Schumacher, K., & Besser, D., & Thomas, A. (2020, June), Boat Float Engineering Design (Resource Exchange)  Paper presented at 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line . 10.18260/1-2--34222

\bibitem{asee_peer_34222}
  Schumacher, K., \& Besser, D., \& Thomas, A. (2020, June), \emph{Boat Float Engineering Design (Resource Exchange)}
  Paper presented at 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line .
  10.18260/1-2--34222

Krista Schumacher, Deborah Besser P.E., and Annmarie Thomas.  "Boat Float Engineering Design (Resource Exchange)".  2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line , 2020, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2020.  https://peer.asee.org/34222 Internet.  15 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_34222}
  Krista Schumacher, Deborah Besser P.E., and Annmarie Thomas.
  "Boat Float Engineering Design (Resource Exchange)".
  \emph{2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line , 2020, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2020.
  https://peer.asee.org/34222 Internet.  15 Dec, 2024

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