Akasheh, F., & Ndoye, M., & Shannon, D., & Pippins, R., & Thompson, E., & Carter, A., & Baker, S., & Guiseppi, B. (2022, August), Additive Manufacturing-Enabled Modular Drone Design Development by Multidisciplinary Engineering Student Team  Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--42122

\bibitem{asee_peer_42122}
  Akasheh, F., \& Ndoye, M., \& Shannon, D., \& Pippins, R., \& Thompson, E., \& Carter, A., \& Baker, S., \& Guiseppi, B. (2022, August), \emph{Additive Manufacturing-Enabled Modular Drone Design Development by Multidisciplinary Engineering Student Team}
  Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Minneapolis, MN.
  10.18260/1-2--42122

Firas Akasheh, Mandoye Ndoye, David Shannon, Ryan Pippins, Eugene Thompson, Adrian Carter, Stephen Baker, and Brandon Guiseppi.  "Additive Manufacturing-Enabled Modular Drone Design Development by Multidisciplinary Engineering Student Team".  2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, 2022, August.  ASEE Conferences, 2022.  https://peer.asee.org/42122 Internet.  18 May, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_42122}
  Firas Akasheh, Mandoye Ndoye, David Shannon, Ryan Pippins, Eugene Thompson, Adrian Carter, Stephen Baker, and Brandon Guiseppi.
  "Additive Manufacturing-Enabled Modular Drone Design Development by Multidisciplinary Engineering Student Team".
  \emph{2022 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Minneapolis, MN, 2022, August}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2022.
  https://peer.asee.org/42122 Internet.  18 May, 2024

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