Thank you for your responses and for confirming my suspicions; it seems the world of engineering is very different from the world of business. It is very hard for me to internalize the fact that stand-alone undergraduate degree in engineering would be more valued than a stand-alone graduate...
First off, thanks to those who posted on the following topics - you helped me answer a lot of questions.
Rather than threadjacking any of the below, it seems prudent to create a new post.
http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=252093
http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=259394...
