"I wish that i belonged more in this whole engineering group:" Achieving individual diversity

Journal of Engineering Education

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 103-115

  Foor, Cynthia E ^a   Walden, Susan E ^a,c   Trytten, Deborah A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b University of Oklahoma   (United States)

^c Research Institute for STEM Education   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture of engineering; Inclusion; Individual diversity

Indexed keywords

CURRICULA; STUDENTS;

ETHNOGRAPHY; INDIVIDUAL DIVERSITY;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 37349040280     PISSN: 10694730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.2168-9830.2007.tb00921.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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