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: EnergyDefense Environment Health & Bio Manufacturing Transportation Mechanical Engineering Is… Source:

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

What can Mechanical Engineers do? Job TypeExamples Product Design Develop new products Machine Design Develop new machines to manufacture products (including automation and robotics) Systems Engineering Modeling of systems to predict their behavior Fabrication Coordinate fabrication of equipment, products Develop improved fabrication techniques and methods Testing and Quality Test quality, performance, safety, and reliability of products, equipment, processes Research and Development Create new knowledge to enable development of new products, processes and services Sales Work as technical salespersons for companies that manufacture various products and equipment Work as a general salesperson for companies Manufacturing, Process Development and Operations Keep various plants and processes operating at optimum performance Operations supervision and management Developing new processes to manufacture goods Other Medical School, Law School, Business School Management

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: 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 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