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Finessing the Introductory Standards Workshop: Efforts Toward Active Learning

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2024 ASEE North Central Section Conference

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Kalamazoo, Michigan

Publication Date

March 22, 2024

Start Date

March 22, 2024

End Date

March 23, 2024

Page Count

7

DOI

10.18260/1-2--45619

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Matthew R Marsteller Carnegie Mellon University Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0001-6278-3424

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Mr.Marsteller is Principal Librarian, Engineering & Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to this position, he was Head of the Science Libraries at Carnegie Mellon University from 2006 through 2014. He has also served as the Physics and Math Librarian. Prior to his time at Carnegie Mellon he was the Team Leader for Library Services at the Morgantown facility of the National Energy Technology Laboratory. He also served for six years in the US Navy Nuclear Propulsion Program.

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Haoyong Lan Carnegie Mellon University Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0002-6097-964X

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Haoyong Lan is the Engineering Librarian at Carnegie Mellon University, where he provides library instruction, research assistance, data support, and collection development to students, faculty, and staff. He received a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and a Master's degree in Library and Information Science both from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include explainable artificial intelligence, engineering research competency, scientometrics, digital library, and information retrieval.

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Abstract

The opportunity of introducing engineering students to technical standards literature is a rewarding experience for the engineering librarian. Librarians must be careful not to rely too much on the lecture as an educational technique. This paper describes creative efforts to introduce active learning techniques to the typical one-hour workshop. Following a shorter lecture, workshop attendees will be given topics to tackle in small groups. The lecture will include ideas for discovering standards of possible interest such as literature searching (databases such as Compendex, which indexes standards or full text databases like IEEE Xplore and ASTM Compass), references in handbooks or specialized encyclopedia entries (or other monographs), articles on design of artifacts (products), discussions with colleagues/bosses, product descriptions when sourcing materials for a design, labels on items or cartons, or searching a standards supplier database. Attendees will work on the problem of finding related standards to a given engineering scenario. Scenario possibilities include 1) standards information needs for a small business for innovative piezoelectric products, 2) locating standards related to tissue engineering, and 3) standards need to be gathered for a university research group that explores microgrids. Scenarios have the possibility of appearing contrived unless academic librarians reach out to engineering professors for possibilities that could be explored for engineering design courses and capstone project courses.

Marsteller, M. R., & Lan, H. (2024, March), Finessing the Introductory Standards Workshop: Efforts Toward Active Learning Paper presented at 2024 ASEE North Central Section Conference, Kalamazoo, Michigan. 10.18260/1-2--45619

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