Inaugural Class of 2021
Wake Engineering celebrated the graduation of its first inaugural class, the class of 2021, in May 2021! Our inaugural class had 43 students. Approximately half of these students participated in study abroad and 70% participated in internships across diverse sectors of engineering practice. Furthermore, over 50% pursued minors and half participated in undergraduate research. This cohort of students were placed in either industry or governmental job positions (~70%), graduate school (~20%) or professional schools (~10%). The average salary range was roughly $75,000 with a range from $55,000 to $120,000. Some examples of employers included Oracle, AstraZeneca, Premier Health, SST Automation and Whiting-Turner.
Aidan McCormack
Overhead Transmission Engineer/Scientist I at Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
