Teaching transferable skills to undergraduate engineering students: Recognising the value of embedded and bolt-on approaches

International Journal of Engineering Education

Volumn 22, Issue 1 PART I, 2006, Pages 116-122

  Chadha, Deesha ^a   Nicholls, Gill ^a,b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Education ^*

Author keywords

Bolt on method; Developing skills; Embedded method; Integrated method; Mind maps; Transferable skills

Indexed keywords

EID: 32044467356     PISSN: 0949149X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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