Making the strange familiar: Creativity and the future of engineering education

ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 9315-9327

  Stouffer, W B ^a   Russell, Jeffrey S ^a   Oliva, Michael G ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATIVITY; STUDENT RETENTION; STUDENT-PROFESSOR INTERACTIONS; TECHNICAL PROBLEMS;

ENGINEERING RESEARCH; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 5444241150     PISSN: 01901052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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