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80 PCB007 MAGAZINE I NOVEMBER 2023 is is a highly technical industry that relies on universities and trade schools to feed the pool of candidates that companies are look- ing to hire. I recently interviewed Dr. Alexis Abramson, dean of the ayer School of Engi- neering at Dartmouth College, on my podcast titled Reliability Matters. Here are excerpts from our conversation. Tell me about the ethos of the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College. How does it differ from other schools? Alexis Abramson: When I talk to prospective undergraduate students, I always say this will be the weirdest information session you will have with a school of engineering. I mean that in a good way. At some universities, you're largely doing engineering- or STEM-related courses. Here, we believe strongly in integrat- ing the liberal arts. We encourage our students to take philoso- phy, anthropology, English, and studio art. We want them to figure out how to integrate those learnings into engineering. We're all about bringing all that together. We offer a Bachelor of Arts in Engineering degree. Because of that integration, you can also get an accredited Bachelor of Engineer- ing degree, which is more like what you would get at other institutions, but isn't it nice to be Dartmouth: Taking a Human-centered Approach The Knowledge Base by Mike Konrad, SMTA