Enhancing the undergraduate industrial engineering curriculum: Defining desired characteristics and emerging topics

Education and Training

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 45-55

  Eskandari, Hamidreza ^a   Sala Diakanda, Serge ^a   Furterer, Sandra ^b   Rabelo, Luis ^a   Crumpton Young, Lesia ^a   Williams, Kent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Curriculum development; Delphi method; Industrial engineering; Undergraduates

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847116824     PISSN: 00400912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00400910710729875     Document Type: Article

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