Information literacy instruction (ILI) has long been an important part of undergraduate education.Subject librarians, together with undergraduate instructors, help students identify the relevant information sources in their discipline and learn how to search for, locate, and recognize highquality information effectively. Information needs, specific resources, and information practices differ across subjects and vary by workplace and discipline norms. This work, funded by the Engineering Information Foundation, presents our first step in developing a series of modules to support engineering students' development of information literacy. We have interviewed five engineering librarians at the 2018 ASEE annual conference to better understand the best practices for information literacy instruction in engineering courses. Based on the analysis of the interviews we identified and described a number of concepts that will be considered as we develop our modules. This paper also provides a list of recommendations for faculty and librarians who are involved in ILI for undergraduate engineering students.
Cory has experience as both a professional engineer and high school educator. His professional interests are understanding the interaction between engineering education pedagogy and entrepreneurship, faculty technology commercialization experiences, and institutional policies that influence both engineering education and entrepreneurship. In July 2018, Cory will begin a new faculty position at Colorado Christian University.
Virginia Tech's Department of Engineering Education. She has her doctorate in Engineering Education and her strengths include qualitative and mixed methods research study design and implementation. She is/was PI/Co-PI on 8 funded research projects including a CAREER grant. She has won several Virginia Tech awards including a Dean's Award for Outstanding New Faculty. Her research expertise includes using motivation and related frameworks to study student engagement in learning, recruitment and retention in engineering programs and careers, faculty teaching practices and intersections of motivation and learning strategies. Matusovich has authored a book chapter, 10 journal manuscripts and more than 50 conference papers.
Our study explores the student perspective on approaches to real-time data collection surveys intended to be completed during classes. Real-time data collection means in the moment, while learning is happening. In focus group sessions with undergraduate students, we used semistructured questions to gather information about a series of proposed survey tools including social media (e.g., Facebook and Twitter), standard survey software (e.g., SurveyMonkey), and classroom technologies (e.g., such as clickers or tablet computers and interactive software). Focus groups were recorded, transcribed verbatim and coded to identify patterns in preferences and underlying reasons for these preferences with regard to structuring the survey to increase the likelihood of completion of the survey by participants. The primary outcome of this study was that students suggested pen/pencil and paper as a top choice over electronic methods, even though this approach was not among our suggested options. They preferred pen/pencil and paper because the format offers space for free expression and ease of access. They also suggested the impetus to take the survey is greater with pen/pencil and paper. We believe our study makes an important contribution to educational research methods literature by offering research-based design considerations for increasing response rates in real-time data collection.
2007), I began working as an audio-video engineer/designer. I then made a career transition to teach high school physics. Having sparked my love for education, I went back to school to earn my M.S. in Industrial & Systems Engineering (2015) and my Ph.D. in Engineering Education (2016). My first faculty job was at Rowan University in southern New Jersey, where I had the honor of helping develop their first-year engineering and B.S. in Engineering Entrepreneurship programs. I'm now blessed to be at CCU contributing to what God's doing through our Industrial & Systems Engineering program and university.
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