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Presentations

Publications

  • Creative Libraries Utah. Published, 01/01/2015.
  • Embedding Information Literacy within Sustainability Research: First Year Students’ Perspectives. Engineering curricula have witnessed an expansion of its subject areas to include an appreciation of “realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability” (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), 2011-2012) [1]. More than half of eleven ABET student outcomes focus on students’ abilities to view engineering within a broader framework of a socio-economic-political matrix with an emphasis on insightful understanding of the social and ethical consequences of engineering and technology that they will, one day, design and create. In this paper, we present the argument that integrating information literacy content into an undergraduate research project provides a successful model for first-year students to develop and acquire transferable skills for lifelong learning . This integrated approach, we argue, not only enables the students to engage with concepts of sustainability as an ethical prerogative, but facilitates a better understanding of information literacy principles within a research context. We draw our inferences from our qualitative and preliminary quantitative assessments of students’performance through their written work and team research memos in the Learning, Engagement, Achievement and Progress program (LEAP). The LEAP 1501 course (“Social and Ethical Implications of Engineering”) is a part of the freshman learning cohort program at the University of Utah. Engineering LEAP (E-LEAP) is one of twelve disciplines offered in this program in which pre-engineering students form a cohort, or a learning community, and stay with their colleagues and instructor for two consecutive semesters. Courses with general education credits are offered in small classes (capped at 35 seats). This paper draws inferences and findings from Fall Semester 2011 and Fall Semester 2012 courses, LEAP 1501, “Social and Ethical Implications of Engineering.”. Published, 06/2013.
    http://www.asee.org/public/conferences/20/papers/5...
  • Top 10 Things You Can Do To Make Your Scholarly Resources More Accessible To (and More Accessed By) Undergraduates. Published, 11/2011.
    http://www.against-the-grain.com/2011/12/v23-5-imh...