I took engineering at the University of Waterloo, and it was not formula feeding. The only formulas that we did not have to derive were experiment based, and then we had to understand the experiment. If a given student chooses to memorize rather than understand the material, in any subject, they are only cheating themselves. And if the courses you took aren't relevant in the workplace, that's probably because you had no idea what you wanted to do with your degree when you selected them. I have found that every course I took in my current field has been extremely useful, and I wish that I had the opportunity to take more. However, I don't wish that so hard that I would go back to school...
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I took engineering at the University of Waterloo, and it was not formula feeding. The only formulas that we did not have to derive were experiment based, and then we had to understand the experiment. If a given student chooses to memorize rather than understand the material, in any subject, they are only cheating themselves. And if the courses you took aren't relevant in the workplace, that's probably because you had no idea what you wanted to do with your degree when you selected them. I have found that every course I took in my current field has been extremely useful, and I wish that I had the opportunity to take more. However, I don't wish that so hard that I would go back to school...