Conference Session

Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division (BAE) Technical Session

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lucie Guertault, North Carolina State University at Raleigh

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Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division (BAE)

instructor, the second assignment is a guided group programming exercise, the next twoassignments are performed during a laboratory session and the last assignment is an independenthomework.Data CollectionThis study was conducted in Fall 2024. Three undergraduate students who had completed theintroductory course the previous year were recruited to use ChatGPT to perform the courseassignments. We will refer to them as subjects 1, 2 and 3. They had limited programmingexperience beyond the course and no prior knowledge of how to use generative AI to write code.They did not receive any formal training on generative AI tools. They were added to the course'slearning management system for the Fall 2024 semester and were given access to all coursematerials

Conference Session

Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division (BAE) Technical Session

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Isaac Camacho, University of Texas at El Paso; Toluwalase Opanuga, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

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Diversity

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Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division (BAE)

, evaluating, planning) in their reflections.Table 2. Prompts for Reflection anchored to Laboratory Assignments Metacognitive Reflection Prompts Regulation Strategy Evaluating What have you done to address the difficulties you identified in the last reflection? Include a description of how your approaches were successful or unsuccessful. Monitoring What was one difficulty you are (or were) most concerned about? Be specific. Include a description of how you know (or knew) you are (or were) having this difficulty. BAE Course 2 Only: If you did not have any difficulty, what is something you learned from this assignment? Include a description of how you know you learned

Conference Session

Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division (BAE) Technical Session

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Cody Prince, East Tennessee State University; PAMELA J. MIMS, East Tennessee State University; Aruna Kilaru, East Tennessee State University; Lindsay Lee, Michigan State University

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Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division (BAE)

students with little relevant background up to speed inthe requisite techniques of biomanufacturing. We identified a lack of available training fordownstream processing techniques, namely separation, filtration, polishing, and packaging, andare offering laboratory training for each of these leading to a relevant microcredential andmatriculation into an industry-sponsored internship for students. Concurrently, feedback fromour industry partners identified a lack of general preparedness in the so-called soft skills of entry-level employees and we have incorporated preparation and assessment of those skills into ourcredentialing pathway. However, we recognize it is not sufficient to offer this training and makethe claim that students who complete our

Conference Session

Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division (BAE) Technical Session 1

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Madhumi Mitra Ph.D, University of Maryland Eastern Shore; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri, University of Maryland Eastern Shore; Jesu Raj Pandya, University of Maryland Eastern Shore; Alena Zheng, University of Maryland College Park

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Diversity

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Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division (BAE)

% regolith and25% potting soil, and 100% regolith. Each mixture was measured to weigh approximately 2500grams. Two spinach seeds were planted equidistantly in each container. Horse manure, serving asfertilizer [20], was incorporated at 1% of the regolith simulant content by weight. To ensurereliability, an additional replicate control was included for the MLM-1 simulant (Figure 2). Figure 2. Top view of regolith simulants experiment set-up with the spinach plants and rocksThe experiment was conducted in a controlled laboratory environment equipped with an indoorFarmBot Express, which was monitored and managed via the FarmBot web app. FarmBots arecomputer numerically controlled (CNC) robots, similar in design to 3D printers, and are poweredby