Information Literacy for FED 101

Today I taught a class to civil engineering students enrolled in FED 101, Fundamentals of Engineering Design. Here is the course description:

Teams of students work on open-ended engineering projects. Sections are offered to represent an introduction to real-world engineering design problems in a specific engineering discipline. Topics covered include introduction to basic engineering design elements, processes, measurements, product and project design and development, with hands-on experiments in a specific major area.

I gave my general talk to students of civl and environmental engineering. It is always difficult to get feedback from the students during and after the lecture. There was a problem with the internet connectivity. I could not directly access the electronic journals or Scopus. When one student asked a question about how to design and construct a parking deck I was able to access TRIS, a transportation database pulished by the federal government.

7 out of the 16 students took the Research Roadmaps (Hello Davida) that were given in the Fall semester. This would be their second exposure to information literacy classes.