Improving engineering education through creativity, collaboration, and context in a first year course

ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Haungs, Michael ^a,b   Clements, John ^a,c   Janzen, David ^a,c  

^a California Polytechnic State University

^b Department of the Electrical and Computer Engineering

^c Department of Computer Science ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRICULA; EDUCATION; EDUCATION COMPUTING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; GRADING; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; TEACHING;

COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENTS; COURSE MATERIAL; ENGINEERING DISCIPLINES; INTRODUCTORY COURSE; PROGRAMMING EXPERIENCE; STUDENT ENROLLMENTS; STUDENT SKILLS; STUDENT SURVEYS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 85029087068     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21535965     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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