Bringing about marked increases in freshman engineering retention

ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 11851-11859

  Demel, John T ^a,b   Gustafson, Robert J ^a,b   Fentiman, Audeen W ^a,b   Freuler, Richard J ^a   Merrill, John A ^a,c  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

^b Department of Civil Engineering ^*

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESHMAN; FRESHMAN ENGINEERING HONOURS (FEH); INTRODUCTION TO ENGINEERING PROGRAM (IEP); STUDENT RETENTION;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; CURRICULA; PROBLEM SOLVING; REVERSE ENGINEERING; STUDENTS; TEACHING; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 8744316799     PISSN: 01901052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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