Collaborative Research: PEEC: 2+2+2+Infinity: Pipeline for Tribal Pre-Engineering to Society (PTiPS)

TCUP各学院（坎德斯卡·奇卡纳社区学院、CCCC、Ft Berthold社区学院、FBCC、Turtle Mountain社区学院、TMCC、Sitting Bull学院、SBC和北达科他州立大学）之间的合作，是11年来在保留地积极参与STEM教育的高潮，其中包括一位工程教授在TMCC为期一年的学术假期。它支持部落大学的愿景，即为保留地居民提供更多的生活选择，这可以为部落决策提供更多的技术能力，改善基础设施，并在不丧失文化遗产的情况下为个人和部落发展提供机会。对于NDSU来说，好处包括扩大文化多样性学生的参与，共同完成1862/1994年的土地授予任务，改善师生之间的沟通和互动，扩大进入STEM专业的人才库。该提案的核心是部落高中、部落学院、主流大学和工程专业利益相关者之间的互动，以促进部落学生的招聘、教育和支持，使他们能够获得和磨练技能，使他们能够进入工程专业或以其他方式为社区和国家做出贡献。该提案将通过与教师/员工、课程和支持功能/机构的互动来影响学生，从而实现这一愿景。所有这些都将以文化支持的方式完成。

This collaboration among TCUP colleges Cankdeska Cikana Community College Community College, CCCC, Ft. Berthold Community College, FBCC, Turtle Mountain Community College , TMCC, and Sitting Bull College, SBC, and North Dakota State University, NDSU, is the culmination of more than 11 years of active engagement in STEM education on the reservation, including a year-long academic sabbatical at TMCC by an engineering professor. It supports a tribal college vision of expanded life-choices for reservation residents that could provide more technical competency for tribal decision-making, infrastructure improvement and the opportunity for personal and tribal advancement without loss of cultural heritage. For NDSU the benefits would include expanded participation of culturally diverse students, shared fulfillment of the 1862/1994 land grant mission, improved faculty-student communication and interaction and expansion of the talent pool entering STEM professions. The heart of the proposal is the interaction of tribal high school, tribal college, mainstream University and engineering profession stakeholders to facilitate the recruitment, education and support of tribal students to acquire and hone the skills that will allow them to enter the engineering profession or contribute in some other fashion to their communities and the nation. The proposal will accomplish this vision by impacting students through interactions with faculty/ staff, curriculum and supporting functions/agencies. All of this will be accomplished in a culturally supportive fashion.