Same courses, different outcomes? Variations in confidence, experience, and preparation in engineering design

ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Morozov, Andrew ^a   Kilgore, Deborah ^a,b   Yasuhara, Ken ^a   Atman, Cynthia ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Center for Engineering Learning and Teaching (CELT)

^c Institute for Scholarship on Engineering Education (ISEE)

^d Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

ACADEMIC PREPARATION; DESIGN ACTIVITY; DESIGN EXPERIENCE; ENGINEERING COURSEWORK; ENGINEERING DESIGN; ENGINEERING ENROLLMENTS; GENDER DIFFERENCES; UNDERREPRESENTED MINORITIES;

CURRICULA;

EID: 85029029146     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21535965     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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