We still need to teach engineers to write in the era of ChatGPT.

If, as current proponents of AI posit, these tools exist to help us do our jobs more quickly (Lopez, [12]), then we need our students to be prepared to improve on the AI-generated text. In closing, AI-based tools are certainly a potential opportunity as a tool for writing, as long as the ideas fed to the AI systems are not sensitive, and as long as human writers still have the abilities to refine and powerfully edit any text that is smoothed by an AI system. This guest editorial is framed around two propositions regarding why we still need to teach engineering writing: First, to teach students to write is to teach them to think; and second, AI is a tool and not a replacement for teaching writing. Faculty wonder how artificial intelligence (AI) such as ChatGPT will revolutionize higher education, where writing is a key competency and where our careers are built on our ability to productively publish. [Extracted from the article]