Encouraging engineers to read: A book-based final year assessment

Education for Chemical Engineers

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Campbell, Grant M ^a   Blunden Ellis, John ^a   Manista, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Books; Communication; Education; Lifelong learning.; Reading

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149468596     PISSN: 17497728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ece.2010.08.002     Document Type: Article

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