I agree with the lack of rigor in software development, but I don't think that it is much better in other traditional engineering disciplines. I know from my ow

I agree with the lack of rigor in software development, but I don't think that it is much better in other traditional engineering disciplines. I know from my own experience that you can go quite far in electrical and mechanical design without any rigorous engineering. Usually, all the hard math-y engineering things are done by software and its users don't understand how the software works. You have to know a bit more about physics and such to understand the data sheets, but that's not much different from knowing the complexity of elementary algorithms and data structures.