Engineering Starting Salaries 2008

The National Association of Colleges and Employers, or NACE, has just published its latest survey on starting salaries.  Engineering fields again command the highest salaries:

Chemical Engineering                $63,616

Computer Engineering               $59,962

Computer Science                      $59,873

Industrial/Manufacturing Engineering  $58,252

Aerospace/Aeronautical/Astronautical Engineering  $57,999

Source: National Association of Colleges and Employers

Pointed to by: Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog posting May 9, 2008

 

Engineering and Technology Job Fair – 2008

Event: ESD Engineering and Technology Job Fair 2008

Date: Tuesday February 19, 2008

Time: 2-7 pm

Place: Southfield Municipal Complex Pavilion, 26000 Evergreen Rd., Southfield MI.

ESD (Engineering Society of Detroit) Young Engineers Council and the ESD Job Bank are sponsoring a job fair for students, entry-level engineers and trained technicians.. Many of the biggest engineering and technology firms in Michigan will be there.  You will need to pay a $15 entrance fee that not only gets you into the Fair, but also gets you a one year membership in the Engineering Society of Detroit.

Make sure to check out the ESD Job Bank – this free site allows you to upload your resume for viewing by prospective employers.

Engineering Opportunity Day – Thursday September 27

Next Thursday, September 27th, from 10am – 4pm, will be the 12th annual Engineering Opportunity Day at the Parkview Campus of CEAS.  This day-long event will provide an opportunity for undergraduates and graduate students to meet with representatives from engineering firms, corporations and government agencies and find out about internships and jobs in their respective fields.  This event is free and open to the public.  Students are encouraged to dress appropriately and to bring copies of their resumes.

This event is sponsored by the Stryker Corporation of Kalamazoo, and has been coordinated by Tracey Moon, the assistant director of Career and Student Employment Services at WMU.

Engineering Starting Salaries

From Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog: post “High Pay for Engineering Graduates – July 2007″

John Hunter nicely summarizes a National Association of Colleges and Employers Press Release on starting salaries for the class of 2007, compared to 2006. Engineering salaries continue to rise, by an average of 4.5% (see John’s post for the details for specific engineering disciplines).

New Book At Waldo: The Entrepreneurial Engineer

We have a new book at Waldo called the Entrepreneurial Engineer: Personal, Interpersonal, and Organizational Skills for Engineers in World of Opportunity by David E. Goldberg (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). It is published by Wiley-Interscience, 2006. Call number TA 190 .G68 2006. It will be temporarily shelved in our new books area, in the Lower Level (near your’s truly’s Science Reference area). You can read the table of contents here.

If you are an undergraduate looking to understand the engineering profession and the skills you need to be a successful engineer, then this is a great book for you. The author discusses the need for engineers to think like entrepreneurs, always looking for innovative ideas and ways to transform products and manufacturing processes. He discusses good writing skills, good presentation skills, ethics, time-management, teamwork, summing all this up in his “Ten Competencies for the Entrepreneurial Engineer”.

Hope you’ll take a look at it when you have a moment.