Using cooperative learning in a Freshman summer engineering orientation program

ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages 3643-3649

  Della Piana, Connie Kubo ^a   Villa, Elsa Quiroz ^a,b   Piñon, Sylvia D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^b University of Texas at El Paso   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESHMEN; SUMMER ENGINEERING ENRICHMENT EXPERINCE (SEEE); TECHNICAL WORKFORCE; THINKING SKILLS;

CURRICULA; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; MOTIVATION; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 8644233045     PISSN: 01901052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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