Student Engineers as Agents of Change: Combining Social Inclusion in the Professional Development of Electrical and Computer Engineering Students

Systemic Practice and Action Research

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 237-245

  Chang, Yao Jen ^a   Wang, Tsen Yung ^b   Chen, Shu Fang ^c   Liao, Rhi Hua ^d  

^a CHUNG YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c Center for Occupational Therapy   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Action research; Engineering ethics; Service learning; Social inclusion

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956343281     PISSN: 1094429X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11213-010-9183-3     Document Type: Article

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