The SAE sponsors a similar competition called the MiniBaja which the MET students also have competed in. Students are encouraged to enroll in the college's Cooperative Education Program gaining valuable work experience. Graduates Graduates enter the engineering profession as engineering technologists. A smaller percentage attend graduate school. The majority obtains gainful employment in a variety of industries ranging from large aerospace companies to small manufacturing and custom-design businesses.
Job titles range from technician and engineering technologist to engineer.
Careers Graduates are employed in a variety of positions in research, development, design, manufacture and testing of tools, engines, machines, and other mechanical devices. They are designers of tools needed by other engineers for their work. Mechanical engineering is the broadest engineering discipline, extending across many interdependent specialties. Persons interested in Mechanical Engineering fields are encouraged to visit the Bureau of Labor Statistics is an agency within the U.S. Department of Labor site on Mechanical Engineers . An advisory committee, which includes employers, graduates, and students of the program, meets with faculty and administrators to review curriculum, student and faculty recruitment, program needs, progress, problems and probable solutions, laboratory equipment, facilities, and to assist in the placement of graduates.