Nurturing all-round engineering and product designers

International Journal of Technology and Design Education

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 243-254

  Siu, Kin Wai Michael ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

'Eight Cs'; All round; Curriculum development; Engineering and product designers

Indexed keywords

CONCURRENT ENGINEERING; CURRICULA; EDUCATION COMPUTING; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT; ENGINEERING DESIGN EDUCATION; ENGINEERING DESIGNERS; PRODUCT DESIGN EDUCATION; PRODUCT DESIGNERS;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 0242489517     PISSN: 09577572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026101210221     Document Type: Article

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