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McKenna, Ann F.; Hynes, Morgan M.; Johnson, Amy M.; Carberry, Adam R. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2016
Product archaeology as an educational approach asks engineering students to consider and explore the broader societal and global impacts of a product's manufacturing, distribution, use, and disposal on people, economics, and the environment. This study examined the impact of product archaeology in a project-based engineering design course on…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Global Education, Economic Impact, Social Influences
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Blees, Gerda J.; Mak, Willem M. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2012
In different countries, the use of pictorial information symbols to convey warnings and instructions is becoming more common. An important reason for this is that people from a variety of cultures can understand graphical symbols. However, symbols developed in one culture may not have the same meaning for people from other cultures. This study…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Pictorial Stimuli, Semantics, Comprehension