As a professor from the engineering department, I feel that we may have an easier time adapting to the rise of generative AI compared to our colleagues in  other areas. This is because we have faced similar paradigm shifts before in previous generations, navigating disruptions that fundamentally changed how we learn and how we work. Calculators came first... We saw it first with the introduction of calculators, which were initially feared as a crutch that would atrophy our me