Not every kid can handle the math needed for engineering degrees.
It’s really funny how engineering students are expected to take and do well in fairly advanced humanities courses, but we can’t ask the liberal arts majors to take calculus. I wonder why?
I used to really annoy the liberal arts/humanities majors I went to class with by openly referring to my history/English/artistic classes as “easy A’s”.
The applied engineering courses don’t require much math.
A good understanding of algebra and a year of basic applied calculus (no theorems or proofs).
I have found that even students who have done poorly in math in high school can with some additional work do well as they get older. I for one did rather badly in high school algebra II.