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South Dakota - School of Mines and Technology PhD in Mechanical Engineering
South Dakota - School of Mines and Technology

PhD in Mechanical Engineering

Rapid City, USA

4 Years

English

Full time

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Jan 2025

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Introduction

The Mechanical Engineering (ME) PhD program at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology allows students to reach the highest level of academic achievement. In addition to teaching in academia, program graduates can pursue careers at research centers in national laboratories and research & development (R&D) centers in automotive, aerospace, oil, and gas. Students will have a chance to work with faculty involved in research at the forefront of their fields and to publish in acclaimed journals.

They will conduct experimental/numerical/theoretical research in one of three areas-thermo-fluid sciences, solid mechanics & materials science, and robotics & controls. The program emphasizes flexibility, breadth, and depth: flexibility for the student and his/her doctoral committee to make choices; breadth across disciplines within and outside of mechanical engineering; and depth in one or more sub-disciplines. Graduates of the program will have demonstrated:
a) an ability to contribute new ideas, knowledge, applications, developments, and/or insights in an area of mechanical engineering;
b) a sufficient breadth of knowledge in their chosen areas within and outside of mechanical engineering;
c) an ability to formulate, and bring to meaningful completion, a research project.

NUMEROUS OPPORTUNITIES

The ME Graduate Studies and Research Program focuses on three primary areas of scientific research in mechanical engineering and engineering mechanics: fluid dynamics & thermal science, solid mechanics & material science, and robotics & controls. The research activities of the ME faculty involve both computational and experimental efforts across several departmental laboratories, including the Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics Systems (AIMS) lab; Center of Excellence for Advanced Manufacturing and Production (CAMP); Experimental and Computational Mechanics Laboratory (ECML); Fluids, Thermodynamics, and Heat Transfer lab; Joining and Mechanics of Polymers (JMP) lab; Laboratory of Engineered Multifunctional Materials and Alloys (LEMMA); Powerful high-performance computing cluster; and Robotics and Computational Kinematics Innovation (ROCKIN) Lab.
Strong research collaborations exist among these laboratories as well as campus-wide research centers, such as:
• Additive Manufacturing Laboratory (AML)
• Arbegast Materials Processing and Joining (AMP) lab
• Center for Security Printing and Anti-Counterfeiting
Technology (SPACT)
• Composites and Polymer Engineering (CAPE) lab
• Surface Engineering Research Center (SERC)

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