1. Barbara MacAlpine Mahbub Uddin Trinity University/San Antonio, TX

3. Eight Semester Engineering Design Sequence First Year Design competitions: Wooden truss Water balloon launcher

4. Eight Semester Engineering Design Sequence Second Year Team design project: Adaptive equipment for Goodwill

5. Eight Semester Engineering Design Sequence Third Year Electrical & thermal: Traffic light control system Home appliances

6. Eight Semester Engineering Design Sequence Fourth Year Capstone team design: Year-long project Industry/Trinity partnerships

7. Expanding Horizons: Using Information in the 21st Century A Quality Enhancement Plan For Trinity University 2008--2013

8. Expanding Horizons Goals UNDERSTAND ACCESS USE ETHICALLY EVALUATE CREATE

9. ABET Criteria Criterion 3. Program Outcomes … students attain (i) a recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning

10. Information Literacy Instruction First Year Databases & patents Exercise on written communication Research log

11. My Mini-Design Problem

12. A Patented Solution

13. Information Literacy Instruction Second Year Adaptive literature Product sources Govt. standards Patent review

14. LibGuide for ENGR 2182

15. LibGuide (detail 2) When designing a product, you must follow standards that are set within the industry and/or by the government. Standards sites include: ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials) ANSI (American National Standards Institute) …

16. Information Literacy Instruction Third Year Safety requirements Component specifications User manuals

17. Who is George Foreman?

18. Research Log Literature Search for Design VI Appliance Sources Searched Terms Searched Citation for Best Item(s) What source was most useful and why? Time spent on research:

19. Information Literacy Instruction Fourth Year Consultation appointments More to come … Literature review and paper

20. Senior design project RESULT: “Red Rover” 1:6 scale rover model for manned Martian exploration, tested (in earth gravity), with results scaled to a full-scale rover in Martian gravity.

21. Anecdotal Assessment “Google Scholar gathered articles from a lot of different journals and patents.” “The patent information and the books offered lots of historical background.” “The Patent Office website gave more specific descriptions of actual products.” “… library database (Academic Search Complete) really helped.”

22. More Anecdotal Assessment “The library databases did not have very current information about our product.” “Thomas Register was the least helpful.” “Google, usually the Premiere search engine, wasn’t very useful at narrowing our search terms.” “Research proved to be an important part of the design project.”

23. Most Problematic Question 5. Periodicals (magazines, journals, and newspapers) may be found in the Coates Library a. on the first floor b. on the second floor c. on the third floor d. on the fourth floor e. all of the above f. A and B and C

24. Early Problematic Question 1. Where is the first place you would search for authoritative information related to an engineering materials topic? a. howstuffworks.com b. Google c. A library database of technical articles d. Your professor’s bookcase

25. Faculty Assessment More up-to-date information Students have better understanding of available bibliographic sources Improved identification, retrieval techniques, and organization of information Students are optimizing search techniques

26. Future Plans Add ethical use to second year instruction Meet with all senior design teams Require research logs for senior designs Systematize assessment Make more rigorous Include patents Start with first year students Develop faculty assessment mechanism

27. Acknowledgements Bird feeder Patent # 5,937,788 (Google Patents) George Foreman ad courtesy of Flickr (eskeleton) George Foreman Grill picture courtesy of Flickr (nwistheone) Red Rover ( http://www.trinity.edu/departments/engineering/Program.html ) Squirrel picture courtesy of anonymous (apologies) Weed eater picture courtesy of Flickr (tstadler)