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[quote=Anonymous]I have no idea what is in the head of someone hiring an engineering student for roles outside engineering. Maybe name of university is their first thought.

When hiring an engineer to do engineering work, the first filter is which upper-level in-major electives did they take. Most fields of engineering have specialties within that field. Normally upper-level electives a student takes will narrow their competence to some specialty under their degree.

As an example, if I have an opening for an ECE logic designer, I look to see if they took advanced logic design electives during their senior year. Someone who instead of taking those took advanced three-phase Power electives will be great for PEPCO, but won't be good at my digital logic design tasks.

Even students from MIT or Caltech (or where ever) will not be suitable for my logic designer opening unless they took those advanced logic design electives (usually offered as 4xx level classes for their senior year).

Same principle applies for any sub-specialty within virtually any engineering degree.

College name is secondary at best. Choice of upper-level in-major electives is primary. [/quote]

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