The other problem that's going on in education is that we've gotten very good at teaching analysis. But we're not very good at teaching synthesis, which is how you design. What we're really struggling with now is how to teach synthesis. It goes to and comes from a different direction. MIT teaches analysis because its people are very scientific.
Design is harder, and synthesis is much harder to evaluate as a professional approach.
The design people in any engineering school, no matter what department, are always seen as different. They can't articulate what they do. Some of the best designers think that people who are good at design are born not made. You either have it or you don't. And for those who do have it, the way that they become better designers is to learn by doing it through an apprentice-type situation.