Conference Session

Information Tools and Techniques for Engineering Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Giovanna Badia, McGill University; April Colosimo, McGill University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

professional developmentopportunities for librarians.BackgroundThe authors first used the web conferencing software, Adobe Connect, to provide office hoursfor undergraduate students completing research assignments in large science and engineeringcourses at McGill University. The online office hours occurred at the same time as the in-person office hours to reach more students, including those less likely to visit the science andengineering library in person.The authors also investigated the use of Adobe Connect to design webinars. They created athree-part series on impact measurements, which covered how to: (1) identify highly citedjournals within a discipline using Journal Citation Reports, and compare journals using ScopusAnalytics; (2) search Web

Conference Session

Fresh Perspectives on Information Literacy

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy S. Van Epps, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

://www.sdsskateboards.com/stella.htm (1 pt) Any information that identified this site was most likely selling longboards and thus would have information on sizes and shapes, along with cost information. 2. For the citation given in the last question, state if you would use the resource in a research and design project, and explain why you would or would not use the information. (1 pt) Either yes or no was an acceptable answer, as long as the student could provide an acceptable justification. See a couple of examples below: No – the site is likely biased due to the .com address, and is trying to sell something so might not be the best source for documentation on longboards. Yes – as a

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries (ELD) Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alison Bradley, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; R. Daniel Latta, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Meg Harkins, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

, students in this course have been offeredthe option of attending a hands-on library workshop and receiving extra credit on a relatedproject report. Since several hundred students enroll in over 25 sections of this course each fall,the workshop format was developed as an alternative to traditional one-shot library instruction,which is not practicable on this scale. To better assess how the workshops were serving thestudents in these large classes, a group of instructors from the class and the engineering librarianworked together to evaluate student success with research projects and overall informationliteracy within the freshman engineering curriculum. The first initiative was to design a citationstudy assessing submitted projects for quality and

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

Tagged Divisions

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