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

奥格拉拉·拉科塔学院(OLC)建议扩大和提高其能力，以提供理科学士学位课程的头两年工程。这一能力将通过与南达科他州州立大学工程学院(SDSU)和南达科他州矿业与技术学院(SDSMT)建立的工程前教育合作(PEEC)来发展，称为OLC/SDSU/SDSMT PEC(OSSPEEC)。该项目将在工程课程的头两年合作提供入门课程和瓶颈课程，并在PRR上保留实践实验室和服务学习经验，这将增加整个南达科他州的美洲原住民学生在工程预科和工程课程中的留存率。该项目的一个主要成果将是在OLC建立一个完整的两年制工程预科课程，这将使我们的学生能够进入任何四年制的初级本科工程学课程。此外，该项目将在参与合作的州立大学的古典工程教育转型中迈出另一个独特或激进的步骤。我们建议合作开发和提供OLC两年制工程前综合项目所需的课程，并通过分享研究、实习经验和在工程项目第三和第四年的社区建设，提高OLC Transfer和SDSU和SDSMT的其他美洲原住民学生的成功。该项目在美国将是独一无二的，因为在建立在线学习中心工程前能力的合作过程中，在线学习中心的教职员工和学生将帮助改变SDSU和SDSMT工程课程头两年的概念。这将通过将基于项目的服务学习与松岭保护区本科生研究项目相结合来实现，这将涉及来自SDSU和SDSMT的教授和学生队列。此外，这些项目将通过合作的暑期研究和松岭保护区的实习机会，在我们的机构和OST部落机构之间建立更紧密的联系，这将导致未来NSF合作研究提案的制定。

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.