Special session - Can philosophy of engineering education improve the practice of engineering education?

Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Heywood, John ^a   Smith, Karl A ^b   McGrann, Roy ^c  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING EDUCATION; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; TECHNOLOGY;

EDUCATION;

EID: 50049134349     PISSN: 15394565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FIE.2007.4418223     Document Type: Conference Paper

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