I disagree. In my experience if my school were interested in teaching me how to think they would have let me do more of it. I don't know about you but if I didn't know what my major was I could have mistaken it for a math major with professors who happened to chose electronics based word problems a lot.
How many times a week does your boss force you into an empty room with nothing but a pencil and make you do 6 numerical problems in 2 hours pay you based on how many you get correct to within 2 decimal places. The correlation between being good at that and being a good engineer, or being able to think like one, or being able to think at all, are very little.
Now some programs are different than others. But I know 80% of my evaluation was similar to this. Even if it were 40% I would say the program is off track in its aim to produce engineers, or people that can think like them.
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I disagree. In my experience if my school were interested in teaching me how to think they would have let me do more of it. I don't know about you but if I didn't know what my major was I could have mistaken it for a math major with professors who happened to chose electronics based word problems a lot.
How many times a week does your boss force you into an empty room with nothing but a pencil and make you do 6 numerical problems in 2 hours pay you based on how many you get correct to within 2 decimal places. The correlation between being good at that and being a good engineer, or being able to think like one, or being able to think at all, are very little.
Now some programs are different than others. But I know 80% of my evaluation was similar to this. Even if it were 40% I would say the program is off track in its aim to produce engineers, or people that can think like them.