Been a mech engineer for 13 years. Want to start leaning towards design management but know nothing about CAD. Anyone out here taken this shift?

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Why would management need to know CAD? U just need to know the end product standards to keep production moving per spec. Team should have a cad manager, which doesn’t require an BA, and manages the CAD is setup properly for the end product, basically efficiency in CAD operations, not product creation.

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Let me know if you find out. I’m interested too!

I recommend being a product engineer. That will allow you to design products in cad or 3D modeling software depending on the product while utilizing your mech eng skills. If you already have experience as an engineer, the company will likely pay for your cad training. I am an industrial engineer by degree but moved to design engineering after a couple of years when I realized I didn’t like IE work.

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