Issues regarding change in engineering education

Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 3-8

  Froyd, Jeffrey ^a   Layne, Jean ^a   Watson, Karan ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Change; Engineering education; Faculty development

Indexed keywords

CURRICULA; ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

CHANGE; CHANGE AGENTS; CHANGE MECHANISMS; CURRICULAR CHANGES; CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT; FACULTY DEVELOPMENT; STUDENT LEARNING;

EDUCATION COMPUTING;

EID: 48749112873     PISSN: 15394565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FIE.2006.322595     Document Type: Conference Paper

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