Becoming an engineer: Toward a three dimensional view of engineering learning

Journal of Engineering Education

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 355-368

  Stevens, Reed ^a   O'connor, Kevin ^b   Garrison, Lari ^a   Jocuns, Andrew ^a   Amos, Daniel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnography; Learning; Student experience

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; ENGINEERS;

CASE-STUDIES; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; ENGINEERING LEARNING; ETHNOGRAPHY; LEARNING; STUDENT EXPERIENCES; THREE DIMENSIONS; UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION;

STUDENTS;

EID: 68949149930     PISSN: 10694730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.2168-9830.2008.tb00984.x     Document Type: Article

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