Foster, E. K., & Riley, D. M. (2019, June), From Feminist Hacker Meet-ups to Engineering Educators: Implications of Social Movements in Technology for Change-making at the Level of Higher Education  Paper presented at 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Tampa, Florida. 10.18260/1-2--32863

\bibitem{asee_peer_32863}
  Foster, E. K., \& Riley, D. M. (2019, June), \emph{From Feminist Hacker Meet-ups to Engineering Educators: Implications of Social Movements in Technology for Change-making at the Level of Higher Education}
  Paper presented at 2019 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Tampa, Florida.
  10.18260/1-2--32863

Ellen K. Foster and Donna M. Riley.  "From Feminist Hacker Meet-ups to Engineering Educators: Implications of Social Movements in Technology for Change-making at the Level of Higher Education".  2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Tampa, Florida, 2019, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2019.  https://peer.asee.org/32863 Internet.  15 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_32863}
  Ellen K. Foster and Donna M. Riley.
  "From Feminist Hacker Meet-ups to Engineering Educators: Implications of Social Movements in Technology for Change-making at the Level of Higher Education".
  \emph{2019 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Tampa, Florida, 2019, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2019.
  https://peer.asee.org/32863 Internet.  15 Dec, 2024

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