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Ericsson is a fairly big company in telecommunications.  We have a
fund, that gives stipends to a few employees every year so that they
can go abroad for a year or more to study or do some research - a sort 
of sabbathical if you wish.  In the last several years, almost all
applicants to these stipends have wanted to study for a MBA.  This
bothers me and others.  There is nothing wrong with engineers
studying business administration, but one would expect *some* 
engineers in a high tech company to want to increase their *technical*
competence.  I am collecting information on study programs, e.g. MSc 
programs, that could be used for that purpose. 

One possibility is that they address telecommunications broadly, 
i.e. include courses not only in telecom engineering, but also in 
related disciplines, like telecom management, computer science, 
business, public policy, etc.  I know of one such program, Carnegie 
Mellon's Information Networking program.  IEEE Spectrum October 1991 
hints that similar programs exist at Polytechnic Inst of NY, 
U. of Colorado, U. of Pittsburgh, and George Washington University.  
If you can provide information about these programs or others, or 
have e-mail addresses of people I could ask directly, please let me 
know, probably best by e-mail to lmebgo@kiera.ericsson.se

Another possibility is that the study programs address a narrower
area, that is important to us, in some depth.  Examples of such 
areas are many parts of computer science (logic programming, object 
orientation, real time systems, software engineering), advanced optics, 
radio (mobile telephony), micro electronics, CAD, and of course
advanced courses on telecommunications. Again, if you know of such 
programs, please let me know.

Your help will be much appreciated!

Bengt    
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Bengt Gallmo                        e-mail: lmebgo@kiera.ericsson.se
Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson    phone:  +46 8 719 1940
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