Collaborative Research: PEEC Phase II: 2+2+2+Infinity: Pipeline for Tribal Preengineering to Society

部落学院和大学计划（TCUP）的一个目标是提高为美国土著学生服务的特定高等教育机构的科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）教学和研究能力。PEEC- ii课程为早期获得工程前教育合作（PEEC）奖项的机构进行的研究或教育研究提供支持。PEEC-II的目的是捕捉、分析和传播这些奖项对参与机构、教师或学生及其社区的影响。PEEC和PEEC- ii是TCUP和工程理事会之间的伙伴关系。TCUP各学院(坐牛学院（SBC）、坎德斯卡·奇卡纳社区学院（CCCC）、Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish学院（NHSC）、Turtle Mountain社区学院（TMCC）和北达科他州立大学（NDSU）之间的合作，是北达科他州保留地15年多来积极参与STEM教育的高潮。它建立在PEEC奖的基础上，PEEC奖建立了正式的合作伙伴关系，在NDSU实施了学生支持结构，并开发了通过远程学习和支持部落学院教师来支持偏远部落学院工程预科课程的方法。该项目的目标是：1)调查并记录应用于工程教育的新型混合远程学习模式与其对美国印第安学生的招聘、坚持和毕业的影响之间的关系；2)调查并记录学习和支持环境的关键要素，这些要素可以提高工程专业学生的成功。除了为美国印第安学生创造可持续和支持性的工程学位途径外，该项目更广泛的影响将来自远程学习模式及其评估的价值，广泛传播，这可以支持参与机构以及其他机构合作伙伴的STEM学习，这些机构正在努力改善农村或偏远学校与四年制大学之间的途径。

A goal of the Tribal Colleges and Universities Program (TCUP) is to increase the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) instructional and research capacities of specific institutions of higher education that serve the Nation's indigenous students. The PEEC-II track provides support for studies or educational research conducted by institutions that have had earlier Pre-Engineering Education Collaborative (PEEC) awards. The intent of PEEC-II is to capture, analyze, and disseminate the impact of these awards on the participating institutions, faculty, or students, and their communities. PEEC and PEEC-II are partnerships between TCUP and the Directorate for Engineering.This collaboration among TCUP colleges Sitting Bull College (SBC), Cankdeska Cikana Community College (CCCC), Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College (NHSC), and Turtle Mountain Community College (TMCC), and North Dakota State University (NDSU), is the culmination of more than 15 years of active engagement in STEM education on North Dakota reservations. It builds on the foundation of their PEEC award which created formal partnerships, implemented student support structures at NDSU, and developed means to support pre-engineering coursework at remote tribal college locations through distance learning and support of tribal college faculty. The goals of this project are to 1) investigate and document the relationship between a new hybrid distance learning model applied to engineering education and its impact on recruitment, persistence and graduation of American Indian students, and 2) investigate and document the critical elements of the learning and support environments that can improve student success within engineering majors.Along with creating sustainable and supportive pathways to engineering degrees for American Indian students, the broader impact of this project will come from the value of the distance learning model and its assessment, disseminated broadly, which can support STEM learning at the participating institutions as well as at other institution partnerships that are trying to improve pathways between rural or isolated schools and four-year institutions.