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Class of 2007 (Summer 2006, Fall 2006, Spring 2007)

Every year the Career Center conducts an annual survey of the initial postgraduate activities of Bachelor’s degree students. Our primary focus for this report is to provide students interested in this major with examples of the wide variety of employment and graduate school choices past students have made. Data for 2007 includes survey responses from Summer 2006, Fall 2006, and Spring 2007. For more information on how the survey data was obtained, go to Survey Data Collection.

Please note: Beginning with the 2006 survey year, students with double and triple majors are represented in each of their majors, whereas in past years their data were only presented in their primary major.


Response Rate
Graduated Responded Percent    
188 107 57%    

Activity Summary
Employed Attending
Grad School
Seeking
Employment
Other
Endeavors
 
47% 33% 14% 6%  

Employment Sectors & Average Salary*
For Profit Nonprofit Education Government Average Salary*
78% 3% 5% 14% $56,181

*Not all respondents reported salary. Majors with four or less reported salaries have no salary information shown to protect the confidentiality of student data.

Employment
Employer Job Title    
Abbott Vascular Quality Engineer    
Accenture Consulting Analyst    
AKM Consulting Engineers Assistant Engineer    
Bechtel National, Inc. Mechanical Systems Engineer    
Bennett Staheli Associate Engineer    
Boeing Company Engineer    
Boeing Company Satellite Design Engineer    
Broad Institute Bio-Automation Specialist    
Camp, Dresser, & McKee HVAC Engineer    
Cardinal Health Mechanical Engineer    
Deloitte Consulting System Analyst    
Dynacast Project Engineer    
Eaton Engineer    
Ford Motor Company Engineer    
Fujitsu Photonic Network Engineer    
Google Inc HRIS Coordinator    
Guzik Technical Enterprises Mechanical Engineer    
IDEO Designer    
Innovative Technical Solutions, Inc. Proposal Writer    
Laserfiche Presales Engineer    
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Criticality Safety Engineer    
Lockheed Martin Corp Electronics Engineer Associate    
Lockheed Martin Corp Mechanical Design Engineer    
Lockheed Martin Corp Product Support Engineer    
Lockheed Martin Corp System Engineer    
Lockheed Martin Corp Systems Engineer    
Maximus Associate Analyst    
Milgard Product Configuration Engineer    
National Nuclear Security Administration General Engineer    
NUMMI QC Engineer    
Oxonica Inc Instrumentation Engineer    
PACECO Corp. Mechanical Engineer    
Pacific Gas and Electric Company Entry Engineer    
Pacific Gas and Electric Company Fleet Engineer    
Power Standards Lab Engineer    
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Mechanical Engineer    
Self-Employed Engineer    
Sony Electronics Mechanical Engineer    
Sumitomo Drive Technologies Applications Engineer    
Teach for America Teacher    
Timmons Design Engineers Mechanical Engineer    
Timmons Design Engineers Inc Mechanical Engineer    
Total Phase Embedded Systems Engineer    
United States Air Force 2nd LT    
United States Air Force Developmental Engineer    
United States Air Force Project Engineer    
United States Navy Ensign    
United States Navy Nuclear Trained Officer    
University of California Berkeley Lab Assist II    
Wilson, Ihrig, & Associates, Inc. Assistant Acousticas Consultant    
-- CAD Drafter    
-- Electro/Mechanical Engineer    
-- Engineering 1    

Graduate Study
Field Degree School  
Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering Masters University of California-Davis  
Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering Masters University of Washington  
Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering PhD --  
Finance Masters Stanford University  
Health/Medical Physics Masters University of Wisconsin-Madison  
Mechanical Engineering PhD Carnegie Mellon University  
Mechanical Engineering PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology  
Mechanical Engineering PhD --  
Mechanical Engineering PhD --  
Mechanical Engineering Masters Santa Clara University  
Mechanical Engineering Masters Stanford University  
Mechanical Engineering PhD Stanford University  
Mechanical Engineering Masters University of California-Berkeley  
Mechanical Engineering Masters University of California-Berkeley  
Mechanical Engineering Masters University of California-Berkeley  
Mechanical Engineering Masters University of California-Berkeley  
Mechanical Engineering Masters University of California-Berkeley  
Mechanical Engineering PhD University of California-Berkeley  
Mechanical Engineering Masters University of California-Berkeley  
Mechanical Engineering PhD University of California-Berkeley  
Mechanical Engineering Masters University of California-Berkeley  
Mechanical Engineering PhD University of California-Berkeley  
Mechanical Engineering PhD University of California-Berkeley  
Mechanical Engineering Masters University of California-Berkeley  
Mechanical Engineering Masters University of California-Berkeley  
Mechanical Engineering Masters University of California-Berkeley  
Mechanical Engineering Masters University of California-Berkeley  
Mechanical Engineering Masters University of California-Berkeley  
Mechanical Engineering PhD University of California-Los Angeles  
Mechanical Engineering Masters University of California-Los Angeles  
Mechanical Engineering PhD University of California-Los Angeles  
Mechanical Engineering Masters University of California-Los Angeles  
Mechanical Engineering Masters University of California-Los Angeles  
Mechanical Engineering Masters University of Texas at Austin  
-- Masters Massachusetts Institute of Technology  
 
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