Teams Succeed
Opportunity Knocks
Engineering is a team sport. Joining student organizations, celebrating campus traditions, and working together on group projects allows our students to harness the power of collaboration to solve complex problems with multi-disciplinary approaches.
And when it does, it’s top employers and prestigious graduate schools who want the best-trained engineers. Carnegie Mellon engineering graduates are ready for these opportunities thanks to the academic rigor, realworld experience, placement support and access to a robust network of alumni professionals.
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G R AD U ATI N G AS C O O
Maya Beach credits the varied
Tanvi Mittal is the chief operating officer of
perspectives and talents
noVRel, the start-up she joined in 2023 while
of her teammates from
she was still a student majoring in mechanical
mechanical, civil, electrical
engineering and biomedical engineering. The
and computer engineering,
company is bringing augmented reality into
information systems, and
the operating room with an AR headset they
architecture, for being able
developed that integrates smart headlights,
to construct a building-sized
virtual magnification loupes, and a fluorescence
portrait of Disney Pixar’s
guided surgery microscope. Her student
WALL-E for Carnegie Mellon’s
team won second place in Carnegie Mellon’s
annual Spring Carnival Booth
McGinnis Venture Competition in 2025.
competition.
In a recent survey, our junior and senior students told us what they have done as Carnegie Mellon Engineering students, and what they plan to do with the incredible prospects they will have as graduates.
Here’s what they told us they have done:
63%
have been involved with research projects or plan to before they graduate
80
have had a professional internship or plan to before they graduate
24%
studied abroad
%
O FF TO W O R K
Here’s what they plan to do as graduates:
needed to bring their booth
Before accepting a position as a Process Development
BA C K T O S C H O O L
to life by making WALL-E’s
Engineer at Lubrizol, a specialty chemical company near
eyes move. She also says
his home in Cleveland, Justin Croyle spent three summers
that the experience allowed
working as an intern for the company.
The mechanical engineering student says that the team had access to campus resources they
her to explore her fun,
The chemical engineering and material science and
artistic side — while still
engineering student was a finalist for the Engineers’ Society
utilizing the more technical
of Western Pennsylvania’s George Washington Prize, and
knowledge she is learning in
his ChemE Cube team won first place at the American
engineering classes.
Institute of Chemical Engineer’s collegiate competition.
ENGINEERING BIRDS T HAT CAN SW IM C AR N E G I E M E L L O N H AC KI N G T E A M WI N S A G A I N
Mechanical and electrical and computer engineering students joined forces with computer science students to compete in RoboSub, an international competition in
As the number of cybersecurity attacks continues to increase
which teams design and build underwater robots that
worldwide, competitions like DEF CON’s Capture-the-Flag give
can perform tasks important to the maritime industry,
cybersecurity engineers the opportunity to learn and develop
including exploring, detecting, and manipulating objects.
new techniques as they vie against one another to work through various challenges. Carnegie Mellon University’s Plaid Parliament of Pwning (PPP)
The TartanAUV team takes inspiration from birds that are known for their ability to dive underwater for fish by naming their latest underwater robot, Osprey, which will
became the winningest team in DEF CON’s Capture-the-Flag
feature better thermal regulation and system dynamics
competition by having won nine times in the past 13 years.
needed to outperform the previous vehicle, Kingfisher.
B AC K TO SC H O O L While studying material science and engineering and engineering and public policy, Katie Eisenman conducted research at Purdue University and the University of Sheffield. She was vice president of the Society of Women Engineers,
our undergraduate students to pursue a master’s degree 42% ofwant % want to earn a Ph.D. 15 43% off to work
WIL L BE G IN T H E IR C A R E E R S to pursue a job as soon as they graduate 71% plan entrepreneurial ambitions 12% have to start or join a new venture 11% say they are still unsure
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performed with the Tartan Wind Ensemble, and won the 2025 George Washington Prize from the Engineers’ Society of Western Pennsylvania. The accomplished graduate is now pursuing her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University, a leading institution in the field.
68% Industry 8% Academia 5% Government
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