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ECE Department Weekly Newsletter May 19-23, 2003 |
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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN We all know that the economy is not doing well, especially in the technology sector. I wanted to find out how our own students have fared in this downturn with regard to getting jobs after graduation. As you know, we publish an ECE Resume Booklet each year which lists resumes of our graduating B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. students and send it to various companies and universities. We did that again this year. In preparation for our ECE Advisory Board meeting, I did an email survey of the graduating undergraduate and graduate students during the 2002-03 academic year. I asked the undergraduate students if they were going to work in industry or go to graduate school. I asked the graduate students if they are going to work in industry or in academia. Here are the results of the survey. Among our graduating B.S. students in EE and CompE, there were 26 respondents, of which 13 are going to industry, nine are going to graduate school, and four have yet to receive any offers and are still looking for jobs. Here are the detailed statistics. Zero offers: 4 Received offers from: Accenture (2), IBM, Visteon, Motorola (2), Integrated DNA Technologies, Honeywell, Epic Systems, National Instruments, US Patent, Ingenient Technologies, Ford Motor, Braun Consulting, Microsoft, Tribune, UBS Warburg, Northrop-Grumman, MacMaster-Carr, Startup company Going to companies: Accenture, Epic Systems, Ford Motor, Honeywell Aerospace, IBM, Integrated DNA Technologies, Ingenient Technologies, MacMaster Carr, Microsoft, Motorola, National Instruments, UBS Warburg, Startup company Salary statistics: Max $65K, Min $40K, Median $55K, Mean $55K Received admissions in grad schools: Stanford, Michigan (2), Yeshiva, U Penn, Northwestern (4), Rochester, Cornell, Colorado, UC Santa Cruz, UIUC, Rice, Columbia Going to grad schools: Stanford, Michigan (2), Yeshiva, Cornell, Northwestern (3), UIUC Among our graduating M.S and Ph.D. students, there were only 10 respondents. It should be noted that this is not a fair statistic since graduate students can postpone the date of the final M.S. and Ph.D. exam and their graduation date if they do not find a job. Among the 10 respondents, six are going to industry, two are going to academia as faculty, and two are going to academia as postdocs. Here are the detailed statistics. Received offers from companies: Accenture, Agilent, Intel (2), RawThrills, Microsoft Research, IBM, Boeing, Pixonics Going to companies: Accenture, Agilent, RawThrills, Microsoft Research, Boeing, Pixonics Received offers from universities: Univ of Wisconsin, Illinois Institute of Technology (2), Penn State, Ohio State, Univ. of Pittsburgh, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Northwestern Going to universities: Wisconsin, Pittsburgh, Northwestern postdoc (2) I wish the best of luck to the students still looking for jobs. I will bring this matter to the attention of our Advisory Board and see if they can help in the job search of our students.
-Prith Banerjee SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENTS
TITLE: Enterpreneurship and Technology Commercialization: Case Study
of AccelChip TRAVEL Professor Mike Honig traveled to Anchorage, Alaska, to attend the International Conference on Communications where he contributed two papers as co-author and received the 2002 IEEE Communications Society and Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award with former student Weimin Xiao. Professor Manijeh Razeghi gave an invited talk entitled, "Recent Advances in GaSb/InAs Superlattices for VLWIR Detector at CQD," at the Space-Based EO/IR Surveillance Technology Conference, Kirtland AFB, NM, May 13-14, 2003.
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