Boskovich, S. M., & Burns, C. (2020, April), Full Paper: Project Ponderosa - Bridging Engineering Education to Vocational Training  Paper presented at Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE PSW Section Conference, canceled, Davis, California. https://peer.asee.org/36031

\bibitem{asee_peer_36031}
  Boskovich, S. M., \& Burns, C. (2020, April), \emph{Full Paper: Project Ponderosa - Bridging Engineering Education to Vocational Training}
  Paper presented at Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE PSW Section Conference, canceled, Davis, California.
  https://peer.asee.org/36031

Scott Matthew Boskovich and Chris Burns.  "Full Paper: Project Ponderosa - Bridging Engineering Education to Vocational Training".  Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE PSW Section Conference, canceled, Davis, California, 2020, April.  ASEE Conferences, 2020.  https://peer.asee.org/36031 Internet.  14 May, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_36031}
  Scott Matthew Boskovich and Chris Burns.
  "Full Paper: Project Ponderosa - Bridging Engineering Education to Vocational Training".
  \emph{Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE PSW Section Conference, canceled, Davis, California, 2020, April}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2020.
  https://peer.asee.org/36031 Internet.  14 May, 2024

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