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Following the latest job craze is a poor way to plan a career, which explains why Frank Ewasyshyn, the Executive Vice President of Manufacturing for the Chrysler Group, did not become a civil engineer.

In the early 1970s when Ewasyshyn attended the University of Windsor in Ontario, a construction boom was in full swing. Although many of his classmates succumbed to the jobs lure associated with a civil engineering degree, Ewasyshyn opted to pursue what would be the first of two electrical-engineering degrees.