THE GRAINGER COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AEROSPACE ENGINEERING

2018-2019 Illini Success Survey Outcomes* UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING

of students** reported having an internship 62% or co-op during their degree program.

PRIMARY POST-GRADUATIONUG AE STATUS

1.1% Seeking additional education (1) Working part-time (1) Employer Type 1.1% Sample Graduate Schools Organization 60 96.8% 21% Georgia Institute of Technology Post-graduate 1 1.6% 65.5% Enrolling in Massachusetts Institute of Technology Working full- additional internship/fellowship time (57) Purdue University education (18) University of California, Berkeley Engaged in military 1 1.6% University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign service Total responses 62 100% 9.1% Seeking employment (8) 1.1% Working in the military (1) 1.1% Prefer not to answer (1) ANNUAL SALARY INFORMATION BASED ON AEROSPACE ENGINEERING (FULL-TIME EMPLOYMENT ONLY) 32 out of 57 (56%) full-time graduates reported salaries

Respondents Respondents Average 25th Percentile 50th Percentile 75th Percentile Reporting Reporting Valid Full-time Salary Employment 57 32 $69,474 $66,500 $70,000 $73,250 Signing Bonus 57 14 $4,536 $3,000 $4,250 $6,500

SELECTION OF EMPLOYERS EMPLOYER LOCATION SELECTION OF POSITIONS

Aerojet Rocketdyne Aerospace Engineer Boeing Aircraft Records Analyst 20.7% Midwest (12) Caterpillar (excluding Illinois) Associate Orbit Analyst Lockheed Martin 41.4% 8.6% South (5) Controls Systems Engineer Employed 25.9% West (15) NAVAIR graduates in IL Design Engineer Northrop Grumman (24) 3.4% Northeast (2) Embedded Flight Software Engineer Raytheon Mechanical Engineer Rockwell Collins Missile Analyst Rolls-Royce Systems/Software Engineer United Launch Alliance Based on 58 respondents Thermal Systems Analysis Engineer

*A total of 127 undergraduate students from the Department of Aerospace Engineering in the Grainger College of Engineering graduated in August 2018, December 2019 or May 2019. Of those, 87 students responded to The Illini Success Survey, accounting for a 68% response rate. This report provides general information about the department’s graduating class and survey respondents. Excludes salary outliers less than or greater than 3 standard deviations from the mean. Also, note that N values less than 10 are for internal reference only. According to project IRB, items with N less than 10 cannot be shared publicly in the interest of respondent confidentiality. **A total of 45 undergraduate students from the Department of Aerospace Engineering reported having experiential learning activities with 28 of them having an internship or co-op during their program.

ENGINEERING CAREER SERVICES ecs.engineering.illinois.edu