Integrating multidisciplinary engineering knowledge

Teaching in Higher Education

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 78-92

  Wolff, Karin ^a   Luckett, Kathy ^b  

^a CAPE PENINSULA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

engineering education; knowledge structures; multidisciplinarity; praxis; sociology of higher education curriculum

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873697150     PISSN: 13562517     EISSN: 14701294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13562517.2012.694105     Document Type: Article

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