What Can I do With a Degree in Mechanical Engineering?

Career Center Library Resources
The Career Center Library has a variety of resources to help students explore potential career fields. These resources include information about typical responsibilities, qualifications, career paths, job outlook, salary, and related careers.

Books Specifically Related to Mechanical Engineering Majors

• Careers in Engineering
• 100 Jobs in Technology

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• Project Engineer
  
• Process Engineer
  
• Staircase Design Engineer
• Automotive Products Designer
  

Professional Associations

• American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
• National Society of Black Engineers
• Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE)
  
• Society of Women Engineers (SWE)
• Society of Women Engineers — Northwest Star Section Homepage
• Northwest Environmental Business Council (NEBC) — NEBC is a "regional trade association representing environmental technology and service firms". Membership Directory.

Internet Sites with Career-Related Information for Mechanical Engineering Majors

• Mechanical Engineers — From the Occupational Outlook Handbook.
• College Majors and Career Opportunities - Mechanical Engineering — Lists related occupations and types of employers. From Career Services, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
• Mechanical Engineering: What Can I Do With This Major? — Outlines common career areas, identifies typical employers, and suggests general strategies to enhance employability. From Career Services at the University of Tennessee.
• American Council of Engineering (ACEC) Oregon — Directory of member firms in Oregon
• American Council of Engineering (ACEC) — Directory of member firms nationally

Internet Sites with Job Search Information for Mechanical Engineering Majors

• The American Society of Mechanical Engineers: Jobs Database — Database searchable by title, locations, responsibilities and requirements.
• EngineeringJobs.Com — See Engineering Jobs — Company Employment Pages section for alphabetical list of company home pages that contain current job openings for a variety of engineering fields including mechanical engineering. See also Engineering Employers section for additional links to engineering employers home pages.
• Diversilink Website — Jobs database from the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers.
• Online Career Fair — From the Society of Women Engineers. Includes links to home pages of potential employers.
• Sloan Career Cornerstone Center — Job listings for Mechanical Engineers
• League of Oregon Cities — Intern Placement and Referral Service

Places of Employment

Mechanical Engineering majors may find employment in a variety of areas depending on their skills and experience. Career-related internships or career-related part-time jobs may be a prerequisite to finding professional-level employment after graduation.

The following list of employers and job titles was derived from the Career Center's jobs database where the employer specifically requested mechanical engineering majors. This list does not reflect all potential places of employment or kinds of jobs for mechanical engineering majors. This list does not reflect current openings.

• Acumed, Inc. — Manufacturing Engineer Intern
• AMEC Earth & Environmental, Inc. — Staff Engineer
• Alcoa-Intalco Works — Mechanical Reliability Engineer
  
• Applied Materials — Associate Customer Engineer II
• Armstrong World Industries, Inc. — Project Engineer
  
• Avista — Natural Gas Engineer in Training
  
• Bechtel Bettis, Inc. — Mechanical Engineer
• Bodycote Materials Testing — Metallurgical Technician/Fracture Technician
• Boeing Company, The — Capacity Planner/Industrial Planner
• Bonneville Power Administration — Mechanical Engineer
• Blue Road Research — Engineer
• C-Tech Industries — Sales Engineer
• Can and Bottle Systems, Inc. — Mechanical Engineer
• Cardinal Glass Industries, Inc. — Mechanical Engineer
• Cascade Energy Engineering — Industrial Energy Efficiency Engineer
  
• City of Corvallis — Transportation and Building Division Manager
• City of Salem — Combination Structural/Mechanical Inspector II
• Columbia Machine, Inc.
• DCI International — Mechanical Engineer
• Davis Tool
• Emmert International — Structural/Mechanical Engineer
• Environmental Control Corporation — Sales Engineer
• Epson Portland Inc. (EPI) — Engineering Process Technician
• FM Global — Field Engineering Consultant, Loss Prevention Consultant
• Flight Dynamics
• Freightliner — Design Engineer
• Georgia-Pacific Corporation — Manager-Engineering
• Gunderson, Inc. — Associate Design Engineer
• Jacobs Engineering — Process Engineer and Mechanical Engineer
• Jeld-Wen — Management Trainee
• CH2M HILL Industrial Design & Construction, Inc. — "High technology facilities design, construction, maintenance and operations company, serving private industry clients. CH2M HILL established IDC in 1985."
• InSite Group, Inc. — Mechanical Engineer
• Intel — Mechanical Engineer
• LSI Logic
• McKinsey&Company — Organization Survey Analyst
  
• Merix Corporation — Imaging Process Engineer, Registration Engineer, Process Engineer, Registration Engineer II/III
• Microenergy Technology, Inc. — Mechanical Engineer
• Micron Technology, Inc. — Product Engineer
  
• Naval Undersea Warfare Center
• NACCO Industries, Inc. — Mechanical Engineer, Senior Project Test Technician
• Neudorfer Engineers Inc. — Mechanical Engineer
• Nikon Precision Inc. — Field Service Engineer
  
• Norton Motorsports — Mechanical Engineer
• Novellus Systems — Manufacturing Engineering Trainee, Mechanical Engineer, Field Service Engineer, Hardware Engineering Trainee
• NSK Americas — Engineer in Training
  
• Offshore Solutions — Sales Support Engineer
• Oregon Air Reps, Inc. — Sales Engineer
• Oregon Department of Education — Pupil Transportation Consultant
• Oregon Dept of Environmental Quality (DEQ) — Environmental Engineer 3 - Senior Environmental Engineer
• Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) — Transportation Engineer I - Bridge Protection Designer
• Oregon Military Department — Facilities Engineer I
• Oregon State University — Faculty Research Assistant - Department if Nuclear Engineering & Radiation Health Physics
• Pacific Detroit Diesel-Allison (PDDA) — Entry-Level Salesperson
• PacifiCorp
• Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard — Mechanical Engineer
• Performance Friction Corporation — Mechanical Design Engineers
  
• Pneu-Logic Corporation — Compressed Air Systems Engineer
  
• Pollutions Prevention Resource Center (PPRC) — Technical Lead for Oregon Programs
  
• Portland General Electric (PGE) — Engineer
• Precision Castparts — Management Development Program
• Rational Software, Corp.
• Robert Lloyd Sheet Metal — HVAC Controls Engineer
• Schreiber Foods, Inc. — Production Team Advisor, Maintenance Team Advisor
  
• SEH America
• Sherwin Williams/Purdy — Engineering Trainee
  
• Siemens Building Technologies — Sales Engineer Service, Engineering Intern
• South Puget Sound Community College — Director of Buildings and Grounds
• Stratus Technical Sales, LLC — Sales Engineer
• Sulzer Pumps Inc. — Manager Hydraulic Test, Manufacturing Engineer, Porject Engineer, Quality Assurance Manager
  
• Tektronix
• Tidland Corporation — Applications Engineer
  
• TraneOregon — Project Engineer. Energy Engineer/Analyst
  
• Trinity Consultants — Environmental Compliance Consultant
• US Bureau of Reclamation — Mechanical Engineer
• US Air Force — Developmental Engineers
• US Army Aviation & Missile Command
• US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) — Mechanical Engineer
• US Navy — Mechanical Engineer
• US Navy Navair Weapons Division — Mechanical Engineer
• United McGill — Sales Engineer
• United Parcel Service (UPS) — Plant Engineering Specialist, Management in Training; Project Engineer - Mechanical Systems
• University of Puget Sound — Manager of Maintenance Services and Plant Engineering
• Verizon Communications — Network Engineer/Outside Plant Engineer
• Wafertech
• Wellons, Inc. — Mechanical/Structural Designer
• Wesco Distribution, Inc. — Inside Sales

Department of Mechanical Engineering - Portland State University