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Originally Posted by cockerpunk
...a masters isnt super important either, experience is far more important to employers. but it depends on where you want your career to go.
the track from engineering into management is well documented, and sad really. by and large i think engineers make poor managers. i mean the world is ripe with poor management in general as most managers are about as bad at management as engineers are. MBAs are worth a lot of money with an engineering degree, but mostly the paper itself, MBAs in my experience are nonsense.
just get the BSME, and let your career and interests take you.
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Perfect.
The key is get your feet wet and then figure it out.
My Father, two Masters degrees from MIT, one in Civil Engineering, one in Nuclear Physics, always lamented the disconnect between talented engineers that has no aptitude for management.
He did and was very successful and did his best to help bridge the divide.
I am the exact opposite. I had zero interest in any engineering discipline, you could not make me do it.
But I had an an aptitude for management of complex programs and learned enough about whom to trust in engineering to be successful.
My partner is a brilliant Aero Engineer. MS from Standford, the works. While he can build a project plan to great, accurate detail, knows all about project management, he just can't do it. It bores him and it shows.
We work well together.
Again, BF, great problem to have, congratulations. He has a great challenge ahead.