Engineering students' mathematical thinking: In the wild and with a lab-based task

ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Cardella, Monica ^a,b,c   Atman, Cynthia ^a,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b CASEE (Center for the Advancement of Scholarship in Engineering Education)

^c Stanford University   (United States)

^d University of Washington ^*

^e Institute for Scholarship on Engineering Education (ISEE)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING EDUCATION; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

ENGINEERING STUDENTS; MATHEMATICAL THINKING;

STUDENTS;

EID: 85029091219     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21535965     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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