Date Uploaded
Fall 9-23-2024
Activity source
Original
Summary
Students will prompt GenAI tools to find relevant engineering standards that might apply to their mechanical engineering design project, then they must evaluate the responses.
Extended Summary
This is based on a Library Instruction support session for the Mechanical Engineering & Material Design Class (MEMS411). For MEMS411, ChatGPT and other GenAI tools can be helpful for quickly finding relevant engineering standards, which are documentation of engineering practices including rules, techniques, and conditions for engineering design. There are inconsistencies across issuing agencies, variations in subject headings and keywords, and no centralized databases, which makes locating the relevant standards difficult for even the most seasoned teachers. The MEMS411 students prompt GenAI to identify possible standards for their design project. This may yield several standard numbers and summaries, which students must then fact check against standard-issuing agencies or perform a Google Search to determine if the standard is legitimate or an AI hallucination.
Students could also use GenAI for suggestions on identifying possible academic “experts,” and we could then use Scopus, Web of Science, or even Google Scholar to verify their publishing history.
Student Learning Objectives
Students will be able to critically evaluate the reliability, validity, and relevance of information sources.
Assignment Type
In-Class
Course level
400
Used in course?
yes
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Mechanical Engineering Design Project (MEMS 411)
Type of Student-AI Collaboration Required
AI-generated with human revision/refining
Type of AI Task(s)
Literature Review/Bibliography
Second Type of AI Task
Brainstorming
Third Type of AI Task
Recommendation/Decision-Making
Uploader/Author Affiliation
Staff
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Document Type
Teaching Material
Recommended Citation
Todd, Lauren, "Incorporating GenAI into Information Literacy Instruction: Find Engineering Standards" (2024). Generative AI Teaching Activities. 8.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/ai_teaching/8