If you're thinking of changing jobs, getting an MBA, or starting a business, do it now. Here are some random and weird thoughts on work, jobs, and careers. According to ABET, engineering programs must demonstrate by 2001 that their graduates are fully participating members of organizations, teams, and the world.
Engineers can no longer remain locked in their offices or hidden in their cubicles.
But, it doesn't take long to figure out that that isn't quite enough. While we crunched thermodynamics, they were taking public speaking and interpersonal relations. From where I stand, it looks like more graduating engineers should have bared their souls in Interpersonal Relations 101. A friend of mine is an editor of a major professional engineering magazine. He asked a focus group of forty engineers what they read most frequently.