Indigenous Innovators: Creating Collaborative Student-Engineer Innovation Teams between Tribal Colleges and Research Institutions

Nicholas Bittner, Rebecca Kennedy, Elizabeth Parton · 2024

Summary. A tribal college and research university in North Dakota collaborated on a biomedical engineering project to design a running prosthetic limb. The tribal college provided advanced manufacturing capabilities and indigenous problem-solving approaches, while the university contributed innovation-based learning and computational resources. The partnership successfully combined indigenous ways of knowing with modern engineering tools, demonstrating how cross-institutional collaboration between tribal and research institutions strengthens student innovation teams and produces practical solutions.

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  year    = {2024},
  doi     = {10.18260/1-2--43954},
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DOI

10.18260/1-2--43954

Countries

United States

Regions

North America

Categories

indigenous-innovation, education, innovation-networks, general-innovation

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2026-04-29