<p>Even in established multi-billion dollar corporations, engineers are at the forefront. One just needs to look at a roster of today's top corporations - General Electric (Jack Welch), Xerox (Paul Allaire), Lockheed-Martin (Norm Augustine), Eastman Chemical (Earnest Deavenport), Chevron (Ken Derr), Phillips Petroleum (Wayne Allen), and 3M (Desi DeSimone) are all led by CEOs with engineering degrees. In corporations that produce technical products and services, it's probably to be expected that engineers will lead them into the next millennium; after all, engineers are the ones most familiar with the technical attributes of their products.</p>
<p>Oh, by the way...dont forget Tony Hayward (BP) and Ginni CEO of IBM...and if they are retired, that does not mean anything since the most important thing is their engineering degree has earned that CEO and big bucks....</p>
<p>so, what do you say? accounting is better than engineering?....if yes, please give ten names of accounting guys who are CEO of big companies, talk is cheap?</p>
<p>I heard once that Engineering degree holders make up approximately 1/3 of the CEO population whereas MBA holders made up something like 11%. Could be wrong and/or outdated info, but that’s just what I heard.</p>
<p>The chubby cheek and hefty guy who was also in Dancing With The Stars (DWTS) aka Steve Wozniak left Apple and returned to college to finish his degree in electrical engineering and computer science.</p>
<p>Wonder if math had as many graduates,if it could possibly compete with engineering. Anybody know how math degree does, specifically applied math if that matters.</p>
<p>It’s not the degree itself, but what the person does with the degree (aka work experience) that leads to a CEO position. The best CEO (in my opinion) is someone who is familiar with the operations side of the business. You need someone to understand the product that is being made. In the fields mentioned above, it should not surprise anyone to find someone with a degree in engineering who worked on the operations side of the business as a CEO.</p>
<p>@jan2013:
are you interested in the CEO position due to its $$ ??
I want to enjoy my job day after day ,if I am gonna have big salary and not enjoying my job then I will drop.</p>
<p>Yasser: There is nothing wrong with having Big Dream to be CEO and Yes, I am after Big Money. Then again who wants to be poor or only getting mediocre pay (remember Mechanical Engineers dont get paid as much as those in IT, CS, etc…*wink…wink…? so, I want big money…</p>
<p>After achieving my dream then I would retire young…and that’s the american dream. Who knows someday I would be able to come up with a product that would be hit and make me millionaire…LOL… well, then again that is my dream and nothing wrong with having a big dream.</p>
<p>There are more business(accounting + finance + marketing + etc) CEOs than there are Mechanical Engineering CEOs.
Don’t think that’s a fair comparison? Neither is this.</p>
<p>Don’t be greedy. In the long run, it won’t help you.</p>
<p>Statement: “There are more business(accounting + finance + marketing + etc) CEOs than there are Mechanical Engineering CEOs.”</p>
<p>My comment: that’s good…and you are also CEO or have a big dream to be CEO?..well, I have my big dream and you can not take away from me.</p>
<p>More importantly, why dream small dream?..why after getting degree in Engineering and you just wanna get paid mediocre?</p>
<p>Have you paid attention what others have been saying about the salary?..yes, salary 100K, 80K after getting their CS degree, etc…are they not talking about big money?</p>
<p>so what’s wrong for having big money?..oh by the way, if anyone with CS degree can have big money then the Mechanical Engineers can not?..go figure…</p>
<p>marybee333: Jack Welch, my Hero, does not need MBA, business school…he is a straight shooter, engineer kind of guy who has been a top guy, CEO at GE (that is General Electric to you).</p>
<p>If Jack Welch could do it so could I…and I will try…</p>
<p>“From his working-class childhood to his early days in G.E. Plastics to his life at the top of the world’s most successful company, Welch tells his intensely personal story with his well-known fire and candor. And although it chronicles billion-dollar deals and high-stakes corporate standoffs, Jack is ultimately a story about people-from a man who based his career on demanding only the best from others and from himself”.</p>
<p>Jack Welch is like Drill Sargent?..I like that and that’s where he got his management style.</p>
<p>The point being made is that a lot of money may not necessarily lead to happiness. After a certain amount, the amount of work that has to be done for the extra dollar is not worth it (law of diminishing returns). Is there much difference between making $100k and $125k? Between having $5 million and $10 million? Everybody has a different threshold, but everybody has A threshold.</p>
<p>However, if you enjoy the work you do, work won’t be work.</p>
<p>Ken285: I would like to entertain your comments…key word: entertain for entertainment only.</p>
<p>You said: Nobody is trying to take your dream away.</p>
<p>I would say: Thank you for not taking away my dream…it is still my dream and I will try to fulfill it to a certain extent.</p>
<p>You said: The point being made is that a lot of money may not necessarily lead to happiness. </p>
<p>I would say: I come from a poor family, living in Section 8 (if you know what that is) and we have not seen lots…and lots money…So, let me have that lots of money then I will tell you if I will have happiness or not. But for now, I am shooting for big money cause I have not seen any in our family.</p>
<p>You said: After a certain amount, the amount of work that has to be done for the extra dollar is not worth it (law of diminishing returns). Is there much difference between making $100k and $125k? Between having $5 million and $10 million? Everybody has a different threshold, but everybody has A threshold.</p>
<p>I would say: My parents work double jobs and still live paycheck-to-paycheck…so YES, there is a difference between $100K and $125K and that is $25K which is amounting to a brand new car like 2013 Ford Fusion, 2013 Toyota Corolla/Civics or 2used car like 2009 BMW 325, old lexus 2007, etc…</p>
<p>Anyhow, thanks for your info/input and I certainly will try to remember it…but in the mean time, I would like to finish my college then after try to work my butt off and work my way up in corporate America in order to get to the top, CEO. THANKS.</p>