In this episode of Lexicon, we sit down with IEEE Fellow Dr. Karen Panetta, Dean of Graduate Education at Tufts University and co-inventor of the first digital twin.

From AI ethics to the soft skills engineers are missing, she argues that engineering education is overdue for a serious overhaul.

Why are we still training students to pass exams instead of solving real-world problems? And in an age of generative AI, what does it actually mean to think and design like an engineer?

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