Career: Student motivation and learning in engineering

ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Benson, Lisa ^a   Kirn, Adam ^b   Morkos, Beshoy ^c  

^a Clemson University   (United States)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Florida Institute of Technology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING EDUCATORS; INTERNAL RELIABILITIES; LEARNING IN ENGINEERING; PERSISTENCE IN ENGINEERINGS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STUDENT PERCEPTIONS; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MOTIVATION; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STUDENTS; SURVEYS;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 84884309573     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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