Engineering360: "Spotlight on the electrical engineer"

A good 'research' college may not be the best place to get your undergraduate degree. (If you're looking for an education versus a pretty name on a diploma.)

While I am very proud of my EE degree (Ga Tech) I would not recommend it to a young person. As the statistic shows, the growth rate and salary is low especially when compared to how difficult it is to achieve a Bachelors degree. This was not the case in the beginning but over time people with finance and accounting degrees realized much larger upside opportunity relative to pay.

I realized this at a early stage in my career and went toward an MBA to add some diversity to my skills. That worked out for me because I now am a Sales and Product Development manager for a High Tech component manufacturer. It is my belief that the marketing and sales exposure rounded out my skills but just having the EE would not have allowed me to grow.

I do acknowledge this: Some will say money is not everything (and that is true) and some people were cut out to be engineers and this is true also.