Doctor's degree Mechanical Engineering - South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Doctor's degree Mechanical Engineering from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology is a Campus Ph.D Mechanical Engineering degree that prepares you for a Engineering career. The doctor of philosophy program in mechanical engineering consists of 80 total credits for a student entering the program with a B.S. degree . Students entering the program will be required to submit a plan of study and choose an advisor within the first two semesters of course work. The curriculum is designed around both options of entering the program with a Bachelor's of Science or Master's of Science degree. For the student designing their program around a B.S. degree , the course work includes 15 hours of core credits, 12 hours of minor credit requirements (if applicable), 29 hours of research publications, advanced field experience, and dissertation, and a remaining 24 credit hours of course work directly determined by the area of emphasis the student chooses to study. Students completing a doctoral degree are required to enroll for 24 doctoral thesis credits (ME 888) before receiving a degree (students can register for a maximum of 18 in one semester). Doctoral students may not register for thesis credits until the semester after they have passed their preliminary oral examinations. Each student's Advisory Committee, on behalf of the ME faculty, will evaluate individual student progress through qualifying and comprehensive exams, seminars, the publishing and presentation record of the student, and the dissertation defense process. Progress toward the Ph.D. degree is undertaken in several parts, including completion of the curriculum, a qualifying exam, a dissertation proposal defense, the preparation of the dissertation, a comprehensive examination, and the defense of the dissertation. There are three different stems, from which the student must choose one as an emphasis. The following section outlines the requirements for the different stems. View more details on South Dakota School of Mines and Technology . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Mechanical Engineering courses.