well as a student of auto electronics, take this exp as a learning curve. nothing else.
like BG said every Co has its kooky mgrs and workers who only look out for the bouns.

anyway the problem at hand is your sine input Vs the needed digital.
you dont explain if you need a leading edge and at what level of triggering was required. a simple lookl with an O scope will clear that up. asle a clamping diode will clean up your rising and falling edges of the pulses.
ive fixed dozen ignitions and every unit has different "clean" input requirements.
im sure since you are top dog student you realized you probably got a magnetized reluctor by some dummy using a steel feeler gauge and therefore providing that sine magnetic pulse. check it with a gauss meter and let us know.
you can fire a digital with a 45% slope on input sooo something is not right in whooville today.