Employment Opportunities for ESM Grads

Almost every major employer of engineers seeks graduates of engineering science and mechanics. Industrial and governmental organizations representing fields such as aerospace, nuclear energy, electrical, chemical, mechanical, structural, food, automotive, computer, communications, electronics, instrumentation, insurance, shipbuilding, textiles, biomedical, sales, and materials have appeared on campus to interview ESM students. Examples are (to name a few):

NASA

Babcock and Wilcox

Dominion Virginia Power

Shell Oil Company

Pratt and Whitney

Northrop Grumman Newport News

Food and Drug Administration

General Motors

AT&T

Western Electric (Lucent Technologies)

Vishay Micro-Measurements

Industrial Risk Insurers

Office of Naval Research

Celanese Fibers

Miami Heart Institute

Alcoa

Because of the interdisciplinary nature of the curriculum, the employment opportunities of the ESM graduates are broad. Graduates can enter the research, development, or design areas of engineering. The average starting salary of the B.S. graduate is competitive with the average salaries for all engineering disciplines. In recent years, approximately 40 percent of the B.S. graduates have entered graduate school directly upon graduation.

The employment outlook for ESM graduates continues to be strong. ESM graduates have studied a curriculum with breadth and variety of courses, which makes him/her attractive to many employers.