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The subject of electromagnetics (EM) education is not only common to our entire community but also a topic about which our passions typically run very high. Whether as current educators or former students, we all have our unique perspectives on learning and teaching field. Our views are shaped by a variety of factors, including our own learning experience, personal strengths and weaknesses, the culture and norms in our program and higher education system, and others. We experience constant tension between our own envisioned goals and the societal and industrial expectations of our programs’ outputs. Our conversations on the topic often revolve around the necessary interplay between EM curricula and the broader engineering program, frustration with the increasing need to compete for our students’ attention, and pride in the methods and technological advances we successfully develop and employ to overcome the challenges in creating an effective learning environment. These are issues that have been tremendously amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic and the swift change into remote and hybrid learning modalities. Therefore, the release of the reviewed book, which aims at providing ideas and discussion points on the main contemporary challenges of undergraduate EM education, was perfectly timed.