part of the course.Another faculty member mentioned spending time reflecting on how best to approach groupprojects in the online environment. They stated, “I had a group project in the spring and they hada hard time working together in terms of common times and just engaging at a distance, so ifthey’re not all on campus, and not even in the same time zone, it created some challenges.”In terms of a positive impact due to COVID-19, one faculty member mentioned that recordinglectures as videos provided the opportunity to “flip the classroom” and change their typicalteaching method. This was something they had wanted to incorporate previously but did not havethe time or opportunity. However, one faculty had the opposite experience. As a more
student study as a lifeline to their assignments. Thistheme included the desire to have available technology in their study locations, for exampleWIFI, electrical outlets, laptops, printers and access to computer labs. The themes Comfort (9%),Proximity to Amenities (8%), and Study Materials & Accessories (8%) illustrate the needs tocreate the perfect study experience. Comfort included comments that reflected the overallcontentment of the chosen study location, such as comfortable couches, large tables, and size ofroom. The students also had a strong preference towards their Proximity to Amenities, whichincluded distance to food (restaurants) and convenience of getting from home to the College ofArchitecture buildings on campus. Study
statistics monitored by the library reflect thistrend. In fact, all new journal subscriptions acquired since 2006 have been electronic format only.Having the print copy of a journal on site is no longer a requirement, therefore during the2005/06 and 2006/07 academic years, 4,652 bound journal volumes were sent to remote storageand 2,084 volumes of duplicate volumes were withdrawn since these titles were availableelectronically. It is expected that by July 1 2009, 2,000 more volumes will be sent to remotestorage or withdrawn.Table 1. The Engineering Library Collection in NumbersLibrary Collection 2001 2009Monographs (vols.) 74,700 71,000Bound periodicals (vols
manufacture this product (f) Worldwide demand or sales for this chemical; and (g) Unit pricing ($/kg, $/gal, etc.) (Note: this should reflect bulk pricing, not pricing of small units from Fisher Scientific, etc.)2. From the textbook index, select a technical topic that begins with the same letter as your lastname or the nearest possible letter (for example Brent -> Bubble point). Find three papers (notweb sites) in the recent literature that deal with this topic. Copy and paste their citationinformation and abstracts. Find these three papers, photocopy or print out their first pages, andattach them to the homework. Page
63.6 know very little about them Yes, I have searched for them 4 18.2 and perused a few Yes, I have used open educational resources in one 2 9.1 or more classes No response 1 4.5In response to a question about having ever considered using an OER in a course, 48% ofrespondents indicated that they have never used or considered OERs. Other respondentsindicated that they had used OERs, had examined them in the current semester, or had looked atthem 5-10 years previously.At the end of the survey, four open-ended questions asked faculty to reflect on
patrons submitted. Figure 11. Fusion F400-S.43The summer months also gave library staff time to reflect on the first semester and a half ofoffering the 3D printing service. After careful consideration, the library believed it could domore marketing and expand the different types of workshops offered. The marketing expansionwas planned to take place in two phases. The first phase, during the fall 2016 semester, wouldinclude developing, printing and posting flyers (see Appendix B) around campus and offeringadditional workshops on new topics. The second phase, which began in the spring 2017 semesterincluded using social media to promote the service, promoting the service by telling the personalstories behind patrons
before the research project with a plan.Involvement in data requires a librarian’s subject expertise to move upstream in the researchproject, just as our involvement in research is moving upstream in the research/publicationcycle.1Familiarity with the needs and common practices of engineering researchThe most useful reading time spent for truly understanding the reality and scope of data issuesfor researchers is reading reports by LIS researchers who interviewed scientists and engineersabout their data management practices and problems. It is invaluable to be introduced to thelifecycle of specific data sets through the eyes of the researcher, as they reflect on how theyproduce the data, how they manage the data, and their own expectation for the
“the majortransdisciplinary index in the world’s engineering literature.” There are no doubts that thispublication has been used for the last 125 years by engineers and technical staff all over theworld, people that in one way or another have contributed to the development of today’s modernsociety. Therefore, Ei is an intrinsic part of the history of technology. The history of TheEngineering Index has been presented by several authors at different times. The most prominenthave been the works of Hannum2, Bissell3, Landau4, and Woods5 which combined cover detailsfrom 1884 to 1984. More recently, Youngman6 wrote about how the role of librarians haschanged as reflected by the changes in the The Engineering Index as occurred, and Lafferty
administration.Future Activity PlansThere are several activities planned for the coming year and beyond. In the current, second yearof the research data management course, “flipped classroom” approaches have been used morefrequently. Based on student feedback, the creation of a data management plan throughcumulative assignments have been replaced with more use cases to directly apply concepts. TheData Services Librarian is collaborating with other data librarians to share instructional curriculaand materials among Superfund programs. The course will continue to be revised to strengthenan evidence-based learning philosophy, and to reflect feedback from students about the contentand alignment with application to their work.To improve curation of data produced by
underrepresented students is small at this time, though it will undoubtedly grow over thenext few years.Although written primarily with graduate students in mind, Wosu and Pai's 2012 articleestablishing a model for diversity and equity provides an excellent introduction and path forwardfor any engineering program or library to follow. Out of the six performance indicators for theirmodel, libraries can have the greatest effect on both "institutional climate/culture" and"institutional receptivity". The climate/culture reflects how students are treated, opportunities forresearch and contributions to a chosen discipline, and especially whether students feel like theybelong. Library programming can be created to foster this sense of an "inclusive
the historical context of standard use industry sponsors were asked to reflect theirperceptions of how standards have changed throughout their career, Table 5.Table 5: Change of standard use through careerI just manage project design engineers or SMEs work with codes on projects I manage.Yes. Due mostly to project requirements. I’ve been working on larger projects with a muchmore rigorous QA program.Yes. The state requires new codes and standards be implemented 1 year after the new IBCcomes out. Methods of analysis use to be crude in modern times. They were designed to besolved using a slide rule. Most standards have been updated to allow FEA and other moresophisticated computational models, but they still lag behind. Additionally, materials
to be job related; reporting on the use and relative success of the project “on the job” is required.“Engagement theory” effectively draws IRRAE participants into their projects and ensures an“applied” result within a rigorous “academic” program.Course Scheduling/Project ManagementTime is short, and participants in IRRAE are warned to control the scope of their projects. Toprovide a more practical schedule, initial IRRAE work is integrated with the precedingCommunicating Technical Information course. See Appendix B: Integrated Schedule for Workin IRRAE.The milestones in the course reflect the overall management of research projects; deliverablesinclude a formal proposal with a reading plan, a literature review, a draft, and a final
. REFERENCES1 Elbow, P. 1991. “Reflections on Academic Discourse: How it relates to Freshmen and Colleagues.” College English. 53:2 (135-155)2 Shuman, L., Besterfield-Sacre, M., McGourty, J. 2005. “The ABET ‘Professional Skills’—Can They be Taught? Can They be Assessed?” Journal of Engineering Education. 94:1 (41-55)3 Shuman, L., Besterfield-Sacre, M., McGourty, J. 2005. “The ABET ‘Professional Skills’—Can They be Taught? Can They be Assessed?” Journal of Engineering Education. 94:1 (41-55)4 Shuman, L., Besterfield-Sacre, M., McGourty, J. 2005. “The ABET ‘Professional Skills’—Can They be Taught? Can They be Assessed?” Journal of Engineering Education. 94:1 (41-55)5 Callison, R., Budny, D Thomes, K
improvement in thestandard of the submitted literature reviews and this was reflected in their final reports.Students were able to access a wider range of information resources without resorting tomerely Google, and the quality of referencing was greatly improved over previous years. Theability to identify weak writing skills in students early in the course was an advantage sincethey could be referred to experts for help in time to improve their skills in this area. Onebonus of using teaching support was the ability to call in specialists at short notice, as wasdemonstrated in the statistics modules. The student-centred approach developed for thelibrary database teaching was very effective and has been adapted for other courses. Thelibrarians were
in many civil engineering fields,that the governmental resources are especially important to them. Perhaps the type of researchprojects undertaken by the master’s student more readily reflect the work of the civil engineeringin designing systems and processes that meet everyday needs. The work of doctorial studentsmay be more focused to more esoteric research as they prepare for teaching and researchobligations that are a part of faculty positions. Further research is needed to clarify these issues,as well as help today’s librarian make decisions about what resources they university or collegelibrary should collect.Civil Engineering ResourcesBelow is a listing of the organizations, government entities, and other resources of which alibrarian
university experience.Literature reviewMany studies have been done on information usage over several decades. As the technologieschange, the processes and patterns of information-seeking behavior change as well. Thesechanges have been reflected in recent literature on the topic. Brown provides a sketch ofinformation seeking behavior of scientists, and indicates that the “ultimate preferred source forinformation was … the printed journal article.”1 Hallmark presents a snapshot of academicresearchers and their information needs in one area, and proves that “…journal articles, whetherprinted or electronic, continue to be their ultimate textual resource.”2 Kwasitsu samplesengineers in information use and discovers a “significant relationship between
, funding DMPs were not covered in theclassroom. Thielen et al. developed and taught a for credit course on Data Management for graduatestudents in climate and space sciences.[5] For this course, students had weekly assignments towrite a section of a DMP based on that week’s classroom activities. The final project thenconsisted of combining these sections in a comprehensive DMP. This student assignment is anexample of the project DMP. The authors note that: 1) the DMP “was not tied to any fundingagency requirement”, and 2) the assignment may be revised in the future and limit the DMP totwo pages to “more accurately reflect federal funding agency requirements”.[5] Thus, theauthors acknowledge the funding DMP (i.e., a desire to limit the DMP
services librarian at Kelvin SmithLibrary, Case Western Reserve University, for the invaluable feedback on the project. References1. White, M. A., The history of the Engineering Libraries Division, Part 1 - 1893 to 1960. In2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, LA, 2016.2. Youngman, D. C., Changing roles for science and technology librarians as reflected in thehistory of Engineering Index. Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship 1998, Spring.3. Hubbard, D. E., Analysis of ASEE ELD Conference Proceedings: 2000-2009. In 2010Annual Conference & Exposition, Louisville, Kentucky, 2010.4. Price, D. J. d. S., Networks of scientific papers. Science 1965, 149
workshops andthe exhibition reception are able to interact with peers from other departments and reflect uponnew methods of expression. The exposure to research topics and methods from many fieldsencourages students to re-imagine and contextualise their own work.Prior to the inaugural competition, a library resident was tasked with reviewing and analysingsimilar events at other post-secondary institutions. Nine competitions were identified, and theresident librarian was able to correspond with organizers at seven of the host institutions in orderto gain insight into their experiences [8]. The results of this analysis informed the timeline andprocedures for the first event, which have since been refined over subsequent iterations of thecompetition
42 Fourth Year (Senior) 184 55 38 Total 898 246 195We had varied responses from different classes. However, we had chosen samples randomly and theminimum response from a class was more than 18% of the class population, making aggregated analysis ofthe responses statistically valid.Reliability and ValidityIt is important to conduct a thorough measurement analysis of the instrument. It gives assurance that thefindings reflect accurate measures and that results are trustworthy. Test reliability indicates the extent towhich individual differences in scores are ‘true’ differences. As a proof of
distinct from sex. Connellnotes that gender is not a supposedly biologically-obvious division between men and women, butinstead the way human society collectively makes relevant these reproductive distinctions Page 26.1007.5between human bodies in a social context. For us, the context is engineering education. In its simplest form, gender reflects the set of characteristics, behaviors, and practices that we think ofas “feminine” or “masculine” – characteristics that any individual biological male or female mayor may not embody.Race, like gender, is not a biological category but a social one. And unlike sex, race has nobiological basis, despite a
increases the likelihood of communication independent of separationdistance” [17, p. 56]. Traditional academic groupings that separate business from technologymight no longer reflect the needs of library users. Co-locating engineering and businesscollections and librarians might be a better way to support research in both disciplines.We recognize that such changes are not easily made and would not fit the needs of everyinstitution. Proximity alone is also not enough to ensure collaboration. On the individual level,subject specialist librarians must seek opportunities to connect with colleagues. Thecollaboration between the authors began with a peer mentoring relationship. Co-teachinginstruction sessions and peer observation of teaching or reference
efficiency within their respective offices.Classification accuracy should also improve as USPTO and EPO examiners develop a bettercommon understanding of classification practices. Most importantly, patent searchers will nolonger have to use two classification systems (USPC and ECLA/IPC) in order to do acomprehensive patent search.The disadvantages of this project primarily concern the USPC. The USPC reflects more than acentury of knowledge and experience of USPTO patent examiners. Its organic nature has led tothe creation of hundreds of unique codes that might be lost in the migration to the CPC. U.S.documents prior to 1920 will be reclassified in CPC. Thousands of U.S. patent examiners andpatent information professional will have to learn a new
evolution is reflected inthe departmental affiliation noted for each publication in the collection. Many of the centers,departments or laboratories that issued reports during that period of time are no longer inexistence, either due to consolidations or due to completion of projects. SEAS reports wereproduced mainly as a record of publicly funded research undertaken at the University. Whileresults of the research were often published in peer-reviewed literature, the reports frequentlycontain results of experiments, computations and primary data that are not included in thepublished literature. Some reports, especially those in high demand, have been catalogedindividually and holdings information has been accurately maintained for retrieval purposes
literacy is commonly referenced as an increasingly important 21st century skillneeded in today's knowledge-based economy. ABET’s criterion 3.i declares that students have“a recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning.” Shuman,Besterfield-Sacre, and McGourty1 propose several attributes of lifelong learning, including“follow a learning plan; identify, retrieve, and organize information; understand and remembernew information; demonstrate critical thinking skills; and reflect on one’s own understanding.”These criteria align well with the core concepts of information literacy. Information literacy ismost popularly defined by the American Library Association as set of skills that enables theability to recognize the need
librarians now "believe that‘understanding some ethical, legal, economic, and socio-political information issues’ is anelement of IL" [9]. This approach is reflected in the ACRL’s Framework for InformationLiteracy for Higher Education [4].IL instruction for graduate students takes various forms. It can be integrated into a graduatecourse or delivered as a stand-alone workshop. It can also be offered as a one-shot session or as aseries of sessions. The latter offers the opportunity to establish a relationship with students,compared to the one-shot session, and appears to have a much greater impact on studentretention [9, 10]. The course-integrated sessions have the advantage of strengthening the linksbetween librarians and professors and are directly
found that focusing library instruction heavily on improving search skills showed a much higher percentage of students using quality resources in their bibliographies. These gains highlight the importance of reflection and continuous improvement within the process of information literacy instruction, assessment, and revision. Literature Review Information literacy skills are vital for undergraduate students and particularly critical in the 4,5,6engineering design process . To be successful the design process requires students to identify the scope of a project’s information needs, find quality research and information that both
) decreasing over time (c) staying about the same (d) unsure.”Questions 10 and 11 of the Qualtrics Survey were more reflective in nature than the previousnine questions. While the previous questions took a data-based route, these two questions wereimportant to understand how institutions and ARL libraries were supporting the needs ofstandards acquisitions. Question 10 asked if librarians felt that institutions understood the needsfor standards access, while question 11 asked if library administration understood the needs forstandards access. In figure 8, both questions show their results in a bar-chart form with 49% ofrespondents marking that they felt their institution understood the need to standards access and46% of respondents marking that they
(14.0%). These authorship trends may have reflected the nature of the type of materialavailable outside of academia. For example, information on websites introducing aerodynamicprinciples tended to come from anonymous or layman authorship. Websites covering the topicsof convection and truck aerodynamics were far less common. 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 3A: Anonymous Authorship 3B: Layman 3C: Corporate Authorship 3D: Professional Amateur 3E: Applied Professional 3F: Academic Professional 3Z: Source Unknown Convection Airfoil TruckFigure 6. Breakdown of Facet 3: Author Identity by report.The results for Facet 4
solving problems that do not requirelibrary use [2]. Even though most colleges require humanities and language arts courses forundergraduates in science and engineering programs, these students typically seek helpdifferently than those in liberal arts majors. They typically don’t use the library beyond itstraditional purpose of a place to study. They may be unaware of library services and resourcesand are not known to ask for help in using library resources or completing research assignments[2]. Their confidence and competence in being technologically savvy makes them morereluctant to fully utilize library services [3].Carroll, et. al. [4] hypothesized that engineering and science students low usage of the librarydoesn’t reflect on their lack of