Careers in Engineering & Physics
Physics & Engineering Department

What types of jobs do our graduates get?

Listed below are a few of the careers our recent graduates are pursuing:

• Physics Professor, San Juan College, Farmington, NM
• Oregon Department of Transportation & Geotechnical Engineering
• Officer, U.S. Navy
• Officer, U.S. Air Force
• Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics, Fort Lewis College
• Raytheon, Manager, South Pole Science Support, RPSC
• Raytheon Missile Systems, Manufacturing Engineer
• Officer, Colorado State Patrol, Division of Accident Reconstruction
• Aerospace Engineer, Lockheed Skunkworks, CA
• Optical Engineer, Ball Aerospace, Boulder, CO
• Neuro-Physics Research Professor
• Cargo Pilot, Salt Lake City, UT
• Head of R&D Mechanical Engineering, MKS Instruments, Boulder, CO
• Biomedical Engineer – Titanium Joint Replacements
• Assistant Prof of Physics, Metro State College, Denver
• Electro-Optical Engineer, Ball Aerospace, Boulder, CO
• Engineer, Wilkerson Corporation, Denver, CO
• Engineer, SEI, Carbondale, CO
• High School Teacher
• Engineering Manager, IBM Research Labs
• Manager, Systems Engineering, ITT Night Vision, R&D Engineering
• Consulting Engineer, Harris Engineering, Durango, CO
• Bechtolt Engineering, Durango, CO
• Engineer, La Plata County, CO
• New Mexico Oncology Hematology Consultants, Ltd., Albuquerque, NM
• Rainbow Research Optics, Denver CO
• Forerunner Engineering, Durango, CO
• Lab Coordinator, Fort Lewis College Department of Physics & Engineering
• Eugene, Oregon school district 4J, Instructional Assistant
• Goff Engineering, Durango, CO
• Engineer, CH2M Hill
• Russell Engineering, Durango, CO
• Jacobs Engineering, Durango, CO
• Science Faculty, Jesuit High School, Denver, CO
• IBM research, Atlanta, GA
• Bechtolt Engineering, Durango, CO
• Engineer, La Plata County, Durango, CO
• Medical Physicist, New Mexico Oncology Hematology Consultants Ltd, New Mexico Cancer Center in Albuquerque, NM.
• CH2M Hill (environmental engineering), Denver, CO
• Goff Engineering in Durango, CO
• WestWater Engineering in Grand Junction, CO
• Engineer, Forerunner Corporation, Durango, CO
• Structural Engineer, Reynolds & Associates, Durango, CO
• Engineer, Forerunner Corporation, Durango, CO
• Rocket Test Engineer, Advanced Mobile Propulsion Test (AMPT), Durango, CO
• W.L Gore and Associates, Flagstaff Arizona
• Raytheon Company, Farmington, New Mexico
• Aka Energy Group, Durango, CO
• City Engineer, Mountain Home, Arkansas
• Northrop Grumman Corporation, Colorado Springs, CO
• Air Quality Specialist, Southern Ute Indian Tribe, Ignacio, CO
• Water & Wastewater Lab Technician and Operator, Town of Telluride, CO
• Dram Product Test Engineer, Micron Technology, Boise, ID
• Process Engineer, Leonardo Electronics
• Production Engineer, Naval Surface Warfare Center
• Failure Analysis and Fault Isolation Engineer, Intel Corporation

Recent Graduate School Placement of our Students includes:

• Colorado State University, Fort Collins
• University of Colorado, Boulder
• University of Kansas
• University of New Mexico
• University of Dayton, OH
• University of Michigan
• UC Irvine
• South Dakota School of Mines & Technology
• University of Utah
• Duke University