Staying in engineering: Impact of a hands-on, team-based, first-year projects course on student retention

ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 10037-10047

  Knight, Daniel W ^a   Carlson, Lawrence E ^a   Sullivan, Jacquelyn F ^a  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING STUDENTS; GRADUATION; RAMIFICATIONS; STUDENT RETENTION;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING; CURRICULA; DATA ACQUISITION; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 8744244305     PISSN: 01901052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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