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Lennon Rodgers is an engineer who has worked at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the International Design Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Today he oversees an ecosystem of courses, programs, and more than 40,000 square feet of design and fabrication spaces within the University of Wisconsin College of Engineering. Lennon shared his passion for art, how makerspaces are becoming a catalyst for entrepreneurship and innovation, and what employers can expect when the next generation of engineers and tinkerers start working professionally. - Art and engineering - Engineers are more hands-on today - Makerspaces as interdisciplinary innovation accelerators - Engineers must be user-centered