Collaborative Research: OLC/SDSU/SDSMT Pre-Engineering Education Collaborative

合作研究：OLC/SDSU/SDSMT 预科工程教育合作

• 批准号: 1037708
• 负责人: Suzette Burckhard
• 金额: $ 82.5万
• 依托单位: South Dakota State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-01 至 2017-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1037708&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; OLC; SDSU; SDSMT

Oglala Lakota College (OLC) proposes to extend and enhance its capability to deliver the first two years of a Bachelor of Science degree program in engineering. This capability will be developed through a Pre-Engineering Education Collaborative (PEEC) established with the College of Engineering at the South Dakota State University (SDSU) and the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSMT), and is referred to as the OLC/SDSU/SDSMT PEEC (OSSPEEC). The project will establish collaborative offerings of gateway and bottleneck courses that occur in the first two years of engineering curricula coupled with on-reservation hands-on laboratory and service learning experiences on the PRR that will increase Native American student retention in pre-engineering and engineering programs across South Dakota. A major result of this project will be the establishment of a complete two-year pre- engineering curriculum at OLC, which will enable our students to enter any four-year undergraduate engineering program at the junior level. Further, this project will make an additional unique or radical step in the transformation of classical engineering education at the state colleges participating in the collaboration. We propose to collaborate to develop and offer the courses required for an integrated two-year pre-engineering program at OLC and to increase the success of OLC transfer and other Native American students at SDSU and SDSMT through shared research, internship experiences, and community building in the third and fourth years of an engineering program. The project will be unique in the United States in that during the collaborative process of building OLCs pre- engineering capacity, OLCs faculty and students will be helping to transform the concept of the first two years of the engineering curriculum at SDSU and SDSMT. This will occur through the integration of project based service learning and undergraduate research projects on the Pine Ridge Reservation, which will involve professors and cohorts of students from SDSU and SDSMT. Also, these projects will cultivate closer ties among our institutions and OST Tribal Agencies through collaborative summer research and internship opportunities on the Pine Ridge Reservation that will lead to the development of future collaborative NSF research proposals.

奥格拉拉拉科塔学院 (OLC) 提议扩展和增强其提供前两年工程理学学士学位课程的能力。这种能力将通过与南达科他州立大学 (SDSU) 工程学院和南达科他州矿业与技术学院 (SDSMT) 建立的预工程教育合作组织 (PEEC) 来开发，称为 OLC/SDSU/SDSMT PEEC (OSSPEEC)。该项目将合作提供工程课程前两年的入门课程和瓶颈课程，以及 PRR 上预约的实验室实践和服务学习经验，这将提高南达科他州各地美国原住民学生在工程预科和工程项目中的保留率。该项目的一个主要成果将是在 OLC 建立完整的两年制工程预科课程，这将使我们的学生能够进入初级阶段的任何四年制本科工程课程。此外，该项目将为参与合作的州立大学经典工程教育的转型迈出额外独特或激进的一步。我们建议合作开发和提供 OLC 为期两年的综合工程预科课程所需的课程，并通过在工程课程的第三年和第四年共享研究、实习经验和社区建设，提高 OLC 转学和其他美国原住民学生在 SDSU 和 SDMT 的成功率。该项目在美国是独一无二的，因为在 OLC 预工程能力建设的协作过程中，OLC 的教师和学生将帮助转变 SDSU 和 SDMT 前两年的工程课程概念。这将通过整合基于项目的服务学习和松岭保护区的本科生研究项目来实现，其中将涉及来自 SDSU 和 SDMT 的教授和学生群体。此外，这些项目将通过在松树岭保护区的夏季合作研究和实习机会，在我们的机构和 OST 部落机构之间培养更紧密的联系，这将导致未来 NSF 合作研究提案的制定。