TY - JOUR
T1 - A ‘snapshot’ of engineering practitioners views of ChatGPT-informing pedagogy in higher education
AU - Murray, Mike
AU - Maclachlan, Ross
AU - Flockhart, Gordon M. H.
AU - Adams, Richard
AU - Magueijo, Vitor
AU - Goodfellow, Martin
AU - Liaskos, Konstantinos
AU - Hasty, William
AU - Lauro, Veeti
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2025 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2025/4/24
Y1 - 2025/4/24
N2 - A new discourse has proliferated in teaching and learning committee meetings- Large Language Models (LLMs), most commonly Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (ChatGPT). ChatGPT ‘went viral’ across HEIs during 2022 and it could be said that for academics, this has been more ‘shock’ than ‘awe’. A shock that this Artificial Intelligence (AI) software can generate semi-credible coursework, and that students have swiftly enacted their agency. In this paper we take an ‘employability’ lens on ChatGPT and contribute to a growing body of research on AI within HEIs. Through understanding how employers and their employees are adopting LLMs in their workplace. Our Qualtrics survey of practicing engineers (N = 86) was undertaken over a four-week period during the period June-July 2023 and provides a ‘snapshot’ in time. That is, given the rapidity of how ChatGPT is metamorphosing, our data and subsequent conclusions are attributable to a version ChatGPT 3-3.5 in use during this period.
AB - A new discourse has proliferated in teaching and learning committee meetings- Large Language Models (LLMs), most commonly Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (ChatGPT). ChatGPT ‘went viral’ across HEIs during 2022 and it could be said that for academics, this has been more ‘shock’ than ‘awe’. A shock that this Artificial Intelligence (AI) software can generate semi-credible coursework, and that students have swiftly enacted their agency. In this paper we take an ‘employability’ lens on ChatGPT and contribute to a growing body of research on AI within HEIs. Through understanding how employers and their employees are adopting LLMs in their workplace. Our Qualtrics survey of practicing engineers (N = 86) was undertaken over a four-week period during the period June-July 2023 and provides a ‘snapshot’ in time. That is, given the rapidity of how ChatGPT is metamorphosing, our data and subsequent conclusions are attributable to a version ChatGPT 3-3.5 in use during this period.
KW - Artificial intelligence
KW - ChatGPT
KW - Engineers
KW - Pedagogy
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U2 - 10.1080/03043797.2025.2492736
DO - 10.1080/03043797.2025.2492736
M3 - Article
SN - 0304-3797
JO - European Journal of Engineering Education
JF - European Journal of Engineering Education
M1 - 2492736
ER -