Engineers in the Front Office

Engineers are gaining a front office foothold in the post-Moneyball world.  Look at the Houston Astros:

• General Manager Jeff Luhnow has undergraduate degrees from Penn in chemical engineering and economics and a M.B.A. from Northwestern.
• Director of Decision Sciences (a perfect position for the VA that seems to struggle with the basic decision tree) Sig Mejdal has mechanical and aeronautical engineering degrees from UC Davis and two additional masters in operations research and cognitive psychology (the perfect degree for evaluating someone like A-Rod) from San Jose State.

Look at the current issue of Sports Illustrated and a wonderful story by Ben Reiter - - Astro-Matic.