The top priority in teaching students is to produce future professors for the department, or similar departments at other schools. But that is a vanishingly sm

The top priority in teaching students is to produce future professors for the department, or similar departments at other schools. But that is a vanishingly small percentage of the students being taught. So when the math dept teaches engineering students, there is a mismatch. None of these students have any interest in being a math professor. They are not interested in a mathematical mindset because it will not help them be an engineer. They need an engineering mindset, which is different than a math mindset. A friend of mine went to an engineering school in Sweden, and the math was taught by engineering professors rather than math professors. He ended up with a better understanding of math than I (or any of my classmates) did getting math from math professors. I went to a top tier school in the US.