Course objective: To provide students with the skills to use GhatGPT in their assignments. The course is a non-programming course, which focuses on digital technology understanding, implementation and operation.
Target audience: B. Eng. students specializing in the implementation and use of digitalization and Industry 4.0 technologies.
Use of generative AI: in Assignments (which are part of the exam)
Course content from course database:
Digitalization and Industry 4.0 have have a significant impact on the value chains, production systems, and processes. Digitalization and Industry 4.0 have affected the production of products as well as the production of services (for example in the financial sector, health care and in the transport sector). Digitalization and the application of data provide new opportunities to develop and optimize the company’s value chains, production systems, and processes. However, there is a challenge for many companies about creating real value from digitalization. This course will, based on the ongoing movement towards Industry 4.0, will provide students with an overview of the opportunities that digitization provides to develop and optimize value chains, production systems and processes
Examples of assignments is provided below:
Choose a technology and first explain how it can be applied generally, and then in your specific company
Select a process or function in the company, and then explain how a range of technologies or a combination of technologies can improve this process
Choose a company that is ‘ahead of the curve’ with Industry 4.0. Describe their current processes and how they use the technologies. Conclude by considering the natural next steps on the company’s technology implementation journey
Implementation Steps / Practicalities:
To motivate the students to use ChatGPT in these assignments, the course includes two full four-blocks where students train their skills in ChatGPT. The students work with the following assignments in the two-day integrated mini-course in ChatGTP:
Tasks:
(1) Creativity
Write a Danish essay of 400 words. It should be a comedy, containing jokes that you find funny. It should be suitable for an 8-year-old to read.
(2) Creativity
Ask DALL-E to generate a series of images that could fit as the background for your LinkedIn profile. Optionally choose one of the images and upload it (your choice 🙂).
(3) Quantitative Analysis
Generate a table with order lines. The table’s column headings are: date, customer number, item number, item name, price per unit, units in order, customer’s annual income, customer’s municipality, day of the week for purchase, and whether the order was bought online or in store (ensure there are at least 100 rows). Ask ChatGPT to:
a. Visualize the data in a series of graphs and identify relationships between variables
b. Generate graphs over the most interesting relationships between variables
c. Deduce a series of possible reasons for customers’ purchasing behavior and suggest measures to sell more
(4) Text Analysis
Upload a long text (e.g., an interview from a newspaper article) and perform a coding of the interview (which words are new, which are used a lot, how are they used, etc.) - Try Googling “discourse analysis of interview” just for fun.
(5) Investigation
Investigation of biodiversity - Assume your manufacturing company will establish a new factory in the Region Zealand on an approx. 10,000 m2 site. You need to investigate how the establishment of this factory will affect biodiversity in the area itself and the surrounding area. First assume that the company buys agricultural land. Then assume that the company buys a piece of forest. See if there is a difference in the impact on biodiversity.
(6) Explanations
Ask ChatGPT to explain quantum physics to you. Ask for an explanation suitable for a 10-year-old and then for a 15-year-old. Ask ChatGPT to illustrate quantum physics with an image in Dall-E and ask to have the image explained.
(7) Technical Tip
Update your own profile description under settings and investigate if it gives you different answers. Write, for example, that you are the new chief of technology implementation at a manufacturing company. You could also write that you are an experienced supply chain manager for a pharmaceutical manufacturer, or an experienced sales manager for a company that sells Industry 4.0 technologies.
(8) Analysis of Legal Basis
You disagree with a supplier of an automated process about the delivery time, which has been greatly exceeded. Ask ChatGPT for two things:
a. Good advice prior to negotiation with the supplier
b. The legal basis for a possible dispute
(9) Planning a Workshop
Plan a Kaizen workshop to improve the company’s far too low adherence to delivery times for finished orders.
Ask ChatGPT to ask you what information is needed to make a good plan.
(9) Inspiration for Workshop
For the preparation of the Kaizen workshop, ask ChatGPT for inspiration on how the company’s far too low delivery compliance can be improved.
A. What does academic logistics literature say about delivery compliance?
B. What experiences do other companies have? Are there cases that can inspire?
C. What are the typical reasons for low delivery compliance, and what can be done to improve it?
(10) Secretary Function
Ask ChatGPT to act as a note-taker for your own brainstorm. Tell ChatGPT to just respond with OK unless you ask it something specific. Ask it to just listen without interrupting you. Then record your brainstorm (on the mobile version of ChatGPT).
(11) Ask for Advice
You are a newly hired manager for technology implementation at a producer of high-end furniture. You would first like answers to two questions:
a. What are the typical operational competitive parameters for the high-end furniture industry?
b. What are the obvious opportunities for how technology can improve operations?
Choose now three technologies that ChatGPT has suggested, or that you think would be appropriate, and then ask ChatGPT for the following three things:
a. Propose an implementation plan with activities
b. List the plan’s action items or activities in a table with the following columns: Activity, Duration, Responsible, and Start Date.
c. Finally, ask ChatGPT to create a CSV file of this table for copying directly to Excel.
(12) Analysis
Conduct a SWOT analysis for the decision on where to locate a factory. You would like to choose between either Værløse Municipality or Ringkøbing Municipality. Ask ChatGPT for a SWOT analysis on where it would be smartest to place your factory.
Now give some more details. Tell ChatGPT that you are the boss of a coffee roastery, which would like to be near its customers in the Copenhagen area, but that you also want to be close to machine suppliers, many of whom are in Jutland. See if the SWOT analysis changes.
(13) Creativity
Write a Tintin adventure about Tintin’s possible role in your favorite crime novel. If you’re not familiar with any crime novels, then ask ChatGPT to compose an adventure on how Tintin participates in the plot in Agatha Christie’s “Murder on the Orient Express”. If crime novels aren’t your thing, choose another story, e.g., an Avengers, Snow White, or Barbie movie.
(14) Understanding of Concepts
The list below constitutes DTU’s nine digital themes. These are elements from DTU’s strategy that, over the next few years, will be integrated into DTU’s education programs to a degree suitable for each specific program.
1. Concepts of digital literacy and computational thinking
2. Data, data sharing and its security, and its ethical basis
3. Computational thinking and algorithmic perspectives on creative problem solving
4. FAIR data and data analytics (visualization, data mining, statistical methods, uncertainty quantification, etc.)
5. Construction of mathematical models of engineering problems
6. Development of computer programs to solve engineering problems using version control and repositories
7. Artificial intelligence, and its relation to human intelligence
8. The uses and limitations of digital hardware and infrastructure
9. Evaluation of digital outputs and what they mean in a social and physical context
Tell ChatGPT that you are an engineering student and what direction you are studying. Copy the description that is on DTU’s website about your education into ChatGPT, so ChatGPT has a concrete understanding of what you are studying.
Then ask ChatGPT to explain to you:
A. What these nine digital themes mean in general (e.g., what is computational thinking)
B. What these nine digital themes mean for a future engineer like you
C. Ask to prioritize the themes according to importance for your engineering profile
D. Ask for an explanation of the prioritization. Why is something more important than something else?
Evaluation and Assessment:
Students are formally evaluated on their general assignments and not their explicit use of ChatGPT. However, the course does include a voluntary student presentation of their individual ChatGTP skills.