A study examining change in underrepresented student views of engineering as a result of working with engineers in the elementary classroom

ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 13417-13430

  Thompson, Stephen ^a   Lyons, Jed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; CURRICULA; DECISION MAKING; ENGINEERS; POPULATION STATISTICS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC POLICY; VIRTUAL CORPORATION;

ADOLESCENCE; ENGINEERING PROCESSES; ENGINEERING TOOLS; SECONDARY EDUCATION;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 22544439380     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21535965     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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