There’s a lot of stuff missing from current engineering schools. They started “simplifying” back in the 70’s. I’ve watched it happen over the last six decades and it just bites my bleepingbutt.
Funny story-—sort of: Our local community college had a decent foundry program up thru the 80’s. That’s what their charter says they’re supposed to do, industrial arts, etc. Sometime in the 90’s the top floor geniuses figgered the program just wasn’t needed so they pulled out all the equipment and auctioned it off. When I mention that old program the neeners tend to dis-believe there was one. So I wave at the back room where all that gear is now. I bought it all. Safe from the morons.
And, oh, by the way: The US Navy still owes me big time for the problems I kept from happening, decades ago, because of my foundry skill set.
We did casting in shop class in high school! And some old schools had programs where you had to design and manufacture an engine 9th to 12th grade from scratch to pass at graduation!
You got this right about engineering schools. My husband looks for old folks to hire because the new grads can’t do anything but sit at the computer. No hands on experience at all. And by “old folks” I mean our age. LOL