South Dakota School of Mines and Technology embraces research to solve the problems of industry, the military, government agencies, and to generate economic development in Rapid City, the Black Hills, and the state of South Dakota.
Research Funding
School of Mines faculty members and researchers received more than 90 research awards totaling nearly $21 million during the 2009 fiscal year. The funding came from many different agencies, including the Army Research Laboratory, Air Force Research Laboratory, National Science Foundation, NASA, U.S. Department of the Interior, the State of South Dakota, and more.
Research and Development Initiatives
- Additive Manufacturing Laboratory
- Advanced Materials Processing (AMP) and Joining Lab
- Black Hills Natural Sciences Field Station
- The Center for Accelerated Applications at the Nanoscale (CAAN)
- Center for BioEnergy Research and Development (NSF I/UCRC)
- Center for Bioprocessing Research and Development (CBRD)
- Center of Excellence for Advanced Manufacturing and Production (CAMP)
- Composite and Polymer Engineering Laboratory (CAPE)
- Computational Mechanics Laboratory (CML)
- Direct Write Laboratory
- Engineering and Mining Experiment Station (EMES)
- Institute of Atmospheric Sciences (IAS)
- Museum of Geology
- South Dakota Space Grant Consortium
- Supersonic Wind Tunnel
