Sadly, some have not. And many, unfortunately, are women ... pushed into "STEM" (I loathe that term) ... in the name of "gender equity" or some such drivel.
I once worked with a PhD Electrical Engineer (male) who had never, in his life, at age 30, handled a soldering iron. WTF!?!?
The trend is away from empirical type of instruction.
Well equipped instructional labs are vary expensive to equip and maintain. There is the tantalizing “Siren Call” that hardware is ubiquitous and a community (a throw away!) all can be done in software - games, phone apps, etc. all make that seem to be true. So to save money the “physical” can be simulated, no wonder “global warming modeling” seems to be plausible science to some technical people.