Are the visualization skills of first-year engineering students changing?

ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Sorby, Sheryl ^a   Veurink, Norma ^a  

^a Michigan Technological University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GAMES; CURRICULA; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; FAILURE ANALYSIS;

DATA TREND; FAILURE RATE; FIRST-YEAR ENGINEERING; GENDER DIFFERENCES; HISTORICAL DATA; MICHIGAN; SPATIAL SKILLS; VISUALIZATION SKILLS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 85029076271     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21535965     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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