Changing Careers?

Considering the recent slowdown/recession especially in the IT field, does anyone have a feel for what opportunities lie out there for people wishing to change fields to the IT sector from engineering?

IT application to engineering requirements..

hmm. lets see.. better programmes with better GUI for engineers to solve their problems..

visualisation programmes for engineering requirements..

Not sure if anyone is doing these.. but i sure hope there will be more of them soon.

you should check out www.rsiinc.com
They have a very powerful visualization programming language called IDL.