Investigating the notion of critical mass of women in engineering using longitudinal student records

Research in Engineering Education Symposium 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 166-170

  Ohland, Matthew W ^a   Long, Russell A ^a   Layton, Richard A ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ROSE HULMAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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