🇺🇸 Student Hourly - AI Developer Contract

The student will work up to 4 hours per week with Dr. Carl Luchies on the KU Lawrence Campus with the goal of developing methods for using AI as a teaching assistant for Mechanical Engineering undergraduate courses in Mechanics (ME211, ME320, ME311) and Experimentation (ME455). Prompt Engineering techniques will be used. Activities include, but are not limited to: writing extensive prompts for tutoring, concept explanation with examples, critical thinking in problem solution, practice in principle identification given a problem statement, and developing AI chatbots as needed. The team will primarily use CoPilot.

- (20%) tutoring by AI,
- (20%) teaching concepts to AI,
- (20%) concept exploration,
- (20%) critical thinking,
- (20%) principle identification given a problem statement.

- Junior, senior status or graduate student status in a degree program within the KU School of Engineering departments.
- Successfully completed ME211 Statics with top grades.
- Currently enrolled in ME320 Dynamics or completed with top grades.
- Plans to enroll in ME455 next academic year.
- Experience writing and editing Generative-AI prompts.
- Experience utilizing generative AI in a classroom setting.
- Experience working to implement AI into an engineering classroom application.
- During the semester term of the appointment, the student hourly must be enrolled in no fewer than 6 credit hours. For summer periods the student hourly must:

Preferred Qualifications:
- Training in Prompt Engineering.
- Experience in Prompt Engineering.
- AI chatbot development experience.

TBD