[scythe]

I would counter that the current pedagogy -- at least high school through early undergrad -- is the most efficient path, or close to it, for teaching students to become electrical engineers in the analog era. Historically, that was the most math-heavy profession that had a lot of jobs (not just professors/researchers). We just haven't updated it in a long time.

[jacobolus]

That’s probably not too far off the mark... with the proviso that we are fixing the notation, terminology, and problem solving methods for electrical engineering to what was historically used in the 1950s, and not allowing any more radical “refactoring” of those ideas or methods.

I don’t think this is actually the most effective way to train analog electrical engineers, or the most effective possible set of conceptual/notational tools for practical electrical engineering.