Paper ID #37021Mapping Graduate Student Workshops to Career Readiness FrameworksSeth Vuletich, Colorado School of Mines Seth Vuletich is the Scholarly Communications Librarian the Colorado School of Mines. Seth provides specialized support to graduate students through all stages of the research lifecycle. Prior to entering the field of librarianship, Seth was a professional woodworker and earned a bachelor’s degree in geology from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Seth earned his Master’s in Library and Information Science from the University of Denver in 2021.Ms. Brianna B. Buljung, Colorado School of Mines
challenges: education, awareness, appreciation, accessibility,interpretation, application, and logistics. Participant responses highlight five reasons technicalstandards education is important: safety/best practice, practical application, expectations of theprofession, employment and business, and foundation/career development.IntroductionThe development, use, and education of technical standards have blossomed in the past fewdecades. While these documents bring great order and structure to the engineering field andbeyond, major challenges persist for users, educators, and students.In general, technical standards are agreed-upon procedures, tests, and protocols established in awritten format through consensus among a group of interested and expert
from knowing who would be completingthe survey (e.g., individuals with non-technical backgrounds may not feel comfortable answeringspecific questions). However, each multiple-choice question received at least 194 responses fromthe 201 participants. The open-ended questions relating to the survey content received aminimum of 122 responses with the “Next steps” questions (those designed to assist with thesnowballing distribution method) receiving a minimum of 53 respondents.The survey was created using Google Forms and consisted of eight sections: an introduction tothe survey (including Graphic 1 shared in Appendix B), career connection to engineering,student education, course specifics, course logistics, course value, everyday use, and next
part of the Business, Engineering, and Entrepreneurship team, Hyunjung also provides library services to the Cornell Tech campus in New York City. She currently serves on the Scholarly Communication Committee in the Engineering Library Division of ASEE.Sarah Lane, Cornell University Sarah Lane is a Business Librarian at Cornell University’s Management Library, housed within the John- son Graduate School of Management. Through her work at the library, Sarah supports the research and instruction needs of the College’s business students. She also provides career- and entrepreneurship- related research support to the wider Cornell community. Sarah has an M.S.I.S from the iSchool at the University of Texas at Austin
importance, but did not studythe actual use of these collections or services. For example, while 69% of faculty in their studyindicated that library databases were important or very important, there was no correspondingassessment of these faculty members' actual use of library databases.A multi-institution interview study organized by Ithaka S+R of civil and environmentalengineering faculty found that researchers preferred to use Google and Google Scholar for arange of information needs including finding datasets, gray literature, and scholarly articles(Cooper et al., 2019). Similarly, in an interview-based study with early career life sciences andengineering faculty at a single institution, researchers found that faculty in their study
county in the state) to assemble novel programming to inspire students to pursue careers that impact the state workforce development needs. The library will play a central role in hosting on-campus activities for visiting students. Expand high school dual enrollment opportunities – The current model for dual enrollment has a high cost (time and faculty and resources) and a low return (enrollment) at a limited number of schools. We explored a possible new online model. For example, we could partner with a select group of 25 to 50 high schools in the state and utilize lessons from COVID (including partners with higher numbers of underrepresented student groups), with specific aims to ease transitions for skills like math
earned, career histories, professional memberships, and publications. Much of thisinformation is not available from other sources.Although an increasing number of articles and books on academic engineering librarianship werepublished from the 1930s onward, few discussed the roles, qualifications, or work experiences ofengineering librarians. Few librarians from the period published biographies or articles abouttheir careers and work experiences. Modern librarians know much about historical engineeringinformation resources and how engineering libraries in the post-war period were organized,thanks to research published by librarians [4], student library handbooks [5, 6], and libraryannual reports [7]. However, we know very little about the
of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), and a BS in Biotechnology from Jiangsu University of Science and Technology (Zhenjiang, China). ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Is There a Relation Between Research Topics and High-Impact Journals in Biomedical Engineering?AbstractSome early-career biomedical engineering researchers believe in a theory that some researcharticles are more likely to get published in high-impact journals simply because their researchtopics are favored. This theory is tested by regressing the journal impact metric against thebiomedical engineering research topics across thousands of recent academic journal articles inbiomedical engineering. The
collocates student supportservices such as tutoring, academic advising, student career development, disability support, theWriting Center, University of Arizona’s Science, Engineering and Math Scholars Program,health and wellness center, and Serenity Space (supporting spiritual wellness) with spacesdesigned to facilitate collaborative, hands-on learning that promotes engagement withtechnology. The idea of a Student Success District (SDS) began to form when the nationalhistoric landmark Bear Down Gym (BDG) that sat between the Engineering and Science Libraryand Main Library was going to be renovated to include some student support services. UAL’sDean Sutton mentioned to colleagues in BDG that there were plans also underway for partialrenovations of
indicated they use ChatGPT for academic or research purposes viewedthe tool as more useful and more accurate than those who do not use ChatGPT in that context.FIGURE 1: Likert scale chart of student ChatGPT users and their perceived accuracy andusefulness of ChatGPT. n = 42.Survey -Student ResponsesWe surveyed 43 students in total and 42 reported having experience using ChatGPT. Studentswho used ChatGPT were invited to share up to four of their interactions with ChatGPT. Wecollected 49 unique ChatGPT interactions, which were organized into three categories:career/professional, class/research, and personal interest (Figure 2). Career/professional entailedquestions where students asked ChatGPT potential interview preparation questions and hadChatGPT
students discussed challenges in theirprograms. Undergraduate prioritization of internships and securing employment post-graduationhas encouraged the library to collaborate more closely with campus Career Services to provideprogramming targeting resume builders and research practices outside the academy. Graduatestudents’ experience as teaching assistants was associated with a great deal of anxiety – both dueto lack of confidence with course content, as well as time management concerns. Instructors relyheavily on teaching assistant’s availability, and many teaching assistants are not discouragedfrom working more than their contracted hours. These reports indicate a substantial gap insupport for first year graduate students in SoE. We
usingtrial and error to fine tune their IM selections over time (Go It Alone). We also found complexPower dynamics were involved. Instructors often teach more than one course over an academicyear or a career, and thus we expected to see multiple strategies mentioned. As noted earlier,there is expected overlap between responses and instructors in the Power and the Peers andColleagues themes. However, we did not see overlap between instructors with responses in thePower or the Go It Alone themes. Perhaps those who employ a Go It Alone strategy for their IMselection also opt to teach courses without a strong Power dynamic at play. Also, one instructor'sresponses are in both the Go It Alone and the Peers and Colleagues themes, as they use a mix ofself
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introductory coursesare geared to early career undergraduates and held in conjunction with other general educationrequirements. These classes are one credit, fifty-minute classes that meet once a week. Eachclass begins with a cursory explanation of this method before moving into a few short examplesthat the class moves through evaluating together. In all cases, the starting point is the IF I andthinking about biases. This class evaluation method uses three examples that are handpicked bythe instructor to share differences in “acceptable” and “further review needed” sources based ona topic. The terms “good” and “bad” are not used in this context. The reasoning behind this isthat one resource utilizes sound research but is not relevant to the topic
professional library career started in 2006 in the law firm libraries of Latham & Watkins in San Francisco, California, and Brussels, Bel- gium. Erin is a 2021-2022 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Leadership Fellow. She is also a graduate student in Applied Cognitive Science and Human Factors at Michigan Tech, where her research interests include the application of cognitive psychology techniques to the academic search domain and information literacy teaching and learning. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Undergraduate Students Experience Cognitive Complexity in Basic Elements of Library ResearchAbstract Google’s success in building a
this work was done longitudinally across anundergraduate’s career as a student and has found that identity as an engineer is lowest as a first-year student. Capobianco et al. found that women who had a strong institutional identity andaffinity were more likely to persist in the field and see themselves as engineers [16, p. 111].These women also had a strong academic affinity that seemed to “surpass their genderedidentity” [16, p.112].MethodsThe research in this study is part of two larger studies into the success of First Year Experience(FYE) Courses. In 2019, research into information literacy and the embedded librarian begun.This project was then subsumed under a larger university-wide grant and followed theInstitutional Review Board (IRB
isnot limited to engineering. 41 documents focus on engineering, making it just under half of theentire corpus. The authors did not limit the documents by type other than the limitation ofscholarly works, so there are journal articles, book chapters, and dissertations included in thecorpus. Additionally, this analysis uses research on students in different stages of theireducational careers, with an eye towards understanding challenges faced by historicallymarginalized people within the STEM community. An initial summary of the corpus reveals thatthe authors analyzed 88 documents with 1,123,499 total words [5]. This analysis also shows thatthe most frequent words present throughout the entire corpus are STEM, students, science,women, and
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other instructional sessions. She strives to create authentic and accessible learning experiences while incorporating maker and information competencies into the curriculum. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 A Collaborative Approach to Implementing Design Thinking and Rapid Prototyping in a High School Engineering CampAbstractDesign thinking and rapid prototyping can be used to engage high school students and get themexcited about pursuing a career in engineering. Engineering educators and a librarian at theUniversity of Nevada, Reno collaborated to explore this concept and develop a makerspaceactivity that emphasized creative problem-solving and hands-on
of Growth, Aging and Inflation for Citations to Scientific Articles from Specific Research Fields,” Journal of Informetrics, vol. 11, no. 4, Nov. 2017, pp. 1190–1200. [Online]. Available: https://doi-org.proxy2.library.illinois.edu/10.1016/j.joi.2017.10.004. [accessed Apr. 10, 2023].[4] N. D. Anderson and L. M. Pausch, A Guide to Library Service in Mathematics: the Non- Trivial Mathematics Librarian. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1993.[5] T. Cole, “Librarian from 1972-2000 / Nancy Anderson / Anderson Career Highlights,” Feb. 9, 2020.[6] L. L. de Oliveira et al., “Evaluating and Mitigating the Impact of OCR Errors on Information Retrieval.” International Journal on Digital Libraries, vol. 24, no. 1, Mar. 2023, pp. 45-62
.1211286109.[6] K. Aschaffenburg and I. Maas, “Cultural and educational careers: The dynamics of social reproduction,” Amer. Sociol. Rev., vol. 62, no. 4, pp. 573–587, Aug. 1997.[7] R. M. Branch, Instructional Design: The ADDIE Approach. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2009. doi: 10.1007/978-0-387-09506-6.[8] A. K. N. Hess and K. Greer, “Designing for Engagement: Using the ADDIE Model to Integrate High-Impact Practices into an Online Information Literacy Course,” Commun. in Inf. Literacy, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 264–282, 2016, doi: 10.15760/comminfolit.2016.10.2.27.[9] DMUELLER, “Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education,” Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL). https://www.ala.org/acrl/standards/ilframework
current state of academia and focuses on actively citingauthors with historically marginalized identities in an effort to center and uplift their voices [13].Most if not all academic institutions favor those from non-marginalized backgrounds; generallyable-bodied white, cisgender, heterosexual men. This can be seen from degree recipients at alllevels [14] to faculty composition [15]. Those whose identities stray from that, especially thosewith an intersection of marginalized identities, have a more difficult time entering, building andmaintaining a career in academia [12]. Citation practices are a large contributing factor andundercitation of people with margenlized identities can be seen across disciplines [16]–[20].According to Zurn et al
question 2 in the EDM focuses on different information creations, aligningwith frame 2 of the Framework. To help students consider types of content that would be mostrelevant to future engineering careers, journal articles, conference papers, trade magazines andother editorially reviewed information sources, and self-published sources, including researchpreprints, were selected as the principal sources in the model. 3 Recent activity by publishers in2 In the module, the first question is actually whether the source adds new information to the research, but for thepurpose of this discussion and to simplify the diagram, this question has been omitted.3 It should be noted that, for the sake of completeness, the EDM actually includes decision paths
two groups of students: awareness ofinformation needs, strategies for searching, extraction of information, sufficiency of information,and organization of information [24]. This difference between students who are earlier in theireducational career and those who are more experienced is echoed in a study showingundergraduate engineering students exhibit a change in the use of information over time, usingsources such as technical reports and journal articles more as progress from their second tofourth year of study [25].Research QuestionsThis study explored two research questions: RQ1. Do the chat transcripts from undergraduate and graduate engineering students reveal differences in the complexity of their research questions
obvious that first semester students were enrolling inresearch credit hours. The question that continued to be raised was “what research were thestudents accomplishing during that time?”. Other questions began to arise, such as “As a newdoctoral student, what part of the research process could they possibly be attempting?” Quickly, 10it became clear that the new students did not know what the research process was, much lesswhere it should be going. Many funded doctoral students are thrust into an ongoing research project early on intheir academic career without being informed on the entire process. They are placed in a verysmall section of the
“on demand” as well asmultiple times. This option could and should be offered more to support faculty teaching whileunderstanding that some courses do not allow time for an in-person librarian lecture.Project Based LearningBoth business and engineering faculty spoke about their desire to incorporate project-basedlearning into their courses. As one business faculty said when asked about tests, papers, or otherprojects in their course, “No tests, but yes, definitely papers [but] not the traditional collegeessays.” They go on to say their students create materials for the course, ones that simulatematerials they might make in a future career such as persuasive memos, informative pamphlets,etc. Another business faculty member spoke about working
. • Professional Recognition and Career Advancement: Although some responding OER authors reported facing challenges in gaining recognition, others found that their work contributes positively to their professional portfolio, including tenure and promotion processes, demonstrating their commitment to student success and educational innovation. More on this topic is also discussed in the professional impact section of the results. • Contributing to the Advancement of Knowledge and Practices: Some authors were driven by advancing knowledge in their fields, sharing innovative practices, and providing up- to-date and relevant resources. This includes integrating new technologies and approaches in their OER