Reengineering the Curriculum: Design and Analysis of a New Undergraduate Electrical and Computer Engineering Degree at Carnegie Mellon University

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 83, Issue 9, 1995, Pages 1246-1269

  Director, Stephen W ^a   Khosla, Pradeep K ^a   Rohrer, Ronald A ^a   Rutenbar, Rob A ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING; ENGINEERS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TECHNOLOGY;

CURRICULUM; REENGINEERING; UNDERGRADUATE ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING DEGREE;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 0029379527     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5.406429     Document Type: Article

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