Great post @Peter Cohan! I really enjoyed the article by @Freddy Mangum as well.

Organizations like the NSSE are doing a great job of raising awareness of our profession to collegiate students.

The goal of the PSC is to help elevate our profession but that can only be done by this group and our community!

This article is fantastic. I was in a meeting last Tuesday asking experienced SE's to help me come up with a summary of how an SE is positioned in an organization and who they work with on a daily, weekly, monthly, etc basis to help their company continue to grow and be successful. The RACI breakdown was invaluable for me. This will certainly help me explain the role of an SE to college students interested in pre-sales, and give them a glimpse of their future as an SE.

This article also has me asking how many companies provide a career progression from IC or engineering management to sales engineering roles? I apologize for the lack of conciseness around this thought, but would love to learn more. It seems like a natural transition for engineers who become interested in the business and social aspects of their company to choose to continue their career path as an SE or SE manager instead of making a lateral career move to an SE. This also might create a better diversity and inclusion story for companies by creating a path for their more diverse roles to become SE's if it is a career move that interests them. I remember being at a Lockheed Martin career fair and had multiple engineers coming up to our booth asking how an engineer makes the transition to SE.