Competition, confidence and challenges in the engineering classroom: American and international students speakout

ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Williams, Dawn ^a,b   Fleming, Lorraine ^a,c,d   Jones, Marcus ^a,b   Griffin, Ashley ^a,b  

^a HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education

^c School of Engineering   (United States)

^d NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; DATA ACQUISITION; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; INFORMATION SCIENCE;

CONFIDENCE LEVELS; ETHNOGRAPHIC DATA; FRESHMAN YEAR EXPERIENCES; PRE-COLLEGE PREPARATIONS; SELF ASSESSMENTS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 85029101972     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21535965     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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