| I don't see what good it would do for individual companies to have such a page (not that it would hurt). If anywhere, it should be on the webpages of the professional societies, such as ASCE for civil engineers, ASME for mechanical engineers, IEEE for electrical engineers, AIChE for chemical engineers, etc. If you're considering engineering, you probably won't know many of the engineering companies so you won't be on their website anyway. If you google for something, chances are that the websites of the professional societies will be among the first few to come up. It's their responsibility to promote the profession anyway.
In my opinion, the younger you get to kids, the easier it will be to increase interests in engineering. I know ASCE does targets kids through competitions such as the West Point Bridge Design Contest and the Future City Competition. Personally, I was inspired through a technical drawing (manual drafting) class in middle school where one of the projects was to design a house. (elevation drawings, floor plans, etc). We even modeled it on a computer with some type of software in Windows 3.1.
That Sloan Career Cornerstone looks like a pretty good site. The interviewees in each profile appear to talk about both the positive aspects and the negative aspects of their careers, although overall, they expressed very positive opinions. |