Developing the Capacity for Engineering Systems Thinking (CEST) of freshman engineering students

Systems Engineering

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 187-195

  Frank, Moti ^a   Elata, David ^b  

^a HOLON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Alternatives; Capacity for engineering systems thinking; Conceptualization; Engineering systems thinking; Optimum; Requirements analysis; Systems engineering; Systems thinking

Indexed keywords

CURRICULA; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; STUDENTS;

ALTERNATIVES; CAPACITY FOR ENGINEERING SYSTEMS THINKING; CONCEPTUALIZATION; ENGINEERING SYSTEMS THINKING; OPTIMUM; REQUIREMENT ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS THINKING;

SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

EID: 24944466651     PISSN: 10981241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sys.20025     Document Type: Article

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