Conference Session

Making connections: Reaching users through student groups, professional organizations and collections projects

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristen Fitzpatrick, IEEE

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Engineering Libraries

Conference Session

Business & Entrepreneurial Information for Engineers

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine Drew, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Engineering Libraries

2005 the Gordon Library began a renewed effort to promote information literacy atWorcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI).1 Worcester Polytechnic Institute, located in centralMassachusetts, offers more than 50 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in science,engineering, technology, management, the social sciences, and the humanities and arts, leadingto the B.A., B.S., M.S., M.E., MBA and Ph.D. The Gordon Library serves all members of thecampus community as the main library on campus. Our information literacy program ideas andgoals include aligning the library’s educational programs with the university mission to remain“true to the founders' directive to create, to discover, and to convey knowledge at the frontiers ofacademic inquiry for the

Conference Session

Engaging Uses of Course Management Systems, Blogs, and Open Source and a Database as Tools for Library Instruction

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Megan Sapp Nelson; Michael Fosmire; Amy Van Epps, Purdue University; Bruce Harding, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

seeing the same animation sequences repeatedly when they just want toaccess the content and links to the actual resources. Page 12.1106.9Figure 1: Our robot catches fire. The engineer is learning about standards from Purdue Pete (ourmascot.)Figure 2: The engineer is learning from Purdue Pete that checking standards for componentmaterials will cut down on hazards. Page 12.1106.10The scope of the tutorial does not cover using any of the specific sources identified as relevantfor the students. Partly, this is due to the focus of the tutorial on

Conference Session

Thinking Ahead: Supporting New Technologies in Engineering Libraries

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bruce Reid, Pennsylvania State University-Wilkes-Barre; Francis Derby, Pennsylvania State University-Lehman

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Engineering Libraries

Engineering at the lead, had been thesole user of GIS technology on this campus until a library initiative found other disciplines thatalso had strong desires to use this technology. In the last few years, the campus library hasembarked on a mission to extend its services to include GIS support to disciplines and programsat the campus. This work in progress is examined in detail as a follow-up to a paper presented atthe 2004 ASEE conference in Salt Lake City, Utah.1. IntroductionAt the 2004 ASEE Conference and Exposition in Salt Lake City, Utah, we presented a paperwhich discussed an initiative to provide geospatial data visualization support in the library at theWilkes-Barre campus of the Penn State University. Our Land Engineering Surveying group

Conference Session

Scientific Literature and Data: Proliferation, Storage, and Open Access

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy Stout, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Anne Graham, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

AC 2007-155: THE DATA DILEMMAAmy Stout, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyAnne Graham, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Page 12.1402.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 The Data Dilemma There’s a famous allegory about a map of the world that grows in detail until every point in reality has its counterpoint on paper; the twist being that such a map is at once ideally accurate and entirely useless, since it’s the same size as the thing it’s meant to represent 1.IntroductionThe proliferation of scientific data is inspiring a paradigm shift in the way we manageinformation. Scientists frequently use other