Conference Session

Makerspaces in the Library: Using 3D printers, Laser Cutters, and Kits to Enhance Learning

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sylvia Jones, Southern Methodist University

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Engineering Libraries

on Schol- arly Communications for faculty, developing a FabLab, and developing a methodology for evaluating the resonance of UT Arlington faculty and graduate students publications. She also chaired the Research Ser- vices Advisory Group (RSAG) which provided advice and made recommendations on policies pertaining to research and reference services to the UT Arlington Libraries Leadership Group. She was also the Engineering Librarian at Clemson University before moving to UT Arlington. Page 26.882.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015If You Build It, Will They

Conference Session

Interactive Panel on Improving the Experiences of Marginalized Students on Engineering Design Teams

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lorelle A Meadows, Michigan Technological University; Denise Sekaquaptewa, University of Michigan; Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech; Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Debbie Chachra, Olin College of Engineering; Adrienne Minerick, Michigan Technological University

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education, Electrical and Computer, Engineering Libraries, First-Year Programs, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering, Student, Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering, Women in Engineering

shaping and supportingstudents’ group-learning experiences.6 While faculty practices are important in all group-learningapproaches, they can be particularly important for supporting under-represented students, whooften experience marginalization in such settings. Both faculty and peers can marginalizeindividual students in a variety of ways, including through assignment of work tasks, validationof work tasks, validation of ideas or perspectives, and the nature of the group task itself.First, at the onset of an activity, task assignment biases can often result from unconsciousexpectations about who may be more (or less) suited to certain tasks.7, 8 While each team isdifferent, with a different set of identities and personalities, there is also

Conference Session

The Human Element of Librarianship

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Henshilwood, University of Toronto; Cristina Sewerin, University of Toronto; Michelle Spence, University of Toronto; Tracy Zahradnik, University of Toronto

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Engineering Libraries

topInformation school that has been dedicated to training new librarians since 1928. The authorswill present their experience working with student librarians at the engineering library, which onseveral occasions has led to graduate student workers who return for full-time professionalpositions – a testament to the mutual benefits of the relationship.The authors will also discuss the ongoing mentoring of the newest engineering librarians on theirteam. These efforts include invitations to meetings with engineering faculty to facilitatenetworking, involvement in a variety of decision making processes, and careful training for ahost of new responsibilities. The team’s more experienced librarians impart their expertise andact as coach and counsellor

Conference Session

The Human Element of Librarianship

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bertha P. Chang, North Carolina State University; Honora N. Eskridge, North Carolina State University

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Engineering Libraries

interviews taking place in the years following.For example, it was found that of the original 20 graduate students interviewed, only five weremaster’s degree candidates, which is not representative of the larger population in whichmaster’s students make up over 60% of the engineering and textiles graduate students. Toaddress this, five more master’s students were interviewed in the spring of 2012. An additionalthree PhD students offered to speak to us at that time, so they were interviewed as well. Deeperanalysis of the faculty interviews revealed early-career faculty as users that the library might beable to better support, and so additional interviews of faculty in this category were conducted inthe spring of 2013 to acquire more data from this

Conference Session

Reimagining Engineering Information Literacy: Novel Perspectives on Integration, Assessment, Competencies & Information Use

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura Robinson Hanlan, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Evelyn M Riley, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Diversity

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Engineering Libraries

inproviding transformational educational experiences for students, and that it is an excellent way toattract and retain diverse students to STEM disciplines. It is also one of the best places to embedinformation literacy education; PBL is an established method of bringing both disciplinary skillsand lifelong learning skills together in ways that are engaging for students, and in the case ofservice learning, impactful to communities or individual stakeholders.4,5 WPI, as well as otherinstitutions aiming to graduate future engineers across specializations, use student projectoutcomes to support professional as well as technical skills development for a wide variety ofaccreditation standards, including but not limited to those of ABET in the U.S.A

Conference Session

Makerspaces in the Library: Using 3D printers, Laser Cutters, and Kits to Enhance Learning

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adam Rogers, North Carolina State University Libraries; Ben Leduc-Mills, SparkFun Electronics, Inc.; Brendan C. O'Connell, Smith College Libraries; Brian Huang, Sparkfun Electronics

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

electroniccomponents into a course called Victorian Media Studies. In these cases, the library serves theinteresting role of ‘gap-bridger’, bringing these more engineering-friendly tools into practice inthe humanities.The low barrier to entry of the MaKey MaKey (which is essentially ‘plug-and-play’) combinedwith library support, enabled a Communications faculty member, Nicholas Taylor, to develop aclass assignment using MaKey MaKey in collaboration with a librarian, Brendan O’Connell, forhis Communications and Technology course. Students produced videos in which they builtphysical representations of intellectual concepts from the course using MaKey MaKey. Theyused the MaKey MaKey as an experimental communications medium, learning about both self