One more thing

[Darren Ginter]

Good luck getting into anything run by major auto companies.  I currently
live in automotive mecca (I attend a college that is a couple hundred feet
from Chrysler world headquarters, among many others) so most of my day to
day stuff involves talking with the auto guys (just got back from the VW
dinner meeting).

Basically, everything is pretty automated and requires little human
resource.  The few people that do get to work on this kind of stuff have
very good connections.

The computer will play a larger role in the future auto but mechanical
engineering is not the right thing to be studying if you want in on this
(try CE or CS).

Darren

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Weed <jweed0047 at hotmail.com>
To: diy_efi at efi332.eng.ohio-state.edu <diy_efi at efi332.eng.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Tuesday, November 10, 1998 6:05 PM
Subject: One more thing


>I forgot to ask . . . I am currently a Management Information Systems
>major at the U of Arizona. I want to get into the automotive business,
>but a change to Mechanical Engineering is to big a switch at the time.
>Does anyone know what qualifications car manufacturers and aftermarket
>companies would be looking for in order to be employed in programming
>ECMs? I really don't know anything about it. I just thought it might be
>a way into the automotive industry without making a switch as big as MIS
>to Mechanical Engineering. Well, thanks.
>
>jeremy
>
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