[ilikerashers]

I second that. University education in Electronic Engineering tends to favour rote learning over understanding.

People could be genuinely interested in this stuff if engineering tried to focus more on creativity than memorization.

[TeMPOraL]

Same here. Give some interesting, non-artificial problems to solve. Tune a PID on an actual (real or simulated) pole balancing machine. Tune a controller on a (simulated!) rocket chasing a target in the sky. Give problems that students can relate to and understand, and in context that allows for exploration and interactively verifying solutions.

[arethuza]

The CS course I did had a lot of the maths content of the related electrical engineering courses - admittedly with a focus on discrete maths for the third and fourth years. This did give us a lot of maths, but with no real idea as to what people actually did with it.

Fortunately, for me at least this was fixed when as a postgraduate I joined a research group that was largely control engineers!