Alumni
Since 1996 about 350 alumni from the Department of Engineering Technology have been working in the Corporate America, government agencies, military, and educational institutions. They have been working with dignity, honor, and responsibility to lead the American legacy forward. Many of the graduates have elevated their academic credentials with MS and PhDs to work in the academics and research.
Some of the major industries that our alumni work are: EDS/GM, NASA, Accenture, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Texas Instruments, Chevron, Dell, HP, ExxonMobile, US Army, AT&T, Dell, Systems and Strategic Engineering, Collegis, and CheckFree.
Alumnus Morgan, currently with Raytheon talks to Microprocessor Application class
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We maintain close contact with the alumni in order to get their feedback to update our course and curricula and stay up-to-date with the technological advancement in the industries. One of the objectives of our program is to ascertain proper placements of our graduates and to see they are in the leadership positions in about five years after graduation. As such we conduct frequent surveys by contacting our former graduates and their employers. This survey shows that we meet our objective.
In career days our graduates are seen to represent respective companies and they stop by the department to meet the continuing students in classrooms. The students listen to the former students with lot of enthusiasm. These visits usually make a big difference to the continuing students.
The alumni are seen very much enthusiastic to give back to the department in the form of scholarships and equipment. We are planning to have an alumni portal in the departmental website as a nostalgic place for the alumni to communicate among them and also add suggestions for the growth and development of our department.
