[cmccuist]

Engineering as a profession is project oriented. Companies are constantly staffing up and down to accomodate project schedules.

Your wife should bring her assignment to a level of "completeness" to where someone else could pick it up - even another temp - and run with it.

Every engineering manager understands leaving for a better job. They don't look too favorably to key people leaving a project at a key moment in the schedule.

Two weeks would be about perfect to not only get the work ready to be handed over and for the company to bring another engineer on board.