1. Finding Your Way Around the Engineering Literature Developing an Online Tutorial Series for Engineering Students Janet Fransen University of Minnesota ASEE ELD (2011) - session T530

2. The Joys of a Professional Development Leave

4. New Grad Student Orientation AEMCS ECE

6. The Libraries have lots of resources My name is Jan I’m your librarian I’m here to help

7. So what do they need? “Big picture” of engineering communication and practical skills Consumable in short bursts Accessible whenever and wherever the student needs it A compelling reason to participate

10. What tool to use? Easy enough for a SME to learn Inexpensive enough to install as needed Rapid prototyping, and easy editing later Capture screencasts and make them interactive Tools for quizzing Our choice: Adobe Captivate

11. Lessons Learned

12. What makes these different? Examples are all engineering-related Informed by citation analysis of past theses and dissertations Reviewed by faculty members

13. Citation Analysis By department Past three calendar years Limited to what was available online Tedious, but worth it –Not without its statistical problems, but… –Helped me and will help the students understand what happens in grad school with this population

14. Electrical Engineering results

18. What’s next? Continue working on content Citation analysis for AEM and CS Incorporate suggestions from faculty Assessment plan

19. Take a look Z.umn.edu/englit Z.umn.edu/ececite