Assessing students' knowledge of design process in a design task

Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Sims Knight, Judith E ^a   Upchurch, Richard L ^b   Fortier, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Continuous improvement; Design process; Design task

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT; DESIGN PROCESS; ENGINEERING EDUCATORS;

CURRICULA; STUDENTS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 33947218891     PISSN: 15394565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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