Collaborative Research: CMN PEEC II Project: Providing for the Education of American Indian Engineers

部落学院和大学方案(TCUP)的一个目标是提高为本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项目为早些时候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。PEC-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和工程局之间的合作伙伴关系。梅诺明国家学院(CMN)和威斯康星大学麦迪逊大学(UWM)将在其最初的PEEC奖资助的基础设施和伙伴关系发展成果的基础上，加强学生努力获得工程学学士学位的途径。他们将解决一个耐人寻味的问题，即什么因素影响美国印第安人学生的教育决定和完成工程学位的动机。该项目有三个目标，包括1)解决UWM对原住民学生的环境支持，2)在与工程学位完成相关的领域建立学生的自我效能，3)提高对美国原住民学生价值观如何影响教育和职业发展决策的理解。合作提案中的智力优势是对学生(例如自我效能发展、技能培训)和机构(例如对教师的偏见培训)的循证干预进行调查。该项目还将调查学生价值观对职业发展决策的影响，这可能会改变支持和理解这些决策的国家模式。这是在支持美国印第安人学生寻求并获得工程学学士学位的能力发展的基础上。该项目的更广泛影响是，获得工程学位的美国印第安人学生人数可能增加，通过外联活动提高美洲印第安人K-12学生对STEM(特别是工程学)职业的认识，以及这种学生/机构干预模式的明显潜在影响，以及它们可能如何影响对与STEM职业相关的美洲原住民决策的理解。

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.The College of Menominee Nation (CMN) and the University of Wisconsin Madison (UWM) will build on the results of infrastructure and partnership development funded in their initial PEEC award to strengthen the pathways for students working to earn a bachelor's degree in engineering. They will address the intriguing question of what factors affect American Indian student educational both decisions to start and motivation to complete a degree in engineering. The project has three aims that include 1) addressing environmental support for Native students at UWM, 2) building student self-efficacy in areas relevant to engineering degree completion, and 3) improving understanding of how Native American student values influence educational and career development decisions.The intellectual merit within the collaborative proposal is the investigation of evidence-based interventions for both students (e.g., self-efficacy development, skills training) and institutions (e.g., bias training for faculty). The project will also investigate the impact of student values on career development decisions, something that could change national models of how these decisions are supported and understood. This is on top of the development of the capacity to support American Indian students seeking and earning bachelor's degrees in engineering. The broader impact of the project is the potential increase in the number of American Indian students earning engineering degrees, increased awareness of STEM (particularly engineering) careers amongst American Indian K-12 students through outreach activities, and the clear potential impact of this model of student/institution interventions and how they may affect understanding of Native American decision making related to STEM careers.