Gender and Diversity aspects in Engineering Education and their impact on the design of engineering curricula

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Gender and Diversity aspects in Engineering Education and their impact on the design of engineering curricula. / Block, Brit-Maren; Guerne, Marie Gillian.

Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON 2021: Women in Engineering. ed. / Thomas Klinger; Christian Kollmitzer; Andreas Pester. Piscataway : IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2021. p. 738-744 9454043 (IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON; Vol. 2021-April).

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Block, B-M & Guerne, MG 2021, Gender and Diversity aspects in Engineering Education and their impact on the design of engineering curricula. in T Klinger, C Kollmitzer & A Pester (eds), Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON 2021: Women in Engineering., 9454043, IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON, vol. 2021-April, IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., Piscataway, pp. 738-744, IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference - EDUCON 2021, Vienna, Austria, 21.04.21. https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON46332.2021.9454043

APA

Block, B-M., & Guerne, M. G. (2021). Gender and Diversity aspects in Engineering Education and their impact on the design of engineering curricula. In T. Klinger, C. Kollmitzer, & A. Pester (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON 2021: Women in Engineering (pp. 738-744). [9454043] (IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON; Vol. 2021-April). IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON46332.2021.9454043

Vancouver

Block B-M, Guerne MG. Gender and Diversity aspects in Engineering Education and their impact on the design of engineering curricula. In Klinger T, Kollmitzer C, Pester A, editors, Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON 2021: Women in Engineering. Piscataway: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2021. p. 738-744. 9454043. (IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON). doi: 10.1109/EDUCON46332.2021.9454043

Bibtex

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