Tech-talented VU School of Engineering alumni quickly spread afar
Milt Capps last edited 6:23pm Feb. 5, 2016
Published Friday, February 5, 2016 3:00 pm
NASHVILLE has a major concentration of Vanderbilt University alumni, generally.
But, samplings of the whereabouts of recent School of Engineering (VUSE) undergraduates and doctoral students seem to reinforce the long-held belief that Music City competes globally to keep this talent in Tennessee.
Moreover, competition is not likely to lessen. Next week, a Career Day for Engineering students has attracted 47 companies, listed here.
Almost year-round, corporate recruiters work VU's Center for Student Professional Development. Companies from Red Ventures to Bank of America Merrill Lynch are on campus this month, hosting events targeting students interested in various fields, according to the Center's website.
What's at stake for the Nashville Tech/Venture community?
Some evidence: It's a small slice, but take VUSE PhDs who within the past couple of years served as valued research assistants in just one VUSE laboratory -- the Human-Machine Teaming Laboratory (HMT), established in 2003 by Associate Professor Julie A. Adams, Ph.D.
Where are those nine? Only one of the nine remains in Nashville, with local startup GameWisp, which is gaining traction, as reported here today.
The other eight PHDs went to:
- Bosch North America (Mountain View)
- Charles River Analytics (Cambridge)
- Charleston (S.C.) Southern University
- Dynetics (Huntsville)
- Google (Mountain View)
- Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi)
- Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (Indiana)
- The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory (Cambridge)
Potential emigration of such talent from Nashville seems even more striking, when the talk turns to VUSE Undergraduates who reported that they took jobs in 2012-13-14-15.
Even though we haven't determined exactly where these jobs were located, we suspect most of jobs listed below, which went to VUSE undergraduates during the 2012-15 period, inclusive, are located outside Tennessee.
Please note that this listing does not include numerous instances in which undergrads did not join the labor force immediately, but went on to further academic studies and related pursuits. The list does not reflect the minority of students during this four-year period who did not report their status or who last reported they remained open to opportunities.
The listing of job placements below may not be complete and in a handful of cases, which Venture Nashville chose not to single-out, the entry was based on a job having been offered to a student, though those acceptance decisions had not yet been reported to VUSE. Any errors in interpretation are VNC's. The assistance of VUSE Associate Dean Cynthia Paschal Ph.D., and others is appreciated.
Links to much more detailed annual fact sheets, which include ranges of proffered salaries and other data, appear at the bottom of this story.
Immediately below, the Engineering Code for each degree program is followed by the number of VUSE students with that degree each listed company has recruited in the four years bounded by 2012-2015.
Codes: BM=BioMedical - CH=Chemical CS=ComputerScience EE=ElectricalEngrg ES=EngScience ME=MechanicalEngrg
3M Company ME1 Accenture BM5 CH4 CS1 EE1 ES3 ME1 Accretive Health BM1 Affinity Solutions ES1 AF Supply CE1 Allison Transmission ME1 Amazon COMP1 CS3 American Megatrends COMP1 Aon BM1 ES1 Apple CS2 AquAeTer CE2 Architecture Technology Corp. EE1 Asurion CH1 CS2 EE1 ME1 AT&T EE1 ES3 ME1 Auramist ME1 Bain & Co. CH1 CE1 Baker Hughes BM1 CE1 EE1 ME11 Bank of America Merrill Lynch ES2 Bank of New York Mellon BM1 COMP1 EE1 Belvedere Trading ME1 BlackRock CE1 ES2 Black & Veatch ME1 Boeing COMP1 EE2 ME4 Booz Allen Hamilton BE1 Boston Consulting Group CH1 Braintree Payments COMP1 Brasfield & Gorrie CE1 British Petroleum ME1 Burns & McDonnell Engineering CE1 Bury + Partners ME1 Cambridge Associates CH1 Cameron International ME1 Camgian Microsystems COMP1 Capgemini BM3 CH2 CE2 EE1 ES3 ME1 Capital One CH1 COMP1 CS1 EE1 ES1 ME2 Carnegie Foundation BM1 CDI Corp. ME1 Cerner BM8 CH1 Ceteris ES1 Chevron CH3 CE2 EE2 ME5 Citigroup ES1 Clarity Consulting CS1 Clark Construction CE10 ES1 ME1 Clearview Healthcare Partners BM1 Cowan & Co. CE1 Credit Suisse ME1 Crowe Horwath CH1 CTS COMP1 CS1 DCS CS1 EE1 Deloitte BM3 CH1 CE1 COMP1 EE1 ES4 ME3 Descase Corp. ME1 Deutschebank ES1 Devon Energy ME2 Dexco Polymers BM1 CH1 Digital Reasoning CS2 DISH ES2 ME5 Divney Tung Schwalbe CE1 Dow Chemical CH1 Dow Corning CH2 ME2 DuPont CH2 ME1 Eastman Chemical CH1 CS1 EchoStar CS1 Emdeon ES1 Enercon Services CE1 ME1 Environ CE1 Epic/Epic Systems BM8 CH3 CE1 CS3 EE2 ME3 Epsilon ME1 Experitec CH3 Exxon Mobil CH1 CE1 ME2 Facebook CS1 FaithLife CS3 FedEx CE1 CS1 Fiserv Output Solutions CH1 Fluor Corp. CH2 FPT Corporation ME1 General Electric EE1 General Mills CH1 General Motors ME1 Glaxo Smith Kline CH1 Google CS2 ME1 Halma BM1 CH1 Harbour Results ME1 Healthcare Management Systems HMS CS1 Healthstream COMP1 HNTB CE1 Hope Found ES1 Hospira BM1 HSC Builders ME1 Hunter Roberts ME1 Huron Consulting Group BM4 CH4 CS1 ES3 ME1 Huron Healthcare CE1 IBM/IBM GBS Public Sector ES1 ME1 InfoWorks EE1 ES/2 Ingersoll Rand CH1 ME1 Intergraph CS1 International Paper CH1 InvivoLink BM1 Jagoe Homes CH1 JET Program CH1 Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab EE1 Johnson & Johnson VisionCare BM1 EE1 Johnson Controls EE1 ES2 Johnson Matthey CH1 JP Morgan Chase ES1 Kewit ME1 Key Tech ME1 Kimley-Horn Associates CE4 Kinder Morgan CE1 King Abdul Aziz City for Science & Technology BM1 Koch Industries ES1 Koch Pipeline Company CH1 KPMG ES2 Kraft Foods CH1 Lifeway Christian Resources COMP1 Littlejohn/S&ME CE4 Lockheed Martin Space Systems ME1 Manhattan Associates BM3 CH2 CE2 COMP1 EE2 ES3 ME5 Mass Electric Transportation CE1 McKinsey & Co. COMP1 ES1 McMaster-Carr ME1 MedShape Solutions BM1 Mercedes Benz ME3 Merck Sharp & Dohme BM1 CH1 Metova COMP2 CS1 Metro Nashville Public Schools ES1 Microsoft COMP3 CS9 MIT Lincoln Laboratory CS1 Morgan Stanley ES1 Motorola EE1 National Dilwell Varco ME1 National Gypsum CH1 National Institutes of Health BM1 National Instruments BM2 COMP2 CS1 EE5 ME6 NCH Corporation CH1 Nestle Purina Petcare CH1 ME1 New Line Structures CE1 Newport News Shipbuilding ME1 North Point Solutions CS1 Northrup Grumman CS1 ME3 Oliver Wyman BM1 One Subsea ME1 Optio Labs COMP1 Optum BM1 OSIsoft ME2 Pacific Gas & Electric CH1 Pandora Media CS1 Parsons CE1 PeopleFluent ES1 Petronas/Malaysia CH1 ME1 Polymer & Chemical Technologies CH1 Power Plan BM1 CH3 CE2 CS2 ES1 ME5 Philips BM1 Praxair CH1 PricewaterhouseCoopers PwC ES1 ME1 Procter & Gamble ME1 Professional Service Industries ES1 Qgenda BM6 ME1 QMSI CS1 Quality Manufacturing Systems ME1 Raymond James CH1 Raytheon EE1 RBC ES1 RBS EE1 Real Time Innovation CS1 Reflektive ME1 Reformed University Fellowship CH1 Regions ES1 Rice 360 BM1 RMP Transportation CE1 RW Armstrong CE1 SABIC CH1 EE1 Sandia National Labs ME1 Sandler O'Neill & Partners ME1 Schlumberger BM1 CH3 CE1 EE1 ES1 ME1 Schneider Electric CS1 ES1 ME1 Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) EE1 Scott Fetzer Electrical Group 14 Seequ CS1 Sensec Security COMP1 Shell CH1 Solar City Energy Systems ME1 Southeastern Tool and Design ME1 SpaceX ME1 Spirit Aerosystems ME1 St. Jude Medical BM3 Stephens ES1 Strand Associates CE1 StudioCRB CS1 Summit Polymers ME1 Teach for America ES2 ME1 Teach for Malaysia CH1 Tesla ME1 Texas Instruments BM1 EE2 ES1 The Navigators CH1 Thornton Tomasetti CE1 Thriven Financial ME1 Thumbtack CS1 TriStar Health (HCA) ES1 Tudor Pickering and Holt (TPH) CE1 Turner Construction CE2 Turner Universal CE1 UBS/FS CE1 CS1 EE1 U.S. Air Force ME1 U.S. Army CE1 EE1 ES1 ME1 U.S. Army Department CS1 U.S. DoDefense COMP1 U.S. Marine Corps CH1 U.S. Navy BM2 CE2 EE1 ES3 ME3 U.S. Patent & Trademark Office BM1 Vanderbilt School of Engineering BM2 Vanderbilt University BM1 Vanderbilt University Medical Center BM1 Verizon CH1 VMG Health CH1 Walt Disney EE1 ES1 Wells Fargo CE1 ME1 Whiting-Turner Contracting CE1 ME2 Zynga CS1
FOR more detailed information on jobs and salaries, etc., that have gone to graduating seniors at VUSE in each of the past four years, please click here: 2015 - 2014 - 2013 - 2012 VNC
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