Lichtenberger Engineering Library

Feb 19 2021

Learn & Create Workshops Announced!

Posted on February 19, 2021 by Carol Johnk

2021 Spring Learn & Create Workshops

All workshops are on Wednesdays at 3:30 pm over Zoom!

Any of the hands-on workshops will have kits available for purchase through the Electronic Shop, so that you be able to do these projects right along with the instructor! Links for the kits will be in the description for class. \

Sponsored by: Engineering Electronic Shop, Lichtenberger Engineering Library, IEEE Student Group, and the NEXUS

NEXT WEEK! February 24 – Soldering Basics

Soldering is one of the most fundamental skills needed to dabble in the world of electronics. The two go together like peas and carrots. And, although it is possible to learn about, and build, electronics without needing to pick up a soldering iron, you’ll soon discover that a whole new world is opened with this one simple skill. This workshop will focus on doing through-hole soldering.
Taught by Jeremy Roszell, Engineering Electronics Shop.
If you want to be able to build along in the workshop, 2 variations of kits are available from the Electronics Shop and can be purchased when registering for the workshop. Both kits will include all consumable materials with the difference being one kit includes a soldering iron. The “materials only kit” is $11.45 and the “materials with soldering iron kit” is $67.35. Cost will be applied to your University Bill and made available for pick up in the Engineering Library.
Kits must be ordered by Tuesday, Feb. 23^rd, so they may be picked up in time for the workshop
Begin Registration

March 10 – Build Your Own : 3D Printed Personalized Keychain

Want to learn how to use a 3D printer, but not sure how to get started? Learn the basics of 3D Design and Modeling in this step-by-step workshop to create a personalized 3D Keychain.
Participants will customize one of the premade designs and learn how to send the design to the Electronics Shop to be printed!
After this workshop, all the custom keychains will be printed and made available for pick-up in the Engineering Library.
Begin Registration

March 24 – Create Your Own: 2D PONG Arcade Game

Want to learn to create an arcade game? Join us for a fun-filled session on how to develop your own version of the game PONG in Unity.
All the links and information you’ll need for you to follow along to and code during the workshop will be provided before the class starts.
Taught by Antonio Washington, IEEE Student Group.
Download programs before class.
View Video at: https://youtu.be/qh5Hwruxi30
Begin Registration

April 7– Build Your Own : Shake Flashlight

How can electricity be generated without batteries? With magnets of course!
Isaac Johnson, of the IEEE Student Group, will demonstrate how a magnet and some electrical components can make a simple shake flashlight that never needs batteries!
This type of flashlight is great for hiking, camping, or emergency situations. Take away the need for batteries means this flashlight is always ready to go and can last a long time!
Begin Registration

April 28 – Build Your Own : Hawkeye Desk Light/Night Light

Want to make a Hawkeye table night light using only 5 items?
You’ll learn how to use sticker LEDs, copper tape, a watch battery, card stock paper, and an acrylic frame in this step-by-step workshop.
Begin Registration

Be sure to sign up now for these workshops and have fun creating!!

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in this program, please contact Kari Kozak, at kari-kozak@uiowa.edu in advance of the event.

Feb 12 2021

Hidden Figures: Movie Screening with Commentary!

Posted on February 12, 2021 by Carol Johnk

In recognition of Black History Month &
International Day of Women and Girls in Science
join us for

Hidden Figures: Movie Screening with Commentary

The Lichtenberger Engineering Library and the College of Engineering DEI Council are
sponsoring a live-stream viewing of Hidden Figures, complete with live commentary
by STEM faculty and members of the Afro House.

Sunday, February 21, 2021
7:00 PM (CST)

Hidden Figures (2016) is an American biographical drama film directed by Theodore Melfi and written by Melfi and Allison Schroeder. It is loosely based on the non-fiction book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly which is about African American female mathematicians who worked at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) during the Space Race. The film stars Taraji P. Henson as Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who calculated flight trajectories for Project Mercury and other missions. The film also features Octavia Spencer as NASA supervisor and mathematician Dorothy Vaughan and Janelle Monáe as NASA engineer Mary Jackson, with Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, Jim Parsons, Mahershala Ali, Aldis Hodge and Glen Powell in supporting roles.

The movie will be streamed over Zoom and University of Iowa Faculty and students will provide expert commentary throughout the movie using the Chat feature. Attendees will also be able to ask questions using the chat feature. This event is open to anyone affiliated with the University of Iowa.

Even if you’ve seen the film before, please join us and hear what the experts have to say!

Expert Commentators: Dr. Cynthia Farthing (Mathematics), Dr. Marge Murray (Rhetoric & Mathematics), and Safeya Siddig, and Adeline Barron from the Afro House.

Registration is limited – so register here now!! The link to the movie will be sent upon registration!

Jan 11 2021

2021 Spring Research Scholars Workshops

Posted on January 11, 2021 by Carol Johnk

2021 Spring Research Scholars Workshops

An informative series of six virtual workshops is designed to aid researchers at all levels with scholarly publishing, research poster presentation, technical writing tips, literature reviews, searches and more.

All one-hour workshops are on Wednesday at 3:30 pm on Zoom. Anyone is welcomed to join these workshops – graduate students, Iowa Honors Program, researchers, staff, and faculty. The zoom link will be emailed to registered participants one hour before the workshop starts.

If any questions or concerns, please email Marina Zhang (qianjin-zhang@uiowa.edu or lib-engineering@uiowa.edu). Presenters include those from: Lichtenberger Engineering Library, IEEE, the Speaking Center and the Writing Center.

What You Need to Know:

Registration is open to 100 people. Reminder emails will be sent 1 hour before with Zoom Link. Exceptions are LaTeX and EndNote. Registration for these two workshops close 2 hours before. The reminder email will goe out 2 hours before and will include instructions on creating a profile/download software.

February 3: Company Information

This workshop will provide instruction on how to use several different databases to research company information and data. Knowing about a company before meeting with their representatives is a great way to prepare for the College of Engineering Spring 2021 Career Fair, held virtually February 11, 2021. Presented by Willow Fuchs, Business Reference & Instruction Librarian of the Marvin A. Pomerantz Business Library.

Begin Registration

February 17: Thesis Formatting and Submission

Learn about the thesis submission process, issues related to copyright and embargo, and additional resources available from the Graduate College. Begin to understand the Microsoft Word tools that can be used to format a thesis. Presented by Erin Kaufman, Academic Affairs Coordinator – Thesis & Dissertation of the Graduate College.

Begin Registration

March 3: Finding and Using a Good Writing Model

In this workshop, we will discuss common challenges faced by students writing at the graduate level, and we will learn various ways to energize and organize your writing. Discover techniques to give your project momentum and motivate daily writing during this phase of your graduate research. Presented by Deirdre Egan, Assistant Director of the University Writing Center.

Begin Registration

March 17: Introduction to LaTeX Editor – Overleaf

LaTeX is a document preparation system which uses markup tagging conventions to define the general structure of a document, to format text, and to add citations and cross-references. Instead of trouble shooting LaTeX software and packages locally in your computer, you can take advantage of the online LaTeX editor, Overleaf. In this workshop, we will introduce the free version of Overleaf and LaTeX basics. Presented by Marina Zhang, Engineering & Informatics Librarian of the Lichtenberger Engineering Library

Please create your Overleaf account at https://www.overleaf.com/login and download the template before the workshop.

Begin Registration

March 31: How to get your Research Published and Noticed

This workshop will discuss identifying the right journal, understanding the peer review process, structuring your article, how to get your research noticed, and publishing ethics. Presented by David Parsons, Senior Customer Marketing Manager for Elsevier.

Begin Registration

April 21: Creating Citations Quickly & Easily with EndNote

Want to make your research and writing more efficient? Hate the last-minute rush of trying to create a correctly formatted bibliography? This workshop is for you! We will introduce the desktop version of EndNote, which is freely avaialbe to Graduate Students, Faculty, and Staff. EndNote is a citation management tool that can help you import, organize, share, and manage your citations and documents, as well as create correctly formatted in-text citations and bibliographies in almost any style — in seconds. This interactive workshop will cover everything that you need to know to get up and running with EndNote. Presented by Marina Zhang, Engineering & Informatics Librarian of the Lichtenberger Engineering Library

Please download and install EndNote (https://its.uiowa.edu/campus-software-program/endnote) onto your computer before the workshop. The full desktop version of EndNote is free to Graduate Students, Staff, and Faculty.

Video Tutorial on Downloading/Installing EndNote

Begin Registration

Dec 10 2020

Winter Break Information!

Posted on December 10, 2020January 8, 2021 by Carol Johnk

Winter Break is Almost Here!

Beginning December 21st, the Monday after Finals Week, the Seamans Center and the Library will be closed to the public. During this period, the Library will be transitioning to “Curbside” and “Virtual” availability until January 15th.

Winter Break Dates:

December 21 & 22, 2020 – Curbside and Virtual
December 23, 2020 – January 3, 2021 – Library Closed
January 4 – 15, 2021 (Monday – Friday) – Curbside and Virtual
January 16 – 18, 2021 – Library Closed
January 19 – 22, 2021 – Library Open 8:30am-5:00pm

Curbside

A library staff member will be available to provide Curbside services at the Seamans Center Annex Doors (across the street from the CVS Mall Entrance)
This service is available for those who wish to pick up books, tools, or Electronic Shop Orders. This is also available to return library materials or Lab Kits.
Time slots will be available 8:30am-3:00pm
To schedule a pick-up time during this period please make a reservation here.
If you request any items via InfoHawk+ (the library catalog), select “Engineering Library” as the pick-up location. Once the item is in the Engineering Library, you will be requested to schedule a pick up time.

Virtual

Staff will be available virtually 8:30am-5pm
Departmental email: lib-engineering@uiowa.edu
Online Chat will be monitored – look for the “Chat with a Librarian”
Live Chat via mobile devices by texting 319.250.2176
Zoom consultation (by appointment)

Have a great Winter Break!

Dec 02 2020

Open Access Model Pilot Agreement

Posted on December 2, 2020December 2, 2020 by Carol Johnk

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Open Access Model Pilot Agreement

Guest Blogger: Qianjin “Marina” Zhang

In November 2020, the University of Iowa (UI) Libraries participated in a transformative open access model agreement with ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, as the first Big Ten Academic Alliance Library. Under the agreement, UI corresponding authors can choose to retain copyright and make all articles and conference proceedings in the ACM Digital Library open access immediately at no cost to the author. Now, the UI Libraries are paying ACM a single fee to cover both open access publication costs in ACM’s journals, conference proceedings and magazines for all UI corresponding authors, along with subscription access. The agreement runs from January 1, 2021 through December 31, 2023, and applies to all submissions by UI corresponding authors during that period. UI faculty, students, staff, researchers, and community members physically present on campus also continue to receive unlimited and unrestricted access to all content in the ACM Digital Library. Through participation in this transformative agreement, UI has expanded the universe of readers and the scholarly impact of UI authors.

Workflow for making articles open access with ACM

Upon acceptance of a journal article or conference paper, UI corresponding authors will receive an email that says, “We are pleased to inform you that University of Iowa Libraries has an agreement with ACM under which all affiliated corresponding authors can make their article Open Access at no additional cost.”

The email includes a link to the ACM Open Author eRights form. The default and recommended choice from available rights offerings is “Permission Release”. This means that “Authors who wish to retain all rights to their work can choose ACM’s non-exclusive permission to publish where you will have an option to display a Creative Commons license on your work in the ACM Digital Library”.

Upon selection of license options, there is a Creative Commons (CC BY) license, no CC license and CC0 license. Creative Commons licenses enable you to retain copyright while allow others to use your work with your permission under copyright law, especially how you would like others to use your work. For example, do you allow remixing, for commercial use, or require copies or adaptations of the work to be released under the same or similar license as the original work? No CC license means that you do not expressly grant others any permission to use your work. In contrast to CC BY licenses, CC0 license which is also called “no rights reserved” enables you as owner of copyright or database protected content to waive all the owner’s rights, so that others may freely reuse the works for any purposes without restriction under copyright or database law. Therefore, a CC BY license is recommended because it allows you to retain certain rights as well as others to build up, enhance and reuse your work for academic purposes.

Following submission of the eRights form, the author will receive email confirmation of the acceptance of the forms along with a copy for their records.

Please note that authors must use their institutional email address to be routed to the ACM Open program.

Any questions or concerns, please email Marina Zhang, Engineering & Informatics Librarian, at qianjin-zhang@uiowa.edu

References:

https://libguides.wustl.edu/sc/ACM-OPEN

https://libraries.mit.edu/scholarly/publishing/oa-publishing-support/acm-agreement/

https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/uc-publisher-relationships/acm-transformative-oa-agreement/

https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/

https://libraries.acm.org/subscriptions-access/acmopen

Nov 19 2020

Shortened Hours During Thanksgiving Break!

Posted on November 19, 2020 by Carol Johnk

Monday – Tuesday
November 23^rd – 24^th
In-person & Virtually:
8:30 AM – 3:00 PM

CLOSED
Wednesday – Sunday
November 25^th – 29^th

REOPEN 8:30 AM
Monday, November 30^th

Nov 13 2020

Engineering Library Closed 11/13/2020

Posted on November 13, 2020 by Carol Johnk

The Engineering Library will be closed today, Friday, November 13, 2020. We will reopen on Monday, November 16^th at 8:30 AM

Our Live Chat will be available until 6:00 PM today and you may email us at lib-engineering@uiowa.edu if you need assistance.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Nov 11 2020

Tidying Up Your Research Data!

Posted on November 11, 2020November 11, 2020 by Carol Johnk

Tidying Up Your Research Data with Good Practices

Have you ever had a messy computer desktop? Have you ever had trouble finding your research data in a computer directory? Have you ever had a nightmare of recalling some key details of your research because of a lack of documentation? Don’t panic – you are not the only one who faces these problems. We can teach you essential practices of tidying up your digital clutter in a course Research Data Sharing and Management (CEE:5110/OEH:5110)!

We first successfully launched this one-credit course in the Spring 2020 semester and will again offer it in the upcoming Spring 2021 semester. This course is originally designed for the Iowa Superfund Research Program’s trainees but now open to any students currently doing, or planning to do, research.

The course will begin with data management, then moving on to include file organization, data documentation and lab notebook best practices, tabular data structure and cleanup tools. The course will also include how and where to share and publish data, funder and publisher requirements, licensing, and citation.

Here are some comments from students who enrolled in the course in the Spring 2020 semester:

“I think from choosing a repository to creating a data record, including licensing, ownership, preservation of access, reuse, and citation”

“I feel like I have a better grasp of what should go into a data management plan and how data should be prepared for sharing. So that’s great!”

“[The instructor] is very knowledgeable and was able to point us toward good resources.”

**Let’s tidy up your research data in Research Data Sharing and Management!**

The Instructors are Brian Westra, Data Services Manager, and Qianjin (Marina) Zhang, Engineering & Informatics Librarian. The course supervisor is Keri Hornbuckle, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering.

To enroll in CEE:5110/OEH:5110 Research Data Sharing and Management, check out MyUI course catalog.

Guest blogger: Qianjin (Marina) Zhang, Engineering & Informatics Librarian.

Oct 23 2020

Sci-Fi Flix: Fact or Fiction?

Posted on October 23, 2020October 26, 2020 by Carol Johnk

SCI-FI FLIX!
FACTS OR FICTION?

Come Join Us
And Discover the Truth!

You are watching the latest Sci-Fi movie and something happens and you know that it is impossible. And you really want to talk about how impossible it is – right? Well, now you can!

Join us for Sci-Fi Flix in November!! Sci-Fi Flix will happen on two Sunday evenings! This is your chance to watch a movie and hear what the experts say about the engineering, technology and science! You’ll have the chance to ask questions and comment, too! The movies will be streamed over Zoom and College of Engineering faculty will provide expert commentary through the movie (good and bad).

Sunday, Nov 1^st at 7pm: The Martian

A 2015 science fiction survival drama film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Matt Damon. The Martian, a 2011 novel by Andy Weir, served as the screenplay adapted by Drew Goddard. The film depicts an astronaut’s (Matt Damon) lone struggle to survive on Mars after being left behind, and efforts to rescue him and bring him home to Earth.

Expert Commentators: Dr. Er-Wei Bai (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Dr. Charles Stanier (Chemical and Biochemical Engineering), and Dr. Geb Thomas (Industrial Systems Engineering)

Sunday, Nov 15^th at 7pm: The Fantastic Voyage

A 1966 American science-fiction film directed by Richard Fleischer and written by Harry Kleiner, based on a story by Otto Klement and Jerome Bixby. The film is about a submarine crew who are shrunk to microscopic size and venture into the body of an injured scientist to repair damage to his brain.

Expert Commentators: Dr. Jennifer Fiegel (Chemical & Biochemical Engineering) & Dr. Ed Sander (Biomedical Engineering).

Head over to our Sci-Fi Flix Lib Guide and get registered for one or both movies today!!

Oct 23 2020

It’s Open Access Week!

Posted on October 23, 2020October 23, 2020 by Carol Johnk

It’s Open Access Week!

So, what exactly does that mean?

Open Access (OA) refers to the free, online availability of research articles. That helps researchers so they don’t hit a paywall – suddenly get to a point in their research when they are required to pay in order to access the material.

There are three types of OA models, so when you are ready to publish it is good to know which model the OA journal uses. The three models include gold OA, green OA, and hybrid OA. The gold OA model is an ideal publishing model where publishers make articles available for free immediately on the journal’s website. The big advantage of the gold OA model is that the library would not have to pay a subscription fee because an author processing charge (APC) would cover the cost. The green OA model allows authors to archive the articles to author’s professional website or institutional repository with or without an embargo period. It is a mediocre alternative to the gold OA model. The hybrid OA model is the least preferable model in which subscription-based journals allow authors to make individual articles gold open access immediately on payment of an APC. But the disadvantage of the hybrid OA is that both authors and libraries would result in double-paying for the same content

Although academic libraries, global/local coalitions and some academic societies have been advocating OA for a decade, funder mandates are the key to moving the OA wheel forward. In 2008, the National Institutes of Health mandates research papers describing research funded by NIH must be available to the public free through PubMed Central within 12 months of publication. In 2018, a group of national research funders, European and international organizations and charitable foundations launched the Plan S (formally called cOAlition S) requiring full and immediate OA to the research publications. As a result, we see several engineering publishers such as IEEE, ASME, SAE etc., have started offering OA publishing options on a small number of their journals. Among the limited number of OA journals, the green OA and hybrid OA models are the mainstream while there are fewer fully OA journals than the journals in the green OA and hybrid OA models. For example, as of today, IEEE has about 20 fully OA journals while most of its journals and conference proceedings are subscription-based. However, some publishers such as John Wiley & Sons Inc. (Wiley) and the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) embrace the gold OA model. In June 2020, Wiley and IET announced their OA publishing partnership to transition the IET journal program to gold OA beginning in January 2021.

It is believed more engineering publishers will embrace the gold OA model or at least the green OA model when more funders set strict requirements on research publications to be freely available in a timely manner.

Here is information for some engineering publishers’ OA publishing policy.

IEEE https://open.ieee.org/

ASME https://www.asme.org/publications-submissions/journals/information-for-authors/open-access

ASCE https://ascelibrary.org/journals

SAE https://www.sae.org/publications/journals/resources

IET https://www.theiet.org/publishing/publishing-with-iet-journals/open-access-publishing-with-the-iet/

References

SPARC Open Access https://sparcopen.org/open-access/

Plan S https://www.coalition-s.org/

17 June 2020: The Institution of Engineering and Technology and Wiley Announce Open Access Publishing Partnership https://www.theiet.org/media/press-releases/press-releases-2020/17-june-2020-the-institution-of-engineering-and-technology-and-wiley-announce-open-access-publishing-partnership/