The one thing I wouldn't expect from electrical engineers is a focus on nomenclature - I do love electronics but I am perpetually annoyed by similar niggles as you are (it seems) + a tendency to teach the same equation 3 times in 3 different regimes even though I have spent years training myself to be able to identify these approximations myself.
Oh man, you're so right. It's a rather general problem when hopping around scientific and technical domains, but I agree that it's particularly bad with EE
