Our Mission is to Improve Undergraduate STEM Education at South Dakota Mines. We are endeavoring to explore alternative opportunities for our students by putting put an "A" into STEM to create an exciting and diverse STEAM education. The goal is that the "A" or art component will create opportunities for students to approach engineering problems and real-world challenges from an innovative mindset.
We are creating an academic program which integrates art concepts into undergraduate engineering programs with the goals of increased student innovation, creativity, collegiality, and entrepreneurship, while broadening the undergraduate talent pool.
Positive outcomes can be achieved through strategic curricular and co-curricular modifications that integrate and embrace STEAM program development. Outcomes targeted include innovation, creativity, collegiality, entrepreneurship, and broadening of the STEM talent pool.