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Career opportunities in materials
Employment information for MSE students and employers.
Engineering Career Services
Far and away the best resource available to our students! ECS is assists undergrads and grad students alike by offering job search workshops, practice interview sessions, and individual career counseling. The ECS web site provides access to hundreds of job postings. Along with powerful research capabilities, this site includes job search links, online interview scheduling, and resume posting (post your resume the way you want it to look)! You'll also receive the kind of personal help and guidance that you can't get from a headhunter. There is a one-time $25 sign-up fee which will allow you to enter your resume in their online database.
- Link to ECS co-op's and internships are excellent opportunities to preview a potential career field, to get your foot in the door, and to obtain professional experience needed to compete with other graduating seniors.
- Link to ECS employment listings ECS links employers with registered graduating engineers seeking opportunities for full-time, post-graduate employment (explore the "Students" section of the ECS site for details).
F.E. and P.E. Exams
One of the most important decisions you can make early in your engineering career is to place yourself on a course to become licensed as a professional engineer (P.E.). The profession is regulated by licensing boards in each U.S. state and territory.
[Learn more about the benefits of the F.E. and P.E. exams.]
Further info:
- OSU students are certified by Ohio State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Surveyors. It is through this board that a student applies and takes the exam.
- The College of Engineering offers Engineering 510 each Winter Quarter. This course helps prepare students for the FE exam. Current students as well as engineering degree holders may register for the course. For more information, contact Ed McCaul.
- A PE exam review course (non-credit) is available through the College of Engineering. For more information, contact Ed McCaul.
Career Management Tool
by AfterCollege
This is a free service provided to academic departments for the benefit of students. This site provides an additional location to post a resume and research companies. Students can confidentially post their resumes and browse job postings. Employers can post jobs and browse confidential student resumes.
Students
Alumni
Employers / Recruiters
NOTE: This service is not sponsored or endorsed by The Ohio State University, the College of Engineering, and/or the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. This is simply an option available if deemed useful by the viewer.
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The tool of choice for online college recruiting!
Career Resources
- Link to Careers in Science and Engineering An extensive planning guide for both undergraduate and graduate students aimed at directing one's thinking about career goals and how to achieve these goals.
- Link to MSE Career Resource Center This site provides basic information on MSE including profiles of materials scientists and links to a large number of corporation web sites.
- Link to ASM International Career Center Job search resources for ASM members such as an on-line job database, resume referral Service, job match service, career links and tips, salary surveys, and more!
- Link to Career Guides Guidance in making education and career decisions--provided by the National Academy of Sciences.
- Link to GraduatingEngineer.com Articles on networking, job markets, company profiles, and job postings.
- Link to Job Choices Online Online magazine with articles on job searches, resumes, interviewing, and negotiating.
- Link to CV and Resume Writting Articles on resume writing.
Materials-related sites
- Link to ASM International Career Center Job search resources for ASM members such as an on-line job database, resume referral Service, job match service, career links and tips, salary surveys, and more!
- Link to MaterialsJobs.com Links to materials-related jobs! Receive new job openings by e-mail.
- Link to ACerS job listings Post your resume with ACerS or find a job opening through the ACerS listings.
- Link to TMS Materials Resource Center The Materials Resource Center includes Positions Wanted/Positions Available, New Products and Services, and Workshops, Seminars, and New Publication Announcements.
- Link to Aeroindustryjobs A Portland, OR based company specializing in Internet recruiting for the Aerospace/Defense/Aviation and Advanced Materials industries. The services, free to job seekers, include a database of open job positions and a weekly email newsletter detailing all of job positions currently available.
- Link to EngineeringJobs.com Engineering positions for a wide array of fields, links to major employers and professional societies.
- Link to NationJobs A large listing of engineering and manufacturing jobs with links to corporations.
Academia
- Link to American Society for Engineering Education Faculty and chair openings available at universities across the country.
- Link to Chronicle of Higher Education Job openings in higher education, job-market news, articles, etc.
- Link to Higher Education Jobs Online Over 1200 faculty and staff positions at 200+ universities.
- Link to Academic Careers Online Self-described as "the ultimate global job site of career opportunities in education and academia." A free service that permits you to search job openings by school type, job title, or location, and--with registration--submit your personal job search criteria and receive e-mail notifications when jobs matching your criteria are submitted, as well as post your resume to the database for review by prospective employers.
General employment sites
- Link to AfterCollege is a service for college students and recent graduates who are looking for jobs, internships, and other opportunities. Sign up and post your resume to receive invitations from employers or search through 75,000+ jobs from over 20,000 top employers.
- Link to Monster.com Listings for over 350,000 jobs of all kinds.
- Link to Monstertrak.com Career Fairs by category, moving and salary calculators.
- Link to JobProspector.com 7,000+ job listings, all in Ohio.
Please note: These listings are by no means exhaustive and should not be viewed as an endorsement of these sites per se. The MSE department is not responsible for the content of these sites and provides these links simply as a means of assisting the user in the job search process.
Employers...
Advertising job openings.
Posting positions with Engineering Career Services. ECS offers a powerful tool for recruiters by means of the Career Connections' online database system. This service is free to employers and will permit you to post openings, search, sort, and print resumes, and schedule interviews with students.
Additionally, the MSE department will be glad to forward a company's position descriptions to our undergrads and/or graduate students via the department's e-mail server. Please provide the following information:
- Description of position,
- Qualifications sought,
- Deadlines,
- Contact information,
- Other relevant material
This information should be sent via e-mail to mse@osu.edu. Position descriptions may also be faxed to (614) 292-1537 ATTN: Mark Cooper. Faxed job openings will be summarized by our staff and e-mailed to our students then posted in a central location.
Contacting MSE alumni
The MSE department will forward job openings to our alumni who participate in the employment distribution list mentioned above. Employers may also wish to make use of the AfterCollege.com Career Management Tool found above.
