Teaching communication skills in software engineering courses

ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 13737-13746

  Liu, Chang ^a,b   Sandell, Karin ^a   Welch, Lonnie ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; CURRICULA; PLANNING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TEACHING;

COMMUNICATION SKILLS; PEDAGOGY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING COURSES; TEAM PLAYERS;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 22544439689     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21535965     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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