How team effectiveness impacts the quality of solutions to open-ended problems

Proceedings of the Inaugural International Conference on Research in Engineering Education, ICREE

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Moore, Tamara J ^a   Diefes Dux, Heidi A ^b,c   Imbrie, P K ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Purdue University   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

First year engineering; Mathematical modeling; Problem solving; Teaming

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING GRADUATES; FIRST YEAR ENGINEERING; TEAM EFFECTIVENESS; TEAM PROBLEM SOLVING;

PROBLEM SOLVING; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; STUDENTS;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 84858484692     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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