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AI in Engineering Education Workshop

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Details & registration

Jarvis Auditorium, Grimes Engineering Center
Oct. 13, 2026
8:30 a.m. – Continental Breakfast
9:00 to 2:00 p.m. – Workshop

Registration is now closed

You are invited to join us for an AI in Engineering Education Workshop intended to explore the opportunities, challenges, and evolving role of artificial intelligence in engineering education, as well as inform and encourage collaboration for a second round of grants from the College of Engineering to support ideas on this topic to be announced.

The workshop will bring together faculty and students for a conversation about how AI is changing the educational experience. Faculty speakers who have successfully secured grants to support AI in education initiatives will share their experiences, projects, and lessons learned. A sequence of panels featuring both students and faculty will then explore the practical realities of AI in the classroom, including the ways it can enhance learning, the challenges it presents, and questions surrounding how we should approach AI in engineering education moving forward.

As part of the workshop, we are also gathering student perspectives through a survey about how students are currently using and thinking about AI in their education. Survey responses will help provide a broader view of student experiences and perspectives and will contribute to the discussion during the workshop.

Agenda

Time

Event

8:30 – 9 A.M.

Breakfast

9 – 9:05 A.M.

Welcome

9:05 – 9:15 A.M.

Workshop Agenda & Objectives

Presentations

9:15 – 9:35 A.M.

Huiwen Jia 
Cultivating the Next Generation of Engineers in the Age of AI: Prompting, Judging, Partnering and Planning Smarter

9:35 – 9:55 A.M.

Thomas Schutzius & Claudio Hail 

CalorAI: A Scaffolded Small Language Model for Resource-Grounded Guidance in Engineering Thermodynamics Education

9:55 – 10:15 A.M.

Mohamad Hallal & Luis Ceferino

Integrating AI in CEE Undergraduate Education

10:15 – 10:35 A.M.

Jenae Cohn (CTL)

Navigating the use of AI in Higher Education

10:35 – 10:55 A.M.

Break

10:55 – 11:05 A.M.

Panel Introduction

11:05 – 11:45 A.M.

Student Panel:
Carla Bassil, PhD candidate, EECS
Nicolas Jepsen, sophomore, ME
Iris Li, senior, EECS
Douglas McGowan, PhD student, ME
Kevin Zheng, PhD candidate, EECS

11:45 – 12:30 P.M.

Faculty Panel:
Kosa Goucher-Lambert, associate professor, ME; associate director, MDES
Claudio Hail, assistant professor, ME
Narges Norouzi, associate dean of students, CDSS; associate teaching professor, EECS
Daniel Pirutinsky, assistant teaching professor, IEOR
Ken Singer, managing director, Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology

12:30 – 1:30 P.M.

Lunch and Breakout groups

1:30 – 2:00 P.M.

Breakout Group Outbriefs

2:00 – 2:05 P.M.

Closing Remarks & Adjourn