There are many career paths open to electrical or computer engineers - few professions have the breadth of opportunities offered by an electrical or computer engineering education. In addition to technical careers, electrical engineers and computer engineers may enter totally different careers such as medicine, business, or teaching where their broad background and problem solving skills are a wonderful preparation. On the technical side, electrical engineers may choose research, development, sales, or management where they can use their understanding of electrical phenomena to solve problems in such diverse areas as energy, the environment, transportation, communications, and health care. Specific projects might include developing a new surgical tool, or artificial organ, or working on a more environmentally friendly energy generation system using advanced solar cell panels, or creating a new integrated circuit that would make computers more powerful and user-friendly. Our graduates find employment with local, national, and international companies as well as government agencies.
University of Maine
Electrical and Computer Engineering Alumni
The University of Maine Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department has graduated about 2500 students in its history of more than 100 years. The following tables and charts provide useful information on our alumni who are alive to date (1500) and their work related information is available (600). The data shows that out of every 4 alumni, one has achieved a high ranking position with his/her company as indicated below.
| High Ranking Positions | Number of Alumni |
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| Founders/Owners | 9 |
| President/Co-Founder/CEO | 20 |
| Vice-presidents | 18 |
| Engineering Managers | 50 |
| Senior Engineers | 68 |
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Top Employers |
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National Semiconductor Corporation |
Bangor Hydro-Electric Company |
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Central Maine Power Company, Inc. |
Boeing Company |
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International Business Machines |
Cisco System, Inc |
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General Electric Company |
Federal Aviation Administration |
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Raytheon Company, Inc. |
Maine Community College System |
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Portsmouth Naval Shipyard |
Massachusetts institute of Technology |
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AT&T |
Newpage Corporation |
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Bath Iron Works Corporation |
Northrop Grumman Corporation |
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International Paper Company, Inc. |
Public Service Company of N.H |
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Lockheed Martin Corporation |
Eastman Kodak Company, Inc |
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Mitre Corporation |
General-Pacific Corporation |
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Naval Undersea Warfare Center |
GTE Corporation |
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Analog Devices, Inc |
Harriman Associates |
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Enterasys Networks |
Hewlett-Packard Company, Inc. |
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Fairchild Semiconductor |
IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. |
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Maine Public Service Company |
States where ECE Alumni are working
Employers Evaluation of Our Graduates
Each year the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department surveys the employers of its graduate to get feedback on their performance. The following chart provides information from those who responded. Note that these employers have judged our graduates’ performance as “very good” to “excellent” in all categories, as indicted in the chart below.
Fundamentals of Engineering Examination
Fundamentals of Engineering Examination is a national examination that is required for obtaining a Professional Engineering license and is normally taken by senior engineering students. Although not mandatory, we recommend our students to take this examination. In the last 5 year, 95% of our students (blue) who took this examination passed it compared to 75% nationally (red), as shown in the chart below.
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