Compound problem solving: Insights from the workplace for engineering education

Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice

Volumn 137, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 215-222

  Strobel, Johannes ^a,b   Pan, Rui ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Computer Science College of Science   (United States)

Author keywords

Engineering education; Engineering profession; Engineers; Management methods; Publications; Research

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING EDUCATORS; ENGINEERING PROFESSION; MANAGEMENT METHODS; MULTIPLE SOLUTIONS; PUBLICATIONS; REAL-WORLD PROBLEM; REAL-WORLD PROBLEM SOLVING; SOLUTION PATH; TRANSITION PROBLEMS; TWO-STEP PROCESS;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION; ENGINEERS; RESEARCH; TEACHING;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 81855224786     PISSN: 10523928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)EI.1943-5541.0000047     Document Type: Article

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