Outstanding Recent Graduate Award
The Outstanding Recent Graduate Award was established at South Dakota Mines in 1984 to honor graduates who have achieved exemplary career progress and recognition within ten years of their graduation. The individuals selected for this award serve as excellent role models to showcase the importance of continued personal growth in a rapidly changing world.
Criteria for selection includes level of responsibility and entrepreneurial effort, advancement, responsibility in research and authorship or patents and other evidence of creative activity, professional or business organization involvement, balance of technical and entrepreneurial accomplishments with community service and involvement, and company or community awards or recognition.