Engineering education: Departments, degrees and directions

International Journal of Engineering Education

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1042-1048

  Benson, Lisa C ^a   Becker, Kurt ^b   Cooper, Melanie M ^a   Griffin, O Hayden ^c   Smith, Karl A ^d  

^a AMRL   (United States)

^b Utah State University   (United States)

^c EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discipline based education research; Engineering education curriculum; Graduate education

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649337132     PISSN: 0949149X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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