Activity-Based Learning (Suggested Activities in Class)/Practical-Based Learning
Learning Activity -1: Practical Assignment on Creating Effective Prompts (Marks- 25)
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Students must demonstrate the solutions to the course instructor and submit the
record containing prompt creation (procedure), prompt execution and results with
observations.
2. Course instructor must evaluate the student performance as per the rubrics.
Sl. Activity on Creating Effective Prompts
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Note: To conduct the activity students can use any of the AI tools such as ChatGPT.
1 Basic Prompt writing: Create two different prompts to ask an AI about the topic
"Electricity." The first prompt should be vague, and the second prompt should be
clear and specific. Compare the responses you get and describe which prompt
gave a better
answer and why.
2 Zero-Shot Prompting: Create a prompt that asks an AI to explain Ohm’s Law
without giving any example
or background. Evaluate how well the AI explains the concept based on your
prompt alone.
3 One-Shot and Few-Shot Prompting: Provide the AI with a single example of how
to calculate the resistance in a simple circuit. Then write your own prompt asking
the AI to solve a similar resistance calculation. After that, add two more
examples to your prompt and observe any changes in the AI’s
response quality.
4 Chain-of-Thought Prompting: Develop a prompt that guides the AI step-by-
step through calculating current flow in a circuit using Ohm’s Law with
resistors in series.
Then, ask a final question for the AI to
solve. Analyze how breaking down the reasoning steps impacts the accuracy of the
answer.
5 Prompt Refinement: Start with an ambiguous prompt related to the "Water Cycle."
Test the AI’s response, note the confusion or errors, and then refine your prompt to
make it clearer and more specific. Repeat this process twice and record how the AI’s
responses improve with each refinement.
Role-Based Prompting: Create three prompts asking the AI to explain "Newton’s Laws
of Motion," each with a different role instruction: (a) as an expert engineer, (b) as a
high
school teacher, (c) as a beginner. Compare the tone, detail, and style of the responses.
6 Creative Engineering Problem Prompts: Craft a prompt that asks the AI to brainstorm
ideas for designing a low-cost water purification system suitable for rural areas.
Encourage creativity by adding
phrases like “limited resources” and “sustainability”.
7 Ethical Prompt Design Discussion: Identify a biased prompt related to job descriptions
(e.g. language with respect to a gender). Rewrite the prompt to remove bias and
create a neutral, inclusive version.
Explain why this revision is more ethical.
8 Simulated Customer Support Chatbot: Develop a prompt that instructs the AI to play
the role of a
technical support agent helping a customer troubleshoot a failure in an electronic
circuit. Include instructions to keep the tone friendly and professional and to
ask diagnostic questions.
9 Multi-Language Prompting: Develop a prompt that asks the AI to translate a simple
engineering glossary (5 technical terms) from English to your native language. Then
modify the prompt to request additional explanations of these terms in the translated
language.
10 Review a curated set of different prompt types (e.g., for summarization, information
extraction, paraphrasing, question answering) from a “Prompt Gallery.” For each
prompt type, match it with a real- world task (e.g., summarizing a lecture note,
extracting names from a project report). Test at least three prompt templates on an
AI tool or by role-play (students simulate being the AI), with varied wording. Record
the outcomes and discuss which prompt (or template) was most effective for each
task, and explain why you think
it worked best. Reflect on how changing small parts of a prompt can alter model
response quality, completeness, or accuracy.
11 Choose a real engineering challenge or societal problem relevant to your field (e.g.,
“Reducing plastic waste in campus cafeterias” or “Optimizing solar panel placement
on campus rooftops”). Draft an initial prompt that asks an AI to propose practical
solutions. Share the AI’s (or peer’s) answer in small groups and identify aspects that
are missing, vague, or not actionable. Refine your prompt based on feedback (e.g.,
specify constraints, ask for step-by-step solutions, or require a list of pros and cons).
Repeat the process one more time, refining again for further clarity or specificity.
Document the entire prompt-refinement
process and share the best solution generated, along with a brief analysis of how
prompt improvements led to better responses.
Rubrics for Learning Activity (Creating Effective Prompts):
Component Outstanding Exceeds Meets Needs Unsatisfactory
& CO-PO (5) Expectations Expectations Improvement (1)
Mapping (4) (3) (2)