Returning students in engineering education: Making a case for "experience capital"

ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Strutz, Michele L ^a   Cawthorne, James Edwin ^a   Ferguson, Daniel Michael ^a   Carnes, Mark T ^b   Ohland, Matthew W ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Purdue University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; STUDENTS;

DOCTORAL DEGREES; DOCTORAL PROGRAMS; LIFE EXPERIENCES; NON-TRADITIONAL STUDENTS; QUALITATIVE STUDY; RESEARCH QUESTIONS; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; WORK EXPERIENCE;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 85166993546     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21535965     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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