Tons of industrial software is Windows only, whether it's design, operations, or configuration & control apps for industrial hardware.

MacOS versions are more commonly found in the low end of the market, e.g. Fusion 360.

Nothing that CAD and engineering students would be familiar with.

There are some open source options but those aren’t taught at school afaik.

I guess not for this use case. There are many industrial use cases for which there are no macOS versions. In fact, Siemens NX was once available on macOS AFAIK, but isn't anymore.