Collaborative Research: OLC/SDSU/SDSMT Pre-Engineering Education Collaborative

奥格拉拉科塔学院（OLC）提议扩大和加强其提供工程学士学位课程头两年的能力。这种能力将通过与南达科他州立大学（SDSU）工程学院和南达科他州矿业与技术学院（SDSMT）建立的工程前教育协作（PEEC）来开发，并被称为OLC/SDSU/SDSMT PEEC （osspec）。该项目将在前两年的工程课程中建立门户和瓶颈课程的协作产品，并结合在保留区的动手实验室和PRR的服务学习经验，这将增加南达科塔州的印第安学生在工程前和工程项目中的保留率。这个项目的一个主要成果将是在OLC建立一个完整的为期两年的工程预科课程，这将使我们的学生能够进入任何四年制的本科工程课程。此外，这个项目将在参与合作的州立大学的经典工程教育转型中迈出额外的独特或激进的一步。我们建议合作开发和提供OLC两年综合工程预科项目所需的课程，并通过在工程项目的第三和第四年共享研究、实习经验和社区建设，提高OLC和其他美国原住民学生在SDSU和SDSMT的转学成功率。这个项目在美国是独一无二的，因为在建立OLCs工程前能力的合作过程中，OLCs的教师和学生将帮助改变SDSU和SDSMT前两年工程课程的概念。这将通过整合基于项目的服务学习和松树岭保留地的本科生研究项目来实现，这将涉及来自SDSU和SDSMT的教授和学生群体。此外，这些项目将通过在松树岭保留地的合作暑期研究和实习机会，在我们的机构和OST部落机构之间培养更紧密的联系，这将导致未来NSF合作研究提案的发展。

Oglala Lakota College (OLC) proposes to extend and enhance its capability to deliver the first two years of a Bachelor of Science degree program in engineering. This capability will be developed through a Pre-Engineering Education Collaborative (PEEC) established with the College of Engineering at the South Dakota State University (SDSU) and the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSMT), and is referred to as the OLC/SDSU/SDSMT PEEC (OSSPEEC). The project will establish collaborative offerings of gateway and bottleneck courses that occur in the first two years of engineering curricula coupled with on-reservation hands-on laboratory and service learning experiences on the PRR that will increase Native American student retention in pre-engineering and engineering programs across South Dakota. A major result of this project will be the establishment of a complete two-year pre- engineering curriculum at OLC, which will enable our students to enter any four-year undergraduate engineering program at the junior level. Further, this project will make an additional unique or radical step in the transformation of classical engineering education at the state colleges participating in the collaboration. We propose to collaborate to develop and offer the courses required for an integrated two-year pre-engineering program at OLC and to increase the success of OLC transfer and other Native American students at SDSU and SDSMT through shared research, internship experiences, and community building in the third and fourth years of an engineering program. The project will be unique in the United States in that during the collaborative process of building OLCs pre- engineering capacity, OLCs faculty and students will be helping to transform the concept of the first two years of the engineering curriculum at SDSU and SDSMT. This will occur through the integration of project based service learning and undergraduate research projects on the Pine Ridge Reservation, which will involve professors and cohorts of students from SDSU and SDSMT. Also, these projects will cultivate closer ties among our institutions and OST Tribal Agencies through collaborative summer research and internship opportunities on the Pine Ridge Reservation that will lead to the development of future collaborative NSF research proposals.