Conference Session

Technical Session 1: Collaborating with Engineering Students and Faculty

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aleshia Huber, Binghamton University; Jill Dixon, Binghamton University; Sandy Card, Binghamton University

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Engineering Libraries

: A Collaborative Project with Engineering StudentsAbstractThis paper describes Binghamton University Libraries’ (Libraries) relationship with an industrialengineering senior design course by serving as a client in two different capstone projects. TheLibrarians involved were the Director of Public Services, the Director of Technical Services, andthe Engineering Librarian. Each project involved a group of engineering students who weretasked with redesigning a library space to meet the needs of its users, one a public service spaceand the other a technical services space. The two groups of students used their engineering skillsto evaluate the current space and study its users to then craft and model a redesign

Conference Session

Technical Session 1: Collaborating with Engineering Students and Faculty

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pauline Melgoza, Texas A&M University

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Engineering Libraries

librarians get caught up on teaching only search skills andfinding databases, and instead they need focus on choosing and narrowing topics, conceptmapping, and developing search terms.Finally in the article by Paretti et al4, the authors researched the types of team conflictsexperienced by teams in Capstone classes. While there were different reasons for conflict, mostof faculty considered the problems to be generated from team dynamics. Conflicts or problemsmaking decisions related to the project itself, including scope, criteria, alternative selectionemerged as a prime consideration for teams4 The mentoring that supports capstone teams isconducted by the course instructors and graduate assistants. However, librarians who have abackground or

Conference Session

Technical Session 1: Collaborating with Engineering Students and Faculty

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Engineering Libraries

Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Lab-Integrated Librarians: Engagement with Unreachable ResearchersAbstractSubject liaison librarians are working at the crossroads of the practical and emerging needs ofresearchers, seeking to connect with them throughout the research life-cycle rather than at thebeginning when literature reviews are conducted or at the end when a scholarly publicationemerges. In STEM disciplines, where research is oftentimes conducted in secure lab facilities,engagement is particularly challenging. In 2016, librarians at North Carolina State Universityembarked on a project to overcome this difficulty by joining selected research groups andattending regular lab meetings. This paper’s findings will suggest that lab

Conference Session

Technical Session 3: History and Future of Engineering Librarianship

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jill H. Powell, Cornell University

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Diversity

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Engineering Libraries

librarian in the Engineering Library. He was director from 1987-2001 and 2006-2008; from 2002-2005 he went on partial research leave as Director of Collection Development for the NSF-funded National Science Digital Library Project.52 In 2009 he was appointed Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Resourcesand Special Collections. He served as principal investigator on the Kinematic Models for DesignDigital Library (KMODDL)53 involving the Reuleaux Collection of 19th-century kinematicmachines. He led the Task Force to examine library-related needs for the Cornell Tech campus inNew York City

Conference Session

Technical Session 3: History and Future of Engineering Librarianship

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael J. White, Queen's University

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Engineering Libraries

the people who were involvedwith ELD during the last fifty years are still alive and active members, none were formallyinterviewed due to time and resource constraints. An oral history project would be a valuableaddition to the history of ELD. This paper does not presume to be a comprehensive history ofengineering libraries and librarianship, engineering information, or education although it toucheson these subjects in the context of the history of ELD.ASEE goes to Washington: 1960-65The early 1960s was a time of transition for ASEE. Since its founding in 1893, ASEE had beenadministered by member volunteers with substantial support from engineering colleges. Forexample, the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois provided office