Design labs: Students' expectations and reality

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 818, Issue , 2006, Pages 97-100

  Etkina, Eugenia ^a   Murthy, Sahana ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33751221971     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2177032     Document Type: Conference Paper

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