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Learning Styles and Integration of Management and Engineering Students 管理与工程专业学生的学习风格与整合

2008 GSW Proceedings Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.18260/1-2-370-38561

A. Maji, M. R. Taha

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Comparisons of Two Feedback Servo Systems for Control Engineering Education: A Case Study on Student Performance of Speed Control Systems 两种反馈伺服系统在控制工程教学中的比较:以学生速度控制系统表现为例

2008 GSW Proceedings Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.18260/1-2-370-38545

Zhengmao Ye, H. Mohamadian

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Approximation of Internal Energy and Enthalpy of Fluids in the Compressed Liquid Region 压缩液体区域内流体的内能和焓的近似

2008 GSW Proceedings Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.18260/1-2-620-38576

I. Tan, Dr. Amir Karimi

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NanoUndergraduate Education Techniques at the University of New Mexico 新墨西哥大学的纳米本科教育技术

2008 GSW Proceedings Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.18260/1-2-370-38610

M. Al-Haik, Z. Leseman, C. Luhrs, Mahmoud Reda Taha

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Implementing Redesign in the BME Senior Capstone Experience 在BME高级顶点体验中实施重新设计

2008 GSW Proceedings Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.18260/1-2-620-38603

L. Suggs, James W. Tunnell, Kenneth P. Diller, Richard Crawford

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How Flat is the World? 世界有多平?

2008 GSW Proceedings Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.18260/1-2-620-38550

A. Maji

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Retention and Recruitment in Engineering at UTPA UTPA工程部门的保留和招聘

2008 GSW Proceedings Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.18260/1-2-620-38597

Martha O. Muñiz

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