Gender orientation of the design task: Product domain and familiarity issues

Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED

Volumn DS 31, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Okudan, Gül E ^a   Bilén, Sven G ^b   Wu, Xinli ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Design team performance; Gender orientation of design task

Indexed keywords

CURRICULA; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

DESIGN PERFORMANCE; DESIGN TASKS; DESIGN TEAM; ENGINEERING DESIGN TEAMS; GENDER ORIENTATION; INDUSTRY-SPONSORED PROJECTS; INTRODUCTION TO ENGINEERING; PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 84858542342     PISSN: 22204334     EISSN: 22204342     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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