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From: HardySpicer on 15 Mar 2010 15:35 How much management should be taught in an undergrad engineering degree? Or should management be left to industry for you to pick up later? Hardy
From: Tim Wescott on 15 Mar 2010 15:40 HardySpicer wrote: > How much management should be taught in an undergrad engineering > degree? Or should management be left to industry for you to pick up > later? http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/cynicism/ I think it should be encouraged, but not forced. Engineering is engineering, management is management. If someone were to teach management specifically for engineers, the first lesson should be "these domains are almost completely orthogonal". Understanding business concerns will make you a better engineer, but if you really want to be a manager you should either pick it up on the job, or make business your minor, to study along with engineering. -- Tim Wescott Control system and signal processing consulting www.wescottdesign.com
From: Vladimir Vassilevsky on 15 Mar 2010 15:47 HardySpicer wrote: > How much management should be taught in an undergrad engineering > degree? Or should management be left to industry for you to pick up > later? Just enough so they could manage themselves. An engineer should be a technical nutcase. It is very counter productive when an engineer thinks like manager. VLV
From: Rune Allnor on 15 Mar 2010 15:48 On 15 Mar, 20:35, HardySpicer <gyansor...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > How much management should be taught in an undergrad engineering > degree? Or should management be left to industry for you to pick up > later? Engineers *should* learn *some* management. Basic economy, legal aspects of contracts, some group psychology. I am sure one could debate how much of each they should learn, but students should learn *something*. If for no other reason, so to get "managment" or "economy" on the CV. Stupid as it sounds, that entry alone can make or brake a job application. But then, we are talking about managment decisions... Rune
From: Jerry Avins on 15 Mar 2010 15:57
HardySpicer wrote: > How much management should be taught in an undergrad engineering > degree? Or should management be left to industry for you to pick up > later? None. Jerry -- Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought. .. Albert Szent-Gyorgi ����������������������������������������������������������������������� |