Conference Session

Aerospace Division (AERO) Technical Session 4 - Teaching Methodology

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie B. Coder, The Pennsylvania State University; James G Coder, Pennsylvania State University; Mark D. Maughmer, The Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace Division (AERO)

applied aerodynamics and aircraft design. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Aerospace Engineering Education in the Era of Generative AIAbstractThe proliferation of large-language model (LLM) generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools likeChatGPT raises an inevitable question of how it should impact student assessments in aerospaceengineering. To evaluate this, a large sample of multiple-choice questions from undergraduateaerodynamics and aeronautics courses were input into ChatGPT-4 and Gemini and the accuracyevaluated. The cognitive level of each question was coded using Bloom’s taxonomy based onconsensus of the authors. It was found that that generative AI performs increasingly poorly as