Validating measures of future time perspective for engineering students: Steps toward improving engineering education

ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Husman, Jenefer ^a   Lynch, Christa ^a   Hilpert, Jonathan ^a   Duggan, Mary Ann ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 85029112219     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21535965     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
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