I did not know electrical engineers did mostly design work until my junior year. A professor was flabbergasted when I asked about learning more about soldering techniques, as if I would end up working on an assembly line.
My major was a lucky whim.
My major was a lucky whim.
And then everyone wonders why new engineers spend their first few jobs trying to design crap that's hyper optimized for what it does but can't actually be built within any reasonable set of constraints.
CS isn't quite so bad but you definitely get some profs with that same optimization worshiping attitude.
Use a crappy JS system that kills mobile devices but lets you deliver the widget in 3 days... and just ask users to upgrade often.
Note I said “assemble” not “solder”. At the time (‘80’s) wire-wrapping was a viable prototyping option. Once digital circuit speeds and complexity increased the option evaporated. I must have wire-wrapped thousands of feet of circuits, including a 6502-based multiprocessor robot controller.
You cant always rely on the technician remembering how ohms law works for you