The Interactive Classroom and its Integration into the Mechanics Curriculum

International Journal of Engineering Education

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 41-50

  Gray, Gary L ^a,b   Costanzo, Francesco ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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