| At most schools, yes, what you are describing is typical.
At some very high-ranked schools, it's not. But even engineers at those schools are not likely to have the theoretical math skills of a math major.
The ones who want to do heavily math-based research in their fields will take the classes that prepare them for this as electives.
A possible exception to the "typical" thing is computer science (which is part of the school of engineering in many schools, including Harvard). Most computer science majors have to take a discrete math class, and that class usually involves proofs. |