Enabling engineering performance skills: A program to teach communication, leadership, and teamwork

Journal of Engineering Education

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 7-12

  Seat, Elaine ^a,b   Parsons, J Roger ^a,b   Poppen, William A ^a,b  

^a University of Tennessee   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROBLEM SOLVING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL ASPECTS; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

ENGINEERING COMMUNICATION; ENGINEERING STUDENTS; HUMAN SERVICES; SUBJECT MATTER PRESENTATION;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 19644382773     PISSN: 10694730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.2168-9830.2001.tb00561.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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