Pre-Engineering Education Collaborative at Four: Approaching the Final Phases

Robert V. Pieri; Timothy D. Legg; Ann Marie Vallie; Lori Nelson; Joshua Jason Mattes; Michael Maloy Parker; G. Padmanabhan

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Conference: 2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Location: Seattle, Washington
Publication Date: June 14, 2015
Start Date: June 14, 2015
End Date: June 17, 2015
ISBN: 978-0-692-50180-1
ISSN: 2153-5965
Conference Session: Assessing URM Programs Targeting the K-16 Continuum
Tagged Division: Minorities in Engineering
Tagged Topic: Diversity
Page Count: 8
Page Numbers: 26.1241.1 - 26.1241.8
DOI: 10.18260/p.24578
Permanent URL: https://peer.asee.org/24578
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Robert V. Pieri North Dakota State University

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Dr. Robert Pieri is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at North Dakota State University (NDSU) in
Fargo, ND. He has many conference publications on engineering education and design. His primary
interest areas include: Engineering Education, CADD, Design, Fracture Mechanics, Materials Science and
Alternative Energy Options. Prior to joining NDSU, he worked for Allied-Signal Corporation and in the
aircraft supply industry. Prior to his industrial experience he taught for 10 years at the US Air Force
Academy. Prior to his time at USAFA, Bob was a Research & Development Engineer with the US Air
Force, studying problems of pollution in the earth’s atmosphere. One of his dissertations involves the
environment and policy decisions that could affect it. Dr. Pieri has degrees from the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst, Thayer School at Dartmouth College and Carnegie – Mellon University in
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. For the academic year 2003- 2004, Bob was on the faculty at Turtle Mountain
Community College in Belcourt,N.D. where he taught Math and Engineering classes. This is the basis for
his current interest in Native Americans into Engineering. Bob, originally from the northeast area of the
USA, has been a resident of Fargo, ND since 1996.

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Timothy D. Legg North Dakota State University

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Timothy Legg, is an 2004 alumni of Iowa State University's Computer Engineering program. He worked and consulted in the Chicago area in topics as diverse as industrial coatings, semiconductor fabrication and lean manufacturing. As of 2011, he was additionally enlisted at Cankdeska Cikana Community College for the NSF's PEEC program to teach Pre-Engineering and Mathematics courses. In 2015, he has enrolled as a graduate student at North Dakota State University

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Ann Marie Vallie Turtle Mountain Community College

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Ann Vallie graduated from North Dakota State University in 2010 with a B.A. in Electrical Engineering. Joined Turtle Mountain Community College in 2011 as the Pre-Engineering Instructor for the Pre-Engineering Education Collaboration which is funded through NSF.

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Mike Parker received a BS in Mechanical Engineering from North Dakota State University. He served in the US Army as a reliability engineer and vehicle test officer. He has been an agricultural producer in his home state of ND as well as being involved in local manufacturing and oil well hydraulic fracturing. He is currently an instructor at Cankdeska Cikana Community College in the Pre-engineering program.

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G. Padmanabhan North Dakota State University

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G. Padmanabhan, Ph. D., P. E., M. ASEE, F. ASEE is a professor of civil engineering at North Dakota State University (NDSU), Fargo, North Dakota. He has been on the NDSU faculty for more than 30 years teaching and engaging in research. His expertise is in water resources systems and modeling. He served as the Director of North Dakota Water Resources Research Institute for the last 12 years. He is a long standing member of ASEE. He has been active in STEM education outreach activities to North Dakota Native American students at the college, high and middle school levels for the last 15 years. He has received funding from the Office of Naval research, National Science Foundation, and NASA for his STEM outreach activities directed toward North Dakota Native American students. He has presented in ASEE conferences and published in their Proceedings. He has also been involved in organizing ASEE North Midwest Region conferences.

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Pre-Engineering Education Collaborative at Four: Approaching the Final PhasesThis paper will give a short introduction and description of the Pre-Engineering Education Collaborativeprogram sponsored by NSF and enacted at North State University. PEEC is a program to expand theinclusion Native American students into the engineering career field while at the same time openingawareness of the opportunities available in tribal communities for engineering talent. The paper willthen go on to describe how the initial concepts have evolved during the years of operation. The paperwill also describe the serendipitous events relating to resources, administration staff and studentssuccess stories and the implications they have for future successes. The paper will then discuss thelessons to be learned from less than optimal activities and the resulting opportunities in the context ofthe evolving nature of educational responses. The paper will suggest some approaches to obtainpositive results from these situations. Future needs and prospects will be discussed to include follow-onfunding and extensions to other tribal colleges and mainstream institutions.

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Pieri, R. V., & Legg, T. D., & Vallie, A. M., & Nelson, L., & Mattes, J. J., & Parker, M. M., & Padmanabhan , G. (2015, June), Pre-Engineering Education Collaborative at Four: Approaching the Final Phases Paper presented at 2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, Washington. 10.18260/p.24578