Nelson, E. J., & Christensen, T., & Fonseca, F. S., & Miller, A. W. (2013, June), Enhancing the Civil and Environmental Engineering Capstone Program at Brigham Young University through On-Campus Internships and Graduate Student Mentors  Paper presented at 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia. 10.18260/1-2--19553

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  Nelson, E. J., \& Christensen, T., \& Fonseca, F. S., \& Miller, A. W. (2013, June), \emph{Enhancing the Civil and Environmental Engineering Capstone Program at Brigham Young University through On-Campus Internships and Graduate Student Mentors}
  Paper presented at 2013 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia.
  10.18260/1-2--19553

E James Nelson, Tatevik Christensen, Fernando S Fonseca, and A. Woodruff Miller.  "Enhancing the Civil and Environmental Engineering Capstone Program at Brigham Young University through On-Campus Internships and Graduate Student Mentors".  2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia, 2013, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2013.  https://peer.asee.org/19553 Internet.  23 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_19553}
  E James Nelson, Tatevik Christensen, Fernando S Fonseca, and A. Woodruff Miller.
  "Enhancing the Civil and Environmental Engineering Capstone Program at Brigham Young University through On-Campus Internships and Graduate Student Mentors".
  \emph{2013 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia, 2013, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2013.
  https://peer.asee.org/19553 Internet.  23 Dec, 2024

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