CLIVE L. DYM MUDD DESIGN WORKSHOP

MDW XIV, 2025

Engineering Design Education and Artificial Intelligence:

Bridging Creativity and Technology for Future Innovators

May 29-31, 2025

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VISION FOR MDW 2025

Our vision is to convene a diverse assembly of fifty to seventy-five engineers, designers, and educators with a shared goal of exploring and advancing the integration of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) in engineering design education. We aim to foster a collaborative environment where participants can exchange innovative approaches for leveraging AI to enhance cross-disciplinary and inter-institutional partnerships in design education and addressing or limiting negative issues arising from AI that might impact design education. Established versions of AI such as expert systems and automated shape optimization in CAD have been widely used and previously explored. We believe that innovations in generative AI have the potential to significantly impact engineering design education by offering new perspectives, enhancing domain knowledge through data-driven insights, and augmenting the skill sets of students to meet the evolving demands of the industry and will introduce new challenges. We want to now revisit and further explore how to incorporate generative AI in a way that prepares our students to take advantage of the positives of AI and while mitigating the negatives.

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Click here for the Mudd Design Workshop History

In January 2012, Professor Clive L. Dym and his Emeriti Harvey Mudd colleagues M. Mack Gilkeson and J. Richard Phillips were awarded the NAE’s prestigious Bernard M. Gordon Prize, in part, for the Mudd Design Workshops.

  • Professor Clive L. Dym gives his opening remarks.
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8:00 – 9:50 AM, THURSDAY (DESIGN STUDIO, PARSONS 1287) OPENING
BREAKFAST
Welcoming Remarks: Dr. Harriet Nembhard, President, Harvey Mudd College

10:00 – 11:50 AM, THURSDAY (DESIGN STUDIO, PARSONS 1287)
SESSION 1
INNOVATING DESIGN WITH AI

Moderator: Sheri Sheppard
Speakers:

  • Kaela Martin, Brian Roth, How Can AI Help Design? Lessons Learned from Engineering Students and Faculty
  • Micah Lande, Artificial Intelligence is Your Newest Team Member Who Needs Training Wheels: Exploring the Opportunities and Challenges of Large Language Models in Generative Design Activities in the Engineering Classroom
  • Yakhoub Ndiaye, An Exploration of Reasoning Types within Generative AI for Engineering Design: A Framework

12:00 –1:50 PM, THURSDAY (GREEN ROOM, PLATT CENTER) FIRST DAY
KEYNOTE LUNCHEON

12:00 –1:50 PM, THURSDAY (GREEN ROOM, PLATT CENTER) FIRST DAY
KEYNOTE LUNCHEON

Keynote Address: Andrew B. Williams, Dean of Engineering & Louis S. LeTellier Chair, The Citadel: Designing Pathways Across the Artificial Intelligence Divide

2:00 – 3:50 PM, THURSDAY (DESIGN STUDIO, PARSONS 1287)
SESSION 2
AI IN DESIGN PEDAGOGY AND PRACTICE

Moderator: Arlindo Silva
Speakers:

  • Chris Rennick, Supplementing Novice Design Knowledge with Large Language Models
  • Corey Schimpf, Reframing AI in Education: Generating Design Requirements to Guide AI Agents Development to Support Front-End Design Learning
  • Reem Khojah, Evaluating In-Class Assignment for Graduate Students Using Bloom’s Taxonomy-Based Pre and Post-Lecture Formative Assessments
  • John Clay and Russell C. Reid, Curriculum Development and Education Research for Generative Design Thinking

4:00 – 5:50 PM, THURSDAY (SKY CUBE, SHANAHAN 3460)
IDEAS MARKETPLACE

  • Gordon Krauss, Exploring AI Interventions in the Sustainability & Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship
  • Chris Rennick, The Case for Multiple, Regional, Design Workshops – The Canadian Design Workshop Experience
  • Filippo Chiarello, Leveraging AI for Personality-Based Team Optimization
  • Justin Klingenberger, Evaluating Role-Based AI Prompt Frameworks for Enhancing Individual Ideation in Engineering Design: A Pilot Study

6:00 PM, THURSDAY (SKY CUBE PATIO, SHANAHAN) RECEPTION MUSIC BY CUCAMONGA COLLECTIVE

6:45 PM, THURSDAY (GREEN ROOM, PLATT CENTER)
INFORMAL DINNER & KEYNOTE

Keynote: Professor Filippo Chiarello, Head of Design Society Special Interest Group on AI in
Design, University of Pisa: AIXDESIGN: A Community Driven Literature Review Exercise
Host: Gordon G. Krauss, Harvey Mudd College

7:00 – 7:50 AM, FRIDAY (DESIGN STUDIO, PARSONS 1287)
BREAKFAST

8:00 – 9:50 AM, FRIDAY (DESIGN STUDIO, PARSONS 1287)
SESSION 3
ETHICS, EMPATHY, AND EQUITY IN AI-ENHANCED DESIGN

Moderator: Andrew B. Williams
Speakers:

  • Doug Yung, Ethical and Cultural Implications of AI in Engineering Design Education: Integrating Ethical Audits into the Design Process
  • Subinay Malhotra, Cultural and Semantic Barriers in Assistive Technology Design Rethinking Adoption Through Empathy
  • Jan Auernhammer, The Socio-economic Dynamics of Design: Power, Privilege, and Poverty in Capital Formation

10:00 – 11:50 AM, FRIDAY (DESIGN STUDIO, PARSONS 1287)
SESSION 4
AI TOOLS AND PLATFORMS FOR STUDENT LEARNING

Moderator: Filippo Chiarello
Speakers:

  • Cindy Atman & René Capella, AI-Supported Reflections on Design Signatures
  • Rea Lavi, Evaluating the Perceived Efficacy and Usability of an AI-enhanced Platform for Design Learning Management
  • Dorothy Missingham, Critical Thinking in a Generative AI Environment: Optimising Problem Solving (OPS) to promote higher order thinking and decision making skills among Engineering Systems Design students
  • Subinay Malhotra, Integrating Universal Design and Sustainability in Design Education: A New Pedagogical Paradigm

12:00 – 1:50 PM, FRIDAY (GREEN ROOM, PLATT CENTER)
SECOND DAY KEYNOTE LUNCHEON

Keynote Address: Professor Aditya Johri, Dr. Lawrence Cranberg Endowed Research
Fellow, George Mason University: Designing the Future of Engineering Education
through Artificial Intelligence

2:00 – 3:50 PM, FRIDAY (DESIGN STUDIO, PARSONS 1287)
SESSION 5
INSTITUTIONAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY PARTNERSHIPS FOR AI IN DESIGN

2:00 – 3:50 PM, FRIDAY (DESIGN STUDIO, PARSONS 1287)
Moderator: Aditya Johri
Speakers:

  • Sadan Kulturel-Konak & Abdullah Konak, The Transformative Impact of Student
    Innovation Competitions and Programs on Entrepreneurial Mindset
    ENGINEERING DESIGN EDUCATION AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
  • Mohammed Alrizqi, Enhancing Engineering Curricula through AI-Enhanced Complex Process Analysis
  • Lakshmy Mohandas, Leveraging AI-Assisted Discussion Tools in Multidisciplinary EPICS (Engineering Projects In Community Services) Teams: Instructor and Student Insights
  • Daigo Misaki, Enhancing Innovation in Japanese Engineering Students: The Role of Generative AI in Engineering Design Class

4:00 – 5:50 PM, FRIDAY (SKY CUBE, SHANAHAN 3460)
COLLABORATION INCUBATOR
Moderator: Ade Mabogunje

6:00 PM, FRIDAY (SKY CUBE PATIO, SHANAHAN) RECEPTION
MUSIC BY CUCAMONGA COLLECTIVE

6:45 PM, FRIDAY (GREEN ROOM, PLATT CENTER) WORKSHOP
BANQUET: SUSTAINING TRADITION
HOST: GORDON G. KRAUSS, HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE, CENTER FOR DESIGN EDUCATION

7:00 – 7:50 AM, SATURDAY (DESIGN STUDIO, PARSONS 1287) BREAKFAST

8:00 – 9:50 AM, SATURDAY (DESIGN STUDIO, PARSONS 1287)
SESSION 6
HUMAN-CENTERED DESIGN, IDENTITY, AND BELONGING

Moderator: Cindy Atman
Speakers:

  • Aya Mouallem and Sheri Sheppard, A First Prototype: Collaborating with a LLM to
    Understand Belonging Among Engineering Design Students
  • Pavan Kumar, How do Co-Curricular Interventions Impact Engineering Identit
  • Austin Morgan Kainoa Peters, The Manifestations of Conscientious Design in the
    Context of a Sustainable Engineering Project in Hawaiʻi

10:00 – 11:50 AM, SATURDAY (DESIGN STUDIO, PARSONS 1287)
SESSION 7
MDW XIV WRAP-UP: WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED?

Moderator: Ade Mabogunje
Speakers: All

12:00 – 1:30 PM, SATURDAY (AVIATION ROOM, HOCH-SHANAHAN)
CLOSING LUNCHEON