A new, project-based engineering program has been started on the Iron Range.
The Arrowhead University Consortium Iron Range Engineering program allows students with two-year engineering degrees from the Northeast Minnesota Higher Education District to earn four-year mechanical engineering degrees from Minnesota State Mankato. The program combines classroom instruction with hands-on study with engineers working in Iron Range industries.
The program started this fall and is based at the Mesabi Range Community & Technical College in Virginia. It places students in manufacturing plants three days a week to work on projects directed by practicing engineers, and the other two days are in a classroom.
Schools within the Northeast district include Hibbing, Vermilion, Rainy River and Itasca community colleges and Mesabi Range Community & Technical College.
The director is Dan Ewert, former chairman of North Dakota State University’s Department of Electrical and Computing Engineering.
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