Mentoring engineering graduate students in professional communications: An interdisciplinary workshop approach

ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 11835-11849

  Alford, Elisabeth M ^a   Stubblefield, Patricia E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b Department of History and Political Science   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISSERTATION; ENGINEERING PROGRAM; GRADUATES; MENTORING;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STUDENTS; TEACHING; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 8744221315     PISSN: 01901052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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