Picking up on “eyemgh’s” point as to where engineering leaders come from: At one point back in the 1970’s, little WPI simultaneously had alumni as CEO’s of GM, Xerox and United Technologies (Prat & Whitney et al). The entire enrollment was only about 2,000 students. Once a University reaches the realm of “street talk” famous, exaggeration sets in and many assumptions lead to a mythology.
There are many remarkable colleges and universities out there! They did not all come from the Ivies, MIT and Cal Tech.
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Agree, it takes more than thermodynamics classes to develop an effective leader! In today’s engineering environment it takes more than courses to develop an effective research and design team.