Models and modeling in upper division classrooms: Impacting conceptual understanding and the professional skills

ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Besterfield Sacre, Mary E ^a   Self, Brian P ^b   Shuman, Larry J ^a   Christ, John Anthony ^c   Miller, Ronald L ^d   Moore, Tamara J ^e  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY   (United States)

^d Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRICULA; EDUCATION COMPUTING; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; TEACHING;

CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING; ENGINEERING LEARNING; ENGINEERING SCHOOLS; FRESHMEN ENGINEERING; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MODEL ELICITING ACTIVITIES; PERSONAL EPISTEMOLOGIES; PROFESSIONAL SKILLS;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 85029047805     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21535965     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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