Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division Technical Session 1: Diversity

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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

form and Qualtrics. The purpose of the survey is twofold: a. Tounderstand what students’ expectations and the diversity in their expectations are, and b. To helpstudents actively recognize the diversity among their peers. Librarians can get a sense ofclassroom diversity by looking at the results of the survey. However, that alone does not advancethe concept of inclusion. According to McNair, inclusion is the “active, intentional, and ongoing engagement withdiversity—in the curriculum, in the co-curriculum, and in communities (intellectual, social,cultural, geographical) with which individuals might connect—in ways that increase awareness,content knowledge, cognitive sophistication, and empathic understanding of the complex

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division Technical Session 2: Special Topics

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Erin Rowley, University at Buffalo

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Engineering Libraries

, even if those needs do not appear todirectly relate to the library.In 2018, UB was one of fourteen U.S. academic institutions that participated in the Ithaka S+R-led multi-site research study investigating the teaching practices of faculty providingundergraduate level instruction in business. The author was the sole researcher from UB andprovided de-identified interview transcripts to Ithaka S+R for their self-published report,“Teaching Business: Looking at the Support Needs of Instructors [3].” Findings specific to UBwere provided in the non-peer-reviewed report, “Examining the Undergraduate TeachingPractices of Faculty in the School of Management,” and made available on the UB institutionalrepository (UBIR).The study of UB business school

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division Poster Session

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Emily Bongiovanni, Colorado School of Mines; Brianna B. Buljung, Colorado School of Mines; Alexander Luis Odicino, Colorado School of Mines; Allyce Horan, Colorado School of Mines

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Engineering Libraries

this movement meant encouraging faculty on a large scaleto adopt, adapt, and create OER. Peter Reed noted in his 2012 study, “Awareness, Attitudes andParticipation of Teaching Staff towards the Open Content Movement in One University,” thatteaching faculty are open to sharing their work, but “they are not doing so to any large-scaledegree, that is, through specific OER repositories and open licensing.” 1 The challenge ofencouraging faculty to understand and incorporate OER can often derive from their unfamiliaritywith terms and policies related to copyright. 2 3 These concerns are compounded by facultyquestions regarding OER content quality and the peer review process. 3 However, these issues canbe mitigated by informational courses offered by

Conference Session

TS3: Working with Students

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Denise Amanda Wetzel, Florida A&M University - Florida State University; Kelly Grove, Florida A&M University - Florida State University; Jake Adam Flaks, Florida State University

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Engineering Libraries

globalization. Standards are the reason that a plug fits into the wall, a firehose fits all fire hydrants, and why all USB’s work in different computers and more. A standardis a collectively agreed upon set of rules, regulations, requirements, measurements, or technicalspecifications that are published by an organization [1]. They are published by national standardbodies that provide the means for writing and disseminating new standards. Table 1 shows a listof frequently accessed standards organizations and their commonly used acronyms. Due to a lackof peer-reviewed articles on the subject on accessing standards, the authors felt that conducting asurvey of Association of Research Libraries (ARL) would prove useful to analyze standardsacquisitions and

Conference Session

TS3: Working with Students

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jodi A. Bolognese, Northeastern University; Richard Whalen, Northeastern University; Evie Dee Cordell, Northeastern University; Alissa P. Link Cilfone, Northeastern University; Brooke D. Williams, Northeastern University

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Engineering Libraries

First-year faculty coauthors at ASEE.Evie Dee Cordell, Northeastern University Evie Cordell is the First Year Experience and Undergraduate Engagement Librarian at Northeastern Uni- versity. She is the liaison to the Writing Program, General Studies Program, Explore Program, ContiNUe Program, NUi.n. and several other First Year Programs at Northeastern University. She also serves on the First Pages (Northeastern University’s common reads program) committee and is a member of the FUNL (First Generation, Undocumented, Low-Income) Network at Northeastern. Evie holds a Bachelors degree in Religious Studies from the University of Virginia and a Masters of Science in Library & Information Science from the University of