It's Time You Came to CAMP
South Dakota Mines offers students a unique opportunity to participate in a student-centered, hands-on, engineering program called CAMP, the Center of Excellence for Advanced Multidisciplinary Projects.
CAMP is a competitive, nationally-recognized program that brings together students, faculty, and industry leaders to partner on real-world projects. Students participating in CAMP can be part of a team preparing for national competition by building alternative
fuel vehicles, a concrete canoe, an unmanned aerial vehicle, or a mini Indy or Baja car, or working on projects involving robotics or hydrogen fuel cells.
Work With Other Students
CAMP is social as well as instructive. Students form lifelong bonds with their CAMP team members as they all work towards project goals and often participate in competitions against other universities.
How To Join
Develop New Skills
Students work with faculty and industry on real-world challenges that require cutting edge solutions. They develop the kinds of team and leadership skills that are highly sought in engineering and tech industries.
About CAMP
Many CAMP Teams
Ten CAMP teams offer you in-depth experience in projects from auto racing to computer game development to HAM radio. Choose a team that's related to your academic program - or try something entirely different!
Meet our CAMP Teams
When South Dakota Mines grads apply for their first science and engineering jobs, they get hired. Programs like CAMP are part of the reason. Hands-on learning, and knowing how to work in a team environment towards accomplishments and deadlines, pair with
academic training to prepare our students to make a difference when they go out to pursue their careers.
We encourage any student, even those not in engineering, to participate in the CAMP experience. Design, build, test and compete -- and learn a world of new things in the process!
DESIGN BUILD TEST COMPETE
Baja SAE Team
What does competition look like? Check out our Baja SAE car, #46, in the video above.
Each year the South Dakota Mines Baja SAE team with the support of CAMP, Student Senate, ME department, and countless others, design and manufacture one-person off-roading to take to international competition.
This year, competition was held
in Louisville, Kentucky in late May, consisting of acceleration, maneuverability, suspension and traction, and hill climb events. The competition's final event was a four-hour endurance race on a two-mile course. We competed with over 60 teams
and we took home 10th place overall.