Engineering education: Targeted learning outcomes or accidental competencies?

ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Walther, Joachim ^a   Radcliffe, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRICULA; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CURRICULAR ELEMENTS; EDUCATIONAL PROCESSES; ENGINEERING COMPETENCY; UNITED STATES;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 85029064638     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21535965     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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