The sad fact is you don't get an engineering degree to be an engineer, it is only useful if you manage engineers, just being an "individual contributer" gets you outsourced.
A friend of mine got a degree in Construction Management from a very good southern university. In school, all of the engineering students made fun of the CM majors, because it was supposedly an easy curriculum.
Her mantra became, “In 5 years, engineers will be my b*tches!” It came true one year earlier. In 2005, she became a project manager for an aerospace company and has two mechanical engineers reporting to her.