<VV> RE: Interesting Article ...NOW Engineer (no Corvair)

[Bill Elliott]

Exceptionally good advice. An engineering education is pretty awesome... especially when combined with other skills/education. Jeff Immelt (GE CEO) is 
an engineer that went back and got a Harrvard MBA. He's the smartest man I think I've ever been in the same room with.

The senior managers in MANY companies began with an engineering degree.  Some of our top salespeople began as engineers. The most successfull 
lawyer in my town has an undergraduate engineering degree (from my school). And though I have rarely worked as an engineer (and never as an engineer 
actually in my field of nuclear engineering), the "hard science" education I received prepared me for a very wide array of opportunities.

Bill Elliott

>	My son, now a sophomore at RPI, wants to be an engineer, just
>like Dad (I'm flattered,BTW)  Engineers, or at least the ones I know,
>tend to BE engineers because they love the work.  I told him what's
>happening in the workforce. My advice:
>	Be a well rounded Engineer.  Master another language.  Take
>project management.  Work a few years in the US.  Be willing to travel.
>Then YOU might be the guy who directs other engineers.  

>Jim Duane
>'66 180 Corsa CVT
>Colonial Corvairs
>CORSA

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