>> I have a bachelors' in engineering focusing on mechanical engineering.
I tapped my job, my initial job in a medical research lab from a friend.
We didn't have a co-op position, or a program with the school, and a friend of mine--
my parents got me a foot in as an engineering technician as working for a propulsion group,
and from there I learned a lot, and I did a lot, and that job itself got me the chance
to interview for my position that actually go to me where I am now.
So from a [inaudible] technician to an engineer, so co-op positions are
in you know summer internships or something are key; they really are.
They're a big help.
I also have a bachelor-- or no, a masters in engineering management.
I got that one class with Tom, for about six years.
Engineering management was interesting; largely you can't manage engineers.
So besides that, it was useful to give me a different perspective of engineering,
because engineering management was a lot of organizational issues;
how to deal with organizational problems.
And I also found out that unless you're high in your organization you can't achieve, you just--
you push from the bottom, and it doesn't work unless you get help from the top so...