Harris, D., & Cho, S., & Lee, H. F., & Hubbard, K. M., & Youn, L. T. (2012, June), Developing a State-of-Art Supply Chain Test-bed for Engineering Education and Research at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville   Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas. 10.18260/1-2--21176

\bibitem{asee_peer_21176}
  Harris, D., \& Cho, S., \& Lee, H. F., \& Hubbard, K. M., \& Youn, L. T. (2012, June), \emph{Developing a State-of-Art Supply Chain Test-bed for Engineering Education and Research at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville }
  Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, San Antonio, Texas.
  10.18260/1-2--21176

Donte Harris, Sohyung Cho, H. Felix Lee, Kevin M. Hubbard, and Luis T. Youn.  "Developing a State-of-Art Supply Chain Test-bed for Engineering Education and Research at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville ".  2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas, 2012, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2012.  https://peer.asee.org/21176 Internet.  23 Apr, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_21176}
  Donte Harris, Sohyung Cho, H. Felix Lee, Kevin M. Hubbard, and Luis T. Youn.
  "Developing a State-of-Art Supply Chain Test-bed for Engineering Education and Research at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville ".
  \emph{2012 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, San Antonio, Texas, 2012, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2012.
  https://peer.asee.org/21176 Internet.  23 Apr, 2024

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