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Mary L. Strife, Marian G. Armour-Gemmen, Robin A.M. Hensel 120 th ASEE Annual Conference Atlanta, GA 23-26 June 2013
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Began Summer 2011 Continuous part of Engineering 101 Consensus to fit in Living Partnership Buy-in by administration to ABET outcomes
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Knowledge of how to evaluate an article Ability to appropriately cite an article Familiarity with four source databases for engineering research Understanding of plagiarism and how to avoid it Ability to identify four types of intellectual property
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Focus on Problem-Based (Active) Learning in the construction of all sessions Three Delivery Environments: ◦ In-Class Session ◦ IP Module on Blackboard ◦ “Out of Class Experience” (OCE)
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Basic library webpages (including LibGuide) Exercise about when to quote a source Information use overview: ◦ Worldwide web resources and Wikipedia ◦ Evaluating resources with a mnemonic device Class exercise to identify different types of citations as well as parts of a citation Introduction to Summon (WVU Libraries’ discovery service)
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Article on eReserve Introduction to intellectual property Exercise identifying trademarks Introduction to patents Exercise for searching patents Quiz on intellectual property
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Length ◦ Initial: One hour sessions ◦ Change: Expanded to 1.5 hours in 2 nd semester Assignments ◦ Initial: Could complete within two weeks ◦ Change: Needed to be completed in the session Assignment Worksheet ◦ Initial: Included paper and electronic resources ◦ Change: Included electronic resources only MLA Citations ◦ Initial: Full citation had to be written out by student ◦ Change: Provided fill-in-the-blank citations
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1 st semester added many additional sessions because students didn’t sign-up 2 nd semester integrated sign- ups during the in- class session
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Topics Covered in OCE Each student: Was provided a different subject to research Searched for a book, technical report, and journal article Searched for graph in a specific book Databases used: MountainLynx (library catalog) DOE Information Bridge SAE Digital Library EI Compendex Knovel
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p-value = 0.001
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Increased cooperation and buy-in by faculty Librarians integrated as part of the teaching team Librarians participation as judges of Engineering 101 mini-conference Significant learning by students over the pre- and post-tests
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Consistency across sections Different instructor personalities and teaching styles Time allocation
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Plagiarism Avoidance Tutorial wouldn’t work Lack of participation in the on-line IP Module
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Out of Class Experience Retooling for Fall 2013 ◦ Plagiarism Avoidance Tutorial ◦ IP Module Continued Dialog with Professors
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Contact Mary Strife Mary.Strife@mail.wvu.eduMary.Strife@mail.wvu.edu Marian Armour-Gemmen marmour@wvu.edumarmour@wvu.edu Robin Hensel Robin.Hensel@mail.wvu.eduRobin.Hensel@mail.wvu.edu
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