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What do engineers do?

Engineers think up amazing things every day. And they have some incredible jobs. Engineers have been known to:

  • Design roller coasters
  • Defy gravity
  • Organize Hollywood stunts
  • Create prosthetic jaws
  • Build fuel injection systems
  • Develop video games for autism therapy
  • Manufacture sustainable systems for developing nations

Tell me more about engineering

Students and faculty respond to the question, “What is engineering and what makes a good engineer?”

Students talk about their dream jobs in the engineering field.


If you could invent anything, what would it be? Students give their responses.

Summer plans for a graduating class of future engineers.

a photo of a Michigan Engineer

Engineering as a career

Engineering jobs take many forms, but there’s one thing for certain - there are lots of them! Michigan Engineers are some of the most marketable around, and they are landing careers in high places.

  • Hundreds of internships secured by each class pre-graduation, with monthly salaries as high as $6,000
  • Over half of 2010/11 graduates accepted a full-time job within a year of their graduation
  • Starting salaries for engineering graduates in 2010/11 range from as high as $75,000 with a Bachelor’s degree and $100,000 for Doctorates.
  • Cooperative Education opportunities provided with average monthly salaries of around $3500.
  • Students hired by top companies such as Microsoft, Accenture, Lockheed Martin, General Motors and Apple.

The Class of 2016 shares their dreams

Michigan Engineers Making a Difference