Problem definition in design by first year engineering students

ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Brophy, Sean P ^a   Li, Sensen ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; EDUCATION; SPECIFICATIONS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; STUDENTS;

ALTERNATIVE SOLUTIONS; ENGINEERING DESIGN; ENGINEERING INSTRUCTORS; FIRST-YEAR ENGINEERING; FUNCTIONAL SPECIFICATION; ORGANIZATIONAL TOOLS; PREMATURE TERMINATION; PROBLEM SOLVING PROCESS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 85029081313     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21535965     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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