Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Technical Session 2: Understanding Our Users

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy Kurr, University of Tennessee - Knoxville; Jimmy A. Landmesser Jr., UT-Battelle

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Engineering Libraries Division (ELD)

University. Ms. Kurr completed her Spanish Business Certificate from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Energy Science and Engineering from the University of Tennessee’s Bredesen Center. In her free time, Ms. Kurr sits on the Standard Technical Panel for Underwriters Laboratories UL-746 (polymer materials) and serves as a professional development facilitator for Tau Beta Pi’s – The Engineering Honor Society – Engineering Futures Program and the National Science Foundation-funded CyberAmbassadors Program.Mr. Jimmy A. Landmesser Jr., UT-Battelle Mr. Landmesser has 14 years of experience as a fire protection, nuclear and systems engineer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Upon

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Technical Session 1: Engineering Librarianship

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Joseph White, Queen's University

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Diversity

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Engineering Libraries Division (ELD)

, worked as a technician in Harvard’s Underwater Sound Laboratory in 1944-45 and as a library assistant in the Ordnance Research Laboratory at Penn State in 1945-46. A. S.Gaylord, Jr., the College Librarian at Texas Tech, was the head of the Industrial LaboratoryLibrary at the Mare Island (California) Naval Yard from 1943-45. William S. Dix, ChiefLibrarian at the Rice Institute in Houston in 1949, worked as a research associate in the RadioResearch Laboratory (RRL) at Harvard University from 1944-46. The RRL was a secret researchprogram organized by the Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD). Dix receivedhis PhD in English from the University of Chicago in 1946 and taught English courses at Rice. In1953, he became the University

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Technical Session 3: Instruction & Information Literacy

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bridget M. Smyser, Northeastern University; Jodi Bolognese, Northeastern University

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Diversity

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Engineering Libraries Division (ELD)

than was seen with theundergraduates. This is consistent with previous findings showing that graduate students did wellwith gathering quality sources but not as well with evaluating or synthesizing that research in ameaningful way [15], [17].By the time they are eligible to take this course, most undergraduate students from NortheasternUniversity have had 1-2 writing intensive laboratory classes, a first-year module on how to uselibrary sources, and a class in technical writing in the discipline. Additionally, some of thestudents have already taken Capstone Design, which requires them to write a rather lengthyreport and use literature information to guide their design. The undergraduate students are alsooverwhelmingly domestic students, which

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Technical Session 2: Understanding Our Users

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Parker, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

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Diversity

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Engineering Libraries Division (ELD)