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How to Promote Young Boys and Especially Girls for Engineering Issues

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GIEE 2011: Gender and Interdisciplinary Education for Engineers

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Starting at the very beginning of the educational chain (“Bildungskette”), the department Gender Studies in Science and Engineering is conducting a project called “LearnING - An applied engineering program” which is embedded in the Cluster of Excellence CoTeSys, that investigates cognition for technical systems.

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Ihsen, S., Schneider, W. (2012). How to Promote Young Boys and Especially Girls for Engineering Issues. In: Béraud, A., Godfroy, AS., Michel, J. (eds) GIEE 2011: Gender and Interdisciplinary Education for Engineers. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-982-4_25

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