Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

South Dakota Mines

Welcome to SD Mines

Pardon our dust

Renovation of the third floor of this building.

Main space for the Electrical Engineering and  Computer Science Department

More on this in a few slides.

Now…. about Mines (https://www.sdsmt.edu/About/)

About South Dakota Mines

#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) and 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)

About South Dakota Mines

Undergraduate students: 2164

Graduate students: 329

Total: 2493

Tuition and fees: $10,440

Yearly cost: $20,520

Placement: 97%

Average starting salary: $68,685

Number of employers: 178

Grads staying in SD: 43%

Electrical Engineering and  Computer Science Department

• Administration

  • Jeff McGough - Head

  • Tom Montoya - Associate Head

  • Jenn Dusek - Program Assistant

• EECS full time faculty: 15

• EECS total faculty: 21

EECS

EE & CENG & CS

EE (Hardware)

• Electronics and power systems
• Electromagnetics and communications

CENG (Digital Systems)

• Embedded Systems
• Sensors and Interfacing

CS (Software)

• Algorithms and Computation Theory
• Programming and Data Science

Emphasis on fundamentals with hands-on, project-based learning.

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.

Engineering Degrees

ABET (accreditation)

External quality control

 

What is the difference between two and four year degrees?

Engineering is about Problem solving and Design.

 

Why college? Why not youtube or online programs?

What if this was your doctor or lawyer?

What about AI?

GPT4 (ChatGPT) has been in the news frequently.
How will this affect jobs?

Many assume that the impact will be one of the most signficant technologies we have created. Time will tell.

What we do know is that some jobs are likely to be replaced.

A bit like blacksmiths and wheelwrights. So, which jobs?

AI impact on EECS Jobs

Coders and web developers appear to be at risk.

The two year, vocational or certificate based IT jobs appear to be at risk.

Software engineer, computer scientist, computer engineer, electrical engineer are design based and not programming based.

Our Students

• CENG Enrollment
  • Fall 2022: 74
• CS Enrollment
  • Fall 2022: 197
• EE Enrollment
  • Fall 2022: 140

• 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

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

Graduate degrees

• M.S. Computer Science and Engineering

• M.S. Electrical Engineering

• Ph.D. Data Science and Engineering

• Ph.D. Electrical Engineering

Lots of research opportunities.

Minors

• Avionics

• Computer science

• Electrical Engineering

• Electronics Engineering & Tech.

• Robotics

• Systems Engineering

EECS

• Antennas and Microwave
• Artificial Intelligence
• Avionics & Aerospace
• Communication systems
• Cybersecurity
• Control Systems
• Data Science
• Electronics
• Embedded Systems
• Machine Learning
• Virtual Reality
• Power & energy systems

Instructional Labs

Power Systems (EEP 307B)

Innovation.Design.Engineering.Advancement. (EEP 335)

Circuits (EEP 336)

Antennas, Electromagnetics and Comms (EEP 338)

Scott Rausch Avionics (EEP 340)

Roy Hoffman Digital Systems (EEP 341)

Electronics (EEP 342)

CS Instructional (M 303)

EECS Hub (EEP 337)

Research Labs

Antennas and Microwave Sensing (EEP 213)

Industrial Projects Lab (EEP 241)

Smart Grid (EEP 307A)

Cyber Physical Systems and Robotics (EEP 339)

ML/AI (M 104)

Virtual Reality (M 108)

Employers

3M
Active Countermeasures
Acuty
Amazon
Appareo Systems
Avantes
B-9 Creations
Banner Engineering
Benchmark Electronics
BH Information Security
Black & Veatch
Black Hills Energy
Blattner Energy
Blue Origin
Boeing
Capturis (NISC)
Cerner Corp
CHR Solutions
Ciena
Collins Aerospace
Community Reinvestment
Computers Unlimited
Daktronics
Delta Resources
Digi-Key
DISH
DISTek
Draper
DTCI/ESPN/Disney
EBB
EchoStar
Eden Medical
Endlas LC
Epic Systems
FAA

Facebook
FDM Group
FitPlan
Garmin
Golden West Telecomm.
Google
H2K Technologies
HomeMetrics
Honeywell
Innovative Systems
Interstates
John Deere
Kiewit
Kimberly-Clark
Kinze Manufacturing
L&T Technology
L3 Harris
Littelfuse
Lockheed Martin
Logan Aluminum
Los Alamos
Mayo Clinic
Medtronic
Microsoft
MKS2 Technologies
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Navy - NUPOC
NISC
Northrop Grumman
Nucor
OATI
OEM Solutions
Oracle
Orchard Events

Oshkosh Corporation
Patron GG
Phase Technologies
Pixel Pines
Plexus
ppi 365
Prisma Health
Raven Industries
Raytheon Missile Systems
Resource Data
RPM Innovations
Schneider Electric
SD BIT
Sencore
Siemens
Smiths Medical
SphereOI Studios
SpinFusion
Stripe
Synopsys
Syntel
Systems & Tech. Research
T-Mobile
The Schwan Food Co
Tinker AFB
U.S. Dept of Justice
USPS
Vishay
VRC Metal Systems
Western Area Power
Wolf Robotics
XpressRules

EECS Student Orgs

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

More clubs through the Student Association

CS Flowchart

EE Flowchart

CENG Flowchart

EECS - This is the way.

Questions?