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

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

enumerates numerous additional reasons that engineers may not use physicallibraries, ranging from the practical (having to travel some distance compared to the convenienceof remotely accessing online resources) to the psychological (the phenomenon of libraryanxiety).21-27 To overcome this, the scholarly record reflects numerous innovative efforts bySTEM liaison librarians to reach these hermetic students and researchers. Previous initiativesrecorded in the literature include reorganizing staffing at service points to provide subjectspecialists with more time for advanced research questions,28 revamping libraries’ web presenceto make subject specialists more visible,29 launching satellite reference services within academicbuildings,30-32 creating

Conference Session

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

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Fred Rascoe, Georgia Institute of Technology; Lisha Li, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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Engineering Libraries

researchers, the amount of storage space was not the issue of concern, but rather it wasthe organization of the datasets that posed a logistical challenge. One faculty member mentionedthat neither they nor their associated graduate students or collaborative researchers have theskills, resources, and time available to organize data in a meaningful way. For some AE faculty,such an organization project would not be worth the effort anyway: “[If] we think the data's not really going to be used, and we're the only ones who's going to use it, that's a lot of effort to go to make all that information and organize it and then it's a waste of time if no one does it. So in the short term aspect to us, it doesn't help us. Too labor

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

experiences.Dr. Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech Marie C. Paretti is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she co- directs the Virginia Tech Engineering Communications Center (VTECC). Her research focuses on com- munication in engineering design, interdisciplinary communication and collaboration, design education, and gender in engineering. She was awarded a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to study expert teaching in capstone design courses, and is co-PI on numerous NSF grants exploring com- munication, design, and identity in engineering. Drawing on theories of situated learning and identity development, her work includes studies on the teaching and learning of communication

Conference Session

Assessment of Information Literacy Programs for Engineers

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alysia Starkey, Kansas State University-Salina; Jung Oh, Kansas State University-Salina; Judith Collins, Kansas State University-Salina; Beverlee Kissick, Kansas State University-Salina

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

will be gathered, and how?Assessing information fluencyThis section shares examples of preliminary assessment efforts. The central question is, “Dostudents have the technical, conceptual and critical thinking skills of information [fluency] tosucceed in their profession?”7 The “best practices” for assessing a student process likesecondary research can be time-intensive, for example: • Portfolio assessment including steps from brainstorming • Interviews with students at each stage of research process • Summative assessments of work completed, including oral defense • Observing students and monitoring their work as they search and retrieve8For practical reasons, collaborators have used confidence intervals, an

Conference Session

Technical Session 3: History and Future of Engineering Librarianship

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael J. White, Queen's University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

Science Foundation (NSF) established aDivision of Engineering to provide more focused support for engineering education and research.The National Academy of Engineering, a private, non-profit institution whose goal was toprovide leadership and advice on matters related to engineering and technology, was alsofounded in 1964.During the 1950s student enrollments in engineering programs increased at all levels, especiallyafter 1955. Undergraduate enrollments, including part-time students, rose from 142,954 in 1950to 205,765 in 1964.[5] Enrollments continued to increase through the 1960s as members of theBaby Boom generation reached college age. At the graduate level enrollment growth wasespecially strong. In 1950, the number of master’s and doctoral

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division Technical Session 2: Special Topics

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Erin Rowley, University at Buffalo

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Engineering Libraries

to search, what is considered a highly cited paper in the field, and whatis acceptable to cite in terms of sources. It was noted by one faculty that a standalone researchmethods course was not offered in their department for graduate students, which they viewed asa “deficiency.” A different faculty member admitted, “I don’t know why I don’t ask you [theengineering librarian] to come [to class to speak] now that I think about it.” Another stated thatwhile they do require scholarly research and literature reviews in their graduate courses, they donot discuss assessing the quality of the references the students find.The Impact of COVID-19 on the Teaching Needs of Engineering FacultyBeyond electronic access to library materials and resources

Conference Session

Engineering Librarians: Impacting the Past, Present, and Future

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael J White, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

as an afterthought. Until the study of engineering literature is recognized to the extent of being installed in the regular curriculum, so that the student may understand it to be part of his require course and think of it in these terms, there is a sound psychological reason for his regarding it lightly.”53In the mid-1920s, growing public concern about the perceived erosion of quality in engineeringeducation programs prompted SPEE to undertake a multi-year study of the problem. In 1926,SPEE issued its report, which recommended, among other things, that engineering schoolsinclude more courses on “humanistic” subjects and economics.54 The issue continued to fester inthe late 1920s and early 1930s.55 Even President

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel P Zuberbier, East Carolina University; Ranjeet Agarwala, East Carolina University; Robert A. Chin, East Carolina University; Mark McKinley Sanders

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

libraries can be so fortunate, and must put in extra effort to make their 3D printingservice a successful initiative. Pryor 28 described the University of Southern Illinois-Edwardsville Lovejoy Library’s 3D printing service as a “mixed bag” because of theexpressed excitement from both students and faculty, but relatively low usage numbers. Heposited the reasons could have included a lack of access to 3D modeling software or familiaritywith the creation of 3D models, patrons simply being unaware of 3D model repositories withready to print objects on the web, or the campus community had yet to grasp how 3D printingtechnology can be useful in scholarship, research and other creative activities. Zuberbier, et al 7shared a similar story of high interest