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)

Paper ID #46672Investigating the capabilities and limitations of ChatGPT to perform programmingassignments from an introductory R programming courseDr. Lucie Guertault, North Carolina State University at Raleigh ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Investigating the capabilities and limitations of ChatGPT to perform programming assignments from an introductory R programming course 1. IntroductionLarge language models (LLMs) are generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools capable ofperforming various natural language processing tasks such as generating text and engaging inconversations with

Conference Session

Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division (BAE) Technical Session 1

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Woongbin Park, Purdue University; Yunjin Lim, Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation; Jung Han, Purdue University; Hyeree Cho, Purdue University; Seokyoung Kwon; Juhyun Kim, Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education

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Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division (BAE)

troubleshoot power issues on their own. The high school students’ use of ChatGPT forefficient problem-solving highlights how technology was leveraged. "While building the smart farm, we faced an issue with insufficient power supply. Specifically, we couldn’t operate the LCD, motor, and water pump simultaneously. To solve this, we separated the power supply into one unit powered by Arduino and another using an external power source." (M5) "When writing code for the smart farm device, errors often occurred. To solve these efficiently, we often used ChatGPT to debug and optimize the code." (H2)Advantages of smart farming Teachers highlighted the advantages of the smart farm compared to more structuredmodels or hydroponics. Teacher 1

Conference Session

Strategies and/or Approaches to Engage Students in Agricultural, Biological, or Similarly Named Programs

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Merton Stwalley III P.E., Purdue University ; Roger L. Tormoehlen, Purdue University

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Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division (BAE)

-Agricultural Mechatronics in High School Agricultural Classrooms’). The Purdue Agricultural &Biological Engineering department has also graciously helped provide backing for this project.Additionally, thanks are due to the employees of Agricultural & Biological Engineering andAgricultural Science Education and Communication departments at Purdue University for theirsupport in providing space and resources for this project. Dr. Sarah E. LaRose of the AgriculturalSciences Education and Communication department is specifically thanked for her discussionand reference on the employment situation in the secondary education agricultural teachermarket. An Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered large language model software, ChatGPT, byMicrosoft