Changing engineering education: Views of U.S. faculty, chairs, and deans

Journal of Engineering Education

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 193-219

  Besterfield Sacre, Mary ^a   Cox, Monica F ^b   Borrego, Maura ^c   Beddoes, Kacey ^b   Zhu, Jiabin ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Faculty attitudes; Instructional change; Survey methods

Indexed keywords

SURVEYS;

AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR ENGINEERING EDUCATIONS; EDUCATIONAL INNOVATIONS; ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT; ENGINEERING UNDERGRADUATES; FACULTY ATTITUDES; INSTRUCTIONAL CHANGE; SURVEY METHODS; TEACHING INNOVATIONS;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 84899584527     PISSN: 10694730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jee.20043     Document Type: Article

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