2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Dr. Sarah Over is the Engineering Collections and Research Analyst at Virginia Tech, serving as their Engineering Librarian and representative for their new Patent and Trademark Resource Center. She is also part of a team focused on research impact and intelligence to support the College of Engineering and Office of Research and Innovation at Virginia Tech. Dr. Over’s background is in aerospace and nuclear engineering, with years of experience teaching engineering research methods and introductory coding.

C. Cozette Comer has been conducting and supporting scoping/mapping reviews, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and other forms of evidence synthesis since 2018 as both a researcher and information professional. She is currently the Evidence Synthesis Services Coordinator at the University Libraries at Virginia Tech, directing the development of support and educational services for faculty, students, staff, and community members across disciplines and in interdisciplinary contexts.

As Director for Research Impact & Intelligence, I collaborate with campus stakeholders to translate information to insights. We utilize bibliometric, impact, institutional, funding, and industry data from sources such as Scival, Scopus, Web of Science, Mergent, NSF HERD, IPEDs, Funding Institutional and employ a variety of visualization tools such as Tableau and VosViewer to help identify research competencies, to understand collaboration networks and potential partnerships, and to demonstrate impact.

Jiren Wang received the B.S. degree from China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing, China, in 2023. She is currently pursuing the M.Eng. degree in Computer Science at Virginia Tech, Falls Church, VA, USA. Her research interests include engineering education, Human-Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality.

Jackson Hoch is the Resident Evidence Synthesis Librarian at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, with a keen interest in how evidence synthesis methods can enhance research collaboration.

Emily Mazure is the Research Impact Librarian at Virginia Tech University Libraries. She specializes in providing support to individuals, teams, departments, and others to increase the visibility of their work and thus their impact. Her expertise includes managing scholarly profiles online, exploring and analyzing scholarly metrics, finding strategic collaborators, and more.

Rachel Miles is the Research Impact Coordinator at Virginia Tech University Libraries. She specializes in research analytics and provides expertise in bibliometrics, altmetrics, research communication, and scholarly publishing. Rachel works closely with faculty, researchers, and administrators to manage the university’s Research Information Management (RIM) system, interpret research impact data, and support responsible, ethical research evaluation. She also advocates for awareness of how academic culture and incentive systems affect researcher well-being and behavior.