Conference Session

Opening Up: Data, Open Access, and Open Educational Resources

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Chelsea Leachman, Washington State University; Talea Anderson, Washington State University

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Engineering Libraries

to produce quality research rather than a large quantity of it. One respondentreferenced the changes of publishing practices over their career: Things were very different when I was a grad student. We published strictly in traditional journals in our area of research. We did not worry about the impact factor, just suitability. Now I tell my students to publish in open-access journals with high impact factors. Of course, they have to be suitable, and oftentimes I'm willing to swap impact factor for the cost of OA publishing.Regarding advising, faculty mentioned instructing students to look to the papers they are citingfor sources of potential publication. They also cited future career goals as a lens

Conference Session

Professional Issues and Opportunities for Engineering Librarians

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jean L. Bossart, University of Florida

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Engineering Libraries

,mechanical, or other disciplines. Undergraduate engineering students may take the FE exam intheir senior year. For many civil engineering seniors, passing the FE exam is a requirement forgraduation and often a condition of employment. For other disciplines, the FE exam is optionalbut recommended for students interested in pursuing an engineering career where protection ofpublic health and safety are of concern.Background/Literature ReviewClean water, reliable energy, safe transportation, and life-saving medical equipment are just afew ways that engineers make the world better and safer for all of us. By law, only a licensedengineer may prepare, sign and seal, and submit engineering plans and drawings to a publicauthority for approval. Professional

Conference Session

Assessing, Expanding, and Innovating Information Literacy

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Erin Rowley, University at Buffalo; Lauren Kuryloski, University at Buffalo; Kristen Moore, University at Buffalo

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Engineering Libraries

Communication. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Extending the Role of the Library and Librarian: Integrating Alternative Information Literacy into the Engineering CurriculumAbstractBoth in coursework and in their future careers, engineering students may work with manydifferent types of information sources beyond books and journal articles, including patents,standards, and technical reports [1]. Despite this shift, which broadens information literacy [2],many undergraduate communication courses continue to narrowly define information sources,prompting students to use bibliographic databases but completely omitting other importantdatabases that can provide students with meaningful and applicable

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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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

was carefully designed to help first-year students achieve success in the programregardless of the specific engineering major they select in their second year. Therefore, thecourse includes themes centered on several design-and-build projects with the following programobjectives: 1. Provide students with the opportunity to experience engineering as an evolving, creative, and interdisciplinary career that impacts global society and daily life. 2. Provide students with the opportunity to develop process-driven problem-solving skills that recognize multiple alternatives and apply critical thinking to identify an effective solution. 3. Provide students with the opportunity to integrate math & science in an engineering context. 4

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

engineeringcommunication classroom. For example, we have two student teams work together on theirprojects so they can learn more about technology, on the one hand, and writing, on the other. Inthis way, we likewise encourage these students to continue to keep learning over their 30-year-long professional career.3.0 Lifelong Learning Background The goals of the information literacy components of the communication course aresimilar to those of Feldmann and Feldmann’s [6] assignment for their class, which are thefollowing: to make students aware of the rich store of information available; to help the studentslearn the basic skills needed to locate their needed information; to encourage team-basedinteraction on their project; to understand the ethics of

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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Catherine Woodworth Wong, Merrimack College; Cynthia Helen Carlson P.E., Merrimack College

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Engineering Libraries

Tables 1 and 2, the results maybe slightly skewed. At the end of the semester, we used the Student Assessment of LearningGoals instrument to collect anonymous feedback on various aspects of the course. Thisinstrument allowed us to know who had responded, but not which responses were connected towhich respondents. Student answers to the question 6.7.7, “HOW MUCH did each of thefollowing aspects of the class HELP YOUR LEARNING?... Meditation Exercises,” therespondents were fairly evenly distributed across the Likert scale (Table 3). This providessupport for the view that students will be able to use these exercises in their academic career andbeyond to be aware of and to manage their anxiety and mental health. Table 3

Conference Session

Assessing, Expanding, and Innovating Information Literacy

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Elise Anne Basque, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal; Christine Brodeur, Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal; Manon Du Ruisseau, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal; Jimmy Roberge, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal; Arina Soare, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal; Marie Tremblay , Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal

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Diversity

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Engineering Libraries

bibliometrics.Christine Brodeur, Polytechnique Montr´eal Christine Brodeur holds a bachelor’s degree in education and science from McGill University, in Montr´eal. She taught high school for 6 years before enrolling at Universit´e de Montr´eal to complete a Master of Information Sciences. She has been working as a librarian at Polytechnique Montr´eal since 2013, doing a variety of tasks, with a focus on bibliometrics and teaching information literacy.Manon Du Ruisseau, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal Manon Du Ruisseau has been working at the Polytechnique Montr´eal Library for more than 30 years. During the first years of her career, she worked as a library technician and since then she occupied various positions that allowed her to

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

library resources to help narrowdown their topic of interest. Successful groups have also used the marketplace to find eithermanufacturers or distributors that provide highly engineered industrial products to themarketplace. The company’s technical literature can also help with the selection of a final topicto develop. The writing project also contributes to students’ ability to work in teams. The courseinstructor describes his motivation for teaching and providing experiential learning in thefollowing way. Team and project learning in engineering help students realize the dynamics ofthe engineering marketplace. The knowledge gained by working in team-based education helpsprepare young professionals for careers in engineering. Engineering

Conference Session

Professional Issues and Opportunities for Engineering Librarians

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Sarah E. Lester, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Diversity

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Engineering Libraries

/working group • Collaborated with faculty on inclusive or equitable teaching • OtherComments below are in response to the prompt, for all the areas above, please share anysignificant work in this area. “As a member of the library DEI committee, we are participating in a statewide cosortial[sic]diversity intern program which begins Spring '20 and is designed to hire an intern from atraditionally under-represented group and allow them to rotate through a series of experiences insix different areas of the library. It is hoped that after this experience, this individual will pursuea career in librarianship.”“Same as above "Other" box in #4: Built more diverse collection; Created a LibGuide for STEMbiographical sources with books that included

Conference Session

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

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

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

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Engineering Libraries

.Leslie Light, Colorado School of Mines Leslie Light is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Engineering, Design, and Society Division at the Colorado School of Mines, and the Director of the Cornerstone Design@Mines program. She received a B.S. in General Engineering, Product Design from Stanford University and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in Entrepreneurial Management. Prior to joining Mines she spent 20 years as a designer, project manager, and portfolio manager in Fortune 500 companies and smaller firms in the Silicon Valley and abroad. She is passionate about bringing the user-centered de- sign principles she learned at Stanford and in her career to Mines’ open

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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Joanne Dera, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Ashish D. Borgaonkar, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Davida Scharf, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Jaskirat Sodhi, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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Engineering Libraries

, aremodeling a freshman engineering course on a project called “Design Your Process of Becominga World-Class Engineering Student” to provide students a curriculum that would furtherencourage their interest in engineering while giving them the tools to help them succeed in theirengineering academic and professional careers [12]. However, the curriculum does notspecifically focus on information literacy or question formulation. Yet, as in our experience withFED101, other engineering educators have found that students are still lacking the logical andcritical thinking skills that are required to develop a compelling inquiry of a topic, and havedifficulty performing effective information searches [14, 16]. Teaching students how toformulate research

Conference Session

Improving and Understanding Engineering Collections and Publication

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

James Sobczak, University of Miami; Buenaventura Basco, University of Central Florida

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Engineering Libraries

scholarly journals, books, and proceedings in thesciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities” [14]. As the goal of this study was to lookholistically at research interests and scholarly outputs over entire faculty members’ entireacademic careers, the authors of this study included all available indexes, date ranges, andpublication types available from WoS for faculty publications for inclusion within this study’s datacollection. Therefore, faculty publications were not limited to the time periods in which they areemployed at their current institution. As a cut-off date for inclusion in this study, the authors onlyincluded faculty publications that were published before December 31, 2019.In order to disambiguate common author name searches

Conference Session

Professional Issues and Opportunities for Engineering Librarians

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Michael Fosmire, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Engineering Libraries

multiple times in their academic careers. Certainly, LibGuides are a frequently usedmethod of making information about information available to students.ConclusionHopefully, this study will shine the light on the need for librarians to share best practices forengaging with their faculty in engineering technology departments to improve the integration ofIL into the 3.g outcome and beyond. Engineering technology programs also would benefit fromsharing their practices with their institution’s librarians. Based on the results of this paper,librarians are an untapped resource when it comes to contributing to the assessment of students’‘identify and use appropriate technical literature,’ for accreditation purposes. Librarians could bedeveloping rubrics