My electrical engineering students, too, get bored when my differential equations course does not talk about circuits in any significant way. Why do people not

My electrical engineering students, too, get bored when my differential equations course does not talk about circuits in any significant way. Why do people not realize that skills and knowledge gained in one course will be used in specialized ways in another course? And they don't know enough just yet, to realize that specific topics chosen in the first course have been chosen with the intent of helping them do well in the second course?