Conference Session

Improving and Understanding Engineering Collections and Publication

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

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

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Engineering Libraries

standardsand other grey literature is to help our patrons obtain the full text of information resources thatthey need, even if the purchasing process is special and the cost is more than minimal. Wecurrently extend this service to our undergraduate students because of an increasing emphasis onhigh impact practices in assignment and course design [16] such as design projects andassignments that mimic professional practice, particularly in capstone and other required courses.It is our hope that sharing our library’s approach and rationale for our decisions will be a usefulcomparison for other libraries.Our Goal and AssessmentOur goal was to build on existing tools and workflows with the addition of an aggregatordatabase to increase the probability that

Conference Session

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

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Leena N. Lalwani, University of Michigan; Paul F. Grochowski, University of Michigan; Jamie M. Niehof, University of Michigan; Craig E. Smith, University of Michigan

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Engineering Libraries

SequentialExplanatory Design: From Theory to Practice,” Field Methods, v.18 no.1 p.3-20, 2006. [Online].DOI: 10.1177/1525822X05282260[15] E. Baek and J. Monaghan, “Journey to Textbook Affordability: An Investigation ofStudents’ Use of eTextbooks at Multiple Campuses,” The International Review of Research inOpen and Distance Learning, v.14 no.3 p.1-26, 2013. [Online]. DOI: 10.19173/irrodl.v14i3.1237 Appendix A Survey QuestionsThe Library is conducting a study to learn about student preferences regarding textbook formats,with a focus on electronic textbooks. This survey will take 10 minutes or less. The survey doesnot ask sensitive questions, and we will be reporting aggregated data

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jean L. Bossart, University of Florida; Samuel R. Putnam, University of Florida; Sara Gonzalez, University of Florida

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Engineering Libraries

design. In American Societyfor Engineering Education, vol. 26, p1.9. Galaleldin, M., Bouchard, F., Anis, H. and Lague, C. 2016. The impact of makerspaces onengineering education. Proceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association(CEEA).10. Local Tools. Start sharing: The easy way to manage a lending library. Accessed January 24,2019. http://localtools.org/   11. U.S. News & World Report. 2018. Best engineering schools. Accessed January 24, 2019.https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-engineering-schools/eng-rankings?_mode=table)12. University of Florida, George A Smathers Libraries. Technology @ Marston ScienceLibrary: Tool Library. Accessed January 24, 2019. http

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

regarding the challenges andopportunities for academic librarians in a post-COVID environment.Considering the swift switch to virtual learning, many researchers have also begun to examinehow COVID-19 has impacted teaching, with more scholarship being published every month.Crawford, et al. took a global approach and studied the “first wave” of responses from highereducation institutions internationally by reviewing information from government sources andmajor media outlets such as CNN [17]. Bao took a case study approach from Peking Universityto look at online educational practices [18]. The paper intended to provide colleagues from otheruniversities with instructional strategies that could be implemented at their own institutions.Karalis and Raikou

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacob Preston Moore, Pennsylvania State University, Mont Alto; Thomas L. Reinsfelder, Pennsylvania State University, Mont Alto

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Engineering Libraries

usually taught by engineering faculty and areunder the control of engineering departments. Third, unlike introductory design courses orintroductory programming courses, these courses have fairly consistent content from oneinstitution to the next. For these reasons, the authors felt that the engineering mechanics coursesrepresent the best way for a few high-quality OER resources to have the largest impact onstudents, the largest return on investment if you will.2. Literature Review:2.1 The History and Use of OER in Higher EducationPinning down the exact origins of offering freely available and modifiable learning content ishard because of the simplicity of the idea, but without a doubt, having digital content has madefree distribution much more

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division Technical Session 1: Diversity

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Anamika Megwalu, San Jose State University

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Diversity

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Engineering Libraries

session. There are opportunities for continuedinteraction with students during reference and research consultation services. Librarians whoparticipate in student clubs, research expos, or practice embedded librarianship are able to buildmeaningful connections with students to provide research and academic support. Therefore, ILcurricula should be carefully and frequently evaluated for excessive materials. Librarians shouldrefrain from the urge to teach everything in a single session. Instead, they should consider theapproach to ‘microlearning’ or bite-sized learning. This approach to microlearning is a part ofthreshold concepts, which are the basis for ACRL framework [1]. Threshold concepts “are thoseideas in any discipline that are passageways

Conference Session

To Boldly Go... Engineering Librarians Explore New Connections with Users

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Mark Chrimes, Institution of Civil Engineers

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Engineering Libraries

disappearance of subject libraries and specialist staff.At Imperial College London, ICE now provide the civil engineering department with itslibrary catalogue, the College Librarian having refused to support a departmental collection.The impact of the web and related IT developmentsThis process has, of course, taken place against the background of the development ofknowledge management systems, the use of the internet generally to retrieve information, theloss in primacy of bibliographic databases, the perceived irrelevance of library catalogues andthe potential for radical changes in user behaviour.These developments in the UK have been monitored by a series of reports notably thosefunded by RIN (Research Information Network), and JISC (Joint

Conference Session

New Collaborations

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Megan Sapp Nelson, Purdue University; Michael Fosmire, Purdue University Libraries -- PHYS

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Engineering Libraries

orderto ‘communicate effectively’ (ABET Criterion 3.g)3, ECET students must be able to select ‘acommunication medium and format that best supports the purposes of the product orperformance and the intended audience (ACRL 4.6.a). 7The non-ECET core courses subcommittee members were particularly intrigued by comparingthe ALA/ACRL/STS standards with the skill sets that they felt their students currently possessedand those that the students should obtain by the time they graduate. As the curriculum in effect atthat time stood, instructors prior to the senior year rarely required external literature reviews.Students did not receive practice in gathering and synthesizing information from articles in aconsistent way until their senior design project. As

Conference Session

“And Other Duties as Assigned”

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Megan Sapp Nelson, Purdue University

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Engineering Libraries

first for allinformation queries, and participate in a curriculum that frequently does not require secondaryand tertiary resource usage in assignments. As a result, they are neither frequently inclined byhabit nor directed through course work to use the library resources. The experiences of otherlibrarians who have innovated and developed strategies for reaching these students in thesechallenging conditions were very valuable.The marketing process that was chosen corresponds to the following flowchart, reproduced withpermission of the author.19 The process started at the point of research, initially focusing on bestpractices and basic instructions on the how to best develop a marketing plan. Then the focus

Conference Session

“And Other Duties as Assigned”

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Curtis, Linda Hall Library

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Engineering Libraries

response to the problems of thebuilt environment. As Patricia Galloway notes in her book The 21st-Century Engineer, “Theneeds [of developed, developing, and underdeveloped nations] are quite different, and theengineer must understand those differences and how best to address them when planninginfrastructure projects that adhere to the principles of sustainable design.”6 If engineeringlibraries can encourage and motivate students to engage in extracurricular reading for enjoyment,could this RA activity not have a similar desirable educational impact in the lives of futureengineering professionals to what Moyer found for adult leisure readers? Today, as graduates of our institutions enter their fields, they are encountering one of themost

Conference Session

Assessing, Expanding, and Innovating Information Literacy

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

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

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Engineering Libraries

technical communication and issues of equity, inclusion, and social justice. She is the author of Technical Communication After the Social Justice Turn: Building Coalitions for Action (2019), in addition to a range of articles. She has received a number of awards for her research, including the Joenk Award for the best article in IEEE Transactions in Professional Communication, the Nell Ann Pickett Award for best article in Technical Communication Quarterly, and the NCTE Best Article in Theories of Technical Communication (in both 2015 and 2018). She is also the co-founder of Women in Technical Communication, a mentoring organization that received the 2015 Diana Award from ACM Special Interest Group in the Design of

Conference Session

Evolving Engineering Libraries: Services, Spaces, and Collections

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Megan Sapp Nelson, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Engineering Libraries

not only on the literature of data curation, but also onchanges in e-science that are impacting liaison disciplines. This implies not only keeping up todate on what has just been published by a faculty member within a disciplinary department, butalso tracking emerging areas within the discipline, the predicted next steps in a research threadbeing carried out by a professor, and staying up to date on relevant data standards for yourdiscipline. 8A number of libraries have performed extensive interviews with research faculty to determinethe current state of data management at their institution, as well as predict needed services. Acomprehensive survey of the data practices and needs of academic departments was performedby University of Minnesota

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division Technical Session 1: Diversity

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Shalini Ramachandran, Boise State University; Steven Matthew Cutchin, Boise State University; Sheree Fu, California State University, Los Angeles

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Diversity

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Engineering Libraries

potential to be deployed to millions of people.Given that level of penetration that computer algorithms have into people’s private decisionmaking processes, training our undergraduate students in ethics pertaining to algorithmsbecomes a necessity, much like medical ethics are required of medical students. Computersystems may have bias in their operation. Our students need to have an understanding of howbias enters these sophisticated software applications and how to prevent it.We researched algorithm bias education of computer science students because we wanted todevelop a module on bias awareness and assessment for our students. Our aim is to help studentsin their college coursework, and, later, as practicing computer programmers, to create

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nestor L. Osorio, Northern Illinois University; Daniela Solomon, Case Western Reserve University

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Engineering Libraries

, the temporal analysis was able to create a more granular image of thepopular topics and identify their evolution over time. For example, based on the available data, in2009 there was a clear interest in instructional design and active learning, as well as lifelonglearning. The topics listed for 2009 demonstrate a clear impact of the adoption of the ABET’sEngineering Criteria 2000 and their mapping to the ACRL Information Literacy CompetencyStandards for Higher Education.ConclusionsAccording to the collected data, the average number of publications per year is nearly fifteen. Inthis study, we have only analyzed peer-reviewed publications that were included in theproceedings, disregarding research presented during panels or other sessions that

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

Institute (ADI), now the American Society for Information Scienceand Technology (ASIST).After a few years at Princeton, Takle decided on a major career change. In November 1962 sheaccepted an appointment as an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Library Science atthe Drexel Institute of Technology in Philadelphia. In addition to teaching courses in the MLISprogram, Takle conducted research on foreign technical information. From 1963-64, she was theassistant director and senior investigator of the Foreign Engineering Literature Research Project.At the 1963 ASEE conference in Philadelphia, she presented her research on Germanengineering literature.[17] Takle’s academic career was short-lived. In late 1965 or early 1966,she left Drexel to

Conference Session

Fresh Perspectives on Information Literacy

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jon N. Jeffryes, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Lisa Johnston, University of Minnesota

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Engineering Libraries

. This design made it easy for students to take the contentlearned in the module and immediately utilize a real-world application for it, exercising theirnew knowledge on their own research data. Since the document was shared with the twoinstructors via Google Drive we were able to check in on the students’ understandingperiodically throughout the course and provide feedback via the “Comment” feature. We chosethis form of assessment because it allowed us to gauge student understanding in an organic waythat would seem relevant to the students, rather than quiz-style assessment that we feared wouldbe viewed as busy work.The second prong of our assessment plan is to measure the long-term impact of the course via anonline survey that we will send

Conference Session

Beneficial Partnerships: Enhancing Library Programming with Strategic Collaborations

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniela Solomon, Case Western Reserve University; Ya-Ting T. Liao, Case Western Reserve University; J. Thomas Chapin, Underwriters Laboratories Inc.

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Engineering Libraries

Conference and Exposition, New Orleans, LA, 2016.[18] M. K. Khalil and I. A. Elkhider, “Applying learning theories and instructional design models for effective instruction,” Advances in physiology education, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 147–156, 2016.[19] J. Hattie and H. Timperley, “The Power of Feedback,” Review of Educational Research, vol. 77, no. 1, pp. 81–112, Mar. 2007.[20] S. M. Brookhart, C. M. Moss, and B. A. Long, “Teacher inquiry into formative assessment practices in remedial reading classrooms,” Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 41–58, Feb. 2010.[21] M. Burrow, H. Evdorides, B. Hallam, and R. Freer-hewish, “Developing formative assessments for postgraduate students in

Conference Session

Educating the Whole Engineer - Building Life Skills

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kate Thomes, University of Pittsburgh; Beth Bateman Newborg, University of Pittsburgh; Kate Joranson, University of Pittsburgh; Dan Budny, University of Pittsburgh; Steven Abramowitch, University of Pittsburgh; Carol Washburn, University of Pittsburgh; Carol Baker, University of Pittsburgh

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Engineering Libraries

their studentsgraduate with sound hard skills, also ensure they are graduating “whole engineers”—engineerswho have encountered and practiced communication, teamwork, and the ability to recognize andresolve ethical dilemmas; who are cognizant of the potentially enormous social impact ofengineering; and who have skills which facilitate lifelong learning in these very areas?For engineering schools to educate “whole engineers,” they must embrace their own university’swhole range of resources. Schools of engineering are parts of larger educational institutions,and, as such, have the opportunity and obligation to make the best use of the resources a wholeuniversity has to offer. Here at the University of Pittsburgh, the Swanson School of

Conference Session

The Human Element of Librarianship

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Henshilwood, University of Toronto; Cristina Sewerin, University of Toronto; Michelle Spence, University of Toronto; Tracy Zahradnik, University of Toronto

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Engineering Libraries

takecare of circulation duties and collection maintenance; and another librarian is the directsupervisor to the GSLAs who provide reference and research services. Gaining supervisoryexperience at this mid-size library is an opportunity not always afforded librarians employed atthe larger UTL branches. A steady transition in the department towards more collaborativeplanning has also provided mentoring opportunities as newer librarians are encouraged toprovide greater input into budgetary planning and goal setting. Increased information sharingthrough weekly librarian meetings and collaboration in large undertakings such as ECSL’sPersonal Librarian project and a survey of faculty data management practices has also opened upopportunities for newer

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sylvia George-Williams, Southern Methodist University; Jessie Marshall Zarazaga, Southern Methodist University

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Engineering Libraries

at SMU. Working across the boundaries of urbanism, landscape mapping, and public engagement, Zarazaga explores ways to connect culture and community to place. Using GIS and participatory community mapping, she explores the impact of civil and environmental choices on the design of the sustainable city. Trained in architecture and urban design, her research spans education and practice, working on the integration of community research into project based learning. Her work overlaps areas of GIS mapping, global sustainable urbanism, design and cre- ativity. She undertook a Fulbright in Valpara´ıso, Chile, to investigate, and map, devices of landscape as inspirations for the orders of community space

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adeel Khalid, Southern Polytechnic State University ; Mir M. Atiqullah, Kennesaw State University; Rajnish Singh, Southern Polytechnic State University; Beth Stutzmann, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Engineering Libraries

. Based on a research survey, we analyze whether studentsprefer ebooks or print editions. Comparisons are done across disciplines, level of the student(freshman to graduate), whether the student owns a laptop / desktop / tablet, student workcommitments, financial needs, and age; among other factors. Some professors give the option ofusing the ebooks, while others do not. Students may or may not know about the availability ofebooks for their courses and this may impact their decision to choose either option. Students maymake decisions to purchase ebooks or print edition based on cost, readability, availability, andability to take notes, impact on the environment, ease of use, logistics and the level of the usageof the book in a given course

Conference Session

Reimagining Engineering Information Literacy: Novel Perspectives on Integration, Assessment, Competencies & Information Use

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura Robinson Hanlan, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Evelyn M Riley, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Diversity

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Engineering Libraries

inproviding transformational educational experiences for students, and that it is an excellent way toattract and retain diverse students to STEM disciplines. It is also one of the best places to embedinformation literacy education; PBL is an established method of bringing both disciplinary skillsand lifelong learning skills together in ways that are engaging for students, and in the case ofservice learning, impactful to communities or individual stakeholders.4,5 WPI, as well as otherinstitutions aiming to graduate future engineers across specializations, use student projectoutcomes to support professional as well as technical skills development for a wide variety ofaccreditation standards, including but not limited to those of ABET in the U.S.A

Conference Session

Active Engagement: From the New Engineering Librarian's Perspective

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Jane Dooley, Dalhousie University

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Engineering Libraries

Phone: 494-3428 Figure 2 Sexton Design & Technology Library Subject SpecialistsWhat does a subject specialist do?≠ Maintains a Subject Guide web page on the Library’s website Includes: links to journal indexes and abstracts, full text databases, e-journals, user guides, key reference sources, and selected web sites≠ Selects books in their subject areas for the library’s collection≠ Assists library patrons with research queries at reference desk≠ Instructs students in research methods and library resources and servicesWhat can your subject specialist do for you and your students?≠ Integrate information

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amani Magid, New York University, Abu Dhabi

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Diversity

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Engineering Libraries

under Sciences or Engineering.Pre-Use SurveyAs a STEM Librarian, Amani Magid provides outreach to her constituents via STEMLibrarian Day. Every other week, she spends the day in the science building, fieldingquestions about library resources and services. As this service has been provided forthe last 4 years, she has become acquainted with many of the faculty, staff, postdocsand graduate students, even given the growth of the university. As a result, there aresome who attend the STEM Librarian Day for the social aspect, as said Librarianwelcomes this as well, for it forges ties and can build friendships. On one such day, oneof the scientists who came for a social visit, began talking about business and began todiscuss the instrumentation he