The Virginia Middle School Engineering Education Initiative: Using a senior design course to develop Engineering Teaching Kits

Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages F3A17-F3A21

  Kraines, Amanda ^a   Klanian, Kelly L ^a   Peirce, Leyf ^a   Waters, Elizabeth ^a   Gluchowski, Kristina ^a   Janezic, Kristopher ^a   Labrie, Joshua ^a   Cunningham, Jennifer ^a   Bart Smith, Hilary ^a   Richards, Larry G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Engineering design; Engineering Teaching Kits; K 12 education; Submersible vehicles

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; EDUCATION; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; MACHINERY; PROBLEM SOLVING; SUBMERSIBLES; TEACHING;

ENGINEERING DESIGN; ENGINEERING MATERIALS; ENGINEERING TEACHING KITS; INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS; K-12 EDUCATION; SENIOR DESIGN SEQUENCE; SUBMERSIBLE VEHICLES; UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA;

CURRICULA;

EID: 84946026058     PISSN: 15394565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FIE.2003.1264723     Document Type: Conference Paper

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