Not an issue at all to me. I've got a PhD in engineering also (aerospace) and I get calls weekly from finance and banking companies wanting me to help develop algorithms for trading even though my work experience is space program stuff. Engineering degrees most definitely qualify one for being successful at analyzing the market and the industry knows it. A structural engineering PhD would give Jerry the tools he needed for frequency domain analysis, a big deal in pattern identification as well as "reverse engineering" which technicals are correlated to dynamic stock price. So a PhD in engineering is definitely a valid thing to tout in the the finance world. Those claiming it as a negative have no clue.
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