<p>The school I am going to try to get accepted to has a great nanoscale engineering program but they also offer a dual major which makes you able to get both your masters in nanoscale engineering and your MBA, I’m not sure how many years it is but they have it. I’d like to open a business after I get done with college, as alot of CEOs have some kind of engineering degree, and I think this would be a good path because I will know all the business aspects of it, while also having my nanoscale engineering degree to fall back onto, what do you guys think?</p>
<p>Nanoscale engineering does not have the same synergies with an MBA, as say Industrial Engineering. Getting the Master’s degree in engineering is great, and if you can pick up your MBA, sure, go for it. However, if it takes an extra 1 or 2 years, you may want to pass (you should figure in cost, into your plan).</p>
<p>Since you’re likely to be a working engineer, once you leave college, the MBA will not initially be of much use.</p>
<p>By the way, most CEO’s end up going to an executive MBA program and having their company pay for the school. For Engineers, the path is usually, BS…maybe MS…then work for 5 to 10 years…then if you want to go into the management track (and out of engineering), off to MBA school.</p>
<p>First of all, you’re looking way too far down the line. Your plans may change entirely in the next few years, so don’t tie yourself down to any specific program.</p>
<p>Anyways, even your plan right now seems to vague? Do you want to start your own company or climb the corporate ladder of an established one? An MBA will help in a corporate environment, but establishing your own company relies more on either research ability or design skills. If you want to start an innovative company that develops new technology, you’ll need research experience to get your company’s first products up and running. In that case, you may want to pursue a PhD. If you’d rather go the route of improving what’s currently on the market and competing with large companies, you’ll need at least 5 years of experience and good contacts. It’s really not something you can make happen directly out of college. An MBA might help, but it really won’t be as relevant as your knowledge of how to make a better/cheaper product.</p>
<p>Please rethink your plan and do more research into your degree.
- Opening a business is no easy task, more than likely it will not work out.
- If you do manage to open a business, Nano-scale engineering will severely limit you because the industry is in its infancy and you can’t ‘fall back’ on it like a Chemical engineering degree because there are no nano-scale engineering jobs to begin with.</p>
<p>@Gator88NE Sorry but I’ve never heard of a a worker going back to school to become a CEO, and I plan on creating my own business.</p>
<p>@taciturntype That’s why I want to take a field in something engineering, like nanoscale engineering, it makes you into a more creative and innovative thinker to design cheaper/better products.</p>
<p>@alchemist007 I am at the forefront of the future of nanotechnology, if i was to find any job in nanoscale engineering, it would be right where I live now in Albany, NY, so I have a pretty good chance of finding a job, and they are constantly expanding, they just built a all new building here which costed a few billion, the whole school and where the workers work was a 17 billion dollar project plus more coming.</p>
<p>And by the way, here’s the program, also why would they offer it if it was useless?
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<p>You may have never heard of an engineer going back to school to get an MBA, but you better believe it cause its true. You’d be surprised at how many companies pay their experienced engineers to get an MBA. Don’t get an MBA with the realistic expectations that it will mmake you a CEO of a company. Becoming a CEO of an engineering company, whether you move up the ranks or open up your own company can take decades of experience. Its not a short term goal. </p>
<p>You plan on “creating your business” and it would help if you specified exactly what kind of business, consulting? Retail? IT?</p>
<p>Nanoscale engineering is still a heavily researched based field, so yes companies and universities are investing in it but largely at the research level, but business opportunities are still slim
Problem with nanoengineering is you learn a lot of theory and a little of chemistry and materials science but you don’t really learn to focus and apply your skills to one type of job or another, for the most part it is expected that nanoengineering undergrads will go on to pursue a masters in nanoengineering. If nanoscale is something you really want to study go for it, it sounds a fascinating field, bit just know that it will provide you with very different opportunities from a abet accredited engineering discipline.</p>
<p>you’d have far better chances of business opportunities as a traditional engineering discipline because of the sheer amount of actual products and services those industries provide.</p>
<p>Please talk to an academic adviser.</p>
<p>To answer question:
They offer nano engineering because there is demand for it from the right parties.</p>
<p>NYbrah,</p>
<p>You’ll notice that the program requires that you take the evening MBA program? These evening (and on-line) MBA programs are targeted at working professionals. Here, they are taking advantage of an evening program that’s already in place to create the Nano+MBA program.</p>
<p>My old college roommate went straight into an MBA program, after getting his BS. Plenty do, but for most engineers, they go into industry first, and then into a MBA program, a few years later.</p>
<p>Really, you need to choose what works best for your career plans. </p>
<p>“The goal of the program is to develop industry ready graduates who will be facilitators of change with the ability to integrate science, engineering, business, and management.”</p>
<p>The MS in Nano is focused on research (as alchemist007 pointed out), while the MBA is focused on “business”. If your interested in entrepreneurship, then by all means take the MBA program. Just don’t feel it’s a requirement (yet) to be a CEO!</p>
<p>Good Luck!</p>