Analyzing cross-disciplinary design teams

Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 17-22

  Schaffer, Scott P ^a   Lei, Kimfong ^a   Reyes, Lisette ^a   Oakes, William ^a   Zoltowski, Carla ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity theory; Cross disciplinary learning; Engineering projects in community service; EPICS; Performance support; Service learning; Team collaboration

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY COEFFICIENTS; COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; STUDENTS; SURVEYS;

ACTIVITY THEORY; CROSS-DISCIPLINARY LEARNING; ENGINEERING PROJECTS IN COMMUNITY SERVICES; EPICS; PERFORMANCE SUPPORT; SERVICE LEARNING; TEAM COLLABORATION;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 48749088354     PISSN: 15394565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FIE.2006.322602     Document Type: Conference Paper

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