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.


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John Hobson

Army Corp Engineer

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Maxim Belyayev

Operations RLP Associate, Otis Elevator Co.

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Noah Handwerk

Embedded Python Test Engineer, Actalent

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Chloe Beatty

Project Engineer, Alberici Constructors

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Dayton Diemel

Commercial Real Estate Broker

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Adero Mandala

Project Engineer, Whiting-Turner Contracting Co

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Goran Jovanovic

Project Engineer, Winter Construction

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Regan O’Donnell

Associate Consultant, Putnam Associates

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Zack Pagnani

MS Biomedical Engineering, Duke University

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Marguerite Walk

MS School of Business, Georgetown University

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Lucy Vaughn

R&D Associate, AstraZeneca

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Jacob Safee

School of Business, Southern Methodist University

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Ayana Edwards

Supply Chain Associate, Dentsply Sirona

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Hank Shaw

Technical Solutions Engineer, EPIC Systems

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Sophie Ballou

PR & Influencer, Chasen Creative Media

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Charlotte Van Houtven

Solutions Engineering Analyst, Deloitte Consulting

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Zhijun Zhang

Tianjin, China

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Wells Barefoot

Mechanical Design Engineer, Siemens

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Brayan Martinez

FSO Technology Consultant, Ernest & Young

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Jack Holekamp

Project Manager, Epic

 

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Morgan Wallace

Energy Management Specialist, Scheider Electric

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Cameron King

MS Environmental Engineering, Duke

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Claire Griffin

Business Development Engineer, LaBella Associates and AVANGRID

 

Aiden McCormack

Aidan McCormack

Overhead Transmission Engineer/Scientist I at Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)

Hannah Grimm

Hannah Grimm

Prototype Specialist, Duke Energy

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Danielle Cantoni

Analyst, Accenture

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Garrett Odell

Sr. Project Engineer, Project Farma

 

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Jemima Odetokun

MS Biomedical Engineering, Duke University

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Meredith Vaughn

Building and Architectural Engineering, Politecnico di Milano

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Kenneth Edwards

Technical Solutions Engineer, EPIC Systems

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Liza Fahey

Portfolio Management Analyst, FS Investments

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Nicholas Rucinski

IDP Analyst, JPMorgan Chase & Co

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Max Album

Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Technician, Mile Hybrid Automotive

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Drew Foreman

Staff Engineer, Poulos & Bennett (Civil Engineering)

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Gabrielle Prichard

Cloud Solutions Engineer, Oracle

Bryan Bennett

Clinical Research Data Scientist, Eko

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Margaret Nyamadi

Analyst, Investment Analytics & Data, Dimensional Fund Advisors

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Hao Tong

MS Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins

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Ethan Cooley

Data Scientist, Stanson Health