Conference Session

AI and Tools for Transdisciplinary Work

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig J. Gunn, Michigan State University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

investigate metaphorical language or uniqueways to describe technical concepts. This can add depth and layers to their poems that they maynot have tried before.This year as a work in progress we decided to try a new path for the students to follow. Theybegan with the instruction to NOT use ChatGPT or any other AI to write their poems. They hadto create what they could and hand it in. The next step was to take that work and put it inChatGPT and create three more versions of their original work. In this paper we explore the useof ChatGPT to not create required work but to show that as a tool ChatGPT opens up the doorsof new forms of creativity, student evaluation of their own work in comparison to the added toolof ChatGPT, and the avenues that a

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 6: LEES Works in Progress

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian P Kirkmeyer, Miami University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

introducing GenAI into student assessments. This study is standaloneand preliminary; it is not planned to be part of a broader research program.BackgroundOver the past few years, text-based chatbots based on Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI)large language models (LLMs) have soared in both public availability and usage [1] [2]. Themost popular of these, ChatGPT, has grown in popularity at growth rates never seen in theinternet age [3]. This growth has driven advances in usability and functionality, while alsoraising questions of legal ethics and morality [2]. The consistent viewpoint is that GenAI is hereto stay and humans need to adapt to this new reality. Educators have shifted from awe ofGenAI’s capabilities, to fear of academic integrity

Conference Session

AI and Tools for Transdisciplinary Work

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elana Goldenkoff, University of Michigan; Erin A. Cech, University of Michigan

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

education (due to the COVID-19 pandemic) as well as a cohort of students whotook all their classes under standard post-pandemic in-person instructional protocols. The secondinterview period also coincided with launch and subsequent public debates around ChatGPT(OpenAI, San Francisco, USA) and other similar generative AI models.All interviews were conducted by the first author virtually using video conferencing. They wereoffered a $50 gift card as a token of gratitude for their time and participation. The interviewsbegan by gathering information about respondents’ educational and employment history andtheir prior training in ethics and public welfare responsibilities. After asking about theirexperiences in their current master’s program, we asked

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 3: Identity, Professionalization, and Belonging II

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Clay Walker, University of Michigan; Mariel Krupansky, University of Michigan; Robin Fowler, University of Michigan; Kenneth M. Alfano, University of Michigan; Colleen Hart, University of Michigan

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

expertise [1] and to develop ideas [2]. Findings from early studies afterthe public release of ChatGPT have found that students see GenAI as a useful but limited tool[3-6]. GenAI tools saturate digital writing ecologies and continue to gain power with eachiteration, yet student use of GenAI remains an understudied aspect of generative AI uptake inhigher education literacy [7]. Engineering education has unique features (e.g., coding,calculations, design processes, technical communication) and deserves its own empiricalresearch on student writing practices in relation to GenAI, not yet done to our knowledge.Additionally, it is still unclear how generative AI technologies will shape the engineeringeducation landscape as students grapple with the

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 6: LEES Works in Progress

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary P. Halada, Stony Brook University; Lori Scarlatos, Stony Brook University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

. "Beyond Colonial Hegemonies: Writing Scholarship andPedagogy with Nya ̄yasutra." Rhetorics Elsewhere and Otherwise: ContestedModernities, Decolonial Visions, 169-195 (2019).13 OpenAI, “Is ChatGPT Biased?”, https://help.openai.com/en/articles/8313359-is-chatgpt-biased14 Teboho Pitso, “Invitational Pedagogy: An Alternative Practice in DevelopingCreativity in Undergraduates”, in Booth, Shirley, and Laurie Woollacott."Introduction to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning." The Scholarship ofTeaching and Learning in Higher Education–On Its Constitution andTransformative Potential, 2015.15 Riegle-Crumb, Catherine, Barbara King, and Yasmiyn Irizarry. "Does STEMstand out? Examining racial/ethnic gaps in persistence across postsecondaryfields

Conference Session

Accountability and Stewardship

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gail Baura, Loyola University, Chicago; Matt Miller, Loyola University, Chicago

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

. Another advantageof using recent disasters, like the 2023 Parajo River Levee Breach and 2023 Lahaina Fire, is thatthey circumvent the use of ChatGPT for the project. When ChatGPT was asked “Was theengineering standard upheld before the Pajaro River Levee failed?,” its response in August, 2023was: As of my last knowledge update in January 2022, I don't have specific information about the Pajaro River Levee failure or any related incidents after that date. Levee failures can be caused by various factors, including inadequate engineering standards, lack of maintenance, natural disasters, or unforeseen circumstances.Study LimitationsIt is worth noting that the small sample size in our study could have prevented us from detectingtrue

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 8: Communication and Liberal Education

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amanda Dawn Hilliard, The Johns Hopkins University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

-5ct7-54du.[13] S. A. Athaluri, S. V. Manthena, V. S. R. K. M. Kesapragada, V. Yarlagadda, T. Dave, and R. T. S. Duddumpudi, “Exploring the Boundaries of Reality: Investigating the Phenomenon of Artificial Intelligence Hallucination in Scientific Writing Through ChatGPT References,” Cureus, Apr. 2023, doi: 10.7759/cureus.37432.[14] A. E. Greene, Writing Science in Plain English, Chicago, IL, USA: The University of Chicago Press, 2013.[15] G. R. Hess and E. N. Brooks, “The Class Poster Conference as a Teaching Tool,” Journal of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Education, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 155–158, 1998, doi: 10.2134/jnrlse.1998.0155.[16] J. Schimel, Writing Science: How to Write Papers that Get Cited and Proposals

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 1: Critical Reflections on Teaching and Learning

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Howcroft, University of Waterloo; Kate Mercer, University of Waterloo; Julie Vale, University of Guelph; D'andre Jermaine Wilson-Ihejirika P.Eng., University of Toronto; Stephen Mattucci, University of Guelph

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

with participants in my research and to acknowledge thebiases I bring. From my early struggles with homesickness in first year, to my passion foroutreach and advocacy developed through NSBE, to finally securing my first internship in theOil Sands during my master’s degree which I felt ultimately validated my identity as an engineer,my career pathway has been shaped and informed by the experiences in my undergraduatedegree. These reflections ground me in focus of my PhD research: to illuminate the factorsshaping diverse career paths in engineering and to foster environments where all students canthrive.1 The author identified she used ChatGPT as part of her writing process for this section to synthesize similar writingsshe had previously done