Career Opportunities
Employment prospects are abundant not only in Iowa, but all across the United States and the world. The Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering Technology qualifies graduates for entry-level positions in areas such as Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, technical sales and writing, purchasing, industrial supervision, production, instrumentation and quality control, and other related areas.
Graduates may move into managerial positions after acquiring the necessary industrial experience. Information received from graduates indicates that starting salaries
range from $49,000 to $60,000. Placement rates for EET graduates are extremely good.
Positions Held by Recent Graduates:
Electronic Engineering Technologist
Systems Analyst
Instrumentation Engineer
Technical Writer
Maintenance Engineer
Control Technician
Plant Engineer
Electronics Technician
Production Engineer
Draftsperson/Designer
Quality Control Engineer
Technical Sales Representative
Technical Sales Engineer
Control Technologist
Airway System Specialist
Product/test Engineer
Electrical Engineer
Controls Engineer
Application Engineer
Plant Engineer
Test Engineer
Power Systems Planner
Airway Transportation Systems Specialist
Wind Turbine Manufacturing Engineer
Component Failure Analyst
Electrical Systems Project Engineer
Firms and Companies Employing EET Graduates include:
3M
Blackhawk Engineering
Capital City Boiler & MW
Chamberlain Manufacturing
Clipper Wind Power
Control Data
Conoga Data Systems
Eastern Iowa Airport, Cedar Rapids
Fisher
General Dynamics
General Motors
GMT Corporation
Heatilator
Heatilator, Novus Division
Hughes Aircraft
John Deere
KIOWA Corporation
Maytag Corporation
MidAmerican Energy
Motorola
Pella Corporation
Rockwell Collins, Inc.
Schivvers Inc.
TDS Automation
Viking Pump
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