CEE Graduate Programs
The Civil and Environmental Engineering Department offers thesis and non-thesis MS degrees in civil engineering and a non-thesis MS degree in construction management. Students may also participate in the interdisciplinary Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences and Materials Engineering and Science PhD programs on campus. For more information about our MS program in construction management, click here.
Your future begins now.
The graduate school you choose determines the launching point of your professional career in consulting engineering, government, or construction, and your options for additional graduate or post-graduate studies.
Make the right choice: Go to Mines
Our faculty care about making your graduate studies the rock-solid foundation of a great career in engineering.
Our research programs address today’s most pressing engineering problems; join us, and you can make a real-world difference now and position yourself for success after graduate school.
We offer you world class education with global perspective in a department where your individual contributions matter.
Cutting Edge Research Programs
Engineering is an applied science, and graduate research is how you show you have what it takes. Our faculty have established reputations of excellence and provide you with exciting opportunities for making your own contribution to cutting-edge research projects such as:
- Developing thermally resistant composite materials for lunar habitats (Robinson).
- Developing stronger, lighter, and more corrosion resistant components for improved performance of aircraft systems (Fick).
- Determining the fate and transport of mercury within airsheds and water bodies (Stone).
- Developing geo-biological dust control techniques for construction or waste sites (Bang).
- Performing life cycle assessment modeling to prepare agricultural processes for a carbon-constrained and sustainability-aware marketplace (Stone).
- Optimizing pavement and base course material recycling to yield less expensive, longer-lasting roadways (Bang).
- Analyzing the effects of unsaturated soil properties on riverbank stability (Nam).
- Developing pervious concrete to reduce runoff and prevent sediments from reaching streams and rivers (Hansen).
- Characterizing arsenic transport in mining-impacted waterways (Stone).
- Investigating the influence of unsaturated soil characteristics on pavement systems (Nam).
- Evaluating response of wind turbine structures to wind loads (Fick).
- Stormwater management and microbial source tracking in Rapid City and on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota (Kenner and Benning).
- Characterizing emissions of organic compounds from green building materials (Benning).
- Predicting the response of structures to fire, blast, and other extreme loads (Surovek).
- Investigating soil parameters for the most advanced design and evaluation tool, the Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG), for better pavement design (Nam).
Research Facilities
The Black Hills Power Renewable Energy Research Facility provides students and faculty with a state-of-the-art laboratory for research and design of next-generation solar and wind technology.
The Biogeochemistry Core Facility contains cutting-edge instrumentation to support student and faculty ecological and environmental research. For more information, see www.ias.sdsmt.edu/bcf/bcf.htm.
The Advanced Materials Processing Center is the lead in a consortium which teams universities with government, national laboratories and industry sponsors for research and development of materials joining, fabrication, and repair technologies.
The Geotechnical Laboratory has the state’s most comprehensive set of equipment to support geotechnical research, including a single apparatus for triaxial shear, consolidation/swell, and unconfined compression testing and facilities for advanced testing of asphalt and soil.
The Rama Materials Laboratory is equipped with instrumentation and data acquisition equipment for testing novel materials, mechanical systems and structural components.
Ready to get started?
Apply online at: http://graded.sdsmt.edu/prospective/apply/
Admissions for International Students
The Ivanhoe International Center at SDSM&T provides assistance to international students. For information on admissions and programs, see http://international.sdsmt.edu/.
Ivanhoe International Center
501 East Saint Joseph Street
Rapid City, SD 57701-3995
Telephone: (605) 394-6884
Fax: (605) 394-6883
Email: Ivanhoe@sdsmt.edu
