Dr. Jamie Gurganus was interviewed by The Washington Post last week on the experience of remote teaching. In the telephone interview, she mentioned that engineering students are not able to put their hands on physical tools in a lab or classroom to build stuff and solve problems. She said “engineers aren’t machinists, but they do need to understand how things work.”
 
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