Ph.D. in Systems & Engineering Management

Okay. I understand your point and appreciate the admonition. Going back to your hypothetical, would the degree not qualify me for management in geophysics considering my work experience? Or perhaps something else in oil and gas more suitable for a systems/engineering management approach? I also noticed that Tech has an MS in SEM and an MS in IE. According to the bit of online research that I did, systems engineering tackles not only existing systems but creates new ones to address some challenge, whereas IE is more limited to existing process improvement/optimization. Of course, all of my questions are naive. At any rate, thanks for the discussion. It gives me a lot to think about.