Measuring the effectiveness of a required ethics class in an undergraduate engineering curriculum

ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Mattei, Norma ^a  

^a UNO College of Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRICULA; EDUCATION; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SURVEYS; TEACHING;

ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITY; LARGE-SCALE STUDIES; NON-ENGINEERING STUDENTS; PROGRAM ACCREDITATION; RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES; UNDERGRADUATE CURRICULA; UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING; UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING PROGRAMS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 85029076405     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21535965     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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