Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

South Dakota Mines

Fall 2023 - Industry Advisory Board

Agenda - Monday 9/25/2023

730 - Welcome
800 - Overview
900 - Classroom Visit
1000 - Department Funding
1100 - Elevate Rapid City
1200 - Lunch
1330 - Data Science and Engineering
1430 - Curriculum Forum
1600 - Student Meet + Greet
1800 - Dinner

SDSMT Fast Facts

SDSMT Rankings

  • #1 in seven categories, including best college, best value, top public university, and best academics (Niche)
  • Top 1% of the best small colleges in America (Niche)
  • Top Regional University in South Dakota and #4 in the Midwest (US News and World report)
  • Top Colleges for 2022 (Forbes)
  • Ranked 27th out of 710 public universities for lifetime earnings (Georgetown University)
  • #3 best university in the nation for veterans graduate school category (Military Friendly)
  • Top 1% for multiple engineering degrees in both regional and national rankings (College Factual)

SDSMT Enrollment

Undergraduate students: 2164

Graduate students: 329

Total: 2493

Tuition and fees: ~ $10K
Yearly cost: ~ $21K

Placement: 98%

Average starting salary: $70,036
Number of employers: 186

EECS Department

Overview

  • Administration

    • Jeff McGough - Head
    • Tom Montoya - Associate Head
    • Jenn Dusek - Program Assistant
    • Jason Ward - Lab Coordinator

  • EECS full time faculty: 15

  • EECS total faculty: 21

Faculty and Staff

  • Francis Akowuah (CS)
  • Nate Belcher (CS)
  • Brian Butterfield (CS)
  • Neha Choudhary (EE)
  • Jenn Dusek (EECS)
  • Randy Hoover (CS/DSE)
  • Christer Karlsson (CS)
  • Rohan Loveland (CS)
  • Val Manes (CS)
  • Jeff McGough (EECS)
  • Reza Mehrabian (CENG)
  • Tom Montoya (EE)
  • Larry Pyeatt (CENG)
  • Lisa Rebenitsch (CS)
  • Kai Ren (EE)
  • Roger Schrader (CS)
  • Larry Simonson (EE)
  • Shannon Thornburg (EE)
  • Jason Ward (EECS)
  • Long Zhao (EE)

Our Students

  • CENG Enrollment
    • 2022-2023: 78
  • CS Enrollment
    • 2022-2023: 215
  • EE Enrollment
    • 2022-2023: 174

  • Computer Engineering Placement rate: 100%

  • Computer Science Placement rate: 98%

  • Electrical Engineering Placement rate: 100%

  • Computer Engineering Average Starting Salary: $73,357

  • Computer Science Average Starting Salary: $82,998

  • Electrical Engineering Average Starting Salary: $72,182

Curriculum

Undergraduate degrees

  • B.S. Computer Engineering

  • B.S. Computer Science

  • B.S. Computer Science - AI & ML Specialization

  • B.S. Computer Science - Cybersecurity Specialization

  • B.S. Electrical Engineering

  • B.S. Computer Science -
    VIC Specialization - Terminating

Graduate degrees

  • M.S. Computer Science and Engineering
  • M.S. Electrical Engineering
  • Ph.D. Data Science and Engineering
  • Ph.D. Electrical Engineering

Minors

  • Avionics
  • Computer science
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Electronics Engineering & Tech. - Terminating
  • Robotics
  • Systems Engineering

EECS - What we do

  • Antennas & Microwave
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Avionics & Embedded Systems
  • Communication systems
  • Control Systems
  • Cybersecurity
  • Cyber Physical Systems
  • Data Science
  • High Performance Computing
  • Machine Learning
  • Power & Energy systems
  • Robotics & Autonomous Systems
  • Virtual Reality

EECS Space Update

EEP

This summer, the third floor of EEP was renovated.

Labs and spaces in EEP: 307B, 308, 309, 312, 329, 330, 332, 333, 334, 335, 336, 337, 338, 339, 340, 342 - all saw improvements.


New signs, lights, paint, plumbing, AV, benches, desks, chairs, acoustic, panels…

Note - we are not done.

  • Dept Signage
  • More walls to paint
  • Acoustic mitigation
  • Green monsters covered
  • Artwork in labs, conference room, common areas
  • New chairs and tables for labs
  • Student Hub

Student/Instructional Lab Names

  • EEP 307B: Power Systems Lab
  • EEP 335: Innovation.Design.Engineering.Advancement.
  • EEP 336: Circuits Lab
  • EEP 338: Communications Lab
  • EEP 340: Scott Rausch Avionics Lab
  • EEP 341: Roy Hoffman Digital Systems Lab
  • EEP 342: Electronics Lab
  • EEP 337: EECS Hub (student lounge)
  • M303: CS Instructional Lab

Research Labs

  • EEP 213: Antennas and Microwave Sensing
  • EEP 241: Industrial Projects Lab
  • EEP 307A: Smart Grid
  • EEP 339: Cyber Physical Systems and Robotics Lab
  • M104: ML/AI Lab
  • M108: Virtual Reality Lab

EECS Dept Space

  • EEP 311 - EECS Main Office
  • EEP 312 - EECS Mailboxes and supply room
  • EEP 330/331 - EECS Shop
  • EEP 308/333 - Instructional Lab storage
  • EEP 127 - Cold storage
  • EEP 244 - Grad student office
  • M 102 - Computer Systems storage

EECS Student Orgs

  • 3D Print Club
  • ACM/Programming Team
  • Cyberdefense
  • IEEE student chapter
  • IEEE-HKN Honor Society
  • Roboat
  • Robotics Team
  • Unmanned Aerial Systems Team

CAMP manages Robotics, UAS & 3D Print Club

Curriculum

EECS Mission


The goal is to produce engineers.


Individuals who can solve problems for people.


We don’t produce programmers or technicians.


We focus on human centered design and problem solving.

CS Flowchart

EE Flowchart

CENG Flowchart

Capstone Design

  • Capstone Design I and II: CENG/CSC/EE 463 & 467
  • Credit change for EE
  • Uniform description
  • Follows ABET’s course description language
  • Brian Butterfield instructing

EECS - Curriculum recent changes

  • New EE/CS/CENG 110 Course
  • New EE 120 Course
  • More EE electives
  • More Data Science and AI offerings
  • Rework of CENG core curriculum
  • Rework of senior design into capstone design
  • Termination of EET minor and VR specialization
  • Addressing math issues

EECS IAB

Department - Future Plans and Funding

Curriculum initiative: Data Science

  • Data Science BS
  • Do we keep the CS-AI and Math-DS specializations?
  • Data Science MS
  • Provide an online option for DSE.

Curriculum initiative: Electrical Engineering

  • 2+2 articulation
  • 2 years at a community college and 2 years at SDM.
  • Assured transfer and admission.

CS Curriculum

  • Understanding and addressing AI impact (ChatGPT, etc)
  • Meeting the needs going forward
  • Security content
  • ML content

Curriculum concern: CENG and EE

  • Low Enrollment in CENG.
  • Dropping enrollment nationwide in EE.
  • How to recruit in CENG and EE?
  • What is the future of CENG?
  • What about EE?

Enrollment concern

  • CSC Section sizes large
  • Upper level CSC courses need to run ever semester
  • CSC 170, EE 301/303 - bursting
  • CENG 244, EE 220/221 - depends on Larry Simonson
  • Need adjuncts for both CSC and EE.

EECS Plans - Short term

  • Dept Signage - better marketing
  • Acoustic mitigation in labs
  • Green monsters removed
  • Finishing the conference room and common areas.
  • New chairs and/or tables for 334, 335, 338 labs
  • Avionics lab

EECS Plans - Medium term

  • Power Systems lab (EEP 307B)
  • Communications lab (EEP 338)
  • Circuits lab (EEP 336)
  • IDEA lab (EEP 334/335)
  • Scholarships

EECS Plans - Longer term

  • Renovation of EEP
    • New building front
    • Third floor over EEP 252
    • Offices and labs added
    • Merge student teams in EEP

EECS - This is the way.





Questions?