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From: Bill.Wilkes@ieeefs.UUCP (Bill Wilkes)
Newsgroups: comp.org.ieee
Subject: Re: The Image of the Engineer
Message-ID: <138.256E4637@ieeefs.UUCP>
Date: 25 Nov 89 07:58:00 GMT
Organization: IEEE Field Services, Piscataway, NJ
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Well, Jake, I don't know about this image thing.  I am more concerned 
about how we see ourselves, rather than how others see us.
Do you really believe that engineering is a viable profession?
Why not have the section newsletter carry the following questions:
     Would you advise your child to pursue a career in Engineering?
     Why?
 
I would be very interested in the results.
 
I have always worked with various highly skilled, hard working engineers, 
well respected by their peers.  I haven't found one of them suggesting 
that their children become engineers.  As a matter of fact, most suggest 
their children enter the professions (Medicine, Law, Dentistry).  Why is 
that?




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