Spatial visualization skills at various educational levels

ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 3223-3232

  Yue, Jianping ^a  

^a Essex County College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL LEVELS; SOFTWARE PACKAGES; SOLID MODELING; SPATIAL VISUALIZATION;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CURRICULA; PERSONNEL TRAINING; STATISTICAL METHODS; VISUALIZATION;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 8744283818     PISSN: 01901052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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