Whois & Analysis for sdsmt.edu

The South Dakota School of Mines and Technology — commonly referred to as SDSM&T, Tech, or Mines — is a public institution of higher learning in Rapid City, South Dakota, governed by the South Dakota Board of Regents.

Founded in 1885 as the Dakota School of Mines, Tech offers degree programs in engineering and science fields.

2,311 students were enrolled in fall 2011, rising to 2,843 in 2015.

The school athletic teams are called the Hardrockers.

Rapid City ("Swift Water City") is the second-largest city in South Dakota (after Sioux Falls) and the county seat of Pennington County.

Named after Rapid Creek, on which the city is established, it is set against the eastern slope of the Black Hills mountain range.

The population was 67,956 as of the 2010 Census.

Known as the "Gateway to the Black Hills" and the "City of Presidents", it is split by a low mountain ridge that divides the western and eastern parts of the city.

Ellsworth Air Force Base is located on the outskirts of the city.

Camp Rapid, a part of the South Dakota Army National Guard, is located in the western part of the city.

The historic "Old West" town of Deadwood is nearby.

In the neighboring Black Hills are the popular tourist attractions of Mount Rushmore, the Crazy Horse Memorial, Custer State Park, and Wind Cave National Park.

Engineering is the application of mathematics and scientific, economic, social, and practical knowledge in order to invent, innovate, design, build, maintain, research, and improve structures, machines, tools, systems, components, materials, processes, solutions, and organizations.

Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.

Research comprises "creative work undertaken on a systematic basis in order to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of humans, culture and society, and the use of this stock of knowledge to devise new applications." It is used to establish or confirm facts, reaffirm the results of previous work, solve new or existing problems, support theorems, or develop new theories.

A research project may also be an expansion on past work in the field.

Research projects can be used to develop further knowledge on a topic, or in the example of a school research project, they can be used to further a student's research prowess to prepare them for future jobs or reports.

To test the validity of instruments, procedures, or experiments, research may replicate elements of prior projects or the project as a whole.

The primary purposes of basic research (as opposed to applied research) are documentation, discovery, interpretation, or the research and development (R&D) of methods and systems for the advancement of human knowledge.

Approaches to research depend on epistemologies, which vary considerably both within and between humanities and sciences.

There are several forms of research: scientific, humanities, artistic, economic, social, business, marketing, practitioner research, life, technological,etc.