<p>I have never heard of that little E on the end of your degree being important at all. In addition, most full-time graduate programs omit the E regardless of whether you have an engineering background or not. The older and more common degree is simply the MS. Additionally, given the OP’s circumstances where his thought was getting a graduate degree immediately to be more marketable for employers would lead me to assume he wasn’t currently going to be in a job when he was doing his master’s, so he would be in the more traditional program anyway.</p>