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What is Mechanical Engineering? & Where do our G raduates Work? . Finding creative solutions to difficult problems! Perhaps the broadest of all the engineering disciplines . Almost every industry needs mechanical engineers . Working with motion, energy, forces, and materials.
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What is Mechanical Engineering? & Where do our Graduates Work?
Finding creative solutions to difficult problems! Perhaps the broadest of all the engineering disciplines. Almost every industry needs mechanical engineers. Working with motion, energy, forces, and materials. Concerned with analysis, design, manufacture and operation of areas such as: Energy Defense Environment Health & Bio Manufacturing Transportation Mechanical Engineering Is… Source: http://www.discoverengineering.org/Engineers/mech_engineering.asp
Design Product Design Machine Design System Design Manufacturing Maintenance & Operations Research & Development Quality Project Management Testing Sales or Technical Sales Professional Schools Law Business Medical Schools What are general things ME’s do? Examples of Design Work • Machines that manufacture and package all varieties of products • Internal combustion engines • Sports equipment, consumer goods and products (everything from golf balls to soda cans to roller coasters) • Material handling equipment - conveyers, robots, production lines • Vehicles - cars, trucks, heavy equipment, buses, aircraft, ships • Electric power generation equipment • Oil well drilling and extraction equipment • Nearly every man made object that you can see has been worked on by a Mechanical Engineer… Spring 2012 Salary Data: 85% of BSME students had job offers with a median annual salary of $63,000
Automotive & OEM Suppliers Construction Equipment Construction Companies Ship & Railroad Companies Airplane Manufacturing Power Generation Nuclear Alternative Fuel Energy Utility Companies Oil and Gas Companies Chemical Companies Environmental Pharmaceutical & Health Care Biomedical Sports Equipment Mfg. Computer-Aided Design What Industries Hire ME’s? • Automation • Robotics • Electronics Industries • Appliance Manufacturers • HVAC & Refrigeration • Toy Manufacturing • Furniture Manufacturing • Paper Industry • Food & Beverage Industry • Telecommunications • Amusement Parks • National Labs • Aeronautical (NASA, etc.) • Government Agencies • Academia (Teaching) • Financial Companies • Consulting Companies
Our Graduates Are At: • Business • Ernst & Young, Bank of America, CarMax, Deloitte, Capital One, Accenture • Automation and Robotics • Innotec Automation, Rockwell Automation, Advanced Automation, Factory Automation, National Instruments, Laitram • Engineering Services & Consulting: • Dean Oliver International, McKenney's Mechanical Contractors, CH2M, Patterson & Dewar, Babcock & Wilcox, Jordan & Skala Engineers Inc, O'Brien & Gere, Turner Construction, Slingshot, Pinnacle AIS • HVAC • Trane, Underwood Air Systems, Carrier • Chemicals • Air Products, Air Liquide, Dow Chemical, • Eastman Chemical Company • Medical & Pharmaceutical • Medtronic, GE Healthcare, Abbott Labs, CibaVision, Eli Lily, Johnson & Johnson • Military & Government • Air Force, Navy, Marines, Army, CIA, FBI • Automotive : Ford, GM, Toyota, BMW, KIA, Honda, Elan Motorsports, Bosch, Michelin, Continental • Energy, Oil, Gas: BP, BP Exploration (Alaska), Citgo, Baker Hughes, Schlumberger, Georgia Power, Southern Company, General Electric, Shell, Suez Energy N. America, Scana, Westinghouse, Atl. Gas & Light, Exxon-Mobil, Conoco, Apache, Phillips 66 • Commercial & Consumer Products: Cooper Lighting, General Mills, Clorox, Frito Lay, International Paper, Lexmark, Proctor & Gamble, Snap-On, 3M, National Instruments, Patterson Pumps, Kimberly Clark, Kids II, Apple, Southwire, Colgate • Transportation & Construction: John Deere, Caterpillar, Kubota Tractor Corporation, Norfolk Southern, Parsons • Aerospace & Defense NASA, Bell Helicopter, Lockheed Martin, Gulfstream Aerospace Corp, Rolls Royce, Northrop Grumman, Harris Corp, Boeing, NAVSEA, Boeing, Advanced Armament Corp, NAVAIR, Pratt & Whitney, Meggitt