IBL: Faculty Partnership

The IBL Hub partners with faculty and academic programs to expand experiential learning opportunities for students. Faculty can connect students with IBL courses and projects, bring forward challenges or ideas for students to explore, and work with the Hub to identify opportunities that complement existing degree pathways.

Find Your IBL Opportunity

 

Refer Students to IBL

Encourage students who would benefit from open-ended, hands-on problem solving to participate in IBL courses and projects.

Bring Us a Challenge

Faculty can bring forward problems, unmet needs, research-adjacent questions, or ideas that could benefit from student exploration.

Strengthen Your Program’s Experiential Pathway

Work with the IBL Hub to identify where additional hands-on experiences could complement an existing degree program.

 

A Collaborative Resource for Faculty

The IBL Hub is designed to complement, not replace, existing coursework, research, senior design, internships, and other experiential opportunities across campus. Faculty do not need to incorporate IBL into their own courses to participate. Instead, the Hub provides another pathway where students can gain experience navigating open-ended problems, uncertainty, teamwork, stakeholder needs, and innovation.

Faculty can send students to IBL courses, collaborate with us on opportunities for their programs, or bring us ideas that may be well suited for student teams. These ideas do not need to be fully developed projects; part of IBL is allowing students to help frame the problem, investigate what is unknown, and determine where opportunities for innovation exist.
 

 

Explore IBL for Students and Industry:

Interested in IBL from a student or industry perspective? Explore how you can partner with South Dakota Mines to create meaningful, real-world learning experiences for students.

Industry partners

Partner with South Dakota Mines to engage emerging talent, collaborate with faculty, and bring real-world challenges into the learning environment.

Explore Industry Opportunities

Students

Gain practical experience, professional connections, and opportunities to apply what you learn.

Explore Student Opportunities

 

 

Have more questions?

Whether you are looking to join a project, explore an IBL opportunity, or learn how to get involved, the IBL team can guide you to the right next step.
(605) 394-6134
Mitchell.Sueker@sdsmt.edu