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Technical Session 1: Collaborating with Engineering Students and Faculty

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Aleshia Huber, Binghamton University; Jill Dixon, Binghamton University; Sandy Card, Binghamton University

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Engineering Libraries

Paper ID #17863Redesign of Library Spaces: A Collaborative Project with Engineering Stu-dentsAleshia Huber, Binghamton University Aleshia Huber is the Engineering Librarian at Binghamton University. She has a B.S. in Chemistry and an M.S. in Library and Information Science, both from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her interests include information literacy instruction and usability studies.Jill Dixon, Binghamton University Associate Librarian Jill Dixon serves as the Director of Public Services at Binghamton University Li- braries. She oversees the development and implementation of innovative services and

Conference Session

Technical Session 1: Collaborating with Engineering Students and Faculty

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pauline Melgoza, Texas A&M University

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Engineering Libraries

PapersLibrarians do not typically have opportunities to assist student engineering teams. Ourinvolvement is usually at the class lecture level. However, if given a chance, librarians are wellequipped to assist students with their research for team projects. A writing assignment in anupper-level engineering core course is a good way for librarians to become immersed in a classand to build relationships with students on a one-to-one and team level. As academicprofessionals, we have various mentors to assist us with job skills, promotion/advancement, andnetworking. Students have similar needs and librarians can be a safe source to discussinformation deficit areas and provide team dynamics coaching.Related LiteratureThe literature has many examples of

Conference Session

Technical Session 3: History and Future of Engineering Librarianship

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kari A. Kozak, University of Iowa

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Engineering Libraries

project began in 2012 with a single email from a professor asking if the Librarywould be open to checking out tools. The professor had tools to loan to students but no systemfor tracking the items. The Library was eager to add this new service and set up procedures anda loan policy. (Full policy and procedures can be found at http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/eng/tool-library/.)The Tool Library started out with thirty-eight items available for checkout and items have beenadded ever since. News of the new Tool Library spread by word of mouth, triggering severaldifferent groups to donate tools.At the beginning of 2016, it became apparent there was a need for items more geared towardcreating and hands-on learning with a strong emphasis on technology. It also

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James A. Van Fleet, Bucknell University

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Diversity

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Engineering Libraries

, China in 2015.Participating students at our institution are required to develop a research project around one of theGrand Challenges. They may take courses designed with the Grand Challenges in mind, or develop aproject that applies subject knowledge. They must seek out opportunities to develop global perspectives,and participate in service learning projects. Our Engineering College web site sets out the programgoals: Research or Major ProjectAll GC Scholars will be required to initiate, complete and make a presentation on a research projectrelated to one or more Grand Challenges. Interdisciplinary CurriculumGC Scholars will be required to complete a curriculum that provides knowledge related to solving one ormore of the Grand Challenges. GCSP

Conference Session

Technical Session 2: Improving Information Literacy Programs

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeff McAdams, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Julia Glauberman, Binghamton University Libraries

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Engineering Libraries

Literacy for Higher Education, was designed in conjunction with the creation of acurriculum map covering all of the College of Engineering’s undergraduate programs. The goalof this ongoing project is to provide opportunities for students to engage in short, thoughtfulexperiences with IL at strategic points throughout their time as undergraduates. To accomplishthis, the following steps were taken: (1) Syllabi from 300 courses were analyzed to determinepotential for compatibility with IL instruction, (2) sequences of required courses for each of the10 undergraduate engineering programs were visualized to facilitate scaffolding of ILinstruction, (3) a list of discrete IL concepts and skills were derived from the ACRL Framework,(4) assignments were

Conference Session

Technical Session 2: Improving Information Literacy Programs

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chelsea Leachman, Washington State University; Talea Anderson, Washington State University

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Engineering Libraries

force,which ultimately recommended, among other things, increased use of open educational resources(OERs) on campus2. The task force made initial forays into open education by matchingavailable OERs to general-education undergraduate courses such as introductory biology,mathematics, and history. However, when addressing engineering courses, they encounteredunique problems related to the availability of appropriate resources and the organization ofdepartmental selection processes. For this project, the scholarly communication librarian and theengineering librarian at the university have come together to work with the College ofEngineering to address the best way to incorporate OERs into upper-division undergraduatecourses for engineering

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel P Zuberbier, East Carolina University; Ranjeet Agarwala, East Carolina University; Robert A. Chin, East Carolina University; Mark McKinley Sanders

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Diversity

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Engineering Libraries

andTechnology. Even though the number of print requests have decreased, faculty in the College ofEngineering and Technology have used the library as a focal point as their students participatedin new projects and have collaborated with the College of Business and the Brody School ofMedicine on many experiential learning projects.IntroductionSince 2012, the library literature has been inundated with arguments stating 3D printers1,2,3,4,5,6,7and the broader makerspace movement8,9,10,11,12,13 fit within the scope of an academic library’smission. Five years later, arguments against 3D printing and makerspaces are rare,14 and, as acrowdsourced “Map of 3D Printers in Libraries” shows, at least 153 academic libraries in theUnited States now have 3D printers

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Technical Session 3: History and Future of Engineering Librarianship

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael J. White, Queen's University

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Engineering Libraries

the people who were involvedwith ELD during the last fifty years are still alive and active members, none were formallyinterviewed due to time and resource constraints. An oral history project would be a valuableaddition to the history of ELD. This paper does not presume to be a comprehensive history ofengineering libraries and librarianship, engineering information, or education although it toucheson these subjects in the context of the history of ELD.ASEE goes to Washington: 1960-65The early 1960s was a time of transition for ASEE. Since its founding in 1893, ASEE had beenadministered by member volunteers with substantial support from engineering colleges. Forexample, the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois provided office

Conference Session

Technical Session 1: Collaborating with Engineering Students and Faculty

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William H. Mischo, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Christie A. Wiley, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Mary C. Schlembach, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Heidi J. Imker, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Engineering Libraries

of data are part of the integrated scholarly workflow, and are notnecessarily wholly separate processes.Building on these interviews, the authors have developed an instructional and training programthat better focuses on integrating data management activities focusing on research and scholarlycommunication processes. The goal of our project was to examine data management practices inthe context of researcher scholarly workflow needs and behaviors and develop and implement aninstructional program that addresses researcher data needs. The development and assessment ofthis program is underway.INTRODUCTIONIn response to federal grant agency and publisher mandates for data sharing, science andtechnology libraries have become actively involved in

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Technical Session 3: History and Future of Engineering Librarianship

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lisha Li, Georgia Institute of Technology; Isabel M. Altamirano, Georgia Institute of Technology; Bette M. Finn, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Engineering Libraries

outside thescience and technical literature. Technical reports are either generated by private enterprise andits research-and-development (R&D) component, or by governmental support of research.Contracts with the federal government almost always require a report summarizing the project(Walker, 1990).During the 1930s, technical reports were considered at the time furnishing “newer informationfaster” (Box 4, Series 2). Crosland understood the importance of technical reports and wasactively involved in acquiring them based on research needs. She was instrumental inparticipating in several depository programs. For instance, with the Library of Congress’sCooperative Plan, the Georgia Tech Library received valuable research reports from

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Technical Session 1: Collaborating with Engineering Students and Faculty

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alexander J. Carroll, North Carolina State University; Bertha P. Chang, North Carolina State University; Honora N. Eskridge, North Carolina State University

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Engineering Libraries

Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Lab-Integrated Librarians: Engagement with Unreachable ResearchersAbstractSubject liaison librarians are working at the crossroads of the practical and emerging needs ofresearchers, seeking to connect with them throughout the research life-cycle rather than at thebeginning when literature reviews are conducted or at the end when a scholarly publicationemerges. In STEM disciplines, where research is oftentimes conducted in secure lab facilities,engagement is particularly challenging. In 2016, librarians at North Carolina State Universityembarked on a project to overcome this difficulty by joining selected research groups andattending regular lab meetings. This paper’s findings will suggest that lab

Conference Session

Technical Session 3: History and Future of Engineering Librarianship

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jill H. Powell, Cornell University

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Diversity

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Engineering Libraries

librarian in the Engineering Library. He was director from 1987-2001 and 2006-2008; from 2002-2005 he went on partial research leave as Director of Collection Development for the NSF-funded National Science Digital Library Project.52 In 2009 he was appointed Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Resourcesand Special Collections. He served as principal investigator on the Kinematic Models for DesignDigital Library (KMODDL)53 involving the Reuleaux Collection of 19th-century kinematicmachines. He led the Task Force to examine library-related needs for the Cornell Tech campus inNew York City

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nestor L. Osorio, Northern Illinois University; Daniela Solomon, Case Western Reserve University

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Engineering Libraries

place at the University of Texas,Austin. Also collected from the conference programs were other sections in the ELD programssuch as unconferences, workshops, open forums, tours, and panel sessions.Once the ELD conference programs were located, every entry corresponding to Papers Sessionsand Poster Sessions was searched in the Ei Compendex database, one of the major engineeringbibliographic databases. Ei Compendex was selected for this project because it has a goodcoverage of engineering education field and because it is one of the few databases that indexesarticles of the proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). Wedecided to use the descriptive metadata assigned to the documents found in this index. Thefollowing

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Niranjan Hemant Desai; George Stefanek, Purdue University Northwest

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Engineering Libraries

the quality of help provided to them by librarians during those consultations,and what they found useful about face-to-face consultations despite there being online helpavailable to them6. They found that students desired consultations for several different reasons,ranging from a lack of knowledge of how to begin their research to ensuring they have optimizedthe use of the available resources. Their projects ranged from very simple to multidimensional andcomplex. Prior to the consultations, several students had encountered hurdles while attempting toindependently perform their research. Some of them were frustrated that their searches wereinaccurate and they could not find relevant materials.Students were helped in selecting databases

Conference Session

Technical Session 3: History and Future of Engineering Librarianship

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie Arendt, Virginia Commonwealth University; Rosalyn Hobson Hargraves, Virginia Commonwealth University; Martha I. Roseberry, Virginia Commonwealth University

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Diversity

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Engineering Libraries

SchoolAssociation​, Westerville, OH: National Middle School Association, 2003, pp. 1-6.[22] B. McNeill. (2014, Mar. 10). “Library's major expansion project gets underway,” ​VCUNews ​[Online]. Available: h​ttps://news.vcu.edu/article/Librarys_major_expansion_project_gets_underway[23] B. McNeill. (2016, Mar. 3). “VCU to celebrate opening of new James Branch CabellLibrary,” ​VCU News​ [Online]. Available: ​https://www.library.vcu.edu/about/news/2016/vcu-to-celebrate-opening-of-new-james-branch-cabell-library-march-15.html[24] E. Puckett Rodgers. (2016, Sept. 13). “James Branch Cabell Library | New LandmarkLibraries 2016 Winner,” ​Library J.​ [Online]. Available: ​http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2016/09/buildings/lbd/james-branch-cabell-library-new-landmark