Excellence in engineering education: Views of undergraduate engineering students

Journal of Engineering Education

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 253-262

  Pomales García, Cristina ^a,b   Liu, Yili ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Content analysis; Excellence in engineering education; Focus group

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT FREE LANGUAGES; QUALITY CONTROL; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; STUDENTS;

CONTENT ANALYSIS; FOCUS GROUP; STAKEHOLDERS;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 34547262595     PISSN: 10694730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.2168-9830.2007.tb00934.x     Document Type: Article

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