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New Partnership with Minnesota State Univeristy, Mankato Lets Iron Range Students Complete Engineering Degrees Without Leaving Home
Iron Range students now can complete their engineering degrees without leaving home, thanks to a new partnership between Minnesota State University, Mankato and the Northeast Minnesota Higher Education District, based in Chisholm.
The partnership lets two-year students from the five Northeast Minnesota Higher Education District community colleges obtain four-year mechanical engineering degrees from Minnesota State Mankato.
A ceremony celebrating the new Arrowhead University Consortium Iron Range Engineering Initiative partnership will be held Thursday, Sept. 10, at Mesabi Range Community & Technical College in Virginia, Minn., where officials from the collaborating institutions will sign a memorandum of agreement.
Minnesota Technology Landscape Overview
Overview
The Minnesota Center for Engineering & Manufacturing Excellence (MNCEME) is chartered to build partnerships between higher education, business and industry, and to stimulate economic development through education, training and applied research. Currently, MNCEME has an initiative to gain a better understanding of the engineering and manufacturing development landscape in the State of Minnesota. With the present project, Guideline aims to support this initiative by defining Minnesota’s technology strengths, identifying key small and mid-sized Minnesota manufacturing companies, examining core areas of technology development led by Minnesota innovators, identifying emerging technologies for which Minnesota is in a good position to gain a dominant position and recommending curricular changes needed to support growth in the identified industries.
Project Lead the Way – Summer Training Institute
High School engineering insructors take part in a weeklong professional development course.
Are You Ready to Partner?
Community and Technical Colleges and State Universities are Ready and Eager to Support Manufacturing
By Erick Ajax
In the summer of 2008, the Minnesota State College and University Board and Chancellor James H. McCormick gave all of its 32 college and university presidents a challenging assignment: To go out into the community, meet with private sector employers, and find out how higher education could help enhance the prosperity and quality of life of the state’s residents now and in the future. The presidents responded with enthusiasm, meeting with 352 business leaders. Of those, 170 came from manufacturing, with others representing health care, energy, and the broad spectrum of Minnesota business and industry.
From this wealth of information, higher education leaders crafted four recommendations. As a private-sector employer who has worked closely with a number of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities, I have first-hand experience of their commitment to all four of these important tasks and some examples of activities already taking place.
