Conference Agenda

Aim:

Seeking a collective understanding of what difference workshop participants think AI makes to the engineering design processes that UG engineering students should learn to be capable in.
(Nothing to do with teaching methods.)

Significance:

If AI changes the engineering design processes and hence capabilities likely to be needed by graduates, we should be prepared to evolve our engineering teaching material to provide the capabilities which we agree are most valuable. We may need to move away from teaching capabilities which are likely to be superseded by graduates’ likely practice (using AI) in engineering design after 3-5 UG years.

Audience:

University staff teaching engineering design, plus,

those interested in the applications of AI to engineering design (which affect the capabilities needed by graduates).

Benefit to the community:

Personal reflections of attendees on the workshop content and conclusions – potentially informing engineering design teaching material.

Networking and potential for collaboration on articles or journal/conference papers for wider reference.