- Conference Session
- Undergraduate Student Issues: Culture
- Collection
- 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech; Courtney S Smith-Orr, Virginia Tech
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Women in Engineering
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