“The master’s itself gave me the opportunity to say, ‘Look, whatever happens, I always have this graduate degree to back me up.' If one day I’m not drilling water wells or I sell my business, I have a degree nobody can take away.”
“At the end of the day, I think the best part of being in college is the networking. Everyone comes from different walks of life to attend the University. Make sure that you meet different people across different organizations, and the sky is the limit.”
“One thing I enjoyed about engineering & technology management was the elective options. I did MBA classes for mine. Those systems classes focusing on efficiency, combined with the business classes on leadership and employee empowerment, will help me a lot throughout my career.”
“When I talk to people in the industry, they say they really need people who care. They need people who will assume responsibility for a project and care that it gets done right. I think that's what it takes to get through the graduate program as well.”
“You have construction, you have chemical, you have electrical — you learn all of the different types of engineering in one major. That's what attracted me the most because it's not one-dimensional.”
“I wanted to move up and I just didn't see a clear path. Probably one year after I was in the graduate degree program, I was able to get a new position within the company.”
