The Mechanical Engineering Major

Resources, Strengths, Career Paths, Skills

Transferable Skills:Students of Mechanical Engineering end their education with superior technical skills, a rare and highly valued commodity in today's job market. Mechanical Engineering majors also:

• Have analytical & problem solving skill
• Have abstract & formal reasoning skill
• Identify and rectify problems
• Explain processes
• Perform mathematical analyses
• Describe technical information to layperson's
• Sort and prioritize data

Career Paths: The Major in Mechanical Engineering provides students with an optimal platform for entering a variety of fields. Students with a strong technical background are viewed favorably by varying fields. Here are some fields a Mechanical Engineering major may pursue:

• Software Development
• Education
• Government / Law
• Industry
• Medicine
• Technical Institutes
• Business & Finance

Resources & Professional Associations of Interest: Check out the following websites and consider joining at least one of the professional associations in your field of interest to boost your career and give you a competitive edge on the job market. These are just a few so don' t hesitate to do some research on your own!

• National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE)
• Chronicle of Higher Education , Inside Higher Education - great sites for academics
• National Society of Professional Engineers
• Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE)
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
• American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
• Society of Women Engineers (SWE)
• Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers
• Engineering Resources Online
• Career Planning Center for Beginning Scientists and Engineers

Employers: The following companies and institutions have hired/accepted Stony Brook students of Mechanical Engineering:

• Northrop Grumman
• Lehman Brothers
• Stony Brook University
• Raytheon
• Symbol Technologies
• Bae Systems
• The State of Tennessee
• US Army Corps of Engineers
• Quantum Medical Imaging
• Intel

Sample Job Titles:The following are some sample job titles that would be appropriate for a student who has majored in Mechanical Engineering. This is in no way a complete list. If you're surprised at some of these titles, you shouldn't forget that a student who majors in Mechanical Engineering gains skills that can be used in many industries!