Project pathways: Connecting engineering design to high school science and mathematics in a mathematics-science partnership program

ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Krause, Stephen ^a,b   Burrows, Veronica ^a,b,c   Pizziconi, Vincent ^a,b   Culbertson, Robert ^a,d,e   Carlson, Marilyn ^a,b,c,d  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ASU

^c and Technology

^d Department of Physics and Astronomy ^*

^e Math Science Partnership Project

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING RESEARCH; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

PROFESSIONAL LEARNING; TEACHER COMMUNICATION;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 85029080636     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21535965     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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