ENGINEERING AND BUSINESS: A NATURAL PARTNERSHIP?

Over the past few years, many schools, universities and other educational programs aimed at engineers have begun to shift the emphasis away from teaching exclusively technical skills, filling the gap with something which might initially seem slightly unexpected: business skills. Although for many the instinct is to think that these two worlds are not supposed to be merged, the truth may be a little more complicated – after all, engineers are often the people who have the brightest ideas when it comes to innovating future products or services, and with knowledge about the business world they can become the entrepreneurs who advocate for their own products. Engineering can be a Perfect Springboard into the Business World