Universalized narratives: Patterns in how faculty members define "engineering"

Journal of Engineering Education

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 309-319

  Pawley, Alice L ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discourse analysis; Engineering epistemology; Faculty work

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); ENGINEERING RESEARCH; ENGINEERS; PROBLEM SOLVING; TEACHING;

APPLIED SCIENCE; BOUNDARY THEORIES; DISCOURSE ANALYSIS; ENGINEERING EDUCATORS; ENGINEERING FACULTY; FACULTY MEMBERS; FACULTY WORK; U.S. NATIONAL ACADEMIES;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 70350680949     PISSN: 10694730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.2168-9830.2009.tb01029.x     Document Type: Article

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