Teaching freshman engineering students to solve hard problems

ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 13847-13862

  Leland, Robert ^a   Richardson, James ^a   Lee, Tan Yu ^a   Dantzler, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b Censeo Research

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING EDUCATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERSONNEL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STUDENTS; TEXTBOOKS;

FRESHMAN ENGINEERING STUDENTS; MIDTERMS; SEMESTER; VOLUNTEER EFFECTS;

CURRICULA;

EID: 22544467797     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21535965     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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