Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Technical Session 3

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laurie Borchard, California State University Maritime Academy; Amber Janssen, California State University Maritime Academy; William W. Tsai, California State University Maritime Academy

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Engineering Libraries Division (ELD)

motivation, self-efficacy, career interest and confidence. Behavioral questionsexamined intention, engagement, and collaboration. Cognitive domain questions focused onthinking skills ranging from lower to higher order levels of Blooms taxonomy. And the ethicaldomain included questions related to AI ethics and AI for social good.Wang et al. developed and validated the AI Literacy Scale (AILS) that includes four constructs:awareness, usage, evaluation, and ethics [36]. AILS uses a Likert scale to determine confidencein these four areas. Hobeika et al. adapted the resulting 12-item scale and translated it into Arabic[37]. They tested the scale on university students and found the scale to be valid and reliable.Carolus et al. created the Meta AI

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Technical Session 2

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia Verdines, The Ohio State University

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Engineering Libraries Division (ELD)

, characterizing information creation as a process andresearch as inquiry [8], (b) metaliteracy, conceptualizing students as active participants, effectivecommunicators and translators of information [9], and (c) makers literacy, an emerging literacyenabling students to build self-efficacy, explore their entrepreneurial spirit, and learn skills thatwill last them long past their academic career [10].2. Literature ReviewInformation literacy in higher education: The ACRL Information Literacy CompetencyStandards for Higher Education [11] state that information literacy is an intellectual frameworkfor understanding, finding, evaluating, and using information, in relation to tasks and activitiessupported by information technology; it initiates, sustains, and

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Technical Session 2

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura Woods, University of Sheffield

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Diversity

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Engineering Libraries Division (ELD)

have been published while Mercer et al.wrote their review, plus any published since then. Some older papers may also be includedwhere they provide useful context. The themes identified by Mercer et al. will be used as aframework for discussing the literature, along with the additional themes of measurement ofinformation literacy, and gender balance and differences.Student information behaviour mirrors that of professional engineersHistorically, LIS research into the information behaviour of engineering students has castthem into a deficit role, identifying their behaviours as inadequate when compared toinformation literacy standards [18]. Madden et al. [19] take a different view, arguing thatstudents with a preference for “hard” disciplines