Conference Session

Teaching Engineering Students and Library Staff: New Ideas and Best Practices

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeanine Mary Williamson, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Natalie Rice, University of Tennessee ; Carol Tenopir, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Jordan Kaufman; Courtney June Faber, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Rachel McCord Ellestad, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

syllabus committees, working with accreditation committeeson campus, and tailoring ILI to specific classes, developing hands-on work appropriate for aparticular course (with the help of faculty)."So, we started this program, and we worked department by department and embeddedassignments into core courses at each level.[I4]"Also, two themes concerning instruction emerged during the interviews. First, every participantstressed the importance of using hands-on training to make the skills relatable to other tasks thatare normal for engineering students (giving hands-on assignments from the specific fields of study,i.e., mechanical engineering, nuclear engineering, etc.). Using active learning and workingtogether with the students seemed to be the most

Conference Session

Making an Impact: Building Support with Data and Design

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hilda Teresa Ayala-Gonzalez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez ; Cristina D. Pomales-Garcia, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez; Jaquelina Ester Alvarez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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Engineering Libraries

of Engineering Accreditation and Assessment office to support the ABETengineering accreditation process. More recently, by working closely with the deans, directors,and graduate program coordinators, the liaison librarian assisted with the corroboration of theavailability of information sources listed in the syllabus bibliography of 146 courses. Thiscollaboration supported the approval of five new programs (one undergraduate and fourgraduate).Overall, the Engineering liaison librarian has implemented novel approaches to efficiently meetthe Engineering research community’s needs and expectations. With this underpinning, newpartnerships came forth to prepare competitive grant proposals. One example was the successfulestablishment of the

Conference Session

Informing the Critical Understanding of Our Users: Using Data to Develop New and Diverse Services

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Qianjin Zhang, University of Iowa; Kari Kozak, University of Iowa

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

of 25 and interpretedthe research topics based on the visualization of the LDA results.In conclusion, our experiment with the LDA approach helped us quickly develop an understanding offaculty research interests, would provide good evidence from which to make decisions on collectionmanagement, reference and library instruction, and show the possibility of academic libraries to make useof data and data science techniques in the era of big data.IntroductionLiaison librarians face the challenge of learning faculty research and teaching needs in a timely manner.Wood and Griffin gave an overview of the current approaches including website analysis, interview,course syllabus analysis and large-scale surveys [1]. Department websites, especially