>that (b) they're probably not that great in terms of financial management & project management. That's hardly a conclusion you can make at all. Only on the I

>that (b) they're probably not that great in terms of financial management & project management. That's hardly a conclusion you can make at all. Only on the Internet could someone claim with a straight face that engineers as a rule are not also competent at financial and project management. There are millions of counterexamples. Further, engineers do on occasion go back to school to get MBA's and take a management track. Does that make them an engineer or a business person for purposes of this discussion?