My university has a course "Higher Programming Languages for Engineers".

The language you actually learn there?

Fortran 90.

Technically they are right and Fortran continues to have quite an importance in the field of numeric simulations, but still. The name is pretty misleading.

the face expressions of the students in the first lecture must have been divine "we gonna learn whaaat?! fortran? wtf!" 😄

I have done some basic stuff in Fortran for simulations. After doing this, I will probabaly never touch a larger project in this language. And still there are some actively developed projects with millions of lines of Fortran code, eg commercial finite element analysis software
Hats off to the poor souls doing this.

Bwahahahah so funny. Let me guess. Is the class sponsored by NASA.

The name probably refers to higher level though, like a retro Python