The 13th annual Student Research Symposium at South Dakota
Mines, starts at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, April 11, in the Surbeck Center Ballroom. The
symposium includes poster presentations and talks from both graduate and
undergraduate students on these topics and many more. The annual Design Fair will take place from 9 a.m.-noon on Thursday,
April 13 in the Surbeck Center at South Dakota Mines.
South Dakota
Mines is hosting two events that will highlight the research and design
success of graduating seniors and graduate students.
The 13th annual Student Research Symposium at Mines
starts at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, April 11, in the Surbeck Center Ballroom. Oral
PowerPoint presentations starts at 8 a.m. on April 11 in the McKeel, Hardrock
and Dorr rooms in the Surbeck Center. The event features an array of innovative
research across many fields of scientific study.
Some of the research on display includes:
- Research based off the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR at the Sanford
Underground Research Facility (SURF)
- Recycling
enriched germanium from an etchant solution
- Using
a lattice sheet microscopy to study and measure how well the process of phagocytosis,
or the process by which cells kill bad germs, works in the body
The symposium includes poster presentations and
talks from both graduate and undergraduate students on these topics and many
more. Awards will be presented during a ceremony starting at 5:30 p.m. to the
top presenters in both undergraduate and graduate categories.
From 9 a.m.-noon on Thursday, April 13, teams of
Mines seniors will display and demonstrate around 60 different projects in the
Surbeck Center Ballroom as part of the annual Design Fair.
Some of the senior design projects includes:
- A mobile
trailer-turned-stage to enable remote concerts with the Rushmore Music Festival students and
instructors
- A shipping container design for a hydroponic growing
room to provide fresh vegetables to local communities
- A software
program that aims to create a mathematical model to predict future cattle market
trends and provide model comparisons via historical data analytics
Mines has a history of
turning student and faculty innovation into start-up businesses that benefit
the local economy. Some of the inventions displayed at the fair are industry or
government-sponsored efforts that will see real-world application