I'm graduating this year! So what is an engineer anyway?

ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Matusovich, Holly ^a   Streveler, Ruth ^b   Miller, Ronald ^c,d   Olds, Barbara ^c,d  

^a Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

^b Purdue University   (United States)

^c Department of Chemical Engineering ^*

^d Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; ENGINEERS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ACADEMIC PATHWAYS STUDY; MULTIPLE-CASE STUDY; ON CURRENTS; PRIMARY DATA; PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 85029125974     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21535965     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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