In the eye of the beholder: Defining and studying interdisciplinarity in engineering education

ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Lattuca, Lisa ^a   Knight, David ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; TEACHING;

EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES; EMPIRICAL LITERATURE; INTERDISCIPLINARITY; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMPETENCE; INTERDISCIPLINARY EDUCATION; LEARNING ACTIVITY; MULTIDISCIPLINARITY; TEACHING AND RESEARCHES;

STUDENTS;

EID: 85029107524     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21535965     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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