What do you do?

[MisterMagician]

Aerospace Engineering student.

 

[Emerald_gasH]

I work in a mid sized shop with a fair number of engineers. It seems worth mentioning is that a business / management degree is not necessarily a route into engineering management. The engineering managers who I am acquainted with, have technical backgrounds. Those with business degrees often got their MBA's after working in industry for a while as scientists or engineers. There are people who can manage engineers without ever having done engineering, but I wouldn't count on it being the easiest thing to do.

Even going all the way to the top of the ladder where I work, are people with both technical and non-technical backgrounds.

To be an engineering manager, typically requires some street cred as an engineer. It helps to understand what motivates engineers, and to have experienced some of the ways that projects can go astray.

Now what if you have an engineering and management bachelor's degree? It's a 5-year program with all the core engineering courses, core business courses, and three courses involving both disciplines. Is an MBA required for this sort of position?

EDIT: I'm a chemical engineering and management student in my final year, if you haven't guessed already ...I'm also worried about job opportunities since no one I know has been hired after graduation yet.

 

[ADbassman]

History Student and Gourmet Cook.

 

[MisterMagician]

Now what if you have an engineering and management bachelor's degree? It's a 5-year program with all the core engineering courses, core business courses, and three courses involving both disciplines. Is an MBA required for this sort of position?

EDIT: I'm a chemical engineering and management student in my final year, if you haven't guessed already ...I'm also worried about job opportunities since no one I know has been hired after graduation yet.

Most Engineers just get the business degree to know how to politick.

 

[primussucks_79]

Aircraft Avionics technician, I'm not sure what it is i do exactly.... ill figure it out one of these days....lol

 

[Gard]

Aircraft Avionics technician, I'm not sure what it is i do exactly.... ill figure it out one of these days....lol

(Gard makes a mental note to not fly out of Sanford International next time he goes to visit Orlando... )

 

[wazzel]

Now what if you have an engineering and management bachelor's degree? It's a 5-year program with all the core engineering courses, core business courses, and three courses involving both disciplines. Is an MBA required for this sort of position?

EDIT: I'm a chemical engineering and management student in my final year, if you haven't guessed already ...I'm also worried about job opportunities since no one I know has been hired after graduation yet.

You are still not going to jump right in to management. You can not manage a group of engineers without knowing the work really well. Depending on the industry look at putting into more than 15 year to even get a shot at being manager. If you want management that bad you should look at other fields.

BTW I am a mechanical engineer with 13 years experience and still not a manager. All the managers I have worked for had over 15 years experience before getting the job.

 

[Happynoj]

Music student/chef for a chain of Italian restaurants

 

[hbarcat]

Electrostatic painting.

I blow gallons of paint onto large machines. Repeat daily.