Students' Use of Three-Dimensional Modelling while Designing and Making a Solution to a Technological Problem

International Journal of Technology and Design Education

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 241-260

  Welch, Malcolm ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Protocol analysis; Technology education; Three dimensional modelling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION;

EDUCATION;

EID: 0031618517     PISSN: 09577572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008802927817     Document Type: Article

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