School daze: Do you need a degree to be a real engineer?

摘要

During a recent conversation over lunch with some co-workers, I made a statement that turned a few heads. One co-worker's daughter had plans to look at colleges over the weekend, and I noted that my husband and I don't expect our son to go to college. This comment was somewhat surprising because both my husband and I are college graduates who look back fondly on our days in school and because our son is a toddler and his college years are more than a decade away.