change their major to Econ for whatever reason.
Econ has a fair amount of "math" and statistics for being a social science. If you aren't solid there you will struggle, but for engineer types the math is barely child's play.
Anyway, the engineers would usually struggle for a semester or so until they were able to put context to the math and then it was like they were on vacation for the rest of their degree (Fortunately, most engineers are social imbeciles even when compared to Econ majors.)
For a CB'er to say Ty is "throwing things against the wall" or lost is worse than me saying an engineering transfer is lost in the econ world because he doesn't immediately realize that a utility function is missing from some multivariate equation. Or in other words, its dumb.