Conference Session

Making an Impact: Building Support with Data and Design

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hilda Teresa Ayala-Gonzalez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez ; Cristina D. Pomales-Garcia, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez; Jaquelina Ester Alvarez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

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Diversity

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Engineering Libraries

, to support the needs of our engineering students.Fig. 8. GRIC Library services supporting the research lifecycle.Since communication skills in English are fundamental to succeed in STEM fields, especially forEnglish as Second Language students, the GRIC has also integrated peer-to-peer support with ateam of Graduate Writing Facilitators (GWF). The GWF’s are a team of three graduate studentswith diverse multidisciplinary backgrounds (Engineering, Science, and English), trained to offeracademic services in oral and written communication in English to meet the needs of all ourgraduate programs. Through writing clinics (e.g., English grammar and style, tone and audience,visual design, transition and clarity, and oral presentations in general

Conference Session

Engaging Students with Creativity and Innovation

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alison Henry, University of Alberta; Lucinda Johnston, University of Alberta

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Engineering Libraries

be able to communicate effectively, concisely, and correctly in written,spoken, and visual forms to a variety of audiences using a wide range of media. Communicationincludes the effective sharing of knowledge and expertise in a variety of situations (to peers, tothe general public and to decision makers) [4].” It is these communication skills that are targetedby the IOR competition.In addition to fostering individual skill development, IOR also invites graduate students toengage with the broader research community on campus. This aligns with the larger institutionalplan promoting engagement “across disciplines, campuses, faculties and units [7],” to enhancestudents’ learning experiences. Participants who attend submission preparation

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric J. Schares, Iowa State University

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Engineering Libraries

monograph title data available for conducting this analysis include loan author, title, year,publisher, edition, and lender library. Patron information includes department affiliation andstatus; no further identifying information is recorded in the dataset used here. This analysis focuses mostly on requests made by patrons from engineering departments,and it analyzes trends over time by constructing visualizations to look at: • the most active academic departments and their request activity over time • the most heavily requested titles • requests by patron status (undergraduate, graduate, faculty, staff, unaffiliated) • the total number of requests made over time • what peer libraries are used to fill the requests This work

Conference Session

Making an Impact: Building Support with Data and Design

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachel Figueiredo, University of Waterloo; Angela Henshilwood, University of Toronto; Michelle Spence, University of Toronto; Mindy Thuna, University of Toronto; Siu Hong Yu, University of Waterloo

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Engineering Libraries

the civiland environmental engineering (CEE) project, and were the only Canadian universities to do so.Nine institutions from the United States also participated. Librarians from each institutionattended training provided by Ithaka S+R at the University of Delaware in Newark, Delaware inOctober 2017. As all institutions would be following the same protocol, the training included anintroduction to the project methodology, a lecture and hands-on exercises on interviewtechniques, tips on recruitment strategies, instructions and practice for coding interviewtranscripts, and guidance on writing the final report that each institution was expected to do. TheAmerican Society for Civil Engineering (ASCE) was also a project sponsor, as they have

Conference Session

Informing the Critical Understanding of Our Users: Using Data to Develop New and Diverse Services

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kate Mercer, University of Waterloo; Kari D. Weaver, University of Waterloo; Ariel Jocelyn Stables-Kennedy, Western University

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Diversity

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Engineering Libraries

engineering students access, use, and understand information; identify gaps in theliterature, and how this can be used to support information literacy education in theengineering disciplines. Engineering students are required to create, problem solve, andimprove, using engineering principles to develop their skills in technical, environmental,socioeconomic and political aspects of the engineering process. They are increasinglyfaced with the availability of rapidly shifting information types, which are gathered fromsources like Google and Reddit. Finding and interpreting such information, even whenfound correctly through sources outside traditional research boundaries (technicaldocuments found online vs. peer review articles through a library catalog

Conference Session

Beneficial Partnerships: Enhancing Library Programming with Strategic Collaborations

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wendy Mann, George Mason University; Theresa M. Calcagno, George Mason University; Deborah Ann Kermer, George Mason University

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Engineering Libraries

librarians or between alibrarian and a faculty member [11]. Atkinson (2018) provides an overview of different types ofcollaborations involving academic libraries and librarians [12]. He identifies several main typesincluding internal collaboration, collaboration with faculty, collaboration with other supportdepartments (e.g. writing centers), and collaboration with students [12]. In one collaboration[13], faculty and librarians worked with students in a large environmental science class whowere from a wide variety of majors. Collaborators found that the students’ technical and libraryresearch skills varied widely, creating challenges [13]. We have experienced the same withDAEN students. The lack of library skills, especially those related to finding

Conference Session

Making an Impact: Building Support with Data and Design

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xiaoju "Julie" Chen, Carnegie Mellon University; Jessica Benner, Carnegie Mellon University; Sarah Young, Carnegie Mellon University; Matthew R. Marsteller, Carnegie Mellon University

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Engineering Libraries

paper once it is complete andlisting which journals or conferences appear most often in the works cited. This seems like a veryclever way to identify the fit for a particular paper or set of results.In terms of the types of publications, some researchers have a preference for professional societypublications over for-profit publishers. Those researchers who are conducting more traditionalcivil and environmental engineering research preferred peer reviewed journals exclusively,publishing only abstracts in conferences for networking and feedback purposes, while thoseconducting research overlapping with computer science, where conferences are often the finaldestination for research, described publishing in both conferences and journals. For

Conference Session

Teaching Engineering Students and Library Staff: New Ideas and Best Practices

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeanine Mary Williamson, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Natalie Rice, University of Tennessee ; Carol Tenopir, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Jordan Kaufman; Courtney June Faber, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Rachel McCord Ellestad, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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Engineering Libraries

are the good quality ones that you can use, and then there is a question in the module aboutresearch in general, peer review and that kind of thing, introduction to good research at theuniversity level. And then we do post-test as well, so can determine if there is any movementbetween pre-test and post-test.[I2]”• Course-specific teachingAll participants stressed the importance for developing instruction relevant to particular coursesand including language and concepts familiar to engineers. Create assignments for specific courses and get the faculty interested in it Work with faculty to find out what assignments are already used in the class and howyou can tweak them a little to fit ILI: “For example, if faculty gives them