Ferri, A. A., & Whiteman, W. E. (2018, June), Supporting Service Member Transition into Academia: MOOCs on Engineering Fundamentals  Paper presented at 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Salt Lake City, Utah. 10.18260/1-2--31035

\bibitem{asee_peer_31035}
  Ferri, A. A., \& Whiteman, W. E. (2018, June), \emph{Supporting Service Member Transition into Academia: MOOCs on Engineering Fundamentals}
  Paper presented at 2018 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Salt Lake City, Utah.
  10.18260/1-2--31035

Aldo A. Ferri and Wayne E. Whiteman.  "Supporting Service Member Transition into Academia: MOOCs on Engineering Fundamentals".  2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Salt Lake City, Utah, 2018, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2018.  https://peer.asee.org/31035 Internet.  27 May, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_31035}
  Aldo A. Ferri and Wayne E. Whiteman.
  "Supporting Service Member Transition into Academia: MOOCs on Engineering Fundamentals".
  \emph{2018 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Salt Lake City, Utah, 2018, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2018.
  https://peer.asee.org/31035 Internet.  27 May, 2024

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