I believe that the students who take my class, just as students who take other classes, have interesting things to share and contribute. I believe that their original ideas are worthwhile and an important part of the learning experience for everyone, the instructor. I also believe that my job is to help them learn, think and reflect. It is for these reasons that, despite teaching courses in engineering, I do not want my students to use any generative AI in any aspect of the course that I teach.

Over the last few years, I have developed and taught a technical engineering course where we focus on how engineering approaches can improve the lives of refugees, displaced persons and stateless communities. Students learn about the drivers of forced migration, analyse existing global and local data, and develop mathematical models to predict disease outbreaks in camps and ways to mitigate them. They do error estimation for existing diagnostic technologies and ultimately design novel solutions for........

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