digital scholarship, scholarly communications, research data and documentation management. She is also part of the Institutional Digital Repository Committee and teaches courses in information literacy.Dr. Cristina D. Pomales-Garcia, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Dr. Cristina Pomales is Professor of Industrial Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayag¨uez. She holds a Bachelors in Psychology from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayag¨uez and a Ph.D. in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan. Her research areas of interest are the study of Work Systems Design in Agriculture, Engineering Education, and Project Assessment and Evaluation. She is currently internal evaluator
learning experiences harnessing Elsevier’s information solutions.Mr. Jay J. Bhatt, Drexel University Jay Bhatt is responsible for building library collections in engineering subject areas, outreach to fac- ulty and students, and teaching information and research skills to faculty and students in Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and related subject areas. He provides individual and small group consultations to students, instructional sessions to specific classes, online research support in both face to face and dis- tance learning programs, and conducts workshops for specialized research areas. Jay is actively involved with the Engineering Libraries Division of the American Society for Engineering EducationDr
program.Strive to foster two-way communication.”7 She has successfully improved faculty-libraryrelationships, and increased her number of teaching and research assistance opportunities.Collaborative projects are now initiated by her teaching faculty because they know what toexpect from her. These opportunities have enhanced her career portfolio and were no doubt afactor in her successful reappointment and promotion to Librarian II in the summer of 2007. Theongoing development of her liaison work will strongly support her application for appointmentwithout term, and promotion to Librarian III in the fall of 2009.The author learned most of what she knows about networking and collaboration since she beganworking professionally. Overcoming challenges, and
Excellence Fellow and the recipient of NJIT’s 2018 Saul K. Fenster Innovation in Engineering Education Award. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Promoting Engineering Research Early – A Case Study of Research Question Formulation in a First-Year Engineering CourseIntroductionIt is well known that engineers need solid research skills, but many incoming engineeringstudents have little experience in engineering research and little motivation to do it. Manyacademic librarians have sought to teach research skills to beginning engineering students, butfew have focused on the critical first step in conducting research, identifying the researchquestion or problem with clarity. This is important because
is the flagship institution for STEM teaching and research in the UNC System. TheCollege of Engineering is thus one of the larger colleges at NC State, with over 10,000 students.Between 1984 and 1987, NC State acquired a 1,000-acre tract of land to expand upon, andcreated a master plan for this new campus, which was named the Centennial Campus in honor ofthe 100th anniversary of the University. Centennial Campus is one mile from NC State’s historicmain campus and is home to academic departments and centers, as well as a growing number ofcorporate and government partners. Two colleges have relocated to Centennial Campus – theCollege of Textiles moved to Centennial Campus in 1991, and the College of Engineering beganmoving its many departments
Paper ID #9354Embedding video-based learning modules for library research methods in anonline graduate engineering degree programJeffery L. Loo, University of California, Berkeley Jeffery L. Loo is the Chemical Informatics Librarian at the UC Berkeley Library. He also serves as a liaison to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.Lisa T. Ngo, University of California, Berkeley Lisa Ngo is the Instruction and Electronic Services Librarian at the Kresge Engineering Library of UC Berkeley.Cody K. Hennesy, University of California, Berkeley Cody Hennesy is the E-Learning Librarian at the UC Berkeley Library and liaison to the
paper not only brings an international perspective to US tales of usingsocial media, but also provides practical suggestions to academic librarians who areinterested in seeking innovative ways of end user outreach, education, andengagement. As the engineering community is the main audience in the use cases, thispaper also contributes to engineering education.BackgroundThe Internet greatly facilitates individuals’ ability to access library resources, retrievekey information, and solve problems on their own. Academic libraries face variouscrises including a downward drift in the number of physical library visitors forresearch and reference questions, low turnout to library instructional activities, lowawareness of library services, and lack of
instruction [7]. Many of our libraries have thestructure in place for librarians to provide assistance for multiple disciplines including the socialsciences, engineering, humanities, medicine, biological and physical sciences, and educationdisciplines. However, RDM is not a topic that lends itself being taught or managed by any onegroup or discipline on campus. Researchers approach RDM through the eyes of their specificdiscipline while librarians take the broader view looking at RDM through the lens of scholarlycommunication as a whole. Rather, it is a set of skills and knowledge that takes aninterdisciplinary approach to address properly.There is a growing evolution in libraries to support RDM that includes helping their institutionswith RDM plans
Network (USAIN) and Special Libraries Association where she serves within the Food, Agriculture, & Nutrition Division. Page 23.1316.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Using Gaming Technology to Teach Responsible Conduct of ResearchIntroductionPlagiarism and other research misconduct issues are an emerging trend at academic institutionsacross the country. The discipline of engineering is particularly affected.3 Professors areseeking ways to incorporate Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) and combating plagiarisminto their classes. Frequently, librarians are being asked to fill this educational need. In
motivate and to evaluate work in an online graduatecourse for practicing engineers. An essential innovation has been to apply HOTS to theidentification, evaluation, and application of secondary research resources made availablethrough the Wendt Engineering Library. This course has been effective in motivating HOTS forlibrary research.The role of IRRAE in MEPPMEPP, the first online degree program offered at UW-Madison, is a two-year course deliveredthrough the web. It is a “blended” program, utilizing a number of distance education tools: • synchronous webinars (using LiveMeeting) for teaching, discussion, and student Page 13.670.2
mission of the First-year Engineering team is to provide a reliable, wide- ranging, and constructive educational experience that endorses the student-centered and professionally- oriented mission of the University. He also teaches specialty courses in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Northeastern and has published and presented papers on approaches and techniques in engineering education. He has won multiple Outstanding Teaching Awards at Northeastern and numerous Best Paper and Best Presentation Awards with fellow First-year faculty coauthors at ASEE.Ms. Brooke Davis Williams MA (LIS), Northeastern University Brooke Williams is the Research & Instruction Librarian at Northeastern University
and compares the statistical use patterns before and after the change. Theuniversity library ultimately changed its plan to more closely meet user needs by limiting thenumber of publishers, maintaining high use titles, and selecting specific titles as needed.Additionally, problems that were encountered before and after the change are discussed.IntroductionPurdue University is a tier-one research university with approximately 40,000 students andsupports undergraduate and graduate students in computer-related departments and schools in theColleges of Science, Engineering, Technology, and Management. The Purdue UniversityLibraries system is a decentralized system with 13 locations. Three libraries regularly purchasecomputer books. The addition
Paper ID #34694Examining the Teaching Needs of Engineering Faculty: How the Library andLibrarian Fit InMs. Erin Rowley, University at Buffalo Erin Rowley is the Head of Science and Engineering Library Services at the University at Buffalo and serves as the Engineering Librarian. Before coming to UB, Erin was the head of a research team at a consumer products testing laboratory specializing in international standards and regulatory research. At UB she assists faculty, students, and staff with library resource instruction and engineering-related research including standards, technical reports, and patents. Erin’s research
in many civil engineering fields,that the governmental resources are especially important to them. Perhaps the type of researchprojects undertaken by the master’s student more readily reflect the work of the civil engineeringin designing systems and processes that meet everyday needs. The work of doctorial studentsmay be more focused to more esoteric research as they prepare for teaching and researchobligations that are a part of faculty positions. Further research is needed to clarify these issues,as well as help today’s librarian make decisions about what resources they university or collegelibrary should collect.Civil Engineering ResourcesBelow is a listing of the organizations, government entities, and other resources of which alibrarian
Page 25.799.9Students. Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 60. Retrieved from http://www.istl.org/10-winter/article1.html6. Nerz, H.F. (2001). Information Competencies: A Strategic Approach. Proceedings of the 2001 AmericanSociety for Engineering Annual Conference & Exposition. Retrieved fromhttp://depts.washington.edu/englib/eld/fulltext/00510_2001.pdf7. Popescu, A. and R. Popescu. (2003). Building Research Skills: Course-Integrated Training Methods. Journal ofProfessional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, 129 (1), 40-43.8. Roberts, J.C. and J. Bhatt. (2007). Innovative Approaches to Information Literacy Instruction for EngineeringUndergraduates at Drexel University. European Journal of Engineering Education, 32(3
librarians conducted by the author in 2008, 51 percent of therespondents reported that patent literature was included in the engineering curriculum at theirinstitutions. Nearly 58 percent also indicated that they teach workshops on patent searching onceor more per year.2 Numerous engineering libraries in North America offer research guides to thepatent literature and tutorials on patent searching.This paper will explore how the CPC will be implemented in patent databases and its potentialimpacts on how engineering librarians teach students to use the patent literature. The author willdescribe the organization of the CPC and its relationship to current classification systems.Principles of Patent ClassificationPatent classification systems arose from
tobusiness librarians.Howard, Zwicky, and Phillips [4] describe extensive collaboration among specialists in business,engineering, and patents at Purdue University Libraries. The business and engineering librariansprovide team consultations to students in engineering design courses and co-teach libraryinstruction sessions. Librarians also provide instruction and consultations for participants instudent innovation competitions and several outreach programs that support entrepreneurship inthe community. While these collaborative projects have been successful, Howard, Zwicky, andPhillips [4] call for better coordination of Libraries support for entrepreneurship activities.Feeney and Martin [5], a business librarian and a science librarian at the
Paper ID #17029Research Impact for Engineering: a National Survey of Engineering Librar-iansMrs. Daniela Solomon, Case Western Reserve University Daniela Solomon is Research Services Librarian for Biomedical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electri- cal Engineering and Computer Science, Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Kelvin Smith Library, Case Western Reserve University. She is interested in bibliometrics, altmetrics, data management, and library instruction.Mr. Matthew R Marsteller, Carnegie Mellon University Mr.Marsteller is Senior Librarian, Engineering & Science at Carnegie
reflects their future competence in keeping current and assessing engineeringinformation, factors in their lifelong learning abilities. As Cicek has stated in her study of theessential role of lifelong learning, “having students reflect on their educational experiencesenabled them to exhibit their appreciation of lifelong learning as a necessary and valuable skilland behaviour [3]. The Search Pages also afford the Librarian an opportunity to interact with each student asthey refine their research as needed in written replies or arranging consultations; it also gives theLibrarian a reflection on her teaching and subject analysis techniques for future classes.2.0 The Engineering Communication Class: The Context In each Engineering
a core assignment with clearly defined objectives and outcomes; and, 3. Developing a series of short activities that cover an important range of sources and providing scaffolding within those activities to build transferable skills.Introducing students to the physical library is the first step to challenging their preconceptions ofthe research process and to building their knowledge of the information sources that are integralto engineering research and study. Placing them in physical proximity of paper journals, books,and other sources forces them to engage with the results of their research in a fundamentallydifferent manner than they would with online sources. Second, assigning a set of deliverablesthat form an intermediate step
component of conducting undergraduate research [2], [3], since information finding,data collection, and scholarly communication are all key aspects of the research process.Providing information literacy instruction to undergraduate researchers is a natural extension ofthe work librarians are already doing within classroom settings in introducing students to theresources provided by libraries and teaching them how to access and use these informationsources. Research shows that library intervention with undergraduate research can improveretention [1], help students develop more profound research questions, and increase thecomplexity of their information searches [4]. For engineering students in particular, librarianintervention through IL instruction
Computer Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering. AE facultyalso collaborate with academic researchers from the College of Computing, and with facultyfrom the College of Science (which includes the School of Physics, and the School of Chemistryand Biochemistry).Georgia Tech also hosts interdisciplinary institutes where faculty from multiple colleges,departments, and individual labs collaborate around a core research area. Respondents to oursurvey engaged in collaborations with Georgia Tech for Robotics and Intelligent Machines(IRIM), as well as the Strategic Energy Institute. Respondents also collaborate with GeorgiaTech Research Institute (GTRI).Outside of Georgia Tech campus, respondents reported collaborations with faculty at otheruniversities
better serve the patrons at large. In addition, although our studyfocused on engineering faculty research needs, the LDA approach could definitely be applied to solvingproblems in understanding faculty research and teaching needs in many other disciplines, analyzinglibrary data and beyond. For example, the LDA approach could be used to abstract research topics fromtheses and dissertations, which would discover the research needs of graduate students. The otherexample would be using LDA approach to analyze library online chat transcripts to identify frequentlyasked questions. Finally, we were optimistic about topic modeling as a powerful tool to demystify largevolumes of text data and its potential in tackling the problems confronting academic
Paper ID #21191Graduate Research Data Management Course Content: Teaching the DataManagement Plan (DMP)Dr. Joseph H. Holles, University of Wyoming Associate Professor, Department of Chemical EngineeringMr. Larry Schmidt, University of Wyoming Larry Schmidt is an associate librarian at the University of Wyoming and is the current Head of the Brinkerhoff Geology Library. He holds BS degree’s in Chemistry and Biology, MS Degree in environ- mental engineering from Montana State University and received an MLS from Emporia State University in 2002. His interests lie in providing undergraduate and graduate students with information
their own research capabilities. At the top therehas been increasing international ownership and consolidation (see tables 2 and 3). Themove from microfiche-based technical information to web-based tools has encouraged manycompanies to dispense with physical libraries and associated information officers.Companies like Coode and Partners had largely intact job archives dating back to the 1850sin the 1980s 5 which have been dispersed as new owners (WSP) questioned the value ofstorage.The result of this process has been to give a renewed significance to the ICE. It is more thanever the corporate memory of the profession, as suggested in the tables below.TABLE 2 – top firms, New Civil Engineer Consultants’ File (1980) Company
potential as an innovative learning technology, Ryan and Grubbs noted that many articlesshow 3D printing in libraries as a “fun” or “creative initiative” rather than being fully integratedinto the curriculum.3 This perception is slowly changing as more and more academic campusesacross the world are incorporating 3D printing in academic libraries, often under the broaderumbrella of a makerspace, and publishing the models and methods they have developed forintegration into and the support of teaching, learning, and research.The University of Nevada-Reno’s DeLaMare Science & Engineering Library is arguably the firstacademic library to offer 3D printing as a service in 2012.4 Colegrove, the library’s director,noted that the addition of 3D printing
journal Pennsylvania Libraries: Research & Practice. His interests include open educational resources (OER) and open access scholarly publishing. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Work In Progress: A Snapshot of OER Adoption in Engineering Mechanics Courses1. Introduction and Motivation:The purpose of this work is to determine the extent to which Open Educational Resources (OER)are used in introductory engineering mechanics courses, and to examine the barriers to adoptionin these courses. According to the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation “Open EducationalResources are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or
. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018Beyond Our Horizon: Reaching out to Engineering Faculty to Teach Spatial Literacy Beyond Our Horizon: Reaching out to Engineering Faculty to Teach Spatial LiteracyAbstractThe National Research Council of the National Academies has recognized the importance ofspatial thinking as an important skill in the 21st century, and in its report “Learning to ThinkSpatially”, supports its integration in the K-12 curriculum. Building on universities’ increasinglyrecognized and integral support for Information Literacy, comes the realization that SpatialLiteracy should be another of those skills that should be taught at the tertiary level. Recognizingthe
engineering informationliteracy is growing, there is no consensus on the most effective method of teaching these skills tostudents [2]. One way that libraries have sought to engage students in learning research skills,which at first glance may not seem exciting or necessary, is to create outreach activities,including games and contests, which directly draw upon information literacy skills in order towin [3]. Presenting information literacy in the format of a game flips the model from passivelearning (the student being told what to do) to active learning (the student has a motivation toseek information in order to win). This active learning model is actually much closer to “realworld” motivations-- the engineer will need to seek information as part of
AC 2008-2132: USING VIDEOS TO TEACH THE ETHICAL USE OFENGINEERING INFORMATIONWilliam Baer, Wichita State University WILLIAM M. BAER is an associate professor and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Librarian at Wichita State University. He earned degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering (BS) and Library and Information Science (MLIS) from Brigham Young University. Page 13.1367.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Using Videos to Teach the Ethical Use of Engineering InformationAbstractThe engineering profession has always valued ethical behavior. However, it seems that