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2012 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

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Patrick H. Oosthuizen

disciplines to multi-facetedenvironmental problems is described. This course involves student discussions and studentreports and examples of the type of topics that are considered for these purposes are described.IntroductionIn the delivery of engineering programs environmental problems are often treated toosimplistically. In reality the solutions to such problems frequently involve choosing betweenoptions that all have their own unique advantages, drawbacks, and limitations and involvedealing with complex and often contradictory ethical considerations. It seems important,therefore, to expose engineering students to complex real-world environmental problems whichinvolve making difficult decisions about which solution to adopt. The environmental

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2012 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

Authors

J. A. Rozzi-Ochs; C. J. Egelhoff; H.V. Jackson; S. Zelmanowitz

IL while other cohortsdemonstrate a wide array of skills in the IL domain. This work marks a “stepping off point” forfuture refinement of methods to assess and improve the information literacy skills ofundergraduate engineering students.References1. American Library Association Presidential Committee on Information Literacy (1989) Final Report, Chicago, IL. Retrieved January 26, 2012 from http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/whitepapers/presidential.htm.2. Trussell, Alice. 2004. “Librarians and Engineering Faculty: Partnership Opportunities in Information Literacy and Ethics Instruction” Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Association of Scientific and Technological University Libraries, Krakow, Poland. Available