Students' conceptions of their engineering discipline: A word association study

ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 5367-5375

  Turns, Jennifer ^a   Temple, Jennifer ^a   Atman, Cynthia J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COURSES; ENGINEERING ACTIVITY; ENGINEERING EDUCATORS; TECHNICAL SKILLS;

ACCREDITATION; CIVIL ENGINEERING; DATA ACQUISITION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 8644226876     PISSN: 01901052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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