Georgia Tech First-Year Seminar

Authors\u27 Description: This ebook has been created and designed to introduce incoming Georgia Tech students to campus resources, Georgia Tech culture and traditions, and to provide you with guidance as you make the transition to Georgia Tech. This online resource includes materials that coordinate with the six GT 1000 learning outcomes. It covers: University Culture and Campus Resources Academic Success and Time Management Skills Career Development Skills Major Exploration and Planning Communication and Relational Skills This resource includes readings, videos, and assignments that have been designed specifically to help new Tech students on their journey to academic, personal, and professional success. This Open Textbook for GT 1000 was created under a Round Nine Textbook Transformation Grant. The web version of the text is available on the GT 1000 Textbook Website. Accessible files with optical character recognition (OCR) and auto-tagging provided by the Center for Inclusive Design and Innovation.https://oer.galileo.usg.edu/fye-textbooks/1002/thumbnail.jp

First-Year Seminar (Georgia Tech)

This Grants Collection for First-Year Seminar at Georgia Tech was created under a Round Nine ALG Textbook Transformation Grant. Affordable Learning Georgia Grants Collections are intended to provide faculty with the frameworks to quickly implement or revise the same materials as a Textbook Transformation Grants team, along with the aims and lessons learned from project teams during the implementation process. Documents are in .pdf format, with a separate .docx (Word) version available for download. Each collection contains the following materials: Linked Syllabus Initial Proposal Final Reporthttps://oer.galileo.usg.edu/fye-collections/1002/thumbnail.jp

Open Access Publishing and the Ends of Scholarship

. In October of 2014, at the 29th International Conference on Medievalism held in Atlanta, I was privileged to co-host (along with J. Britt Holbrook from the Georgia Tech School of Public Policy) a panel on “Open Access in the Academy.” It was a large panel that featured many medieval scholars who engaged with each other and the audience on what Open Access means to their discipline, to their careers, and to humanities scholarship in general. The panel discussion was filmed and is available to view in SMARTech (Hahn, et al., 2014), but with this brief column I wanted to touch on an aspect of the discussion that, to me, is especially important: how we frame what Open Access is to us – not necessarily how we achieve it

Scholarly Piracy vs Scholarly Activism: Where Sci-Hub Fits in the Information Literacy Landscape

In recent months, the site Sci-Hub (https://sci-hub.io/) has gained attention for providing easy access to any scholarly journal article, without regard to the user’s subscription status, and without requiring payment. For articles that are not already open access, this activity infringes on the copyright in the articles, generally held by publishers, and, for articles obtained via a library subscription, is presumptively a breach of the license between the library and the publisher. Regardless, this activity has proven to be a popular and expedient way to break through access barriers to important scholarly information for students and faculty, especially those in situations where paid access is a real challenge. Librarians have been quick to recognize that so-called pirate sites such as this are illegal, but it’s not as clear where the ethical lines should be drawn. Some have argued that sites like Sci-Hub hurt publishers as well as hurting legitimate open access initiatives, while others have argued that using these sites is a form of civil disobedience in the face of unrealistic access barriers to information that was funded by and for the public. In this panel discussion, four librarians from academic research libraries will discuss what pirate sites like Sci-Hub mean for libraries, and for library users in understanding how to use information legally and ethically

Investigating the Practices and Needs of Civil and Environmental Engineering Scholars at Georgia Tech

In 2017, librarians at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) joined with librarians at 10 other research institutions in a project to examine the research practices of academics in civil and environmental engineering. The project was led and coordinated by Ithaka S+R, a non-profit organization that provides research and strategic guidance to help libraries navigate economic and technological change. The research was sponsored by the ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers). The project research consisted of interviewing 11 members of the research faculty in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and subsequent analysis and reporting based on findings. The specific researcher practices examined included such informational behaviors as: scholarly collaboration, information seeking, research data management, and scholarly communication and dissemination. The purpose of examining these practices was to find areas of opportunity where library services and resources can support the civil and environmental engineering researchers

Alumina or Semiconductor Ribbon Waveguides at 30 to 1,000 GHz

Ribbon waveguides made of alumina or of semiconductors (Si, InP, or GaAs) have been proposed as low-loss transmission lines for coupling electronic components and circuits that operate at frequencies from 30 to 1,000 GHz. In addition to low losses (and a concomitant ability to withstand power levels higher than would otherwise be possible), the proposed ribbon waveguides would offer the advantage of compatibility with the materials and structures now commonly incorporated into integrated circuits. Heretofore, low-loss transmission lines for this frequency range have been unknown, making it necessary to resort to designs that, variously, place circuits and components to be coupled in proximity of each other and/or provide for coupling via free space through bulky and often lossy optical elements. Even chip-to-chip interconnections have been problematic in this frequency range. Metal wave-guiding structures (e.g., microstriplines and traditional waveguides) are not suitable for this frequency range because the skin depths of electromagnetic waves in this frequency range are so small as to give rise to high losses. Conventional rod-type dielectric waveguide structures are also not suitable for this frequency range because dielectric materials, including ones that exhibit ultralow losses at lower frequencies, exhibit significant losses in this frequency range. Unlike microstripline structures or metallic waveguides, the proposed ribbon waveguides would be free of metal and would therefore not be subject to skin-depth losses. Moreover, although they would be made of materials that are moderately lossy in the frequency range of interest, the proposed ribbon waveguides would cause the propagating electromagnetic waves to configure themselves in a manner that minimizes losses

Using Vireo to Streamline the ETD Workflow at Georgia Tech

Georgia Tech thesis and dissertation workflows were changed by and benefited from a switch from the ETD-db thesis submission management system to the Vireo ETD system. The added flexibility and capability of Vireo (when compared to the ETD-db system) improved the entire ETD submission and archiving process

Experiences in Open Access Policy Implementation

Has your college or university adopted an Open Access policy? Are you thinking about trying to get your campus to adopt one? At this Birds-of-a-Feather table we will examine both the “how” and the “why” of Open Access policy implementation. If you are curious about Open Access policies – whether you hail from an institution with an established policy, or you are just interested in learning what it might take to get one implemented – this BOF session is for you! We will also discuss how librarians can help faculty comply with the growing number of Open Access implementation policies released by US federal agencies such as the National Science Foundation. Discussion hosts for this table will be Fred Rascoe, Scholarly Communication Librarian at Georgia Tech, and Marlee Givens, Strategic Initiatives Librarian at Georgia Tech, both of whom have extensive experience in campus Open Access policy advocacy, as well as outreach for campus Open Access education and instruction. The outcome of this table will be a connected group of colleagues who can draw on each other\u27s experiences as they bring issues of Open Access to their respective campuses. KW: Open Access, Open Access policies, Public Access policie

Research data practices of aerospace engineering faculty: A qualitative study

Presented at the 2020 ASEE Conference© 2020 American Society for Engineering Education.The storage, curation, and accessibility of digital research data is becoming more important for scientific and engineering researchers at academic institutions. While much has been written on the needs of research data management of scientists in the academic literature, less common are studies that look in finer detail at specific engineering disciplines. In this paper, the authors use qualitative data from interviews with research faculty of a specific engineering discipline, aerospace engineering (AE), to identify common perceptions, practices, and strategies with respect to their research data. This report also discusses how these faculty react to, adapt to, and accommodate those challenges, often in the words of the respective researchers themselves. This report then concludes with possible recommendations for academic libraries, and research university campuses with an AE presence