Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College (NHSC) Full-Circle Engineering Center of Excellence: Meeting the Engineering needs of the MHA Nation

TCU企业发展中心(TEA中心)股允许TCUP机构利用其在STEM教学和研究方面的投资。部落学院和大学计划(TCUP)的一个目标是提高TCUP机构的智力领导力，以便它们能够满足科学或工程方面的需求或兴趣，特别是为他们的部落或社区，或广泛地为国家。该项目与这一目标直接一致，而且将通过促进新的STEM就业机会并通过多种途径提供这些机会所需的高技能劳动力来影响曼丹·阿里卡拉·希达萨(MHA)国家的经济实力。Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish学院(NHSC)将建立一条学术和专业途径，以增加来自MHA国家和当地行业的工程师数量，并为其雇用。该项目建立在成功的工程前协作的基础上，该合作开发了NHSC的工程前学习计划，允许学生转到北达科他州州立大学进行高年级准备。Full Circle工程卓越中心将为学生在三年级和四年级准备和提供实习机会，然后促进部落或行业聘请他们为初级工程师，能够在几个部门之间轮换，以找到他们喜欢的合适位置。初级工程师将与专业工程师合作，学习工程实践的非课堂方面，如安全和通信。该中心还将开展社区外展活动，以展示工程在社区生活质量中的作用，以及该中心在为该贡献提供工程师方面所扮演的角色。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The TCU Enterprise Advancement Centers (TEA Centers) strand allows TCUP institutions to capitalize on their investments in STEM instruction and research. A goal of the Tribal Colleges and Universities Program (TCUP) is to increase the intellectual leadership of TCUP institutions so that they can address scientific or engineering needs or interests, specifically for their tribes or communities, or broadly for the Nation. This project aligns directly with that goal, and moreover will impact the economic strength of the Mandan Arikara Hidatsa (MHA) Nation by fostering new STEM employment opportunities and, through multiple pathways, providing the high-skilled workforce required for those opportunities. Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College (NHSC) will establish an academic and professional pathway to increase the number of engineers from and employed by the MHA Nation and local industry. The project builds upon the success pre-engineering collaborative that developed the pre-engineering program of study at NHSC, allowing students to transfer to North Dakota State University for upper division preparation. The Full Circle Engineering Center of Excellence will prepare and provide students with internships during their junior and senior years and then facilitate the tribe or industry’s hiring them as junior engineers, with the ability to rotate among several departments as they find their preferred niche. The junior engineers will work with professional engineers to learn non-classroom aspects of engineering practice, such as safety and communication. The Center will also conduct community outreach events to demonstrate the role that engineering plays in the quality of life of the community, and the role of the Center in providing engineers for that contribution.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.