AP classes and their impact on engineering education

ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 1185-1192

  Robinson, Mike ^a,c   Fadali, M S ^a,c   Ochs, George ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b Washoe County School District   (United States)

^c Dept of Curriculum and Instruction ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSROOMS; COLLEGES; ENGINEERING STUDENTS; GRADUATES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FAILURE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; PERSONNEL TRAINING; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 8744315657     PISSN: 01901052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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