Using learning community course links to bring meaning to the first-year engineering curriculum

ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 11105-11115

  Harms, Patricia C ^a   Mickelson, Steven K ^a   Brumm, Thomas J ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL AND BIOSYSTEMS ENGINEERING (ABE); EDUCATIONAL METHODOLOGY; IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY; TEAM SKILLS;

CURRICULA; DATA REDUCTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; SCHEDULING; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STUDENTS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 8744295060     PISSN: 01901052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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