I peeked at the linked material. But can you tell me what is wrong with the formal logic education I received in a good engineering college?

In your critique, I see echoes of arguments often brought against Rand that the characters she portrayed were unrealistically simplistic. For me, the key figures were archetypes of orthogonal kinds of personalities. Real people are somewhere in between. But the ability to identify and classify these archetypes is the strength of Rand’s writing.