Conference Session

Engineering, Ethics, and Leadership

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

B. Michael Aucoin P.E., Texas A&M University; Zhendi Zhang, Texas A&M University; Miles O. Dodd, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS), Engineering Leadership Development Division (LEAD)

done on these topics. We conclude the paper witha discussion and recommendations for future work.IntroductionWhile generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) first became available for widespread use in late 2022(in the form of OpenAI’s ChatGPT platform), this milestone is the latest in a long march ofincreasingly sophisticated developments in harnessing computational power [1] for a variety ofapplications. For this paper, we will generally address how computational power and the use of datais increasingly impacting the practice of leadership. We will speak broadly to the impact of big dataand more specifically to Gen AI, but all under the umbrella term of data-enhanced leadership. Weuse this phrase to capture the phenomenon that