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Technical Papers

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carol La Russa, University of California, Davis; Karen Andrews, University of California, Davis

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AC 2010-1093: MANAGING A DIGITIZATION PROJECT: ISSUES FOR STATEAGENCY PUBLICATIONS WITH FOLDED MAPSCarol La Russa, University of California, Davis Librarian for Environmental Engineering, Geology and Atmospheric Sciences. Physical Sciences & Engineering Library, University of California, DavisKaren Andrews, University of California, Davis Head, Physical Sciences & Engineering Library, University of California, Davis Page 15.851.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Managing a Digitization Project: Issues for State Agency Publications with Folded

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New Collaborations

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anne Rauh, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Jody Hoesly, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Collections and Scholarly Communications Librarian at the University of Wisconsin - Madison's Wendt Library. Jody has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and worked as an engineer in the machine tool, recreational vehicle, and electrical contracting industries. In 2008, she graduated from the University of Wisconsin - Madison with an M.A. in Library and Information Studies. She is also a certified K-12 teacher-librarian, technology teacher, and Project Lead the Way (PLTW) instructor. Jody recently joined Wendt where she manages the collection budget and serves as a reference, instruction, and liaison librarian

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Mary Strife, West Virginia University

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describe using online or video tutorials generally, with somefascinating articles about various video tutorials for students in engineering and the sciences. Page 15.839.2Jack Maness from the University of Colorado, Boulder published an article in the Summer 2006Issues in Science & Technology Libraries (ISTL) that evaluated streaming video used to deliverinstruction to engineering students in the distance education program6. Barsky and Lindstromwrote an article in the Fall 2008 issue of ISTL about podcasting at the University of BritishColumbia1. Berger discussed a podcasting pilot project at the University of Virginia2. Robertsand Bhatt wrote

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ELD Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cameron Patterson, University of Alabama; Nicholas A. Kraft, University of Alabama; Susan Burkett, University of Alabama

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, and a senior member of IEEE. Page 15.224.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 AVS: Science and Technology Virtual MuseumAbstractThe American Vacuum Society (AVS) has a desire to create a “virtual museum” as a way toarchive historical items. The items were used by vacuum technologists in the past for themanufacture of integrated circuits (ICs). The vacuum related equipment (e.g., pumps, gauges,and meters) represents important information regarding the history of the AVS. The AVSHistory Committee provided this project as a learning opportunity for a student in the Computer-Based Honors Program at The University

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Outreach and Beyond: New Roles for Librarians

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jim Miller, University of Maryland; Bob Kackley, University of Maryland, College Park; Nevenka Zdravkovska, University of Maryland

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as the University of Maryland Libraries have incommon with recruitment efforts similar to these? Maybe more than those affiliated with theinformation services field realize (in the Conclusion the identities for those nicknames will berevealed).In the summer of 2008, librarians Jim Miller, Bob Kackley, and Nevenka Zdravkovska of theEngineering & Physical Sciences Library (EPSL) at the University of Maryland gave twobibliographic instruction sessions to Summer Program students on campus. Students were fromtwo local magnet schools, Oxon Hill High School and Charles H. Flowers High School for anInventor’s Camp for the program, Project Lead the Way. After talking to Alex Prasertchoung,the coordinator for the two classes, we realized that

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

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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

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Outreach and Beyond: New Roles for Librarians

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donna Beck, Carnegie Mellon University; G. Berard, Carnegie Mellon University; Bo Baker, University of Tennessee Chattanooga; Nancy George, University of Pittsburgh

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, 9, 10 Similar representational studies regard theeffect of the gender of the instructional agent in generating response from girls. Aninteresting and recent study from Plant, Baylor, Doerr, and Rosenberg-Kima uses acomputer-based learning environment and argues that female agents help generateinterest and encourage girls to participate in engineering-related projects.11Literature advocating pedagogical strategies that encourage girls to participate in STEMdisciplines tends to cover three broad groups: general advocacy and classroomenvironment strategies, reports on large-scale curriculum initiatives with an emphasis onstudents under-represented in STEM professions, and reports of science and engineeringprograms designed specifically for

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Technical Papers

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dana Denick, Drexel University; Jay Bhatt, Drexel University; Bradley Layton, Drexel University (Eng.)

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. Also of note, this citation analysis study showeda discrepancy between student proficiency in citing print and web resources with students lessable to correctly apply citation standards to web and electronic resources. Yu et al8 conducted abibliographic analysis of project reports from first-year engineering and second- and final-yearchemical engineering undergraduate students. The results from this study showed more citationsoverall and a larger inclusion of books and journal articles by upper level students, with asignificant dependence on web resources from all student groups. Again, students showeddifficulties in correctly citing a variety of information resources. Mohler9 found in an analysis offirst-year engineering research papers that

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ELD Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nestor Osorio, Northern Illinois University

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and Arkansas, 1868-1872.Attended the University of Michigan, Civil Engineering program, 1874-1878.Received a Civil Engineering degree at the University of Michigan, 1878.Worked in the Survey Project of the Great Lakes, 1878-1881.Mississippi River Commission, Assistant engineer, 1881-1883.Professor of Civil Engineering, Washington University, St Louis, 1883-18999.“During the years spent in this position he gained a world-wide reputation by his valuablecontributions to engineering literature and his active work in connection with engineering andscientific societies.”Researcher, Forestry Division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1892-1895.Dean, College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1899-1902.Accidental death at his

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sasha Gurke, Knovel Corporation

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alone, we have added 455 new titles.Users can browse and simultaneously search all titles via a single interface. Basic andFielded (Data) searches are fast and optimized for technical users.At the end of 2008, Knovel embarked on a new and exciting project: Mathcad-enablingKnovel content. The product, called Knovel Math, was released last summer and includesover 4,000 Mathcad worksheets with over 20,000 pages of engineering solutions forstructural and civil engineers.Below we describe in detail this new product as well as the following new KnovelInterface features and products released in 2009:Knovel LabMy KnovelData SearchSearch EnhancementsBrowse EnhancementsEngineering CasesKnovel MathEngineers across all industries perform engineering

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Technical Papers

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Bernier, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Engineering Libraries

AC 2010-8: USING LIBGUIDES AS A WEB 2.0 CONTENT MANAGEMENTSYSTEM AND A COLLABORATION TOOL FOR ENGINEERING LIBRARIANSRichard Bernier, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Richard Bernier is the Reference and Electronic Services Librarian at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology where he manages subscriptions and access to all electronic resources; conducts reference service and library instruction, and manages the digital archives project. He is currently transitioning his library toward a Library 2.0 environment. Page 15.1330.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Using

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Technical Papers

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Virginia Baldwin, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

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search interfacesdedicated as finding aids to institutional and disciplinary repositories assures expandedintellectual access as well.The results of this project support these conclusions. In this study nearly 11% of the articleswere deposited in institutional or disciplinary repositories. Much higher were the percentages offaculty in all three disciplines, in all five institutions who have at least one article with someform of open access. IR deposition is still in its infancy in these fields and repeated studies suchas this one will determine if the percentage of available publications is on the rise. Free access isincreasingly becoming the mantra and predictably faculty will more and more prefer to pull theircited publications from the