Gaining international competence: A multi-faceted approach to international engineering education

ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 6745-6753

  Eljamal, M B ^a   Pang, S W ^a,b   Edington, S J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; LINGUISTICS; PERSONNEL TRAINING; POPULATION STATISTICS; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; STRATEGIC PLANNING; VIRTUAL CORPORATION;

ACCREDIATION BOARD FOR ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (ABET); COMMUNICATION SKILLS; INTERNATIONAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION; INTERPERSONAL SKILLS;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 22544436087     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21535965     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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