Dunkel, C., & Oliver, R. A., & Xing, T., & Hess, H. L., & Beyerlein, S. W., & Shrestha, D. S., & Smith, R. S. (2015, June), Collaboration Between Senior Design Students and Campus Facilities Staff in Creating a Viable Cogeneration Design for the Campus Wood-Fired Boiler  Paper presented at 2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, Washington. 10.18260/p.23696

\bibitem{asee_peer_23696}
  Dunkel, C., \& Oliver, R. A., \& Xing, T., \& Hess, H. L., \& Beyerlein, S. W., \& Shrestha, D. S., \& Smith, R. S. (2015, June), \emph{Collaboration Between Senior Design Students and Campus Facilities Staff in Creating a Viable Cogeneration Design for the Campus Wood-Fired Boiler}
  Paper presented at 2015 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Seattle, Washington.
  10.18260/p.23696

Chad Dunkel, Ryan A Oliver, Tao Xing P.E., Herbert L. Hess, Steven W. Beyerlein, Dev S. Shrestha, and Russell Scott Smith.  "Collaboration Between Senior Design Students and Campus Facilities Staff in Creating a Viable Cogeneration Design for the Campus Wood-Fired Boiler".  2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, Washington, 2015, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2015.  https://peer.asee.org/23696 Internet.  29 Jun, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_23696}
  Chad Dunkel, Ryan A Oliver, Tao Xing P.E., Herbert L. Hess, Steven W. Beyerlein, Dev S. Shrestha, and Russell Scott Smith.
  "Collaboration Between Senior Design Students and Campus Facilities Staff in Creating a Viable Cogeneration Design for the Campus Wood-Fired Boiler".
  \emph{2015 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Seattle, Washington, 2015, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2015.
  https://peer.asee.org/23696 Internet.  29 Jun, 2024

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