Sustainable engineering education in research and practice

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Sustainable engineering education in research and practice. / Block, Brit-Maren; Guerne, Marie Gillian.
SEFI 2022 - 50th Annual Conference of the European Society for Engineering Education, Proceedings. ed. / Hannu-Matti Jarvinen; Santiago Silvestre; Ariadna Llorens; Balazs Vince Nagy. Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, 2022. p. 122-130 (SEFI 2022 - 50th Annual Conference of the European Society for Engineering Education, Proceedings).

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Block, B-M & Guerne, MG 2022, Sustainable engineering education in research and practice. in H-M Jarvinen, S Silvestre, A Llorens & BV Nagy (eds), SEFI 2022 - 50th Annual Conference of the European Society for Engineering Education, Proceedings. SEFI 2022 - 50th Annual Conference of the European Society for Engineering Education, Proceedings, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, pp. 122-130, SEFI 50th Annual Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 19.09.22. https://doi.org/10.5821/conference-9788412322262.1441

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Block, B.-M., & Guerne, M. G. (2022). Sustainable engineering education in research and practice. In H.-M. Jarvinen, S. Silvestre, A. Llorens, & B. V. Nagy (Eds.), SEFI 2022 - 50th Annual Conference of the European Society for Engineering Education, Proceedings (pp. 122-130). (SEFI 2022 - 50th Annual Conference of the European Society for Engineering Education, Proceedings). Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya. https://doi.org/10.5821/conference-9788412322262.1441

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Block BM, Guerne MG. Sustainable engineering education in research and practice. In Jarvinen HM, Silvestre S, Llorens A, Nagy BV, editors, SEFI 2022 - 50th Annual Conference of the European Society for Engineering Education, Proceedings. Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya. 2022. p. 122-130. (SEFI 2022 - 50th Annual Conference of the European Society for Engineering Education, Proceedings). doi: 10.5821/conference-9788412322262.1441

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