulate and solve problems in various fields of physics. Topics are chosen from: PHYS 691 INDEPENDENT STUDY series solutions, special functions, computational 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of methods, complex variables, multi-variate instructor. Directed independent study of a topic methods, transform methods, and other areas of or field of special interest. This may involve
342 Courses readings, research, laboratory or fieldwork, and PHYS 791 INDEPENDENT STUDY preparation of papers, as agreed to in advance, by 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of student and instructor. instructor. Directed independent study of a topic or field of special interest. This may involve PHYS 692 TOPICS readings, research, laboratory or fieldwork, and 1 to 3 credits. Lecture course or seminar on a preparation of papers, as agreed to in advance, by topic or field of special interest, as determined by student and instructor. the instructor. PHYS 792 TOPICS PHYS 721 ADVANCED ELECTRICITY 1 to 3 credits. Lecture course or seminar on a AND MAGNETISM I topic or field of special interest, as determined by (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: PHYS 423 or equivalent. the instructor. A continuation of PHYS 421 and PHYS 423, this course treats advanced problems with special emphasis POLS 100 AMERICAN GOVERNMENT on solutions of the wave equation, Laplace’s equation, (3-0) 3 credits. A study of the basic principles of and Poisson’s equation. Through introduction of the the American system of government with methods of special relativity, the unity of electrical and emphasis on problems relating to governmental magnetic phenomena and the covariance of Maxwell’s structure and policies. equations are demonstrated. If time permits, topics such as MHD and plasma physics are also introduced. POLS 350 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Junior or senior PHYS 743 STATISTICAL MECHANICS standing or permission of instructor. How (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: PHYS 343. Review nations/states behave and why they behave as they fundamentals of thermodynamics, introduce do in their relations with each other. Legendre transforms and develop the concepts of phase equilibria and stability, ensembles, partition POLS 407 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND functions, and the role of fluctuations. Statistical POLICY mechanics of non-interacting ideal systems and (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: Junior or senior phase transformations, mean field theory, standing or permission of instructor. An renormalization group theory and Monte Carlo examination of the political issues involved with calculations applied to the Ising Model. environmental and ecological concerns such as land use, population, air and water pollution, PHYS 751 ADVANCED DYNAMICS I energy, and public policy. (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: PHYS 357 or equivalent. Advanced treatment of classical POLS 430 CONSTITUTIONAL LAW mechanics, including Lagrange’s and Hamilton’s (3-0) 3 credits. A study of the interpretation of equations, rigid-body motion, canonical the federal constitution through leading decisions transformations, calculus of variations, and of the Supreme Court. relativity using vectors, matrices, and tensors. POLS 440 COMPARATIVE GOVERNMENT PHYS 777 QUANTUM MECHANICS I (4-0) 4 credits. A comparative study of the PHYS 779 QUANTUM MECHANICS II governmental institutions and processes of leading (3-0) 3 credits each. Physical basis of quantum countries of the world. May be repeated for credit mechanics, Schroedinger’s equation and its if topic varies. solution, matrix mechanics, operator methods, approximate methods with an introduction to the POLS 453 AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY relativistic wave equation. (3-0) 3 credits. An analysis of the formulation and execution of American foreign policy. Emphasis will be placed on national security
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issues and American policies with regard to students with significant one-on-one particular regions and countries. student/teacher involvement. May be repeated twice with different topics for a maximum of six PSYC 101 GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY credits. (3-0) 3 credits. This course is an introductory survey of the field of psychology with PSYC 441 SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY consideration of the biological bases of behavior, (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: PSYC 101 or sensory and perceptual processes, learning and permission of instructor. This course covers basic memory, human growth and development, social principles of social psychology including concepts behavior and normal and abnormal behavior. and methods utilized in analyzing individual and group interactions. PSYC 323 HUMAN DEVELOPMENT THROUGHOUT THE LIFESPAN PSYC 451 PSYCHOLOGY OF ABNORMAL (4-0) 4 credits. Prerequisite: PSYC 101 or BEHAVIOR permission of instructor. Focus will be upon (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: PSYC 101 or physiological/biological, intellectual, emotional, permission of instructor. This course is a social, and psychological development. Includes comprehensive survey of abnormal personality the normal sequence of development as well as and behavior. It includes an examination of the developmental irregularities. origin, symptoms and treatment of psychological disorders. PSYC 331 INDUSTRIAL AND ORGANIZATION PSYCHOLOGY PSYC 461 THEORIES OF PERSONALITY (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: PSYC 101 and (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: PSYC 101 or junior standing or permission of instructor. This permission of instructor. Students will learn course covers the application of psychological about the role of philosophy and science and their principles to such problems as employee contributions to the development of personality selection, supervision, job satisfaction, and work theory. Students will examine, in depth, the efficiency. theoretical contributions made in the areas of psychoanalytic, behavioristic, and humanistic PSYC 391 INDEPENDENT STUDY personality theories. The students will be able to 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of articulate their own beliefs concerning the instructor. Includes directed study, problems, development of human personality. readings, directed readings, special problems and special projects. Students complete READ 041 READING FOR COLLEGE individualized plans of study which include SUCCESS significant one-on-one student-teacher (2-0) This course provides students with reading involvement. The faculty member and students strategies necessary for making the transition to negotiate the details of the study plans. collegiate level reading. The course will present Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. students with multiple strategies to promote Meeting depending upon the requirements of the comprehension skills, develop vocabulary and topic. enhance metacognition to become strategic readers. This course will be required for students PSYC 392 TOPICS with ACT score in Reading at 17 or below (or a 1 to 3 credits. Includes current topics, advanced comparable COMPASS score). Does not count topics and special topics. A course devoted to a toward graduation. particular issue in a specified field. Course content is not wholly included in the regular REL 230 INTRODUCTION TO THE BIBLE curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as (2-0) 2 credits. Survey of the main books of the instructors. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer Old and New Testaments with analysis of some of
344 Courses the more important passages. Examines Biblical SOC 392 TOPICS materials in the light of current literary, historical, 1 to 3 credits. Includes current topics, advanced theological, and archaeological research. topics and special topics. A course devoted to a particular issue in a specified field. Course REL 250 WORLD RELIGIONS content is not wholly included in the regular (3-0) 3 credits. Introduces the major religions of curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as humankind, examining the function and diversity instructors. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer of religious expression in human experience, and students with significant one-on-one the role of these religions in international student/teacher involvement. A maximum of six relations. (6) credits of special topics will be allowed for degree credit. SOC 100 INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY SOC 402 SOCIAL BEHAVIOR (3-0) 3 credits. Comprehensive study of society, (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: SOC 100 or SOC with analysis of group life, and other forces 150. This course examines the nature of shaping human behavior. negatively evaluated behaviors and the process by which customs, rules and normative structure of SOC 150 SOCIAL PROBLEMS society are constructed. (3-0) 3 credits. A study of present day problems in contemporary societies, such as racism, sexism, SOC 411/511 LICIT AND ILLICIT DRUGS ageism, alcoholism, drug addiction, physical and (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: SOC 100, 150 or mental health, war and environmental issues-their PSYC 101. A survey of the use, abuse, and significance and current policies and action. addictive properties of psychoactive drugs other than alcohol; approaches to prevention, treatment, SOC 250 COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE and identification of use. Will apply toward (3-0) 3 credits. Courtship and marriage period certification for chemical dependency counseling. given special emphasis, as are problems of mate Students enrolled in SOC 511 will be held to a selection, marital adjustments, reproduction, higher standard than those enrolled in SOC 411. child-parent relations, divorce and later years of marriage. SOC 420/520 ALCOHOL USE AND ABUSE (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: SOC 100, 150 or SOC 351 CRIMINOLOGY PSYC 101. A survey of the use, abuse, and (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: SOC 100 or 150. addictive nature of beverage alcohol, some of the Focuses on theories of crime, juvenile problems associated with excessive use of delinquency and justice, law, systems of criminal alcohol, and approaches to prevention and behavior, victimization, and corrections. treatment. Will apply toward certification for chemical dependency counseling. Students SOC 391 INDEPENDENT STUDY enrolled in SOC 520 will be held to a higher 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of standard than those enrolled in SOC 420. instructor. Includes directed study, problems, readings, directed readings, special problems and SOC 483 SOCIOLOGY OF GENDER special projects. Students complete ROLES individualized plans of study which include (3-0) 3 credits. Prerequisite: SOC 100 or SOC significant one-on-one student-teacher 150. Female and male roles in relation to one involvement. The faculty member and students another in a changing world are foci of this negotiate the details of the study plans. course. The nature of gender roles, their origin Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. and maintenance, institutional features, and their Meeting depending upon the requirements of the variations over time, and across cultures are topic. examined.
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SOC 491 INDEPENDENT STUDY quality improvement; quality and technology; and 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of managing a quality environment. Elements of instructor. Includes directed study, problems, statistical process control, including pareto readings, directed readings, special problems and diagrams, box plots, histograms, and control special projects. Students complete charts will also be investigated using a individualized plans of study which include commercial software package. Special projects significant one-on-one student-teacher and current readings in quality management will involvement. The faculty member and students be assigned. negotiate the details of the study plans. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer students. TM 625 INNOVATION AND Meeting depending upon the requirements of the COMMERCIALIZATION topic. (3-0) 3 credits. This course covers the practical aspects of developing an innovative idea or new SOC 492 TOPICS technology from conceptualization through 1 to 3 credits. Includes current topics, advanced commercialization. Course topics include product topics and special topics. A course devoted to a innovation, product development, technology particular issue in a specified field. Course forecasting, technology transfer, small business content is not wholly included in the regular development resources, and commercialization. curriculum. Guest artists or experts may serve as instructors. Enrollments are usually 10 or fewer TM 631 OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES students with significant one-on-one (3-0) 3 credits. The course develops basic student/teacher involvement. A maximum of six judgment and competence in using quantitative (6) credits of special topics will be allowed for methods in engineering or management decisions. degree credit. Students will study various types of linear programming techniques, including simplex, SPAN 101 INTRODUCTORY SPANISH I transportation and assignment methods and post- SPAN 102 INTRODUCTORY SPANISH II optimal sensitivity analysis. In addition, network- (4-0) 4 credits each. Prerequisite for SPAN 102 is type problems, critical-path methods, dynamic SPAN 101 or permission of instructor. and decision tree techniques will be covered. Introduces the fundamental elements of Spanish Some basic mathematical theory is taught and the sentence structure and vocabulary. Promotes computer is used to solve both assigned problems speaking, listening and writing within a cultural and problems developed by the student in a context. Classwork may be supplemented with particular field of interest. required aural/oral practice outside of class. TM 640 BUSINESS STRATEGY SPCM 101 FUNDAMENTALS OF SPEECH (3-0) 3 credits. This course provides a financial (3-0) 3 credits. Introduces the study of speech management approach within a systems context fundamentals and critical thinking through approach. Financial concepts are analyzed from frequent public speaking practice, including the perspective of three basic types of decisions setting, purpose, audience, and subject. This for any ongoing business: investment, operations, course can not count as social science/humanities and financing. Course materials are structured credit. around the viewpoints of major parties interested in the performance of business: managers, TM 620 QUALITY MANAGEMENT owners, and creditors. Financial concepts are (3-0) 3 credits. This course is intended as an reinforced by simulating the impact various introduction to the philosophies, concepts, and business strategies have on the financial health of tools of Total Quality Management. Topics the virtual enterprise. include: An introduction to the philosophies of Juran, Deming, and Taguchi; total quality and
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TM 650 SAFETY MANAGEMENT TM 675 ETHICS AND PROFESSIONALISM (3-0) 3 credits. Management aspects of FOR TECHNOLOGY MANAGERS occupational safety and health. Topics include: (3-0) 3 credits. This course will introduce Development and implementation of safety students to many of the professional and ethical programs and ergonomics programs, risk issues from a manager’s perspective. management, economic impact, legislation Professionalism topics include: networking, (including OSHA, Workers Compensation, and business etiquette, professional dress, and helping ADA), legal issues, wellness programs, system employees raise their level of professionalism. safety, certification, ethics, and professionalism. Ethics topics include: harassment, dealing with an employee’s disclosure, ant the Whistle Blower TM 655 ERGONOMICS FOR MANAGERS Act. (3-0) 3 credits. Management aspects of ergonomics and human factors engineering. TM 720 STATISTICAL PROCESS Topics include: Introduction to ergonomics and CONTROL human factors principles, the business case for (2-0) 2 credits. This course covers the application ergonomics, understanding cumulative trauma and of statistical methods to problems in quality and neurovascular disorders, development and process control. Statistical topics include: basics implementation of ergonomics programs, of processes and variability, statistically economic and regulatory aspects, work controlled processes, variable and attribute control organization, job satisfaction, quality and charts, moving averages, and process capability. productivity aspects, strategic issues and trends, and certification. TM 732 STOCHASTIC MODELS IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH TM 661 ENGINEERING ECONOMICS FOR (3-0) 3 credits. Probabilistic quantitative methods MANAGERS are developed. These include project control Credit: Variable 1 to 4. Students are expected to (PERT), decision trees, risk analysis, queuing, have prerequisite skills in the time value of money Markov chains, mathematical modeling and and basic probability. Students not having these Monte Carlo simulation. Computer programs are skills require the permission of instructor. The used to solve practical problems after the course is divided into four (4) one-credit modules, techniques are developed and understood. which include: economic valuation for decision making, problems with uncertainty and risk, TM 742 ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT budgeting and cost management, and financial AND LABOR RELATIONS statements and enterprise management. (3-0) 3 credits. Principles of management, (Manufacturing elective) supervision, administrative policies, human- factors engineering, and labor-management TM 663 OPERATIONS PLANNING relationships. (3-0) 3 credits. Organization, functions, and responsibilities of the production control TM 745 FORECASTING FOR BUSINESS department and some related functions in AND TECHNOLOGY industry. It includes: planning, authorizing, (3-0) 3 credits. This course provides an routing, scheduling, dispatching, and controlling introduction to the quantitative and qualitative the flow of production. The course also tools that may be used to identify and assess introduces the student to the fundamentals of emerging technological advances. Topics include inventory control, statistical quality control, pert- multiple regression, ARIMA forecast models and cpm, and operations research. (Manufacturing estimation, econometric models, and delphi elective) techniques. Special projects and current readings in technology may be assigned.
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TM 788 MASTER’S RESEARCH PROBLEMS/PROJECTS Credit to be arranged: not to exceed three (3) credits toward fulfillment of M.S. degree requirements. Open only to students pursing the M.S. non-thesis option. Directed research investigation of a selected problem culminating in an acceptable written report. An oral defense of the report and research findings is required.
TM 791 INDEPENDENT STUDY 1 to 3 credits. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Directed independent study of a topic or field of special interest. This may involve readings, research, laboratory or fieldwork, and preparation of papers, as agreed to in advance, by student and instructor. Student may enroll in this course only twice and for no more than a total of six credits.
TM 792 TOPICS 1 to 3 credits. Lecture course or seminar on a topic or field of special interest, as determined by the instructor. Student may enroll in this course only twice and for no more than a total of six credits.
TM 798 MASTER’S THESIS Credits to be arranged; not to exceed six credits toward fulfillment of M.S. degree requirements. Open only to students pursuing the master of science in Technology Management thesis option. Supervised original or expository research culminating in an acceptable thesis. Oral defense of the thesis and research findings are required.
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2007-2008 ACADEMIC YEAR Faculty (As of July 2007) AHRENKIEL, SCOTT PHILLIP (2006) Assistant Professor, Nanoscience and Executive Council Nanoengineering. M.S. Colorado School of Mines; B.S., Ph.D. University of Colorado. RUCH, CHARLES P. (2003) President. B.A., College of Wooster; M.A., Ph.D., Northwestern ALLEY, LEE (2007) Assistant Professor, University. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. B.S., M.S., Central Missouri State JENSEN, CAROL A. (2004) Assistant to the University; M.S., Ph.D., University of Nebraska. President. A.A., Chadron State College; B.A., Western Illinois University ANAGNOSTOU, DIMITRIOS E. (2007) Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer HENDERSON, TIMOTHY G. (1981) Vice Engineering. B.S., Democritus University of President, Business and Administration. B.S., Thrace (Xanthi, Greece); M.S., Ph.D., University University of South Dakota. of New Mexico.
MAHON, PATRICIA G. (2000) Vice President, ANDERSEN, PATRICIA M. (1984) Director, Student Affairs and Dean of Students. B.S., M.S., Devereaux Library. B.S., University of South Montana State University-Billings; Ph.D., Kansas Dakota; M.L.I.S., Louisiana State University. State University. ANTONEN, KATHY (1988) Professor, PAPPEL, L. ROD (1991) President, South Department of Humanities. B.A., M.A., Dakota School of Mines and Technology Augustana College, Ph.D., University of Foundation. B.S., M.S., South Dakota School of Minnesota. Mines and Technology. Registered Professional Engineer (South Dakota). ARNESON-MEYER, LOIS L. (1991) Instructor, Department of Civil and PILLAY, GAUTAM (2004) Vice President, Environmental Engineering. B.S., Dakota State Office of Research Affairs; Research Professor, University; B.S., South Dakota School of Mines Department of Chemical and Biological and Technology; M.S., University of South Engineering. B.S., New Mexico State University; Dakota. Ph.D., Texas A&M University. ASH, JASON T. (2003) Instructor, Department SMORAGIEWICZ, JULIE A. (1994) Vice of Mechanical Engineering. B.S., M.S., South President, University and Public Relations. B.A., Dakota School of Mines and Technology. M.Ed., University of Toledo. BANG, SANGCHUL (1985) Professor, VOTTERO, TIMOTHY J. (1998) Director, Department of Civil and Environmental Alumni Association. B.S., South Dakota School Engineering. B.S., Seoul National University- of Mines and Technology. Korea; M.S., Ph.D., University of California- Davis. Registered Professional Engineer (South WHITEHEAD, KAREN L. (1981) Provost and Dakota). Vice President, Academic Affairs. B.A., Ph.D., University of Minnesota. BANG, SOOKIE S. (1985) Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering (Biology); Interim Director, Center for Bioprocessing Research and Development. 349 Faculty, Administration, and Governance
B.S., M.S., Seoul National University-Korea; State University. Registered Professional Ph.D., University of California-Davis. Engineer (Arizona, Pennsylvania).
BATCHELDER, MICHAEL J. (1974-1984) BURGOYNE, JANET (1989) Associate (1986) Professor, Department of Electrical and Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Engineering; Co-Director, Center of Computer Science. B.S., Arizona State Excellence for Advanced Manufacturing and University; M.S., D.A., Idaho State University. Production. B.S., M.S., Oklahoma State University; Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute CABRERA, AGAPITO J. (1993) Assistant and State University. Professor, Department of Humanities. M.S., Indiana University-Bloomington; B.M.E., BENJAMIN, KENNETH M. (2007) Assistant Chartrand Conservatory-Havana; B.S., B.A., Professor, Department of Chemical and LaSalle College-Havana; L.L.D., University of Biological Engineering. B.S.E., Ph.D., University Havana. of Michigan-Ann Arbor; M.S.E., University of Colorado-Boulder. CAPEHART, WILLIAM J. (1997) Associate Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences BOYLES, DAVID A. (1980) Professor, and Institute of Atmospheric Sciences. B.S., Department of Chemistry. B.S., M.S., South University of North Carolina-Asheville; M.S., Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Ph.D., Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University. Purdue University. CHRISTOPHERSON, CABOT-ANN (2003) BOYSEN, ALFRED R. (1969) Professor, Instructor, Department of Chemistry. B.S., M.S., Department of Humanities. B.A., Augustana South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. College; M.A., Ed.D., University of South Dakota. COBLE, LORI D. (1984) Instructor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering; BRAMAN, KAREN S. (2004) Assistant Assistant Women’s Basketball Coach. B.S., Professor, Department of Mathematics and Dakota State College; M.A., University of Computer Science. B.S., Rockhurst University; Minnesota. M.A., Ph.D., University of Kansas. COREY, ROBERT L. (1995) Associate BRUNI, JOHN P. (2004) Assistant Professor, Professor, Department of Physics. B.S., Department of Humanities. B.A., University of University of Missouri, St. Louis; M.A., Ph.D., Rochester, M.A., Villanova University, Ph.D., Washington University-St. Louis. University of Kansas. CORWIN, EDWARD M. (1981) Professor, BRYAN, JEREMY (2006) Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Department of Military Science; Captain. B.S., Science. B.A., M.S., Ph.D., Lehigh University; South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. M.S., Ph.D., Texas Tech University.
BUDD, BRETT T. (2007) Instructor, Department CROSS, WILLIAM M. (1993) Associate of Civil and Environmental Engineering. B.S., Professor, Department of Materials and M.S., South Dakota School of Mines and Metallurgical Engineering. B.S., South Dakota Technology. School of Mines and Technology; M.S., Ph.D., University of Utah. BUCK, GREGORY A. (1993) Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering. B.S., DAHL, JULIE J. (1982) Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University; M.S., Ph.D., Arizona Department of Mathematics and Computer
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Science. B.S., M.S., South Dakota School of FAZIO, JOSEPH (2007) Assistant Professor, Mines and Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. B.A., B.S., M.S., Ph.D., University DAVIES, CINDY L. (1987) Associate Librarian, of Illinois-Chicago. Devereaux Library. B.A., University of South Dakota; M.L.I.S., Louisiana State University. FEISZLI, JAMES D. (1983) Professor, Department of Humanities; Director, Music. DAVIS, ARDEN D. (1982-83) (1984) Professor, B.M.E., Mount Union College; M.M., University Department of Geology and Geological of Akron; D.M.A., Arizona State University. Engineering. B.A., University of Minnesota; M.S., Ph.D., South Dakota School of Mines and FELDERMAN, BARBARA A. (1981) Chair and Technology. Registered Professional Engineer Professor, Department of Physical Education; (South Dakota). Head Women’s Basketball Coach and Assistant Director, Intercollegiate Athletics. B.S., Northern DENDINGER, ROGER E. (1998) Chair and State College; M.S., University of Wyoming. Associate Professor, Department of Social Sciences. B.S., University of Alabama; M.S., FONG, HAO (2003) Assistant Professor, South Dakota State University; M.S., Clemson Department of Chemistry. B.S., M.S., University University; Ph.D., University of Tennessee. of Science and Technology-China. Ph.D., University of Akron-Ohio. DETWILER, ANDREW G. (1987) Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences and Institute FONTAINE, THOMAS A. (1994) Associate of Atmospheric Sciences. B.S., University of Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Michigan; M.S., Ph.D., State University of New Engineering. B.S., M.S., Ph.D., University of York-Albany. Wisconsin. Registered Professional Engineer (South Dakota, Wisconsin). DIXON, DAVID J. (1993) Chair and Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological FOX, JAMES E. (1976) Professor, Department Engineering. B.S., M.S., South Dakota School of of Geology and Geological Engineering. B.S., Mines and Technology; Ph.D., University of Gustavus Adolphus; M.A., University of South Texas. Dakota; Ph.D., University of Wyoming.
DOLAN, DANIEL F. (1981) Professor, FOYGEL, MICHAEL G. (1991) Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering; Co- Department of Physics. M.S., Ph.D., Odessa Director, Center of Excellence for Advanced University; D.Sc., Leningrad Polytechnic Manufacturing and Production. B.S., M.S., Ph.D., Institute. University of Minnesota. GEARY, LAURA A. (1985) Assistant Professor, DUKE, EDWARD F. (1984) Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Department of Geology and Geological Science. B.S., M.S., South Dakota School of Engineering; Manager, Analytical Services, Mines and Technology. Engineering and Mining Experiment Station. B.S., Beloit College; A.M., Ph.D., Dartmouth GILCREASE, PATRICK C. (2002) Assistant College. Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering. B.S., Colorado School of FATHELBAB, WAEL (2006) Assistant Professor, Mines; M.S., Ph.D., Colorado State University. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. B.S., Ph.D., University of Bradford, U.K. GOSS, SIDNEY G. (1974) Professor, Department of Social Sciences. B.S., M.S., Ph.D.,
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South Dakota State University. HEMMELMAN, BRIAN T. (1999) Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and GRELLET-TINNER, GERALD (2006) Computer Engineering. B.S., M.S., Ph.D., South Assistant Professor, Department of Geology and Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Geological Engineering. B.S., C.N.T.E. Paris, France; M.S., University of Texas-Austin; Ph.D., HENRY, JASON (2002) Assistant Professor, University of Southern California. Department of Physical Education; Head Men’s Basketball Coach, Intercollegiate Athletics. B.S., GU, LINXIA (2006) Assistant Professor, Minot State; M.S., North Dakota State University. Department of Mechanical Engineering. B.S., Dalian University of Technology, China; M.S., HJELMFELT, MARK R. (1988) Chair and Ph.D., University of Florida. Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences; Professor, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences. HANLEY, KATHLEEN H. (2007) Instructor, B.S., Kansas State University; M.S., South College of Engineering. B.S., South Dakota Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Ph.D., School of Mines and Technology. University of Chicago.
HANSEN, JON P. (2006) Chair and Professor, HLADYSZ, ZBIGNIEW J. (1981) Professor, Department of Military Science ROTC; Major. Department of Mining Engineering and B.A., Stetson University; M.A. Webster Management. M.S., Technical University- University. Gliwice, Poland; Ph.D., Central Mining Institute- Katowice, Poland. HANSEN, MARION R. (1985) Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental HOLTE, CYNTHIA A. (2006) Instructor, Engineering. B.S., M.S., South Dakota School of Department of Chemical and Biological Mines and Technology; Ph.D., North Carolina Engineering. B.S., M.S., California State State University. Registered Professional Polytechnic University; Ph.D., South Dakota Engineer (Oregon, South Dakota, Wyoming, School of Mines and Technology. Washington); Registered Structural Engineer (Oregon, Washington); Registered Land Surveyor HOWARD, STANLEY M. (1971) Professor, (South Dakota). Department of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering. B.S., Ph.D., Colorado School of HASAN, ABUL R. (1988) Chair and Professor, Mines. Registered Professional Engineer (South Department of Electrical and Computer Dakota). Engineering. B.S., Bangladesh; M.S., University of North Dakota; Ph.D., University of Wyoming. HOYER, DAN (2003) Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering. B.S., M.S., HEGLUND, DANIEL L. (1997) Chair and Ph.D., South Dakota School of Mines and Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry. Technology. Registered Professional Engineer B.S., Bemidji State University; M.S., Ph.D., (California). University of North Dakota. HUBBARD, CONSTANCE (2005) Instructor, HELSDON JR., JOHN H. (1979) Dean of Department of Humanities. B.A., University of Graduate Education; Acting Director, Institute of South Dakota; M.A., University of Nebraska- Atmospheric Sciences; and Professor, Department Lincoln. of Atmospheric Sciences. B.S., Trinity College; M.S., Ph.D., State University of New York- HUDGENS, MICHAEL T. (1991) Associate Albany. Professor, Department of Humanities. B.A., M.A., Loyola Marymount University; Ph.D.,
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University of South Dakota. KERK, CARTER J. (1997) Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering. B.S., M.S., HUTTON, JULIE F. (2007) Instructor, University of Nebraska; Ph.D., University of Department of Electrical and Computer Michigan. Registered Professional Engineer Engineering. B.S., Black Hills State University; (Michigan, South Dakota). B.S., South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. KEOHANE, PATRICK J. (1998) Assistant Professor, Department of Social Sciences. B.S., JENSEN, DEAN H. (2005) Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley; Ph.D., Department of Industrial Engineering. B.S., Iowa University of Maine-Orono. State University; Ph.D., University of Iowa. KIRKPATRICK-SANCHEZ, SHARON (2004) JOHNSON, ROGER W. (1996) Professor, Instructor, Department of Social Sciences. B.A., Department of Mathematics and Computer Psychology, M.A., Drake University. Science. B.S., University of Minnesota; M.A., Ph.D., University of California-San Diego. KJERENGTROEN, LIDVIN (1990) Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering. B.S., KALANOVIC, VOJISLAV D. (1991) Professor, University of Wyoming; Ph.D., University of Department of Mechanical Engineering. B.S., Arizona. M.S., University of Belgrade; Ph.D., Clemson University. KLASI, MELVIN L. (1969-1973) (1982) Associate Professor, Department of Civil and KARLIN, JENNIFER N. (2003) Assistant Environmental Engineering. B.S., M.S., South Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Ph.D., (Industrial Engineering). B.S. Washington Iowa State University. Registered Professional University-St. Louis; Ph.D., University of Engineer (South Dakota). Michigan-Ann Arbor. KLICHE, CHARLES A. (1980-1990) (1991) KELLAR, JON J. (1990) Chair and Professor, Professor, Department of Mining Engineering and Department of Materials and Metallurgical Management; B.S., M.S., South Dakota School Engineering. B.S., M.S., South Dakota School of of Mines and Technology; Ph.D., University of Mines and Technology; Ph.D., University of Arizona. Registered Professional Engineer Utah. (Minnesota, South Dakota).
KELLOGG, STUART D. (1990) Chair and KORDE, UMESH A. (2003) Biomedical Ervin Pietz Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering Program Coordinator; Associate Engineering. B.S., South Dakota State Professor, Department of Mechanical University; M.B.A., University of South Dakota; Engineering. B.S. Indian Institute of Technology, M.S., South Dakota School of Mines and Kharagpur, India; M.S. University of Tokyo, Technology; Ph.D., University of Texas-Austin. Japan; Ph.D., University of Notre Dame. Registered Professional Engineer (South Dakota). KOWALSKI, R. TRAVIS (2004) Assistant KENNER, SCOTT J. (1987-1988) (1993) Chair Professor, Department of Mathematics and and Professor, Department of Civil and Computer Science. Environmental Engineering. B.S., M.S., South B.S., University of California, Riverside; Ph.D., Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Ph.D., University of California, San Diego. University of Florida. Registered Professional Engineer (South Dakota). KRATZER, DANIEL L. (2005) Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Education;
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Head Football Coach, Intercollegiate Athletics. MARTIN, JAMES E. (1979-2005) Professor, B.S., Missouri Valley College. M.S., Central Paleontology Program Coordinator, and Curator Missouri State University. of Vertebrate Paleontology, Department of Geology and Geological Engineering and KRAUSE, WAYNE B. (1970-1978) (1983) Museum of Geology. B.S., M.S., South Dakota Professor, Department of Mechanical School of Mines and Technology; Ph.D., Engineering. B.S., M.S., South Dakota School of University of Washington. Mines and Technology; Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Registered Professional MATEJCIK, FRANK J. (2005) Associate Engineer (South Dakota). Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering. B.S., Cleveland State University; M.S., Western LANGERMAN, MICHAEL A. (1992) Chair Michigan University; Ph.D., Ohio State and Professor, Department of Mechanical University. Engineering. B.S., M.S., South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Ph.D., University of MAYNARD, MARLIN K. (2007) Instructor, Idaho. Department of Industrial Engineering. B.S., M.S., University of Manitoba. LEE, JOSEPHINE M. (1973) Associate Professor, Department of Humanities. B.A., McGOUGH, JEFFREY S. (1998) Associate University of Southern Mississippi; M.A., Professor, Department of Mathematics and Arizona State University. Computer Science. B.S., Ph.D., University of Utah. LINDE, ELAINE K. (2002) Instructor, Department of Electrical and Computer McREYNOLDS, JAMES K. (1994) Associate Engineering. B.S., South Dakota School of Mines Professor, Department of Social Sciences. B.S., and Technology; M.S., Colorado State University. M.A., Chapman College; Ph.D., United States International University. LOFBERG, JOHN C. (1993) Instructor, Department of Mathematics and Computer MEDLIN, DANA J. (2005) Associate Professor, Science, and Department of Industrial Department of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering. B.S., Black Hills State University; Engineering. B.S., M.S., Ph.D., University of M.S., South Dakota School of Mines and Nebraska-Lincoln Technology. MENKHAUS, TODD (2005) Assistant LOGAR, ANTONETTE M. (1983) Professor, Professor, Department of Chemical and Department of Mathematics and Computer Biological Engineering. B.S., University of Science. B.A., Lehigh University; B.S., South Wyoming; Ph.D., Iowa State University. Dakota School of Mines and Technology; J.D., University of Louisville; M.S., University of MEYER, JUSTIN (2006) Assistant Professor, Minnesota; Ph.D., Texas Tech University. Department of Chemistry. B.S., Dickinson State university; Ph.D., North Dakota State University. MANES, VAL N. (2001) Instructor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. A.A.S., MITCHELL, DAVID H. (2004) Instructor, A.A.S., Community College of United States Air Department of Humanities, Instrumental Music. Force; B.A., University of Maryland-Europe; B.F.A., M.M., University of South Dakota. M.S., South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. MITCHELL, DEBORAH J. (1999) Associate Professor, Department of Humanities; Director, APEX Gallery. B.F.A., M.F.A., Utah State University.
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MONTOYA, THOMAS P. (2001) Assistant PETUKHOV, ANDREY (1994) Chair and Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Professor, Department of Physics. M.S., Odessa Engineering. B.S., South Dakota School of Mines State University; Ph.D., St. Petersburg Technical and Technology; M.S., University of Colorado- University. Colorado Springs; Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology. PILLAY, GAUTAM (2004) Vice President, Office of Research Affairs; Research Professor, MOTT, HENRY V. (1988) Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. B.S. New Mexico State University; Engineering; Coordinator, B. S. Environmental Ph.D., Texas A&M University. Engineering. B.S., South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; M.S., Washington State PREBER, TERJE (1984) Professor, Department University; Ph.D., University of Michigan. of Civil and Environmental Engineering. B.S., Registered Professional Engineer (Idaho, M.S., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin. Registered Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota). Professional Engineer (Illinois, South Dakota, Wyoming). MUCI, KARIM, H. (2002) Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering. B.S., PRICE, MARIBETH H. (1995) Chair and M.S., ITESM, Monterrey Campus-Mexico; Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Geology and Iowa State University. Registered Professional Geological Engineering; Program Coordinator, Engineer (Mexico). Ph.D. Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences. B.A., Dartmouth College; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton NEUMANN, NATALIE J. (1998) Instructor, University. Department of Humanities. B.A., M.A., Western Illinois University. PUSZYNSKI, JAN A. (1991) Robert L. Sandvig Professor, Department of Chemical and PAGNAC, DARRIN C. (2006) Haslem Biological Engineering. M.S., Technical Postdoctoral Fellowship/Assistant Professor. University-Wroclaw, Poland; Ph.D., Institute of Department of Geology and Geological Chemical Technology-Prague, Czech Republic. Engineering. B.S., University of North Dakota; M.S., South Dakota School of Mines and RAUSCH, SCOTT E. (2007) Instructor, Technology; Ph.D., University of California- Department of Electrical and Computer Riverside. Engineering. B.S., South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. PALMER, SALLY B. (1999) Associate Professor, Department of Humanities. B.A., RICE, RODNEY P. (1999) Chair and Associate M.A., Brigham Young University; Ph.D., Professor, Department of Humanities. B.A., University of California-Davis. Moorhead State University; M.A., University of Minnesota; Ph.D., University of Nebraska- PATERSON, COLIN J. (1983) Professor, Lincoln. Department of Geology and Geological Engineering; Director, Black Hills Natural RILEY, KYLE L. (1999) Chair and Associate Sciences Field Station. B.Sc., Ph.D., University Professor, Department of Mathematics and of Otago-New Zealand. Computer Science. B.S., University of Wyoming; M.S., Ph.D., Montana State University. PENALOZA, MANUEL (1989) Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer ROBERTS, LANCE A. (2007) Assistant Science. B.S., M.S., University of New Mexico; Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Ph.D., Arizona State University. Engineering. B.S., M.S., South Dakota School of
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Mines and Technology; Ph.D., University of SKILLMAN, DALE N. (2004) Director, Office Missouri-Kansas City. of Technology Transfer; Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering. B.S., ROGGENTHEN, WILLIAM M. (1977) M.S., South Dakota School of Mines and Professor, Department of Geology and Geological Technology. Engineering. B.S., South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; M.S., University of Colorado; SMITH, STEVE (2005) Associate Professor, Ph.D., Princeton University. Nanoscience and Nanoengineering. B.S., Michigan Technological University; M.S., Ph.D., RUEDEBUSCH, MITCHELL A. (2007) University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. Instructor, College of Engineering. B.S., South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; M.A., SNELLER, JUDY E. (1992) Professor, Webster University-Saint Louis. Department of Humanities. B.A., University of Central Florida; M.A., Ph.D., Emory University. SANI, RAJESH (2006) Assistant Professor, SOBOLEV, VLADIMIR L. (2001) Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Department of Physics. M.S., Kharkow State Engineering. B.S., Meerut University, India; University-Ukraine; Ph.D., Academy of Sciences M.S., Devi Ahilya Viswavidyalaya, India; Ph.D., of Ukraine-Ukraine. Institute of Microbial Technology, Punjab University, India. STANDISH, KATHERINE A. (2007) Instructor, Department of Chemical and SCHAFER, JERALD R. (1984) Associate Biological Engineering. B.S., M.S., South Dakota Professor, Department of Physical Education; School of Mines and Technology. Assistant Director and Head Cross Country and Track Coach, Intercollegiate Athletics. B.A., STETLER, LARRY D. (1997) Associate M.A., Adams State College. Professor, Department of Geology and Geological Engineering. B.S., M.S., South Dakota School of SCHRADER, ROGER L. (2000) Instructor, Mines and Technology; Ph.D., Washington State Department of Mathematics and Computer University. Science. B.S., M.S., South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. STONE, JAMES J. (2003) Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental SHASHIKANTH, S.N. (1994) Chair, Engineering. B.S.; M.S., Virginia Polytechnic Department of Mining Engineering and Institute and State University; Ph.D., Penn State. Management. M.S., South Dakota School of Registered Professional Engineer (Colorado). Mines and Technology. SUNDARESHWAR, PALLAOOR V. (2003) SHIRLEY, SUE (1992) Professor, Department of Assistant Professor, Department of Atmospheric Humanities; Coordinator, Interdisciplinary Sciences and Institute of Atmospheric Sciences. Sciences Program. B.A., University of Utah; B.S., M.S., University of Bombay; Ph.D., M.A., Utah State University; Ph.D., Washington University of South Carolina-Columbia. State University. SUROVEK, ANDREA E. (2003) Assistant SIMONSON, LARRY A. (1976) William J. Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Hoffert Professor, Department of Electrical and Engineering. B.S., M.S. Purdue University; Ph.D. Computer Engineering. B.S., M.S., Ph.D., South Georgia Institute of Technology-Atlanta. Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Registered Professional Engineer (Texas). Registered Professional Engineer (South Dakota).
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SWANSON, BRETT R. (2004) Instructor, WEST, MICHAEL (2006) Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities. B.S., Colorado State Department of Materials and Metallurgical University, M.S., University of South Dakota. Engineering. B.S., Arizona State University; M.S., Texas A&M University; Ph.D., University TEETS, DONALD A. (1988) Professor, of Tennessee. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. B.A., University of Colorado; M.S., WESTERGAARD, KAREN R. (1998) Colorado State University; D.A., Idaho State Instructor, Department of Humanities. A., University. Community College; B.A., M.A., University of South Dakota. TERRY, MICHAEL (2006) Assistant Professor, Department of Geology and Geological Engineering. WHITES, KEITH W. (2001) Steven P. Miller B.S., University of Wisconsin; M.S., University of Endowed Chair and Professor, Department of Akron; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts. Electrical and Computer Engineering. B.S., South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; M.S., THUBRIKAR, MANO J. (2007) Professor, Ph.D., University of Illinois. Department of Mechanical Engineering. B.E., Nagpur University, India; M.S., Ph.D., New WINTER, ROBB M. (1988) Professor, York University. Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering. B.A., Dickinson State University; TRIMBLE, JILL M. (2000) Instructor, M.S., Ph.D., University of Utah. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. B.S., Black Hills State University; M.S., WUERZ, STEPHEN W. (2007) Instructor, Montana State University. Department of Chemistry. B.S., Washington University (St. Louis); M.S., University of UZUNLAR, NURI (2006) Research Scientist IV, Manitoba. Department of Geology and Geological Engineering; Director, Black Hills Natural YOON, MYUNG-KEUN (2005) Professor, Sciences Field Station. B.S., Black Sea Department of Mechanical Engineering. M.S., University, Turkey; Ph.D., North Dakota State Ph.D., Seoul National University. University. ZHANG, NIAN (2004) Assistant Professor, VAN NUYS, FRANK W. (2002) Associate Department of Electrical and Computer Professor, Department of Social Sciences. B.A., Engineering. B.S., Wuhan Automotive South Dakota State University; M.A., California Polytechnic University; M.S., Huazhong State University-Chico; Ph.D., University of University of Science & Technology; Ph.D., Wyoming. University of Missouri-Rolla.
WEI, JIANBIN (2006) Assistant Professor, ZHU, ZHENGTAO (2006) Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Department of Chemistry. B.S., M.S., Fudan Science. B.S. Huazhong University of Science University, Shanghai; Ph.D., State University of and Technology; M.S., Ph.D., Wayne State New York-Binghampton. University. ZIMMERMAN, PATRICK R. (1997) Adjunct WEISS, JOHN M. (1991) Professor, Department Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences. of Mathematics and Computer Science. B.A., B.S., M.S., Washington State University; Ph.D., Yale University; M.S., Ph.D., Vanderbilt Colorado State University. University
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Emeriti Faculty M.S., Purdue University. Registered Professional Engineer (South Dakota). ARNESON, JOHN R. (1966-68) (1974-1994) Professor Emeritus, Department of Social DAVIS, BRIANT L. (1962-1996) Professor Sciences. B.S., Northern State College; M.A., Emeritus, Department of Atmospheric Sciences Ph.D., University of Northern Colorado. and Institute of Atmospheric Science. B.S., M.S., Brigham Young University; Ph.D., University of BAUER, LARRY G. (1973-2002) Professor California-Los Angeles. Emeritus, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. B.S., M.S., University of Missouri- ERICKSON, JOHN DUFF (1978-1995) Rolla; Ph.D., Iowa State University. Professor Emeritus, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (Mining BAYLOR, LESLIE M. (1962-1987) Associate Engineering). B.S., South Dakota School of Professor Emeritus, Department of Humanities. Mines and Technology; M.S., Massachusetts B.S., Northwestern University; Th.M., Iliff School Institute of Technology. of Theology; M.A., Idaho State University.
BENSON, DEAN C. (1954-1956) (1960-1980) FRASER, HARVEY R. (1965-1975) President Professor Emeritus, Department of Mathematics Emeritus. B.S., United States Military Academy; and Computer Science. B.A., Sioux Falls M.S., California Institute of Technology; Ph.D., College; M.S., Ph.D., Iowa State University. University of Illinois.
BOSWORTH, FRANCIS D. (1963-1995) GNIRK, PAUL F. (1963-1973) Professor Associate Professor Emeritus, Department of Emeritus, Department of Mechanical Engineering. Civil and Environmental Engineering. B.S., B.S., South Dakota School of Mines and North Dakota State University; M.S., Washington Technology; Ph.D., University of Minnesota. State University. Registered Professional Engineer (South Dakota); Registered Land GOODMAN, JAMES R. (1992-1997) Professor Surveyor (South Dakota). Emeritus, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Vice President Emeritus for BRYSON, DEAN A. (1976-2002) Professor Academic Affairs. B.S., University of Wyoming; Emeritus, Department of Social Sciences. B.S., M.S., Colorado State University; Ph.D., M.S., Northern State College; Ed.D., University University of California-Berkeley. Registered of Nebraska-Lincoln. Professional Engineer (Colorado, Wyoming).
CARDA, HAROLD E. (1965-2007) Professor GOWEN, RICHARD J. (1978-1984) (1987- Emeritus, Department of Mathematics and 2003) President Emeritus. B.S., Rutgers Computer Science. B.S., Southern State College; University; M.S., Ph.D., Iowa State University; M.N.S., University of South Dakota. Honorary Ph.D., South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Registered Professional CHIANG, CHAO-WANG (1974-1992) Engineer (Colorado). Professor Emeritus, Department of Mechanical Engineering. B.S., National Chiao-Tung GRIMM, CARL ALBERT (1952-1988) University; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin. Professor Emeritus, Department of Mathematics Registered Professional Engineer (Colorado). and Computer Science. B.A., M.A., University of Cincinnati. COX, CYRUS W. (1951-1992) Professor Emeritus, Department of Electrical and Computer HAN, KENNETH N. (1981-2007) Distinguished Engineering. B.S., Rose Polytechnic Institute; Professor Emeritus, Department of Materials and 358 Faculty, Administration, and Governance
Metallurgical Engineering. B.S., M.S., Seoul Washington State University; Ph.D., University of National University-Korea; M.S., University of Arkansas. Illinois-Urbana/Champaign; Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley. LINGARD, AMOS L. (1953-1977) Research Professor Emeritus, Department of Materials and HIRSCH, JOHN H. (1965-1996) Associate Metallurgical Engineering. Sc.B., Ottawa Professor Emeritus, Department of Atmospheric University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Kansas. Sciences and Institute of Atmospheric Sciences. B.S., M.S., Pennsylvania State University. LISENBEE, ALVIS L. (1972-2007) Professor Emeritus, Department of Geology and Geological HOPKINS, DON C. (1968-1993) Professor Engineering. B.S., M.S., University of New Emeritus, Department of Physics. B.S., Eastern Mexico; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University. Illinois University; M.S., Ph.D., University of Illinois. LOOYENGA, ROBERT W. (1972-1997) Professor Emeritus, Department of Chemistry and HOVEY, WENDELL H. (1980-2000) Professor Chemical Engineering. B.A., Hope College; Emeritus, Department of Civil and Environmental Ph.D., Wayne State University. Registered with Engineering. B.S., M.S., Tufts University; Ph.D., U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. University of California-Davis. Registered Professional Engineer (South Dakota). McNEIL, RICHARD D. (1958-1993) Professor Emeritus, Department of Electrical and Computer HOWE, SISTER MARMION (1968-1985) Engineering. B.S., U.S. Naval Academy; M.S., Professor Emerita, Department of Chemistry and South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Chemical Engineering (Biology). B.S., College Registered Professional Engineer (South Dakota). of St. Scholastica; M.N.S., University of South Dakota; Ph.D., World Open University. MEINERS, LARRY G. (1990-2005) Professor Registered with American Society of Radiological Emeritus, Department of Electrical and Computer Technologies. Engineering. B.S., M.S., South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Ph.D., Colorado State HUGHES, STELLA (1989-1996) Professor University. Registered Professional Engineer Emerita, Department of Social Sciences. B.S., (South Dakota). M.S., Ph.D., Oklahoma State University. MILLER, JAMES R. (1971-1998) Associate IYER, SRINIVASA L. (1974-2000) Professor Professor Emeritus, Department of Atmospheric Emeritus, Department of Civil and Environmental Sciences and Institute of Atmospheric Sciences. Engineering. B.S., M.S., College of Engineering- B.S., Ohio State University; M.S., South Dakota Trivandrum, India; Ph.D., South Dakota School of School of Mines and Technology. Mines and Technology. Registered Professional Engineer (South Dakota). MORGAN, BRADFORD A. (1982-2004) Professor Emeritus, Department of Humanities. JOHNSON, L. RONALD (1970-2000) Associate B.A., University of California-Berkeley; M.A., Professor Emeritus, Department of Atmospheric Ph.D., University of Denver. Sciences and Institute of Atmospheric Sciences. B.S., Kearney State; M.S., South Dakota School MUNRO, JAMES M. (1977-2005) Professor of Mines and Technology. Emeritus, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. B.S., M.S., South Dakota School of JONTE, J. HAWORTH (1966-1985) Professor Mines and Technology; Ph.D., University of Emeritus, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Utah. Registered Professional Engineer (South Engineering. A.B., University of Pacific; M.S., Dakota).
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MUSIL, DENNIS J. (1967-1990) Research RAMAKRISHNAN, VENKATASWAMY Associate Professor Emeritus, Department of (1969-2002) Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Atmospheric Sciences and Institute of Department of Civil and Environmental Atmospheric Sciences. B.S., University of Engineering. B.E., D.S.S., University of Madras; Wisconsin, Superior; B.S., Pennsylvania State D.I.C. (Conc. Tech.), D.I.C. (Hydro-Power), University; M.S., South Dakota School of Mines Imperial College of Science and Technology- and Technology. London; Ph.D., University of London.
NEWSTROM, BOOTS (1967-1994) Associate REDDEN, JACK A. (1969-1991) Professor Professor Emerita, Department of Humanities. Emeritus, Department of Geology and Geological B.S., M.Ed., Black Hills State College; M.A., Engineering. A.B., Dartmouth College; M.S., University of California. Ph.D., Harvard University.
OPP, ROGER L. (1966-2003) Professor REDIN, ROBERT D. (1962-1995) Professor Emeritus, Department of Mathematics and Emeritus, Department of Physics. B.S., M.S., Computer Science. B.S., Northern State College; Ph.D., Iowa State University. M.S., South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. ROBINSON, BLAINE B. (1966-1996) Professor Emeritus, Department of Humanities. B.A., ORVILLE, HAROLD D. (1965-1996) University of Denver; M.S., South Dakota State Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of University; Ed.D., University of South Dakota. Atmospheric Sciences and Institute of Atmospheric Sciences. B.A., University of SANDVIG, ROBERT L. (1946-1987) Professor Virginia; M.S., Florida State University; Ph.D., Emeritus, Department of Chemistry and Chemical University of Arizona. Engineering. B.S., South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; M.S., University of Cincinnati; PENDLETON, RICHARD L. (1973-1997) Ph.D., University of Colorado. Professor Emeritus, Department of Mechanical Engineering. B.S., M.S., Missouri School of SCHILZ, CARL E. (1946-1973) Professor Mines; Ph.D., University of Missouri-Rolla. Emeritus, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Registered Professional Engineer (South Dakota, Engineering. A.B., Albion College; M.S., Wyoming). University of Illinois.
PETERSON, HOWARD C. (1957-1992) (2001) SCHLEUSENER, RICHARD A. (1965-1987) Dean of Students Emeritus. B.S., South Dakota President Emeritus. B.S., University of Nebraska; School of Mines and Technology; M.S., Northern M.S., Kansas State University; Ph.D., Colorado State College; Ed.D., University of South Dakota. State University.
PROPSON, THOMAS P. (1968-1996) Professor SMITH JR., PAUL L. (1966-1996) Professor Emeritus, Department of Civil and Environmental Emeritus, Department of Atmospheric Sciences Engineering. B.S.E., M.S.E., Ph.D., University of and Institute of Atmospheric Sciences. B.S., Michigan. Professional Engineer. M.S., Ph.D., Carnegie Institute of Technology.
RAHN, PERRY H. (1968-1997) Professor SNYDER JR., LESTER W. (1959-1984) Emeritus, Department of Geology and Geological Professor Emeritus, Department of Mechanical Engineering. B.A., B.S., Lafayette College; Engineering. B.S., Louisiana Polytechnic Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University. Certified Institute; M.S., Carnegie Institute of Technology. Professional Geological Scientist; Registered Registered Professional Engineer (Louisiana). Professional Engineer (South Dakota).
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SPELTS, CATHRYN A. (1967-1990) Associate SDSM&T Alumni Association Liaison Professor Emerita, Department of Humanities. B.S., Nebraska State College; M.Ed., Black Hills VOTTERO, TIMOTHY J. (1998) Director. State College; Ed.D., University of South Dakota. B.S., South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. STONE, GLEN A. (1973-2005) Professor Emeritus, Department of Materials and SDSM&T Foundation Liaison Metallurgical Engineering. B.S., Drexel University; M.S., Ph.D., University of California- PAPPEL, L. ROD (1991) President. B.S., M.S., Berkeley. South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Registered Professional Engineer (South Dakota). THIELEN, A. CHARLES (1964-1993) Professor Emeritus, Department of Social Sciences. B.S., M.S., Northern State College; ACADEMIC AFFAIRS Ed.D., University of Wyoming.
THORSON, DONALD A. (1947-1985) Professor WHITEHEAD, KAREN L. (1981) Provost and Emeritus, Department of Civil and Environmental Vice President, Academic Affairs. B.A., Ph.D., Engineering. B.S., South Dakota School of Mines and University of Minnesota. Technology; M.S., Colorado A&M. Registered Professional Engineer (South Dakota); Registered STOLTZ, VIOLET M. (1988) Senior Secretary. Land Surveyor (South Dakota). A.A., Black Hills State University. Certified Professional Secretary. WEGER, RONALD C. (1967-1991) Professor Emeritus, Department of Mathematics and MISKE, CRAIG M. (2001) Program Assistant Computer Science; Research Associate, Institute II. A.S., Central Texas College; A.S., Community of Atmospheric Sciences. B.A., William Jewell; College of the Air Force-Alabama. B.S., Embry- M.S., Ph.D., University of Illinois-Urbana. Riddle Aeronautical University; M.S., South Dakota State University. WILSON, ROBERT W. (1961-1975) Professor Emeritus, Department of Geology and Geological Associate Vice President For Academic Affairs Engineering. B.S., M.S., Ph.D., California Institute of Technology. ALLEY, KATHRYN E. (2001) Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs. B.A., University of Cincinnati; M.A., University of Akron; Ph.D., ADMINISTRATION Kent State University.
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RUCH, CHARLES P. (2003) President. B.A., Academic and Enrollment Services College of Wooster; M.A., Ph.D., Northwestern University. DOLAN, BARBARA F. (1987) Director. B.A., South Dakota State University; B.S., South JENSEN, CAROL A. (2004) Assistant to the Dakota School of Mines and Technology; President, A.A. Chadron State College, B.A. M.B.A., University of South Dakota. Western Illinois University. BEU, PAT A. (2004) Director of Retention and GREGOIRE, TAMARA L. (2003) Senior Testing. B.S., M.Ed., Brigham Young University, Secretary. Ed.D., Montana State University.
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MILLER, LINN A. (2003) Assistant Coordinator Engineering. B.S., M.S., South Dakota School of of Academic Support Development. B.S., South Mines and Technology; Ph.D., University of Dakota State University. Texas.
Center of Excellence for Advanced FILIPOV, IVAN V. (2007) Chemical Equipment Manufacturing and Production (CAMP) and Instrumentation Specialist, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering. M.S., BATCHELDER, MICHAEL J. (1974-1984) Professor Assen Zlatarov Higher Institute of (1986) Chemical Technology, Bulgaria. Co-Director; Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. M.S., Oklahoma RASTOGI, GURDEEP (2007) Research State University; Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Scientist I, Department of Chemical and Institute and State University. Biological Engineering. B.S., Ewing Christian College; M.S., Devi Ahilya University; DOLAN, DANIEL F. (1981) Co-Director; Ph.D., National Centre for Cell Science Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering. B.S., M.S., Ph.D., University of SHENDE, RAJESH (2007) Research Scientist I, Minnesota. Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering. B.S., Nagpur University KOONTZ, RYAN H. (2002) Integrated B.S., M.S., Ph.D., Institute of Chemical Manufacturing Specialist. B.S., M.S., South Technology, University of Mumbai. Dakota School of Mines and Technology. SWIATKIEWICZ, JACEK (2002) Research LAWLER, STEVEN J (2006) Scientist III, Department of Chemical and Electronics Specialist, Department of Electrical Biological Engineering. M.Sc., Ph.D., Technical and Computer Engineering. A.A.S., University of University-Wroclaw, Poland. South Dakota Springfield; B.S., M.S., South Dakota State University . Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Women In Science and Engineering (WISE) KENNER, SCOTT J. (1987-1988) (1993) Chair DECKER, ROYIA A. (2007) Director. A.A., and Professor, Department of Civil and University of Maryland; B.A., Mesa State Environmental Engineering. B.S., M.S., South College; M.A., Adams State College. Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Ph.D., University of Florida. Registered Professional College of Engineering Engineer (South Dakota).
ABATA, DUANE L. (2006) Dean, College of MARSHALL, RONALD (2006) Technical Engineering. B.S., M.S., Ph.D., University of Assistance Provider, Department of Civil and Wisconsin-Madison. Environmental Engineering. B.S., Bradley University; M.S., University of Wisconsin- VANBOCKERN, CONNIE E. (1995) Senior Madison Secretary. A.A., Black Hills State University. Department of Electrical and Computer Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Engineering HEMMELMAN, BRIAN T. (1999) Chair and DIXON, DAVID J. (1993) Chair and Professor, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Department of Chemical and Biological Computer Engineering. B.S., M.S., Ph.D., South 362 Faculty, Administration, and Governance
Dakota School of Mines and Technology. and Metallurgical Engineering. B.S., Hangzhou University; M.S., Institute of Chemistry-Chinese AMERT, ANTHONY (2006) Research Engineer Academy of Science; Ph.D., Hebrew University- II, Department of Electrical and Computer Jerusalem. Engineering. B.S., South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. RANDLE, JAMES S. (2007) Computer Support Specialist, Materials and Metallurgical Department of Geology and Geological Engineering Department. A.A., Western Dakota Engineering Technical Institute.
PRICE, MARIBETH H. (1995) Chair and Department of Mining Engineering and Associate Professor, Department of Geology and Management Geological Engineering; Program Coordinator, Ph.D. Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences. SHASHIKANTH, S.N. (1994) Chair and B.A., Dartmouth College; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton Instructor, Department of Mining Engineering and University. Management. M.S., South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Department of Industrial Engineering College of Science and Letters KELLOGG, STUART D. (1990) Chair and Ervin Pietz Professor; Department of Industrial HRNCIR, DUANE C. (2006) Dean, College of Engineering. B.S., South Dakota State Science and Letters. B.S., University of Alabama; University; M.B.A., University of South Dakota; M.S., University of Massachusetts; Ph.D., Texas M.S., South Dakota School of Mines and A & M University. Technology; Ph.D., University of Texas-Austin. Registered Professional Engineer (South Dakota). VANBOCKERN, CONNIE E. (1995) Senior Secretary. A.A., Black Hills State University. Department of Mechanical Engineering Department of Atmospheric Sciences LANGERMAN, MICHAEL A. (1992) Chair and Professor, Department of Mechanical HJELMFELT, MARK R. (1988) Chair and Engineering. B.S., M.S., South Dakota School of Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences; Mines and Technology; Ph.D., University of Professor, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences. Idaho. B.S., Kansas State University; M.S., South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Ph.D., Department of Materials and Metallurgical University of Chicago. Engineering Department of Chemistry KELLAR, JON J. (1990) Chair and Professor, Department of Materials and Metallurgical HEGLUND, DANIEL L. (1997) Chair and Engineering. B.S., M.S., South Dakota School of Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry. Mines and Technology; Ph.D., University of B.S., Bemidji State University; M.S., Ph.D., Utah. University of North Dakota.
DAI, YING (2007) Research Scientist I. B.S., FILIPOVA, TSVETANKA S. (2002) Research M.S., Ph.D., Dalian University of Technology. Scientist II (Postdoctoral Fellow), Department of Chemistry. M.S., Ph.D., University of Chemical HONG, HAIPING (2003) Research Scientist III Technology and Metallurgy. (Postdoctoral Fellow), Department of Materials 363 Faculty, Administration, and Governance
GRINNELL, KRISTINA. (2006) Chemical Computer Science. B.S., University of Wyoming; Materials Manager, Department of Chemistry. M.S., Ph.D., Montana State University. B.S., South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Department of Physical Education
SMALLBROCK, MARGARET (2006) FELDERMAN, BARBARA A. (1981) Chair and Chemical and Instrumentation Specialist, Professor, Department of Physical Education; Department of Chemistry. B.S., South Dakota Head Women’s Basketball Coach and Assistant School of Mines and Technology. Director, Intercollegiate Athletics. B.S., Northern State College; M.S., University of Wyoming. ZHANG, LIFENG (2007) Research Scientist I, Department of Chemistry. B.S., Xi'an Jiaotong Department of Physics University; M.S., Beijing Institute of Technology; Ph.D., University of California at Davis. PETUKHOV, ANDREY (1994) Chair and Professor, Department of Physics. M.S., Odessa Department of Humanities State University; Ph.D., St. Petersburg Technical University. RICE, RODNEY P. (1999) Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Humanities. B.A., Department of Social Sciences Moorhead State University; M.A., University of Minnesota; Ph.D., University of Nebraska- DENDINGER, ROGER E. (1998) Chair and Lincoln. Associate Professor, Department of Social Sciences. B.S., University of Alabama; M.S., FAUBERT, ROBERT A. (2001) Drama South Dakota State University; M.S., Clemson Director, Student Activities and Leadership University; Ph.D., University of Tennessee. Center. B.A., M.Ed., Boston College; M.H.A., Ohio State University. Black Hills Natural Sciences Field Station
Department of Military Science UZUNLAR, NURI (2006) Director; Research Scientist IV, Department of Geology and HANSEN, JON P. (2006) Chair and Professor, Geological Engineering. B.S., Black Sea Department of Military Science ROTC; Major. University, Turkey; Ph.D., North Dakota State B.A., Stetson University; M.A. Webster University. University. Museum of Geology RUEDEBUSCH, MITCHELL (2003) Assistant Professor Military Science; Major. B.S., South VACANT. Program Assistant I. Dakota School of Mines and Technology; M.A., Webster University-Saint Louis. South Dakota Local Transportation Assistance Program BRYAN, JEREMY (2006) Assistant Professor, Department of Military Science; Captain. B.S., VACANT. Western Satellite Coordinator. South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Graduate Education Department of Mathematics and Computer Science HELSDON, JR., JOHN H. (1979) Dean of Graduate Education; Professor, Department of RILEY, KYLE L. (1999) Chair and Associate Atmospheric Sciences;. B.S., Trinity College; Professor, Department of Mathematics and
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M.S., Ph.D., State University of New York - Analyst. B.S., University of South Dakota. Albany. BRENNEMAN, ANITA C. (2006) Accountant- Information Technology Services Perkins Loans.
SCHUMACHER, BRYAN J. (1991) Director. MEIER, SANDRA D. (1994) Student Accounts B.S., South Dakota School of Mines and and Cashiering. Technology. ROWSE, DEBRA K. (1982) Senior Accountant. BENDER, VICKIE M. (1986) Associate B.S., Black Hills State University. Director of Information Services. A.A., Northern State University. Business Services (Purchasing /Telecommunications) ERICKSON, JASON R. (2002) Associate Director of Technology Services. B.S., South FISCHER, SANDRA R. (1972) Director. Dakota School of Mines and Technology. HARGENS, JANET K. (1979) Assistant Director. Library Bookstore ANDERSEN, PATRICIA M. (1984) Director. B.S., University of South Dakota; M.L.I.S., KINZER, MARLIN L. (1993) Director. B.S., Louisiana State University. Black Hills State University.
DAVIES, CINDY L. (1987) Associate Librarian. Campus Environmental Health and Safety B.A., University of South Dakota; M.L.I.S., Louisiana State University. ROBERTS, JERILYN C. (2006) Manager. B.S., South Dakota School of Mines and TAYLOR, JANET L. (1973) Coordinator of Technology Library Operations. B.S., National College of Business. Dining Services
BUSINESS AND FREDERIKSEN, JOLEE (2006) Director contracted through ARAMARK. ADMINISTRATION Facilities Services HENDERSON, TIMOTHY G. (1981) Vice President, Business and Administration. B.S., WALLEEN, DEAN M. (2005) Director University of South Dakota. contracted through ARAMARK. B.A., Chadron State College. PAINTER, AUDREY L. (1981) Senior Secretary. Human Resources
Administrative Services SLOAT, DEBORAH L. (1994) Director. B.S., (Accounting/Budget/Cashiering) South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; M.S,. University of South Dakota; PHR Certified. LAURITSEN, TERRY H. (2007) Controller and Director. B.S., M.S., University of Southern SHUMAN, KELLI R. (2004) Assistant Director. Florida. B.S., Black Hills State University
ANDERSON, JACQUELYN R. (2004) Budget 365 Faculty, Administration, and Governance
Intercollegiate Athletics LUTES, RICHARD K. (2006) Equipment Manager. WELSH, D. HUGH (1986) Director. B.S., Valley City State College, M.S., University of BLUME, BRADLEY D. (2006) Sports Mary. Information Director. B.S., South Dakota State University. BAIRD, SCOTT J. (2007) Certified Athletic Trainer. B.S., Dakota Wesleyan University. MESSICK, LONNIE L (2006) Assistant Football Coach/Wellness Center CAMARGO, LUCIANA (2007) Assistant Supervisor/Intramural Assistant. Volleyball Coach. B.A., National American Intercollegiate Athletics Department. B.S., University. University of Oklahoma.
COBLE, LORI D. (1984) Assistant Women’s RANUM, JENNIFER (2007) Director, Intramural Basketball Coach; Instructor, Department of Sports. B.A., National American University. Chemical and Biological Engineering. B.S., Dakota State College; M.A., University of RUDEBUSCH, THOMAS R. (1980) Executive Minnesota. Director, Hardrock Club and Hardrock Marketing, LLC. FELDERMAN, BARBARA A. (1981) Head Women’s Basketball Coach, Intercollegiate SCHAFER, JERALD R. (1984) Head Cross Athletics; Chair and Professor, Department of Country and Track Coach; Associate Professor, Physical Education. B.S., Northern State College; Department of Physical Education. B.A., M.A., M.S., University of Wyoming. Adams State College.
GLENN, ERIC M. (2005) Assistant Men’s WALKER, CARTIER (2006) Assistant Football Basketball Coach; Head Men’s and Women’s Coach/Strength and Conditioning Coach. B.A., Golf Coach. B.S., M.A., Chadron State College. University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
KONECHNE, ANN. Assistant Women’s RESEARCH AFFAIRS Basketball Coach. B.S., South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; M.A., Saint Cloud State. PILLAY, GAUTAM (2004) Vice President; HONAKER, ELIZABETH (2006) Head Research Professor, Department of Chemical and Volleyball Coach/Assistant Track and Field Biological Engineering. B.S., New Mexico State Coach. B.S., M.S., Northern Michigan University; Ph.D., Texas A&M University. University. NILSON, JEANETTE R. (1991) Program HENRY, JASON P. (2002) Assistant Men’s Assistant II. Basketball Coach; Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Education. B.S., Minot Sponsored Programs State University. M.S., North Dakota State University. REID, SHARON L. (1974) Proposal/Grant Services Manager. Certified Research KRATZER, DANIEL L. (2005) Head Football Administrator. Coach, Intercollegiate Athletics; Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Education. Additive Manufacturing Laboratory (AML) B.S., Missouri Valley College. M.S., Central Missouri State University. SEARS, JAMES W. (2002) Director. A.S., Black Hawk College; B.S., M.S., Ph.D., University of Illinois. 366 Faculty, Administration, and Governance
CARTER, MICHAEL J. (2006) Research Computational Mechanics Laboratory Scientist II, Additive Manufacturing Laboratory (AML). B.S., M.S., South Dakota School of LANGERMAN, MICHAEL A. (1992) Co- Mines and Technology. Director.; Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering. B.S., M.S., South Dakota School of MILLER, SETH. (2007) Research Scientist II, Mines and Technology; Ph.D., University of Additive Manufacturing Laboratory (AML). B.S., Idaho. South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. MUCI, KARIM, H. (2002) Co-Director.; Advanced Materials Processing and Joining Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Laboratory (AMP) Engineering. B.S., M.S., ITESM, Monterrey Campus-Mexico; Ph.D., Iowa State University. ARBEGAST, WILLIAM J. (2001) Director. Registered Professional Engineer (Mexico). B.S., Colorado School of Mines. Composites and Polymer Engineering Engineering and Mining Experiment Station Laboratory (CAPE) (EMES) WINTER, ROBB M. (1988) Co-Director DUKE, EDWARD F. (1984) Manager of (Academics); Chair and Professor, Department of Analytical Services; Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering. B.A., Geology and Geological Engineering. B.S., Dickinson State University; M.S., Ph.D., Beloit College; M.A., Ph.D., Dartmouth College. University of Utah.
LINGENFELTER, DAVID R. (1997) Research DOLAN, DANIEL F. (1981) Co-Director Scientist I. B.S., Montana Tech. (Research); Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering; Co-Director, Center of Excellence Center for Accelerated Applications at the for Advanced Manufacturing and Production. Nanoscale (CAAN) B.S., M.S., Ph.D., University of Minnesota.
DECKER, SHAWN P. (2004) Director. B.S., Institute of Atmospheric Sciences Northwestern Oklahoma State University, Ph.D., Kansas State University. HELSDON JR., JOHN H. (1979) Director, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences; Dean of KIM, NAM-SOO (PETER) (2005) Research Graduate Education; Professor, Department of Scientist I (Postdoctoral Fellow); B.S., Korea Atmospheric Sciences. B.S., Trinity College; University; M.S., Korea University; Ph.D., South M.S., Ph.D., State University of New York- Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Albany.
Center for Bioprocessing Research and BENSON, RANDALL P. (2002) Fire Development (CBRD) Meteorologist. B.F.A., Texas Christian University; M.S., University of Utah; Ph.D., BANG, SOOKIE S. (1985) Interim Director, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering (Biology). B.S., M.S., CAI, ZHONG TAO (1999) Research Scientist II. Seoul National University-Korea; Ph.D., B.S., East China Institute of Chemical University of California-Davis. Technology-Shanghai.
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CAPEHART, WILLIAM J. (1997) Associate Dartmouth College. Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences and Institute of Atmospheric Sciences. B.S., DURKIN, THOMAS V. (1999) Deputy Director University of North Carolina-Asheville; M.S., and Outreach Coordinator. A.S., Nassau Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University. Community College; B.S., Adelphi University; M.S., South Dakota School of Mines and DETWILER, ANDREW G. (1987) Professor, Technology. Licensed Professional Geologist Department of Atmospheric Sciences and Institute (Wyoming); Certified Professional Geologist. of Atmospheric Sciences. B.S., University of Michigan; M.S., Ph.D., State University of New York-Albany. STUDENT AFFAIRS
FARLEY, RICHARD D. (1974) Research MAHON, PATRICIA G. (2000) Vice President, Scientist IV. B.S., M.S., South Dakota School of Student Affairs and Dean of Students. B.S., M.S., Mines and Technology. Montana State University-Billings; Ph.D., Kansas State University. FARWELL, SHERRY O. (1995) Research Scientist IV. B.S., M.S., South Dakota School of ROMANO, MARIE A. (1999) Senior Secretary. Mines and Technology; Ph.D., Montana State University. Alcohol Education
HJELMFELT, MARK R. (1988) Chair and FARRINGTON, MARY JO (2005) Campuses Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences; Community Prevention Coalition Program Professor, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences. Coordinator. B.A. Colorado Women’s College; B.S., Kansas State University; M.S., South M.A. Columbia University. Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Ph.D., University of Chicago. Campus Ministry
KLICHE, DONNA V. (1994) Research Scientist CONROY, JOANN (2001) Lutheran Campus II and Computer Programmer. B.S., Faculty of Ministry Representative. Physics-Bucharest, Romania; M.S., Georgia Institute of Technology; M.S., South Dakota BIEGLER, FR. STEVE (2007) Newman Center. School of Mines and Technology. NAUGEN, NANCY (2007) Newman Center. SUNDARSHWAR, PALLAOOR V. (2003) Assistant Professor, Department of Atmospheric DEMEREST, RICK (1987) Inter Varsity Sciences and Institute of Atmospheric Sciences. Christian Fellowship Representative. B.S., M.S., University of Bombay; Ph.D., University of South Carolina-Columbia. FANNIN, HEATHER (1998) International Students, Inc. Representative. UPDEGRAFF, KAREN L. (2003) Research Scientist I. B.A., Earlham College; M.S., Ph.D., FANNIN, KEVIN (1998) International Students, University of Minnesota. Inc. Representative.
South Dakota Space Grant Consortium HASAM, RAFIG (2004) Muslim Student Association Representative. DUKE, EDWARD F. (1984) Director; Professor, Department of Geology and Geological HERNANDEZ, PHILLIP (2004) United Engineering. B.S., Beloit College; M.A., Ph.D., Campus Ministry Representative. 368 Faculty, Administration, and Governance
Career Center Student Activities and Leadership Center
SAWYER, DARRELL R. (1997) Director. KEEGAN, MICHAEL A. (2006) Director. B.S., B.A., M.A., University of South Dakota. Saint Cloud State University.
Child-care Services Surbeck Scheduling
Services contracted through Kids Kastle Little LINDSLEY, STEPHANIE (2004) Program Miner’s Clubhouse. Assistant II, Surbeck Center. B.S., Black Hills State University. Counseling and Student ADA Services UNIVERSITY AND PUBLIC McCOY, JOLIE A. (1997) Director of Counseling; Student ADA Coordinator. B.S., RELATIONS M.S.W., University of Texas at Austin. SMORAGIEWICZ, JULIE A. (1994) Vice WILEY, SCOTT R. (2005) Counselor and President for University and Public Relations. Prevention Coordinator. B.S., Indiana Wesleyan B.A., M.Ed., University of Toledo. University; M.S., South Dakota State University DOMINICAK, SHARON F. (2004) Senior Secretary. Health Services ROBERTS, PETER J. (2007) Regional Services contracted through Creekside Family Admissions and Community Relations Developer, Practice. Sioux Falls. B.S., Iowa State University; M.Ed. University of Oklahoma. Ivanhoe International Center Admissions AADLAND, SUSAN R. (1989) Director. B.S., Northern State University; M.S., University of CLAYMORE, CHARLES (TEX) D. (2006) South Dakota. Director. B.S., B.A., University of North Dakota.
Multicultural Affairs CARTER, CHRISTI R. (2006) Assistant Director. B.A., Washington State University. CARTER, BRUCE L. (2005) Director. B.A., Southwest State University. HANSEN, BARBARA A. (2004) Admissions Counselor. A.A., Central Wyoming College; Residence Life, Surbeck Center, and B.A., Meredith College. Scheduling and Conferences VACANT. Admissions Counselor. WILSON, MAUREEN C. (1999) Director; Judicial Affairs. B.A., Northern State University; Financial Aid M.A., Eastern New Mexico University, Portales. MARTIN, DAVID W. (2000) Director. B.A., HOLT, CHERYL L. (2007) Residence Hall Tarkio College. Director, Palmerton Hall. Communications and Marketing KELLY, SARAH E. (2007) Residence Hall Director, Peterson Hall. VANDER VORST, MITCHELL S. (2006)
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Director. B.A., Westmont College. development of policy, the governance of the university, strategic planning, and the fiscal BISHOP, BREANNA V. (2005) Public operation of the university. The University Information Coordinator. B.S., Minnesota State Cabinet consists of: the president, assistant to the University. president, provost and vice president for academic affairs, vice president for business and POYOUROW, MELINDA A. (2002) administration, vice president for student affairs Publications Manager. B.F.A., Kearney State and dean of students, vice president for university College. and public relations, vice president for research, SDSM&T Foundation president, chair of the Summer/Educational Programs and faculty senate, director of the Alumni Association, Professional Conferences Dean of Graduate Education, dean of the college of engineering, dean of the college of science and ANDERSON-SMITH, NANCY (2005) Director. letters, chair of the exempt employees council, B.S., St. Cloud State University. chair of the career service council, president of the student association, and the director of facility GOVERNANCE services.
Career Service Council The South Dakota School of Mines and The Career Service Act employees elect the Technology is one of six universities operating Career Service Council members. under the authority assigned by the Constitution of the State of South Dakota to the nine member Exempt Employees Council Board of Regents. The mission of the university The Exempt Employees Advisory Council is is established by the Legislature of the State of elected by the administrative employees who are South Dakota with programs and organization exempt from the Career Service Act of the state of approved by the Board of Regents. The president South Dakota. is delegated to administer the operation of the university. The traditional collegial process of Faculty Senate shared governance for the formation of policies The Faculty Senate consists of nine voting and oversight includes representative members, two non-voting (ex-officio) members organizations to provide recommendations to the and is chaired by the chair of the Faculty Senate. president for implementation as appropriate. Three voting members each are elected from the
engineering, science, and liberal arts faculty. The Councils ex-officio members are the vice president for
research and the provost and vice president for Executive Council academic affairs. All faculty members may vote The Executive Council is the principal in the election of representatives from their administrative unit at the university. The council discipline and each is eligible for election as a members are the president, assistant to the president, discipline representative. provost and vice president for academic affairs, vice Student Association president for business and administration, vice The Senate of the Student Association is the president for student affairs and dean of students, vice elected representative council for the formation of president for university and public relations, vice recommendations on behalf of enrolled students, president for research, SDSM&T Foundation including the fees charged to students and the president, chair of the faculty senate, and director of operation of student activities funded through the Alumni Association. student fees. University Cabinet The University Cabinet meets at the call of the president and advises the president concerning the 370 Faculty, Administration, and Governance
Mines Matters: Amid 70-mile-an-hour winds and freezing Antarctic conditions, School of Mines researchers Dr. James Martin and Dr. Foster Sawyer recovered the well-preserved fossil skeleton of a juvenile plesiosaur—a marine reptile that swam the waters of the southern ocean more than 70 million years ago. The fossil remains represent one of the most complete plesiosaur skeletons ever found and is thought to be the best-articulated fossil skeleton ever recovered from Antarctica.
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Atmospheric Sciences Minor...... 137 A Attendance...... 43 Academic Advising ...... 64 Audited Courses and Registrations for No Credit ...... 48 ACADEMIC AFFAIRS...... 361 B Academic Amnesty ...... 40 Academic and Enrollment Services...... 361 Bachelor of Science Graduation Requirements...... 50 Academic Calendar ...... 2, 45 Biology...... 140 Academic Loads...... 175 Biomedical Engineering M.S. and Ph.D...... 197 Academic Organization...... 35 Black Hills Natural Sciences Field Station...... 364 Academic Organizations ...... 87 Black Hills Natural Sciences Field Station (BHNSFS)..66 Academic Orientation...... 64 Bookstore ...... 66, 365 Academic Scheduling...... 79 BUSINESS AND ADMINISTRATION ...... 365 Academic Support Services...... 64 Business Applications in Science and Technology: .....150 Academic Terms Defined ...... 45 Business Services (Purchasing /Telecommunications) 365 Accreditation...... 8 C Additional Admissions Policies and Practices ...... 19 Additive Manufacturing Laboratory (AML) ...... 366 Campus Buildings ...... 9 ADMINISTRATION...... 361 Campus Clearing Policy ...... 43 Administrative Services (Accounting/Budget/Cashiering) Campus Environmental Health and Safety ...... 365 ...... 365 Campus Map ...... 377 Admission to Candidacy...... 188 Campus Ministry ...... 80, 368 Admission to the Graduate School ...... 170 Campus Safety...... 12 Admissions...... 14, 369 Career Center...... 80, 369 Admissions Requirements...... 14 Career Service Council...... 370 Advanced Materials Processing and Joining Lab (AMP) Center for Accelerated Applications at the Nanoscale ...... 67 (CAAN)...... 367 Advanced Materials Processing and Joining Laboratory Center of Excellence for Advanced Manufacturing and (AMP)...... 367 Production (CAMP) ...... 66, 362 Advanced Placement Program (AP) ...... 46 Certificate Programs...... 123 Advanced-Degree Grade Requirements ...... 177 Certification for the Degree...... 180 Alcohol and Drug Policy...... 61 Change of Major ...... 173 Alcohol Education...... 368 Chemical and Biological Engineering Ph.D...... 203 Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Prevention Program Chemical Engineering B.S...... 92 (ATOD) ...... 82 Chemical Engineering M.S...... 201 Alternate Criteria for Minimum Course Requirements Chemistry B.S...... 141 ...... 15 Child-care Services ...... 369 Anti-Harassment Policy ...... 61 Child-Care Services ...... 81 Apex Gallery ...... 88 Civil Engineering B.S...... 98 Appeal Procedure ...... 180 Civil Engineering M.S...... 207 Application for Tuition and Fee Reductions and Classification of Undergraduate Students ...... 36 Scholarships Established by the Legislature ...... 20 College Level Examination Program (CLEP) ...... 46 Application Submission...... 20 College of Engineering...... 362 Applications and Procedures ...... 20 College of Science and Letters ...... 363 Applied and Computational Mathematics B.S. and Collegiate Assessment of Academic Proficiency...... 56 Minor...... 159 Communications and Marketing ...... 77, 369 Applied Geology Specialization ...... 145 Community Service Organizations...... 87 Assistantships and Fellowships for Graduate Students Completion of Pre General Education Courses...... 53 ...... 172 Composites and Polymer Engineering Laboratory Associate Degree ...... 50 (CAPE ...... 367 Associate Degree Admissions for High School Composites and Polymer Engineering Laboratory Graduates ...... 15 (CAPE) ...... 69 Associate of Arts Degree A.A...... 135 Computational Mechanics Laboratory ...... 69, 367 Associate Vice President For Academic Affairs...... 361 Computer and Network Usage Guidelines and Policy..57 Athletic Organizations...... 87 Computer Engineering B.S...... 102 Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences Ph.D...... 190 Computer Science B.S. and Minor ...... 106 Atmospheric Sciences ...... 149 Computer Science M.S...... 208 Atmospheric Sciences M.S...... 194 Concurrent Enrollment in Ph.D./M.S. Programs...... 174 372 Faculty, Administration, and Governance
Conduct...... 43 Dual Majors...... 182 Continuing Registration...... 174 Dual Use of Credit...... 47 Councils ...... 370 E Counseling and Student ADA Services ...... 369 Counseling and Student Americans with Disabilities Act E. Former Students...... 18 (ADA) Services ...... 81 Earth System Science Specialization ...... 146 Course Numbering System ...... 36 Educational Resources and Outreach Services ...... 66 Course Retake Policy...... 175 Educational/Summer Programs and Professional COURSES ...... 235 Conferences...... 77 Credit by Examination ...... 28 Electrical Engineering B.S...... 110 Credit by examination is not permitted if: ...... 47 Electrical Engineering M.S...... 210 Credit By University Examination...... 47 Electronic University Consortium ...... 23 Credit Definitions...... 55 Eligibility for Intercollegiate Athletics ...... 90 Credit Hours Definition...... 35 Emeriti Faculty...... 358 Credit Received Through Validation Methods ...... 46 Engineering and Mining Experiment Station (EMES) 70, Current Reduced Tuition Programs for Non-Residents 367 ...... 23 Engineering Management program...... 123 Curricular Requirements...... 54 Enrollment in Courses...... 37 Environmental Engineering B.S...... 114 D Equal Opportunity Policy ...... 9 Date for a Grade of W ...... 42 Establishing Bona Fide Residency...... 24 Deadlines for Adding Courses ...... 49 Exception Group ...... 16 Dean’s List Designation...... 41 Excused Absences for School Sponsored Events...... 43 Debit Card System...... 28 Executive Council...... 349, 370 Defense of the Dissertation...... 189 Exempt Employees Council...... 370 Definition of Grade Point Averages ...... 40 F DEFINITIONS OF ...... 235 Degree Abbreviations ...... 6 Facilities Services ...... 365 Degrees...... 8 Faculty...... 349 Department of Atmospheric Sciences ...... 363 Faculty Senate ...... 370 Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering 362 Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) of Department of Chemistry ...... 363 1974 or Buckley Amendment ...... 58 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering 362 Fees...... 28 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 362 Final Examination...... 183 Department of Geology and Geological Engineering .363 Final Examination Policy ...... 58 Department of Humanities...... 364 Financial Aid ...... 30, 369 Department of Industrial Engineering...... 363 Financial aid programs...... 30 Department of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering Freshman Checklist ...... 21 ...... 363 Full-Time/Half-Time Defined ...... 172 Department of Mathematics and Computer Science.. 364 Department of Mechanical Engineering...... 363 G Department of Military Science...... 364 General...... 35 Department of Mining Engineering and Management General Activity Fee ...... 28 ...... 363 General Education Core Requirements ...... 50 Department of Physical Education...... 364 General eligibility requirements for awarding Federal Department of Physics...... 364 Student Aid ...... 30 Department of Social Sciences ...... 364 General Requirements...... 50 Determining Whether Students Have Entered South Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Dakota for the Predominant Purpose of Attending a Sensing Lab...... 67 Public University...... 25 Geological Engineering B.S...... 119 Dining Services...... 82, 365 Geology and Geological Engineering M.S. and Ph.D..213 Disciplined Students ...... 19 Geology B.S. and Minor ...... 144 Distance Education Course Delivery Systems...... 72 GOVERNANCE...... 370 Distance Education Using Videoconferencing...... 72 Governor’s Electronic Classroom...... 72 Doctor of Philosophy degrees...... 170 Graduate Assistantships...... 173 DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY PROGRAMS...... 184 Graduate College Registration...... 174 Drama Club...... 89 Graduate Credit ...... 38 Drop and Add Period ...... 45 Graduate Education...... 364 Dual Enrollment of High School Students...... 19 Graduate Fellowships ...... 173 373 Index
Graduate Grading System ...... 178 Master of Science degrees...... 170 Graduate Housing...... 85 Materials Engineering and Science M.S...... 218 Graduate Programs...... 170 Materials Engineering and Science Ph.D...... 220 Graduate Student General Information ...... 170 Mathematics and Computer Science Double Major ...161 Graduate Studies ...... 6 Mechanical Engineering B.S...... 125 Graduate Studies in Chemistry ...... 206 Mechanical Engineering M.S...... 223 Graduate Studies in Physics...... 231 Medical Technology (MT)/Radiologic Technology (RT) Graduate Study in Metallurgical Engineering...... 226 ...... 150 Grants ...... 31 Message from the Dean of the College of Engineering 91, Graphic Design and Layout...... 78 134 Greek Organizations ...... 87 Message from the President ...... 4 Grievance Procedures for Students...... 60 Metallurgical Engineering B.S. and Minor...... 128 Military Science...... 163 H Minimum Course Requirements ...... 14 Health Services...... 82, 369 Minimum Progression Standards...... 40 History ...... 11 Minimum Registration ...... 175 Holidays ...... 45 Mining Engineering and Management B.S...... 131 Honor Societies...... 87 Minnesota Reciprocity...... 23 Human Resources ...... 9, 365 Minor in Computer Science ...... 107 Humanities ...... 158 Minor in Entrepreneurial Studies ...... 152 Minor In Geology...... 145 I Minor in Materials Science - Metals...... 129 Indebtedness...... 29 Minor in Materials Science - Polymers ...... 142 Industrial Engineering B.S...... 122 Minor in Mathematics ...... 161 Information Technology Services...... 365 Minor in Occupational Safety...... 123 Information Technology Services (ITS)...... 70 Minor or Supporting Fields...... 186 Information, Burden of Establishing Residency, Minors...... 35, 182 Reclassification...... 24 MISSION, VISION, AND GOAL...... 7 Institute of Atmospheric Sciences...... 367 Multicultural Affairs...... 83, 369 Institute of Atmospheric Sciences (IAS) ...... 73 Multicultural Organizations ...... 88 Institutional Credit Requirements for Degree-Seeking Museum of Geology ...... 76, 364 Students...... 55 Music Program...... 89 Intellectual Property Statement...... 63 N Interactive Supplemental Materials...... 72 Intercollegiate Athletics...... 89, 366 Nanoscience and Nanoengineering Ph.D...... 227 Interdisciplinary Sciences B.S...... 149 Nature and Purpose of the Doctoral Programs ...... 184 Interdisciplinary Sciences Core Courses ...... 151 Non-High School Graduates, Including Home Schooled International Baccalaureate (IB)...... 47 Students...... 16 International Student Admissions...... 171 Non-Traditional Students...... 16 International Student Enrollment...... 28 NSF Center for Friction Stir Processing (CFSP) ...... 67 Internet2 Videoconference Room...... 72 Nursing at the School of Mines ...... 19 Intramural Sports...... 90 O ITS Help Desk ...... 71 ITS Software Development Team...... 71 Off-Campus Housing ...... 85 Ivanhoe International Center ...... 83, 369 Office of the President ...... 361 Officers of the Board...... 8 L On-Campus Living...... 85 Lab Fee ...... 28 Overloads...... 49 Language Requirement...... 182 P Language Requirements...... 186 Late Payment Charge...... 28 Paleontology M.S...... 229 Leave of Absence...... 175 Paleontology Specialization...... 147 Library...... 75, 365 Pass-Fail Option for Graduate Students...... 180 Living Accommodations at School of Mines...... 84 Payment Process...... 28 Location ...... 12 PC Labs...... 71 Peer Advising...... 64 M Ph.D. Degree Requirements ...... 185 M.S. Degree Requirements ...... 181 Photography ...... 78 Mandatory Placement Procedure...... 49 Physical Education...... 165 374 Index
Physics B.S. and Minor ...... 166 Special Expenses for Engineering and Science...... 28 Policies and Procedures...... 57 Special Interest Organizations...... 88 Policy Governing Academic Integrity...... 62 Special Students ...... 174 Preadmission Immunization Requirements ...... 20 Sponsored Programs...... 366 Pre-law...... 152 STATEMENT OF PURPOSES ...... 7 Pre-medicine...... 152 STRATEGIC INITIATIVES ...... 7 Pre-Professional Health Sciences...... 150 Student Academic Freedom Rights ...... 59 Probation and Reinstatement Policy...... 179 Student Activities ...... 87 Program of Study...... 183, 187 Student Activities and Leadership Center...... 87, 369 Public Information and Media Relations...... 78 STUDENT AFFAIRS ...... 368 Publications ...... 78 Student Assessment...... 64 Purposes of Classification ...... 23 Student Association...... 88 Student Government Organizations...... 88 R Student loans ...... 31 Re-admission Following Withdrawal...... 43 Student Media ...... 88 Readmission Procedures ...... 17 Student Organizations ...... 87 Records Required ...... 20 Student Services ...... 80 Refunds...... 29 Student Success Publications ...... 64 Regental and Institutional Credit Requirements for Students from Accredited Colleges or Universities...... 18 Degree-Seeking Graduate Students...... 176 Students from Non-Accredited Colleges ...... 18 Regents Scholars ...... 17 Students who Transfer to Associate Programs...... 18 Registration ...... 45 Suicide Prevention Program ...... 82 Registration Changes...... 46 Summer Conference Services...... 78 Registration Retake Policy...... 48 Supervision of the Doctoral Program...... 186 Religious Organizations ...... 88 Supervision of the Master’s Program...... 182 Requests for Waivers...... 59 Surbeck Center Scheduling Services...... 78 Required Check-out Procedure...... 56 Surbeck Scheduling...... 369 RESEARCH AFFAIRS...... 366 Suspended Students ...... 19 Reservation of Rights ...... 3 T Reserving Facilities...... 79 Residence Hall Applications and Housing Agreements 84 Table of Contents ...... 5 Residence Hall Exemptions...... 85 Tablet PC Program...... 71 Residence Life ...... 84 Teaching Opportunities and Certification...... 152 Residence Life, Surbeck Center, and Scheduling and Tech Activities and Programs (TAP) ...... 88 Conferences ...... 369 Tech Ventures, Inc...... 13 Residence Requirements ...... 185 Technical Institute and Community College Credits...17 Resident and Nonresident Classification of Students ... 23 Technology Management M.S...... 232 Retention of Residence While in Military Service ...... 25 The Center for Accelerated Applications at the Nanoscale (CAAN) ...... 68 S The Comprehensive Examination ...... 187 Scholarships and Fellowships from the School of Mines The Council on Graduate Education...... 170 ...... 32 The Dissertation ...... 188 Science Minors available to IS Students ...... 151 The Qualifying Examination...... 187 Science, Technology, and Society ...... 150 Thesis...... 183 SDSM&T Alumni Association...... 12 Thesis and Non-Thesis Options...... 181 SDSM&T Foundation ...... 13 Time Limitation ...... 184, 189 Semester Credit and Grade-Point Average...... 55 Transcript Fee ...... 28 Six Sigma program ...... 123 Transcript of Credits ...... 43 Social Sciences...... 169 Transfer Checklist...... 21 Software and Intellectual Rights ...... 63 Transfers to Baccalaureate Programs...... 17 Software Copyright Statement ...... 63 Tuition and Fees...... 27 South Dakota Board of Regents...... 8 Tutoring ...... 64 South Dakota Board of Regents Minimum Two Bachelor of Science Degrees From South Dakota Undergraduate Admissions Requirements ...... 14 School of Mines and Technology...... 50 South Dakota Local Transportation Assistance Program U ...... 364 South Dakota Public Higher Education Institutions ...... 8 Undergraduate Grading System...... 38 South Dakota Space Grant Consortium ...... 76, 368 Undergraduate International Student Admission...... 21 Special (Non-degree Seeking) Students...... 19 Undergraduate Pass-Fail Option...... 47 375 Index
Undergraduate Studies...... 5 Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students Undergraduate Transfer Admission ...... 17 ...... 80 Undergraduates Taking Graduate Courses/Graduates Visual and Performing Arts ...... 88 Taking Undergraduate Courses...... 176 W University and Public Relations ...... 77 University Cabinet...... 370 Withdrawal from the University...... 42 University Information...... 8 Women In Science and Engineering (WISE)...... 362 University Support Fee...... 28 Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) program .79 Work opportunities for part-time employment...... 32 V Work Taken at Another Institution ...... 177 Vehicle Registration...... 28
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