Carnasciali, M., & Ciston, S., & Mikel, T. K., & Morales, A. M., & Sehgal, S., & Whitson, M. L. (2017, June), Board # 17 : A Three-Year Study of Adult Undergraduate Engineering Students  Paper presented at 2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Columbus, Ohio. 10.18260/1-2--27795

\bibitem{asee_peer_27795}
  Carnasciali, M., \& Ciston, S., \& Mikel, T. K., \& Morales, A. M., \& Sehgal, S., \& Whitson, M. L. (2017, June), \emph{Board \# 17 : A Three-Year Study of Adult Undergraduate Engineering Students}
  Paper presented at 2017 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Columbus, Ohio.
  10.18260/1-2--27795

Maria-Isabel Carnasciali, Shannon Ciston, Tressa Kay Mikel, Aida Marie Morales, Sanya Sehgal, and Melissa L. Whitson.  "Board # 17 : A Three-Year Study of Adult Undergraduate Engineering Students".  2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Columbus, Ohio, 2017, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2017.  https://peer.asee.org/27795 Internet.  17 Apr, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_27795}
  Maria-Isabel Carnasciali, Shannon Ciston, Tressa Kay Mikel, Aida Marie Morales, Sanya Sehgal, and Melissa L. Whitson.
  "Board \# 17 : A Three-Year Study of Adult Undergraduate Engineering Students".
  \emph{2017 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Columbus, Ohio, 2017, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2017.
  https://peer.asee.org/27795 Internet.  17 Apr, 2024

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