Interests in engineering: A developmental perspective

Research in Engineering Education Symposium 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 54-57

  Evangelou, Demetra ^a   Graziano, William G ^a   Habashi, Meara ^a   Ngambeki, Ida ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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