Berkeley EECS vs CMU SCS vs UT ECB Honors

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In terms of why I applied for business honors, there are very few STEM/business double major programs (Berkeley MET, UPenn M&T, etc) and I applied to ECB as it opens more flexibility for future careers.

Some people hiring engineers are wary of those with substantial business course work or second majors.

Best Schools for Undergraduate Aerospace Engineering

I have been the most vocal here about not wanting to hire engineers with dual majors in business. The company I worked for (now retired) was big aerospace. We did ENGINEERING. We had other groups that did the financial stuff (bean counting, etc.) and still others that did marketing, totally different career paths. The marketing group could be an interesting group to work in but they didn’t hire right out of college. You needed to understand what the products were before you could have any credibility in marketing. They typically took in experienced engineers who wanted a career shift, and it is quite a shift. If you were interested in doing engineering management, then you needed to understand the engineering part very well first. And your role as an engineering manager was a multi-role position; people management, mentoring and cost and schedule estimates. All skills that came after some years of experience, not usually from business school. If you wanted to move into engine…