Conference Session

Professional Issues and Opportunities for Engineering Librarians

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Michael Fosmire, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Engineering Libraries

course.In all but one case, the data extracted for ABET assessment (i.e., the data included in the self-study to demonstrate student achievement) came from the senior capstone design experience.The capstone rubrics, however, varied considerably in the information component required, withmost rubrics not mentioning sources or references explicitly. All institutions reported studentperformance directly, but two also indicated student surveys (i.e., self-assessments) as sources ofdata for this outcome (they were transitioning out of that assessment method). Studentperformance was measured by course instructors, project partners, and, in one case, theinstitution’s industrial advisory board.As an example of an ambiguous rubric used for ABET assessment

Conference Session

Information Literacy in First-year Courses and Co-curricular Experiences

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Brianna B. Buljung, Colorado School of Mines; Leslie Light, Colorado School of Mines

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Engineering Libraries

Engineering, LATICE 2014, 2014, pp. 74–77.[6] G. W. Hislop and H. J. C. Ellis, “Using scaffolding to improve written communication of software engineering students,” in ITNG 2009 - 6th International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations, 2009, pp. 707–712.[7] T. A. Eppes, I. Milanovic, and H. F. Sweitzer, “Strengthening capstone skills in STEM programs,” Innov. High. Educ., vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 3–10, Feb. 2012.[8] L. Bosman, “From Doing to Thinking: Developing the Entrepreneurial Mindset through Scaffold Assignments and Self-Regulated Learning Reflection,” Open Educ. Stud., vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 106–121, Oct. 2019.[9] T. Morgan, “Enabling Meaningful Reflection Within Project-Based-Learning in Engineering

Conference Session

Assessing, Expanding, and Innovating Information Literacy

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Pauline Melgoza, Texas A&M University; Ashlynn Kogut, Texas A&M University; Michael Ryan Golla, Texas A&M University

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Engineering Libraries

theeducation librarians to assess the effectiveness of the library consultations. Four assessment toolswere developed and used by the librarians involved with teaching student teams. This paperdiscusses the end of semester questionnaire, which was the preferred assessment tool of thelibrarians. We conducted the detailed data analysis described in this paper after the completion ofthe original assessment project. This paper can contribute to a librarian’s assessment toolkit andinteractions with students during consultations.Context The course project, which is also the department’s junior capstone, is a 16 to 22 pageresearch project on a mechanical power transmission topic that students work on in teams. Thiswriting project requires engineering

Conference Session

Information Literacy in First-year Courses and Co-curricular Experiences

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Evie Cordell, Northeastern University; Alissa P. Link Cilfone, Northeastern University; Susan F. Freeman, Northeastern University; Richard Whalen, Northeastern University; Brooke Davis Williams, Northeastern University

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Engineering Libraries

Student Awareness of Research DatabasesIntroductionIn the late summer of 2018, the Northeastern University Library and the College of Engineeringstarted work on a collaboration that would benefit and support first year engineering students.The goal of the First Year Engineering (FYE) Library Workshops is to introduce first-yearengineering majors at the university to the library’s resources and databases, thus establishing afoundation in university-level engineering research.The Northeastern University College of Engineering, following a successful pilot in 2014,decided to adopt a “Cornerstone to Capstone” curriculum design for all incoming first-yearengineering students. The Cornerstone course incorporates hands-on, project-based design workwith

Conference Session

Engineering Librarian Collaborations in the Library, On Campus, and Beyond

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Kelly Giles, James Madison University Libraries; Elizabeth Price, James Madison University Libraries

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Engineering Libraries

offerings” [10]. JMU was invited to join the KernEntrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN) in 2016 [11] and was recognized with aCurricular Innovation Award at the VentureWell OPEN conference in 2017 [12]. For theApplied Sciences Librarian, the most obvious effect of these changes was an increase in thenumber and complexity of the reference questions she received from engineering studentsworking on their two-year capstone projects. A growing competitive intelligence track within theJMU intelligence analysis program also required her to handle challenging questions such ashow to find data on privately held companies.Unfortunately, the Applied Sciences Librarian’s increasing awareness of the connectionsbetween business and the applied sciences

Conference Session

Improving and Understanding Engineering Collections and Publication

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Susan B. Wainscott, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Richard J. Zwiercan, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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Engineering Libraries

textstandards documents. Faculty may also need standards to respond to grant applications, completeresearch projects, or design course materials. The accreditation body for U.S. engineeringcolleges’ undergraduate degrees requires a capstone design course that incorporates use ofconstraints, such as standards, in the design process [3]. While the engineering college is themost likely to need standards documents due to the nature of their design and research projects,standards exist for a wide variety of topics, including documentation (e.g. ISO 21127), education(e.g. CAS standards), and engineering (e.g. ASME B18.2.8). Additional institutional users ofstandards include those who design, build, maintain, and operate the physical plant (facilities

Conference Session

Assessing, Expanding, and Innovating Information Literacy

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

S. Norma Godavari, University of Manitoba; Anne E. Parker, University of Manitoba

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Engineering Libraries

Mechanical and Civil capstone and thesis courses. Norma is on a research leave this year.Dr. Anne E. Parker, University of Manitoba Anne Parker is an Associate Professor in the Centre for Engineering Professional Practice & Engineering Education, Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, and has taught engineering communication in the faculty for over 30 years. Her earlier research has focused on collaborative projects in engineering and problem-solving in communication and design. More recently, she participated in a national study of writing assignments in undergraduate classes, including engineering, and a study of engineering students’ levels of confidence in their communication and lifelong learning skills. The