OPENAI’S CODEX JUMPSTARTS ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING CURRICULUM Dr. Clinton Kohl, Senior Professor of Computer Engineering, had been charged with creating a new class for electrical and computer engineering freshmen. The problem? Teaching the coding skills these students would need to complete the course project — a programmed car that can navigate through an elaborate obstacle course — would’ve taken too much of the course time away from the hands-on experience these students needed most. Dr. Kohl knew AI tools could help his students learn to code and facilitate the course project, but even ChatGPT’s latest models didn’t have enough memory to carry out the complex projects these students needed to undertake. When Dr. Kohl discovered Codex just weeks after its launch, he knew he had found what he was looking for. With Codex’s coding help, Dr. Kohl’s freshman engineering students are coding at a level he used to expect from juniors. And at the junior and senior levels, the progress is even more impressive. By building AI tools into the curriculum, Dr. Kohl and his colleagues are equipping their students to stand out and excel in fields that are changing with each new technological leap. STUDENT PROJECT HELPS CHURCH CREATIVE TEAMS USE AI FOR GOD’S GLORY Church creative teams — writers, designers, and the pastors that oversee them — are often volunteers without the infrastructure and support of a marketing team or agency. While AI can help these teams deliver professional results with limited resources, many church teams are looking for guidance on how to use these tools well — and struggling to find accessible options. Luke Eyerly, a 2026 visual communication design graduate, met this need with his senior project: a decision-making framework to help church creative staff evaluate when to use AI. From interviews with current church staff, he discovered three key priorities: authorship, dependency, and restraint. His decision tree breaks use cases down into three categories: ministry priorities that should never be outsourced, like preaching and biblical counseling; projects that can use AI assistance but should be human-led, like writing content and brainstorming ideas; and tasks that can be fully automated, like transcribing recordings and formatting content. The final result, a colorful, accessible booklet and decision tree poster, shows Cedarville students’ care for the local church. 15
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