Incorporating Information Literacy in MET Design Project: Pilot Implementation

Cioc, Carmen; Napp, John; Cioc, Sorin; Haughton, Noela A.

doi:10.18260/1-2--34808

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“…These surveys’ results are consistent with those observed and presented by the authors for their first-year project implementation. 11…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Similar collaborations are essential to the students’ success, especially by guiding them to recognize trustworthy relevant information sources and guiding them to present viable solutions to various real-life problems and applications. 11,12,…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Several scholarly works examined best practices for increasing information literacy, 17 the role of PBL pedagogies in higher education as a general pedagogical method, 18 and strategies for integrating PBL in engineering courses to expand information literacy skills. 11,12,19 In all instances, the authors found that their PBL pilot implementations were more effective in knowledge transfer, participation, and interest, than a traditional lecture-based approach to instruction. Collaborations between librarians and teaching faculty resulted in successful integration of information literacy instructions into science or engineering courses.…”

Section: Information Literacymentioning

confidence: 94%

“…The pedagogical practices discussed herein focuses on solving a real-world problem by integrating: i) a collaborative model with multiple socio-technological dimensions supported by cooperative learning, peer assessment, and communication; 8,9 and ii) an information literacy component to further support information seeking, engineering process knowledge, and problem-solving skills. [10][11][12] Figure 1. Pedagogical approach.…”

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confidence: 99%

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A Model for incorporating information literacy and collaboration in a project-based learning pedagogical exercise with application to a fluid mechanics course

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International Journal of Mechanical Engineering Education

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This paper describes the implementation and the results of an online project-based learning (PBL) pedagogy in an advanced fluid mechanics course in a mechanical engineering technology program. This work is a close collaboration between engineering and education faculty and the engineering librarian, and aligns with the new research areas identified by the National Engineering Education Research Colloquies and the ABET Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Technology Programs Criterion 3 (student outcomes, SLO 1 to 5) and Criterion 5 (curriculum, discipline specific content C, D and E). Students were required to work in teams to design and dimension a heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) duct system, a real-world expression of engineering thinking. Students applied information literacy skills to identify relevant engineering codes and standards, such as ASHRAE, and used previously learned content knowledge from various courses to finalize the project. The PBL exercise was chosen as a culminating experience and in support of engineering competencies development. The results showed improvements in the flow of air in ducts content knowledge, professional communication skills, and the ability to collaborate as part of a team, including improving one's ability to work with other students on assignments, listening to the ideas of others, learning from the ideas of others, and evaluating the ideas of others. The students unanimously agreed that the project improved their heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) knowledge beyond the classroom as well as their information seeking skills. Based on the students end of semester course evaluation, this PBL exercise improved their readiness for the workforce.

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“…These surveys’ results are consistent with those observed and presented by the authors for their first-year project implementation. 11…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Information Literacymentioning

confidence: 94%

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confidence: 99%

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“…To support engineering and ET programs, many academic libraries maintain technical standards collections (Phillips, 2019), and many science and engineering librarians integrate standards content into information literacy instruction (Cioc et al, 2021;Phillips & McPherson, 2016;Solomon et al, 2019). However, both collecting standards and teaching about standards pose unique discovery and access challenges (Phillips, 2019).…”

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Technical Standards in Compendex

Phillips

2022

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Technical standards are important documents that academic libraries collect to support education and research, particularly for engineering and technology programs. However, standards documents present many unique discovery and access challenges that are confusing and cumbersome for users. To help alleviate these issues, Elsevier started indexing technical standards in their Abstracting & Indexing (A&I) database Compendex in 2018. This column provides a brief overview of Compendex, a summary of the standards collections currently indexed in the database, and a discussion about using Compendex as a tool for standards discovery and access.

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