“Does that mean it’s a success?”: Beginning Designers’ Forethought and Self-Reflection in Engineering Design Thinking
By: Andrew Jackson
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.21061/jte.v36i2.a.4 | Journal eISSN: 1045-1064
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