An electronics engineer typically graduates with his mind filled up with formal analysis methods, theorems, and derivations. He is well-skilled in solving simplified,
sanitized analysis exercises that have unique answers: one answer is correct, all others wrong. The system is this way for good reasons, namely that most such exercises are graded by teaching assistants who have neither the time nor the experience to evaluate an answer that doesn't match the one provided by the instructor @ C. Middlebrook MIT Sometimes I wonder if this also applies to the critics who downgrade my answers