An attractive engineering option for girls

Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages

  Koppel, Nicole B ^a   Cano, Rosa M ^b   Heyman, Suzanne B ^b  

^a MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical engineering; Engineering based pre college programs; Single gender programs; Women in engineering

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; CURRICULA; HEALTH CARE; MEDICAL IMAGING; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; PROSTHETICS;

BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS; SINGLE GENDER PROGRAM;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 0036948965     PISSN: 01905848     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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