The big thing with freshman lower levels is they are large classes normally. So your student to teacher ratio for the lower level classes is much higher. Meaning even less new professors needed. It probably going to be more of current professors teaching an extra block to bring in another 100 students for that particular class when your talking engineering. Again people are just saying things with no knowledge of what the school needs to do. Luckily the school knows what it needs to adjust. People are fixated on some freshman class number and ignoring the obvious that tech has teams working to make this as smooth as possible so the kids have the best experience possible.
If my son gets triple bunked so what ? He gains an experience and saves a few thousand in rooming costs. Last I checked he wasn’t going there for it to be a country club.