"The trade skills are not necessarily a subset of the engineering skills."
For engineering positions in many industries, such as petro chemical, mining, and large electrical contracting firms, they are a required subset of skills, and they are not a rare breed at all, over the years most of these engineers, have moved into upper management positions.
Many electricians, go back to school and finish a degree program in engineering.
With our declining manufacturing base, more companies are looking for the employees that are dual trained, this trend is nothing new, the services have been doing this for years, with good results.
[This message has been edited by LK (edited 05-15-2005).]
