What brings women to the table? Female and male students' perceptions of ways of thinking in engineering study and practice

Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Kilgore, Deborah ^a   Yasuhara, Ken ^a   Saleem, Jason J ^a   Atman, Cynthia J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Engineering education; Gender; Mixed methods; Recruitment

Indexed keywords

BACHELOR'S DEGREE; GENDER DIFFERENCES;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; ENGINEERING; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; STUDENTS;

PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS;

EID: 48749101147     PISSN: 15394565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FIE.2006.322585     Document Type: Conference Paper

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