From beginning to end: How engineering students think and talk about sustainability across the life cycle

International Journal of Engineering Education

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 305-313

  Kilgore, Deborah ^a   Jocuns, Andrew ^a   Yasuhara, Ken ^a   Atman, Cynthia J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Design; Life cycle analysis; Mixed methods research; Sustainability; Undergraduates

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952850585     PISSN: 0949149X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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