Cline, R. C., & Davis, K. A. (2015, June), U.S. Construction Management Students' Comfort Level With and Knowledge of Mobile Technologies  Paper presented at 2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, Washington. 10.18260/p.24948

\bibitem{asee_peer_24948}
  Cline, R. C., \& Davis, K. A. (2015, June), \emph{U.S. Construction Management Students' Comfort Level With and Knowledge of Mobile Technologies}
  Paper presented at 2015 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Seattle, Washington.
  10.18260/p.24948

R. Casey Cline and Kirsten A. Davis.  "U.S. Construction Management Students' Comfort Level With and Knowledge of Mobile Technologies".  2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, Washington, 2015, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2015.  https://peer.asee.org/24948 Internet.  28 Jun, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_24948}
  R. Casey Cline and Kirsten A. Davis.
  "U.S. Construction Management Students' Comfort Level With and Knowledge of Mobile Technologies".
  \emph{2015 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Seattle, Washington, 2015, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2015.
  https://peer.asee.org/24948 Internet.  28 Jun, 2024

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