Final year engineering projects in Australia and Europe

European Journal of Engineering Education

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 161-173

  Ku, H ^a   Goh, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Assessments; Conferences; Dissertation; Europe and Australia; Final year engineering projects; Individual project; Journals; Oral presentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952947534     PISSN: 03043797     EISSN: 14695898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03043790903497336     Document Type: Article

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