Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Technical Session 2

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura Woods, University of Sheffield

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD)

time.Holly mentions “doing research” a few times throughout her interview but is vague aboutwhat this entails. When pushed for details, she describes relying primarily on Google andGoogle Scholar. She sees Google as most helpful for finding what she terms as “hard facts,”such as how an air-based cooling system works. She uses Google Scholar to find morescholarly sources to supplement her work, but finds that the language is often “veryscientific” and difficult to understand. She also mentions using ChatGPT to help explainthings in simpler terms if her tutor is not available to answer questions. She seems generallyhappy to ask questions of her lecturers and her classmates, but is reluctant to admit shedoesn’t know something in front of people she