IBL: Student Partnership
Find Your IBL Opportunity:
IBL Projects
Your IBL Journey
Innovation-Based Learning can be part of your experience from your first year at South Dakota Mines through graduation. Start by exploring opportunities, then build on those experiences as your skills, interests, and professional goals develop.
Start exploring how your classroom learning connects to real-world challenges. Look for opportunities to get involved in student organizations, introductory research, campus projects, or other hands-on experiences that let you try new things and discover what interests you.
These early experiences can help you build confidence, learn how to work with others, and begin developing the technical and professional skills you'll use throughout your degree.
As you progress through your program, take on opportunities that challenge you to apply and expand your knowledge. Research, industry-sponsored projects, internships, and interdisciplinary experiences can help you work through increasingly complex problems.
Each experience adds to your portfolio and gives you opportunities to develop the communication, collaboration, problem-solving, and technical skills employers value.
Put your experience to work on larger, more complex challenges. Senior design, advanced research, entrepreneurship, internships, and industry projects can help you demonstrate what you can do while working with professionals and applying your skills in authentic settings.
Use these experiences to strengthen your portfolio, build professional connections, and explore the types of work and industries you may want to pursue after graduation.
Take stock of what you've learned and the experiences you've built. Your IBL experiences can provide concrete examples of your technical abilities, problem-solving approach, teamwork, and professional growth.
Use your portfolio and experiences to tell your story to employers, graduate programs, and professional connections—and show how your South Dakota Mines education has prepared you to make an impact.
Explore IBL for Faculty and Industry:
Interested in IBL from a faculty or industry perspective? Explore how you can partner with South Dakota Mines to create meaningful, real-world learning experiences for students.
Partner with South Dakota Mines to engage emerging talent, collaborate with faculty,
and bring real-world challenges into the learning environment.
Connect your teaching and research with real-world challenges while creating meaningful
applied learning experiences for students.
