Interdisciplinarity in Graduate Education for Groundwater Science and Technology
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
3. Results
3.1. Status of Graduate Education in Groundwater Science and Technology
3.1.1. Status of Graduate Education in Groundwater Science and Technology
3.1.2. History of Graduate Education in Groundwater Science and Technology in China
3.1.3. Development of Graduate Education in Groundwater Science and Technology at CUGB
3.2. Interdisciplinarity in Graduate Education in Groundwater Science and Technology
3.2.1. Designing Courses for Graduate Education
3.2.2. Interdisciplinarity in Graduate Students’ Research Work
3.3. Breakthroughs in Interdisciplinary Innovation
4. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Xia, L.; Peng, G. Interdisciplinarity in Graduate Education for Groundwater Science and Technology. Sustainability 2022, 14, 5645. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14095645
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Chicago/Turabian StyleXia, Lu, and Guohua Peng. 2022. "Interdisciplinarity in Graduate Education for Groundwater Science and Technology" Sustainability 14, no. 9: 5645. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14095645