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Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) - Use of Technology in Design Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Can Uysalel, University of California, San Diego ; Zachary Fox, University of California, San Diego; Maziar Ghazinejad, University of California, San Diego

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Diversity

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at the forefront of STEM education experiencing the first tides of thischange. An example of such a trend is the course Design of Machine Elements, a mainstay ofMechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) curricula, which embodies many algorithms thatintegrate a combination of scientific topics and industry protocols. In this work in progress, weassigned a class of 62 MAE machine design students to write computer codes that implementseveral required inputs to generate design parameters for shafts used for specific powertransmission parameters. The students were also asked to explore the applicability of an openartificial intelligence interface, such as ChatGPT, to help develop a multi-step design code. Aftergenerating and verifying the AI

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) - Use of Technology in Design Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Prohofsky, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Micah Lande, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

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Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

and making processes to their work. He is interested in the intersection of designerly epistemic identities and vocational pathways. Dr. Lande received his B.S. in Engineering (Product Design), M.A. in Education (Learning, Design and Technology) and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (Design Education) from Stanford University. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Affordances of Large Language Models in Design ActivityAbstractLarge language models and AI tools such as ChatGPT have possible benefits within designprocess and design activity across design courses in higher education. With the advent and rise inuse of large language models (LLM’s) we seek to better understand the

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) - Best in DEED

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wangda Zhu, University of Florida; Rui Guo, University of Florida; Yuanzhi Wang, Cornell University; Wanli Xing, University of Florida; Eddy Man Kim, Cornell University; Chenglu Li, The University of Utah

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Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

can be integrated into CAD education and implies future directions forAI-supported design tools.Introduction In today's educational settings, Generative AI (GAI) has had a significant influence on the fields ofScience, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education (Cooper, 2023). Among thesetechnological advancements, text-to-text models like ChatGPT have been particularly prominent, ashighlighted by Lo (2023). Furthermore, the impact of GAI extends into design and design education, wherethe advent of image-generative technologies such as Midjourney, DALL-E, and Stable Diffusion marks asignificant shift (Burlin, 2023). These technologies not only streamline the design process but also make iteasier for students to express