1. Bringing Data Management Training to Engineering Students
2016 ASEE ELD Conference, New Orleans, LA
Marina Zhang Engineering & Informatics Librarian University of Iowa Libraries
Hi everyone, I’m Marina from University of Iowa Libraries.

2. About Research Data Services at UI
Collaboration across Libraries, Division of Sponsored Programs (DSP), Information Technology Services (ITS), and Iowa Informatics Initiative (UI3)
Library guide
Collaborative consulting
Workshops, in-class presentations, guest speakers, and events
The Research Data Services at UI Libraries is collaboration across libraries, Division of Sponsored Programs, Information Technology Services and Iowa Informatics Initiative. It is currently coordinated by two subject liaison librarians including my colleague, Sara Scheib and me. We have a library guide for data management resources, provide collaborative consulting, offer workshops and in-class presentations, and organize events.

3. Workshops in 2015 Summer 2015 Fall 2015 1.5 hour 4 identical sessions
Total attendees: 48
Total attendees: 26
24 from Libraries, 12 from DSP, 7 from ITS, and 4 from Physics & Astronomy
13 students, 11 staff and 2 faculty
We started offering data management overview workshops since In the last summer, we offered 4 identical sessions targeting librarians and other campus service providers. In the following fall semester, we offered 5 identical sessions targeting students, faculty and researchers. The numbers showed that the student attendance rate was pretty low in comparison to staff attendance rate. It’s mainly because that students do not have incentives to attend such workshops in their spare time.

4. In-class Presentations
50 minutes
3 presentations for chemical & biochemical engineering graduate students from Fall Spring 2016
ENGR:7270 Engineering Ethics (47 Enrollments)
CBE:5105 Intro to Lit Review & Proposal Writing (8 Enrollments)
CBE:5000 Sem in Chemical & Biochemical Engr (26 Enrollments)
Total attendees: approximately 50 students
To help students learn best practices on data management, we worked with engineering faculty to give three in-class presentations on data management in the recent two semesters. The first opportunity to give a presentation in a faculty member’s class came from the liaison connection. The other opportunities came from another faculty member who attended our workshop and helped spread the word to her colleagues.

5. In-class Presentations - Content
Animation video
Data lifecycle, best practices, examples and resources for
Data storage – ITS storage options, backup rule etc.
Organization – folder structure, file naming conventions etc.
Documentation – README file, data dictionaries etc.
Sharing – Data repositories
Legal & ethical considerations
We adapted the New England Collaborative Data Management Curriculum, and designed the 50-minute long in-class presentation which covered an animation video about poor data management, data lifecycle concept, best practices and resources for data storage, organization, documentation and sharing. The in-class presentations worked well for the students and faculty. The students liked the amusing animation video and had good discussion on data ownership and legal and ethical considerations on data sharing.

6. What’s ahead Continue faculty outreach
Extend data management training to students in other engineering disciplines
Online tutorials
We learn that getting faculty buy-in is very important. In the future, we will continue reaching out faculty and bring data management training to students in other engineering disciplines. In addition, we will create some online tutorials on data management as part of library instruction tutorials.