Special session - Model-Eliciting Activities: Motivating students to apply and integrate upper-level content in engineering

Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Moore, Tamara J ^a   Miller, Ronald L ^b   Self, Brian ^c   Hamilton, Eric ^d,e   Shuman, Larry ^f   Besterfield Sacre, Mary ^f   Miller, Brant G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Department of Education and Research ^*

^e PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

Engineering problem solving; Ethics; Misconceptions; Modeling

Indexed keywords

ABET CRITERION; CURRICULUM REFORMS; ENGINEERING FACULTIES; ENGINEERING PROBLEM SOLVING; ENGINEERING PROBLEMS; ETHICS; FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES; INTERACTIVE SESSIONS; MISCONCEPTIONS; MODEL-ELICITING ACTIVITIES; MODELING; PROBLEM-SOLVING SESSIONS; REAL-WORLD; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS;

CURRICULA; EDUCATION COMPUTING; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCHOOL BUILDINGS;

ENGINEERING;

EID: 78650758942     PISSN: 15394565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FIE.2008.4720606     Document Type: Conference Paper

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