Skills for future engineers: Challenges for universities in Bulgaria

WSEAS Transactions on Business and Economics

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 385-399

  Gourova, Elissaveta ^a   Todorova, Yanka ^a   Gourov, Nikolay ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Education environment; Engineering skills and competences; Factors; University models

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349634185     PISSN: 11099526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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