Student responses to impromptu estimation questions

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 4, Issue , 1996, Pages

  Linder, Benjamin ^a   Flowers, Woodie ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

ENGINEERING FUNDAMENTALS; PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS; STUDENT RESPONSE; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 22544487487     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/96-DETC/DTM-1518     Document Type: Conference Paper

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