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Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Technical Session 1

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paul McMonigle, Pennsylvania State University; Denise Amanda Wetzel, Pennsylvania State University; Sara C. Kern, Pennsylvania State University

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27.8% oftotal graduates, even though members of these groups account for almost 35% of all collegestudents [1], [2]. Although all these percentages are higher than they were in 2012, there is still along road to travel before full equity in these fields is reached.Inclusivity in InstructionInclusivity can be defined as “an intentional practice of recognizing and working to mitigatebiases that lead to marginalization or exclusion of some people” [3]. Students’ social identitiesdo have effects on how they learn and whether they stay the course in their major throughgraduation [4]. Unfortunately, many students from backgrounds underrepresented in STEM canfeel alone or unwelcomed and eventually change their major to one where they believe they

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Technical Session 1

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Beth Carpenter, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Erin Rowley, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

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StudentResponse System (SRS), which allows for the collection of feedback through an interactivepresentation as well as the ability to implement collaborative tools.This new format utilizing Nearpod has been implemented in all course sections each semestersince Fall 2022. However, this research is a work in progress as our ultimate goal is to conductan institutional review board-approved study that includes a pre-test and post-test to assess theinformation gleaned by the transfer engineering students at UB.Literature ReviewInformation literacy instruction for transfer students, and assessing this instruction, is a topiccovered in the literature [1-5]. However, we did not discover any literature that focused solely ontransfer students in engineering

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Technical Session 1

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth Dawson, Northern Arizona University; Susan Wainscott, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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instructors.We add the voices of these instructors to the literature on how science, engineering, andtechnology college instructors are selecting resources. We discuss what engineering and otherSTEM librarians can do to increase resources from diverse perspectives, OER, and other OAresources used in these courses, which may make the coursework more accessible to additionalstudents.IntroductionMany college courses require students to use a textbook [1] or other instructional materials (IM),and the selection of these is a key component for the design of college courses [2]. Some coursesmay rely on committees to select core IM, and some pre-professional curricula may be quiteprescribed, while other course instructors may have the discretion to select

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Technical Session 1

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dianna Morganti, Texas A&M University; Angie Dunn, Texas A&M University

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research [1].People (rather than instructional resources) in general, have been shown to play a very large partin helping students begin their research. However, in a 2011 study that surveyed of 382 facultymentors, many reported apathy or antipathy toward seeking out or attending training on theinformation literacy behaviors which would help them stay up to date on research methods andtools across the research lifecycle [2]. This likely contributes to the fact that many students (907surveyed in the same 2011 study) report that their faculty mentors do not provide adequatesupport [2]. This leaves engineering graduate students often learning research skills ad hoc, evenin very well-resourced institutions. Librarians often receive specialized

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

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth C. Novosel, University of Colorado Boulder

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howindividuals experience disability. This paper will present a disability justice-informedperspective in hopes of allowing librarians who work with disabled STEM student to gain a morenuanced understanding of ableism and the many barriers disabled people encounter in STEMfields as well as more broadly in higher education. IntroductionIn recent years, there has been a significant and much needed focus on diversity, equity, andinclusion (DEI) in academia. Although some progress has been made regarding DEI policies,programs, and awareness [1], [2], critics have pointed out there is still much to be done, notingthat many students and scholars continue to regularly experience oppression and discriminationon

Conference Session

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

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amber Janssen, California State University, Maritime Academy; Mindy F. Thuna, University of Toronto

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review.IntroductionThis project began in 2019. While it is still a work in progress, the authors wanted to focus onthe methodology chosen to undertake this study, as well as the current status of the researchbeing conducted. The topic itself arose from several conversations at the 2019 ASEE conferencein Tampa where the authors were curious about the landscape of engineering librarianshippublications, focusing on what research methods were typically being used by engineeringlibrarians in their research and how appropriate and well were these approaches being explained.Explorations of the types of studies typically conducted by librarians has been discussed, studiedand editorialized from many years [1]–[4] but the focus in most of the papers examined seemedto be

Conference Session

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

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Joseph White, Queen's University

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Engineering Education (ASEE) [1]. World War II curtailed the activities of bothgroups. After the war, however, the engineering librarian communities in ACRL and ASEE grewquickly, offering new opportunities for professional development, networking, informationsharing, research, and advocacy.This paper seeks a deeper understanding of the academic engineering librarian community in the1940s and early 1950s through the analysis of data compiled from the Directory of CollegeEngineering Library Personnel [2], published in 1949 by the Engineering School LibrariesSection of ACRL and supplemented by data from other sources such as Who’s Who in LibraryService [3]. The Directory is a rich source of data that includes details such as position titles,degrees

Conference Session

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

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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that are expected in professional publications. This study aims to identify remaininggaps and opportunities for the instructor and librarian to provide additional scaffolding andsupport for IL skills.Literature ReviewAssessment of engineering students’ information literacy (IL) skills has to date focused more onthe undergraduate than graduate level [1]–[3]. Much of the research focused on theundergraduate level has focused on first-year courses and design-oriented courses such asCapstone [4]. Generally, in these types of courses, students are acting more as consumers ofinformation (in order to learn new concepts, inform decisions, etc.), rather than as producers ofinformation, as would be expected at the graduate level or in upper-level

Conference Session

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

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Denise Amanda Wetzel, Pennsylvania State University; Paul McMonigle, Pennsylvania State University

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the past two decades, there have been many attempts to create a method or tool that helpsstudents comprehensively evaluate the sources they find. The most well-known method is knownas the CRAAP test. Designed mostly to help students remember steps to take while examiningresources, the acronym stands for Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, and Purpose. Touse the tool, an evaluator moves through the steps, answering questions about the source thatrelates to each criterion [1]. Although the CRAAP test can seem like nothing more than justchecking off boxes when evaluating suitable resources, it really comes into its own when theexamples shown in class are below the standards required for academic and professional papers[2].The CRAAP test

Conference Session

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

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Erin Matas, Michigan Technological University

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doesn’t usually match the mental models that undergraduate searchers areaccustomed to when using Google. In human cognition, mental models are important schemas of the world that people use toreason, solve problems, and make inferences across situations [1]. When students apply theirmental models of Google-like search expectations to single search bars on library websites orscientific databases, they are often met with confusing, unexpected, or incorrect results. Thepurpose of this exploratory study is to evaluate undergraduate College of Engineering andCollege of Sciences and Arts students’ real-world search strategies during a library instructionsession at Michigan Technological University (MTU). College of Engineering students

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Technical Session 5: Collections & Spaces

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paula C Johnson, Univeristy of Arizona

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of makerspaces in academic libraries over time, with anemphasis on the way that these spaces have been used in engineering programs and pedagogy.University Makerspaces: Brief HistoryMakerspaces as university resources are a relatively recent development, dating back to around2001, when MIT opened its Center for Bits & Atoms [1]. By 2015, a section of the annual NMCHorizon Report: 2015 Higher Education Edition was devoted to a discussion of makerspaces.Horizon reports attempt to identify key trends and technologies impacting higher education, andit predicted that the time to adoption of makerspaces was two to three years. The report stated: The turn of the 21st century has signaled a shift in what types of skillsets have

Conference Session

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

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jean L. Bossart, University of Florida; Laura Spears

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preferences and behaviors of students. Prior to the 1990’s, academic libraries weredesigned to maximize space for physical collections, a trend that changed with the introductionof digital collections. As more materials became available on-line, librarians began rethinkingthe use of their physical spaces to focus more on optimizing student learning experiences. As aresult, the shift in design occurred from individual study, book-centered library spaces to agroup-study learning environment [1].Generation Z (Gen Z) college students, those born from the late 1990’s to the early 2000’s,expect to have choices. When it comes to space, they want to have control of their choices [2].Controlling choices in the moment of need by the student is the definition

Conference Session

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

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Seth Vuletich, Colorado School of Mines; Brianna B. Buljung, Colorado School of Mines; Joseph R. Kraus, Colorado School of Mines

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spring 2019 therehave been over 900 confirmed attendees.Literature ReviewCareer readiness and post-academic success are significant goals of education. Graduate schoolstypically deploy a mentorship model, where disciplinary experts advise and guide students,preparing them for a career that mirrors their own trajectory into academia [1], [2]. In someSTEM disciplines as many as two thirds of graduate degree recipients leave academia forindustry [3], [4]. Ganapati and Ritchie found that there are gaps in the professional developmentfor PhD students who choose not to pursue a career in academics [5]. Learning resources,ranging from credit-bearing coursework to non-curricular mentorship programs are oftendeveloped to ensure students receive the

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Technical Session 4: Outreach & Collaboration

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Over, Virginia Tech; Connie Stovall, Virginia Tech

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Engineering Collections & Research Analyst to spend timedirectly interfacing with departments to complete analysis and assessments, enhancing liaisonrelationships, and using subject-specific knowledge to support RII.To meet demands, strengthen human resources, and leverage skill sets the Research Impact &Intelligence department was formed and the Provost’s Office is funding an additional positionfor the team. RII collaborates with principal investigators and delivers competitive intelligencereports on several grant proposals, and has already collaborated across many campus units as canbe seen in Figure 1. The Research Impact & Intelligence department represents a relatively newtype of department for academic libraries and presents

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kendall Morgan, Grainger Engineering Library and Information Center; Elisandro Cabada, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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academic libraries, it has historically been common practice to provide support formathematics as a subject by maintaining a mathematics branch library, preferably housing thecollection near the mathematics department for ease of access by researchers [1]. At UIUC, theMath Library serves the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Statistics, plus otherfaculty, students, staff, and researchers in the community. As such, the Math Library isconsidered a single-subject departmental library.Of course, many researchers would appreciate having a departmental library near their office, soit begs the question why a branch library would be a necessity for mathematics in particular.Why continue to prioritize physical stacks in the age of digital

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Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Wynn Tranfield, University of California, Santa Cruz

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research so much as they design. This pathway begins at the undergraduate levelwhere engineering students are expected to devote their time to theory and problem sets.Information retrieval leans heavily on textbooks. Emphasis on efficiency means students aretaught to find answers quickly, and potentially compromise the fit of a resource in order toquickly move forward to the next task [1]. A Listening First approach utilizes the basic tenets of user-centered research, or user-centered design. User-centered research is the process of gathering information about the users ofa product or service in order to inform the design and development of future products or services.Typically, this process includes interviews, surveys, usability testing

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Technical Session 4: Outreach & Collaboration

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hyunjung Lee, Cornell University; Sarah Lane, Cornell University; Christina Sheley, Cornell University; Jill H. Powell, Cornell University

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efforts and the successes and challenges encountered as we work toaddress business research needs in the engineering curriculum.Introduction and Literature ReviewThe teaching of business competencies to engineering students is exploding in engineeringeducation due to a variety of factors. First, there is a critical need to develop professional skills,including leadership, communication and teamwork, and capabilities for “real-world”engineering design and operations, along with learning the core math, science, and technicalaspects of engineering [1], [2]. Interviews and surveys of early-career engineers revealed notonly technical skills were needed but also skills for industry, like complex project managementand soft skills, that newcomers had to

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Technical Session 4: Outreach & Collaboration

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paul R. Hottinger, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Jessica Ohanian Perez, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

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Engineering and the engineering librarian began, withthe intention to examine the impact of intentional information literacy (IL) instruction on first-year engineering students [1]. This collaboration began as a one-time library instruction sessionand blossomed to a 4-part instruction series, including a curriculum re-design and assessment in2021. The engineering librarian visited the engineering faculty’s first-year engineering coursesproviding a series of library instructions, all with scaffolding student learning outcomes, and afinal goal of improving student information literacy skills. These sessions included a scavengerhunt, finding relevant sources, evaluating sources, creating citations, and how to produce anannotated bibliography. The

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sarah Weiss, University of Maryland- College Park

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steps include developing library support that wouldallow graduate students in the department of CEE to meet a requirement for diversity in theircitation practices that will serve as concrete and practical applications of citation justice that willbe applicable in their post-academia careers.IntroductionIncreasingly in recent years, librarians have taken up the task of improving the level of diversity,equity, and inclusion, referred to commonly as DEI, in their work. Academic libraries, as anintegral part of colleges and universities have a responsibility to provide equitable access toknowledge and information [1]. In some areas such as education, where equity and inclusion hasbeen a conversation for over 70 years, it is easier to discern where

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Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jentry E. Campbell, Dartmouth College; Stephen Krueger, Dartmouth College

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similar explorations at other small, private colleges.Introduction & MethodsThough the impact of textbook costs has been investigated by various institutions andorganizations, most research has taken place within community colleges and public universities.Very few studies from small, private colleges have been published [1], [2], [3], and none of theseare from similar universities. While our search did reveal several papers on engineeringtextbooks and open textbooks, none focused on the cost of textbooks for engineering students.While this paper examines the cost of textbooks from the perspective of engineering students, itdoes not focus solely on engineering textbooks.In the fall of 2022, the Dartmouth Library and the Thayer School of

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Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Qianjin Zhang, The University of Iowa

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journal impact metric is operationalized as the CiteScore providedby Scopus, a citation database. To account for the variant spellings of the same topic, theresearch topics are generated using a research assessment tool named SciVal. The journal articlesincluded in the analysis are also identified using Scopus, because journals indexed in Scopushave assigned subject categories, making it easy to identify journals relevant to biomedicalengineering. The inclusion criteria for selecting articles are biomedical engineering journalarticles that are (1) peer-reviewed, (2) published in the most recent four years (2018-2021) and(3) in English language. Using each article as an observation, how much more or less CiteScoreis linked to the presence of a

Conference Session

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

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sarah Parker, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

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deposittheir research data into a repository at the time of publication to fulfill funding obligations. Thispaper describes the survey results conducted at a U15 research institution in Canada askingengineering faculty about their research data sharing practices and preferences. The purpose ofthe survey was to answer the following questions: 1. How well prepared are engineeringresearchers for data deposit, 2. Are engineering researchers willing to share their data, and 3.What barriers exist for sharing engineering data? Results demonstrate knowledge of andacceptance of open access (OA) practices but when it comes to data, engineering researchers aremore reluctant and less prepared to share their data widely and may need guidance on RDM bestpractices

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Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Technical Session 5: Collections & Spaces

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeanette M. Mueller-Alexander, Arizona State University Library; Alexander Soto, Labriola National American Indian Data Center; Bethany Maureen Leonardi

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developed and implemented culturally informed library services, expanded its personnel four-fold, and re-established its physical locations as culturally safe spaces for Indigenous library users. Alex co-authored ASU Li- brary’s first land acknowledgement statement, is the recipient of the Society of American Archivists 2022 Archival Innovator Award, and recently was awarded a $1 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for ”Firekeepers: Building Archival Data Sovereignty through Indigenous Memory Keeping,” a three-year project to preserve Indigenous knowledge through community-based participatory archival partnerships with Arizona’s Tribal communities. Alex’s journey to librarianship comes after years of

Conference Session

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

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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this role, Mr. Landmesser has honed his technical acumen and improved his management and communication skills while building strong organizational and leadership qualities. Mr. Landmesser is currently pursuing a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Tennessee, focusing on modeling soil- moisture impacts to wildland-urban interface. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Technical Standards in Engineering Education: A Survey Across Professional Sectors Final Submission: May 1, 2023: American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) 2023 Annual Conference and Exposition, Baltimore, MD on June 25-28, 2023AbstractThe global emphasis

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Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Technical Session 4: Outreach & Collaboration

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Erin Rowley, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

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invitation to deliver a one-time information literacy lecture in a class. This lecture iscommonly referred to as the “one-shot,” as this is the librarian’s one opportunity to speak withstudents on library resources and library research best practices.Beyond this, subject librarians can work with faculty in other ways related to their teachingneeds, although the literature shows this is not a common occurrence. However, the author hadtwo unique experiences of connecting with faculty from two major schools at the University atBuffalo: the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the School ofManagement (SoM) [1, 2]. These studies were conducted and examined separately, but theauthor recognized the overlap in some of the faculty interview

Conference Session

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

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Pixton, Brigham Young University

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published studies in this area and explores different areaswithin the domain of college-level information literacy where developing conditional knowledge mayprovide the largest gains in information literacy education. Focus is placed on concepts of particularinterest to engineering undergraduate students. Finally, the paper provides examples of possible ways ofincorporating DBL to teach these principles and provides observations from a pilot implementation ofthese example DBL models.IntroductionIn 2015 the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) introduced the Framework forInformation Literacy for Higher Education (hereafter identified as “the Framework”) [1].Written in response to a "dynamic and often uncertain information ecosystem

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Technical Session 5: Collections & Spaces

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katelyn Vo, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; A.J. Evans, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Shreenithi Madan, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Zachary Riggins del Rosario, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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failure 1. Prior empiricalwork in statistics education 2–4 and behavioral economics 5,6 has shown that people are highlybiased in their treatment of uncertainty. Engineering as a discipline has developed sophisticatedtools for identifying and reducing sources of uncertainty; for instance, the tools of statisticalprocess control 7,8. However, it is not clear how widely these tools are adopted in engineeringpractice, nor how widely the concepts of uncertainty are taught in engineering programs.There is reason to believe that uncertainty is not emphasized in engineers’ training. Modernengineering curricula heavily emphasize mathematics. For instance, the ABET criteria require 30credit hours of “college-level mathematics and basic science” and 45

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Technical Session 4

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sarah G. Park, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Monica Carroll, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Lucy Marie Alice Esteve, Duke University; Karnika Singh, Duke University

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reviews are a type of literature review that takes a systematic approach to search,review, and synthesis of information on a defined topic. A well-designed review will achieve“exhaustive and comprehensive searching”[1] for relevant evidence while minimizing selectionbias. As the volume of scientific publications has surged exponentially over the past severaldecades [2], with a recent study showing that the number of publications in the Physical andTechnical Sciences doubles every 11.9 years [3], the need for systematic reviews to collate andsynthesize all this research has become critical. The general field of engineering has seen the risein published research review papers that many other fields have seen recently [4-6]. Conversely,performing

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Denise Amanda Wetzel, Pennsylvania State University; Sara C. Kern, Pennsylvania State University

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humanities and social sciences have increasingly used quantitative textualanalysis to gain a high-level understanding of language and themes in texts. These studies aredesigned to investigate a corpus, or collections of words from selected texts, and usemathematical principles to look for high level connections and concepts not always apparentthrough individual reads [1], [2]. By moving beyond the standard literature review, the authorscan examine the content of published material to explore themes and future research directions tounderstand belonging in STEM libraries. This methodology allowed the authors the opportunityto examine details in language and trends in texts in a corpus in a novel way that would besignificantly more difficult and time

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Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James M. Cox, The University of Iowa; Kari Kozak, The University of Iowa

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users have changing needs that require the library to evolve. The library works tomeet these needs and continues to create spaces that give a sense of welcoming and belonging.Decisions related to changing the library space need to be carefully thought-out to ensure theviability of the library and relevancy to the library user.There are three broad steps to decision making: pre-work, observation, and implementing [1],[2]. Pre-work involves identifying areas of concern and opportunities. Observation is thegeneration of data, finding relationships between problems and the source, and increasingunderstanding around the issues or area for growth. Finally, implementing is the decision basedoff the observations to implement a solution to resolve the