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

梅诺米尼国家学院（CMN），连同威斯康星州麦迪逊大学和威斯康星州普拉特维尔大学，正在申请国家科学基金会科学，部落学院和大学计划（TCUP）工程前教育合作赠款，以加强CMN？的能力，建立CMN作为副学士学位授予工程计划的区别。 . CMN PEEC：为美国印第安工程师的教育提供合作项目提出了以下目标：#61607;建立CMN？的能力和基础设施，以维持工程预科副学士学位课程。实施一项卓越的预工程计划。到2015年9月，至少有20名学生从CMN毕业？的预工程计划和 过渡到U.W.麦迪逊？S和U. W。普拉特维尔？的工程项目。 项目知识价值：该项目承认并支持多样性以及部落学院在协调关于增加STEM领域代表性不足的少数群体参与的示范性研究方面所发挥的作用。部落学院是美国印第安人知识体系的关键贡献者。项目研究，数据和成果集中在增加美国印第安人学生在工程方面的数量和表现的最终结果，导致美国印第安人在工程职业生涯中的数量增加，将提供关键的国家认可的研究。这项合作将开发，应用和评估以证据为基础的做法，以增加代表性不足的少数民族学生在科学和工程的参与。此外，CMN与其UW合作伙伴之间的伙伴关系是专为建立机构之间的强大连接，这将作为一般工程界和其他少数民族服务机构的典范，因为我们评估，记录和传播这一过程的成功。 项目更广泛的影响：该项目将建立在以前的STEM活动的研究基础上，继续调查发现和了解部落学院及其实施的独特策略如何促进少数民族学生的教育。该项目进一步推进了美国印第安人工程本科教育的研究，并为代表性不足的少数民族工程教育的全球知识体系做出了贡献。这一努力的短期成果将是增加农村人口学生对工程的知识、理解和兴趣，重点是北方威斯康星州的美洲印第安人。 长期结果将是获得工程学位的美国印第安学生的参与增加。 这将确保在工程领域代表性不足的人口的声音、观点和才能有机会为工程专业的发展做出贡献。

College of Menominee Nation (CMN), together with the University of Wisconsin Madison and the University of Wisconsin Platteville, is applying to the National Science Foundations Science, Tribal Colleges and Universities Program (TCUP) Pre-engineering Education Collaborative grant to strengthen CMN?s capacity to establish CMN as an Associate Degree granting engineering program of distinction. . The CMN PEEC: Providing for the Education of American Indian Engineers collaborative project proposes the following objectives:  To build CMN?s capacity and infrastructure to sustain a Pre-engineering Associate Degree Program.  To implement a Pre-engineering program of distinction.  By September 2015, to graduate at least twenty students from CMN?s pre-engineering program and transition into U.W. Madison?s and U.W. Platteville?s engineering programs. Project Intellectual Merit: This project recognizes and embraces diversity and the role Tribal Colleges play in coordinating demonstrative research on increasing the participation of underrepresented minorities in STEM fields. Tribal Colleges are key contributors to the body of knowledge on American Indians. Project research, data, and outcomes focused in the ultimate outcomes of increasing the number of and performance of American Indian students in engineering, leading to increased numbers of American Indians in engineering careers, will provide key nationally recognized research. This collaboration will develop, apply and assess evidence-based practices shown to increase the participation of underrepresented minority students in science and engineering. Furthermore, the partnership between CMN and its UW partners is tailored to establish robust connections between institutions that will serve as a model for the engineering community in general and other minority-serving institutions as we assess, document and disseminate the success of this process. Project Broader Impact: This project will build upon the research of previous STEM activities, continuing the investigation of essential research in discovering and understanding how Tribal Colleges and the unique strategies they implement promote education in minority students. The project further advances the research of American Indian undergraduate education in engineering and contributes to the global body of knowledge in underrepresented minority engineering education. The short term outcome of this effort will be to increase the knowledge, understanding and interest in engineering among students in rural populations, with emphasis on the American Indian population of Northern Wisconsin. The long term outcome will be an increase in the participation of American Indian students graduating with degrees in engineering. This will ensure that the voices, perspectives and talents of a population that is so underrepresented in engineering have an opportunity to contribute to the development of the engineering profession.