But engineers don’t have a lot of electives. If they get to take 5 electives (3 credit semester classes) of art or historyat a semester school, then at a quarter school the student may get to take 6 or 7, but each will be less in depth. It is also possible the student could have fewer electives if the quarter school has the elective as a 4 or 5 credit class, or requires 2 quarters of the same class. Easy to figure out, just look at the sample schedule for the major. You’ll see that every 2nd or 3rd semester, and maybe every 3rd quarter, the schedule has one elective or one restrictive elective (a course within engineering). Count them. I think you’ll find just the few electives required by the ABET.
Unless you schedule extra semesters or a summer, don’t plan on a lot of electives in engineering.
And remember, the admissions officers are trying to sell the school. They may not be engineers and don’t know that all electives are not created equally for engineers. They see ‘elective’ on the schedule and think ‘art history’ and the mechanical engineering adviser thinks ‘fluids’.