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December 19th

 

Fall 2009, Graduation

 

 

 

 

Our 2008-2009 B.Sc. graduates reported an average salary offer of $57,938.

 

Several students also joined MSc and PhD programs at SDSM&T or other Universities.

 

Major employers:

      Applied Control Equipment

      Ball Aerospace

      Black Hills Corporation

      Black Hills Nanosystems Corp.

      Black Hills Power

      Caterpillar

      Digi-Key Corporation

      EchoStar Corporation

      Garmin International

      Innovative Systems

      John Deere

      L-3 Communications

      Microsoft Corporation

      Montana-Dakota Utilities

      Nebraska Public Power District

      NorthWestern Energy

      Northrop Grumman

      Nucor Steel

      Orica USA Inc.

      Peabody Energy

      Power Engineers, Inc.

      PSNS & IMF    

      Rio Tinto Energy America

      Rockwell Collins

      Sandia National Laboratories

      Stinger Ghaffarian Tech.

      Tinker AFB Science & Eng.

      US Air Force Research Labs

      US Army ROTC

      US Navy Officer Programs

      US Public Health Service

 

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Welcome to the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department

Our vision demonstrates our department’s long-standing commitment to provide excellent, ‘world class’ quality undergraduate and graduate teaching programs in a vibrant academic environment, with the best faculty conducting and providing opportunities for nationally and internationally recognized research.

Our Graduate program major thrusts are focused on:
      Robotics, Microcontrollers, FPGAs and Embedded Systems
      Applied Electromagnetics, Microwave Circuits and Telecommunications    with an emphasis on direct-write enabling technology and materials

 

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ECE Department is Hiring!

Faculty openings at all levels are available at the ECE Department.

Click here for more information.

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Grad Student Gheethan’s Paper Awarded

Ahmad Gheethan has earned an Honorable Mention and a monetary award in the Student Paper Contest for the 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation.

Gheethan’s paper is titled  ‘The Design of Reconfigurable Planar Log-Periodic Dipole Array (LPDA) Using Switching Elements’, and his advisor is Dr. Dimitris Anagnostou.

[July 2009]


 EE Grad student Ahmad Gheethan

 

 

 

 

Department of Defense  Equipment Grant

The Army Research Office granted $224,000 for Antenna research equipment.  The new instruments will allow the measurement of reconfigurable antennas and microwave components for modern communication systems.

Learn more about antenna research at SDSM&T by clicking on the picture…

 [June 2009]

 


Reconfigurable Antennas @ SDSMT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Applied Electromagnetics Research at SDSM&T

Prof. Keith Whites, Mr. Anthony Amert (research engineer III), and Dr. Dimitrios Anagnostou received funding from the National Science Foundation for their project entitled “Multi-Scale Artificial Dielectric Materials and Their Applications.” 

[Nov. 2008]


Dr. Whites and Mr. Amert conducting electromagnetic measurements

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SDSM&T Takes 1st

In just its fifth year of competition, the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology captured first place in the Aero Design West remote-controlled airplane competition in Fort Worth, Texas. (more)

 

 

 

 

 

UAV Hoping to Repeat

The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Team will be competing in Georgia at the IARC competition later in July. Last year the team came home with $2400 and 1st Place. Take a look at their Promo video by clicking on the picture...