Alumni Survey Results - Fall 2000
Date of Mailing: August
14, 2000
Number of surveys sent: 389
Total Number of Responses: 31
Compiled on October 23, 2000, by Jennifer Struffert
1. What year did you graduate from the EE department?
| 1986 | 2 |
| 1987 | 1 |
| 1988 | 2 |
| 1989 | 4 |
| 1990 | 1 |
| 1991 | 6 |
| 1992 | 1 |
| 1993 | 3 |
| 1995 | 2 |
| 1996 | 1 |
| 1997 | 2 |
| 1998 | 4 |
| 1999 | 2 |
2. What position or title so you currently hold within your company?
| Account Manager | 1 | 3% |
| ASIC Engineer | 1 | 3% |
| CAD Engineer | 1 | 3% |
| Consultant | 1 | 3% |
| Design Engineer | 1 | 3% |
| Director of Engineering | 1 | 3% |
| Electrical Engineer | 2 | 6% |
| Electrical Systems Engineer | 1 | 3% |
| Engineer | 1 | 3% |
| Hardware Engineer | 2 | 6% |
| IT Manager | 1 | 3% |
| Market Analyst Supervisor | 1 | 3% |
| New Test Introduction Engineer | 1 | 3% |
| Owner | 1 | 3% |
| Performance Modeling Engineer | 1 | 3% |
| President/Design Engineer | 1 | 3% |
| Project Manager/Engineer | 1 | 3% |
| Senior Engineer | 1 | 3% |
| Senior Hardware Development Engineer | 1 | 3% |
| Senior Production Engineer/Operations Instructor | 1 | 3% |
| Senior Software Engineer | 1 | 3% |
| Senior Staff Engineer | 1 | 3% |
| Senior Systems Engineer | 1 | 3% |
| Software Engineer | 1 | 3% |
| Software Project Engineer | 1 | 3% |
| Staff Engineer | 3 | 10% |
| Systems Specialist | 1 | 3% |
3. What are your responsibilities in this position?
- Management of major electric accounts with more than $60 million in annual revenue.
- Physical integration of ASIC chips.
- Software design, maintenance, and distribution.
- Provide general programming and QA support for business applications. Mentor junior employees.
- Analog/digital design of control PCB's. Filmware (Programming in C) to run control boards.
- Vision, direction, oversight of a department of 125 engineers.
- Design of power and lighting systems for building construction for industrial and commercial buildings.
- Design and development of the hardware and software modules for telecommunication products.
- Provide senior level design input to electrical systems including ASIC, PCB, signal integrity and circuits designs.
- CPU cache design, shared-memory architecture design and simulation.
- Logic design and simulation process.
- Maintain the company network.
- Market demand and requirement analysis.
- Implement and support new test hardware and software used for magnetic recording head testing (hard drive heads).
- Engineering consulting, customer sales, quoting, interviewing/hiring employees, etc.
- Model the performance of disk drive concepts.
- Embedded software, embedded hardware design, automation.
- Technical lead for next generation project. Analog design.
- Instruct nuclear reactor operation classes, operation computer driven control room simulator, evaluate operator performance.
- Developing/designing software.
- Design hardware and software for embedded systems.
- Designing control systems for manufacturing facilities. This includes overseeing the construction, installation, and checkout phases, as well as directing CADD support and junior level engineers.
- Develop Windows applications that interface with our interface cards.
- Design and implement software.
- Write low-level requirements, write code perform to DO-178B (FAA Guidelines).
- Design, analysis, implementation, and test of embedded software applications as well as managing a group of other software engineers.
- Project development in the ring laser gyro product line.
- Component design for surface analysis systems. Field service and component repair.
- Manage design process for 20-35 building construction projects per year.
- Embedded systems.
4. Did the EE department provide you with the fundamental knowledge that you needed at your company?
| Yes | 29 | 94% |
| No | 0 | 0% |
| Unsure | 2 | 6% |
5. Did the EE department provide you the practical problem solving and design skills required at your company?
| Yes | 30 | 97% |
| No | 0 | 0% |
| Unsure | 1 | 3% |
6. Did the EE department and SCSU provide you with the communication skills needed at your company?
| Yes | 27 | 87% |
| No | 2 | 6% |
| Unsure | 2 | 6% |
7. Did the EE department and SCSU provide you with the teamwork skills desired at your company?
| Yes | 28 | 90% |
| No | 1 | 3% |
| Unsure | 2 | 6% |
8. Did the EE department and SCSU provide you with the appreciation for life-long learning needed at your company?
| Yes | 28 | 90% |
| No | 0 | 0% |
| Unsure | 2 | 6% |
| No Response | 1 | 3% |
9. Did the EE department and SCSU help you develop the professionalism desired at your company?
| Yes | 27 | 87% |
| No | 1 | 3% |
| Unsure | 2 | 6% |
| No Response | 1 | 3% |
10. Please indicate areas that could be improved.
| Analog Electronics | 13 | 32% |
| Communications | 7 | 17% |
| Control | 6 | 15% |
| Computer Software | 5 | 12% |
| Senior Design | 2 | 5% |
| Computer Hardware | 1 | 2% |
| Engineering writing, business/management skills | 1 | 2% |
| High Power Electronics | 1 | 2% |
| Internship opportunities (1989) | 1 | 2% |
| Physics | 1 | 2% |
| Power Systems | 1 | 2% |
| Technical Writing | 1 | 2% |
| VSLI Circuits and Design | 1 | 2% |
