After Graduation
Most engineering students build careers in the field immediately after leaving Hope. Others pursue medicine, law or teaching. And almost half go on to receive a graduate degree. In the last year, 51 students graduated with an engineering degree.
Visit the Boerigter Center for Calling and Career for information, resources and career services
Our graduates:
- Are employedÌýat a wide range of companies
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Partial List of 1st Position after Graduation since 2015
- SpaceX - Test Operations Engineer
- General Motors - Seat Design Engineering
- Ford Motor Company - Power Train Controls Engineer
- Tesla Motors - Project Engineer
- Rose Medical - Project Engineer
- Hubbel, Roth & Clark - Civil Engineer
- Fleis and VandenBrink - Civil Engineer, EIT
- LECO - R&D Chemical Engineer
- Arconic - CVD Process Engineer
- Lexmark - Firmware Engineer
- JR Automation – Design Engineer
- JR Automation – Controls Engineer
- General Dynamics Land Systems - Engineer I
- Tiara Yachts - Mechanical Engineer
- Gentex – Product Support Engineer
- Gentex - Electrical Engineer
- GMB Architecture & Engineering - Electrical Engineer
- Herman Miller - Engineer
- Magna Mirrors - Advanced Product Development Engineer
- LG Chem - Production Engineer
- Nissan - Exterior Plastics Engineer
- Stryker Instruments - CAD Designer
- Toyota - Associate Engineer
- Highlight Industries – Mechanical Engineer
- Extol – Design Engineer
- DTE Energy - Associate Engineer
- ICM Products – Developmental Process Engineer
- Plastomer - Plant Engineer
- ComEd – Associate Engineer
- OPS Solutions LLC - Development Engineer
- Crane Technologies - Mechanical Engineer
- Summit Polymers, Inc. - Project Engineer
- Burns & McDonnell – Assistant Mechanical Engineer
- LeanLogistics – Software Developer
- RRM Design Group – Civil Engineer
- ZF North America – Test Engineer
- Magna Powertrain – Vehicle Verification Engineer
- Jacobs Technology - Machine Design Engineer
- Encoris – CAD Support/Engineering
- Schap Specialty Machine – Mechanical Engineer
- Apex Controls – Control Systems Engineer
- Lear Corp – Seating Engineer
- The Walt Disney Studio – Engineering and Infrastructure
- Servinsky Engineering PLLC – Structural EIT
- Roush Industries – Powertrain Design Engineer
- OST – Software Development
- Transmatic - Production Quality Engineer
- Koops - Applications Engineer
- Attend graduate school in a variety of fields
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- Acoustics
- Applied Mathematics
- Aerospace Engineering
- Agricultural Engineering
- Bioelectrical Engineering
- Biomechanical Engineering
- Biomedical Engineering
- Chemical Engineering
- Civil Engineering
- Electrical Engineering
- Engineering Management
- Environmental Engineering
- Industrial Engineering
- Materials Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Medical Imaging Engineering
- Naval Architecture
- Paper Science & Engineering
- Prosthetic Science
- Rehabilitation Engineering
- Structural Engineering
- Sustainable Engineering
- Attend many differentÌýgraduate schools
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- Case Western University
- Cornell University
- Iowa State University
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Northwestern University
- Princeton University
- Purdue University
- Scripps Institution of Oceanography
- Stanford University
- University of California at Berkeley
- University of Colorado
- University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
- University of Liverpool (England)
- University of Michigan
- University of Minnesota
- University of Pittsburgh
- University of Vermont
- University of Wisconsin
- Boston College Law School
- Indiana University Law School
- University of Michigan Medical School
- Georgia Tech School of Business
- Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University
- University of Michigan School of Business
Partial list since 1997
Alumni Highlights
GMB Architecture + Engineering
Solaero Technologies
Gentex Corporation
Brock Benson ’16 began his career as a prototype engineer at Gentex Corporation in Zeeland, Michigan.
Fleis & VandenBrink Engineering
Medtronic
Lockheed Martin
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Applied Biomimetic
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