Four experts at the College's sixth career conference last night rapped the theory that jobs in engineering and research are ready for the asking.
Speaking before a Lowell audience, M. M. Boring, personnel manager for General Electric, said that the 41,000 would-be engineers graduating each year will find only 26,000 new openings waiting for them.
"But," Boring promised, "good men will not be walking the streets. They're going to find a job for themselves." Once a man cracks the field, he said, a median salary after 15 years would be as high as $10,000.
Frederick V. Hunt McKay Professor of Applied Physics, claimed his field was "too competitive" for persons lacking an obsession for research.
Boring also cautioned against specializing in a very restricted field and an gesied going into industry immediately after getting an A. R.
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