Quantitative and qualitative assessment of using PBL in a mechanical measurements class

ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 11399-11408

  Mehta, Sudhir ^a,b  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b North Dakota State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLUEPRINT; MECHANICAL MEASUREMENT CLASS; PROGRAM-BASED LEARNING (PBL); REAL-WORLD PROBLEMS;

CURRICULA; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; ENGINEERS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; PERSONNEL TRAINING; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 8744285403     PISSN: 01901052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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