Using a first-year learning community to help meet departmental program objectives in agricultural & biosystems engineering

ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 11027-11040

  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

BIOSYSTEMS ENGINEERING; COOPERATIVE LEARNING; ENGINEERING GRADUATES;

AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING; COLLEGE BUILDINGS; COMMUNICATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SOCIAL ASPECTS; STUDENTS;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 8744302237     PISSN: 01901052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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