Issues effecting doctoral students returning to engineering education following extensive industrial experience

ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Schilling, Walter ^a,b  

^a Graduate Studies and Research   (United States)

^b OHIO NORTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; ENGINEERS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; STUDENTS;

DOCTORAL DEGREES; ENGINEERING DISCIPLINES; FINANCIAL ASPECTS; GRADUATE STUDIES; INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE; PRACTICING ENGINEERS; PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIPS; REAL-WORLD PROBLEM;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 85029035738     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21535965     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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