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Career OpportunitiesUT ECE graduates carry a considerable advantage into the industry. Known as the "Silicon Hills," Austin and UT ECE are well-known to prospective employers who know that they can find the talent they are looking for in UT ECE graduates.

Noted UT ECE alumni include: Dr. James Truchard, President and CEO of National Instruments; Dr. Phil Hester, former CTO of AMD; Dr. Mark Papermaster, Senior Vice President of Devices and Hardware Engineering at Apple; Dr. William Schaffer, owner and founder of Advanced Materials Processing; Dr. Duy-Loan Le, Senior Fellow at Texas Instruments; Dr. Adrian Agogino, Researcher at NASA Ames; as well as professors and researchers at major ECE programs across the country.

From Apple to NASA and everywhere in-between, employers look to UT ECE graduates to build the future of their companies.

Companies that recruited ECE students at UT-Austin in the past 5 years

  • 21st Century Technologies, Inc.
  • 2H Offshore
  • 3M Company
  • Accenture
  • Accretech USA, Inc.
  • Aerospace Corporation
  • Air Liquide America LP
  • Albert-Garaudy Consulting Engineers
  • AMEC Paragon
  • Analog Devices
  • Anthony & Sylvan Pools
  • Anue Systems, Inc.
  • Appian Corporation
  • Apple Inc.
  • AWC
  • Baker Hughes
  • Bechtel Inc.
  • Bell Helicopter Textron
  • BJ Services
  • Black & Veatch
  • Bloomberg
  • BP America Production Company
  • BuildASign.com
  • Burlington Northern Santa Fe
  • Cadbury Schweppes American Beverages
  • Capital One
  • CarMax Auto Finance
  • Carrier Corporation
  • Caterpillar Inc
  • CB&I
  • Celanese Ltd.
  • Centaur Technology
  • CenterPoint Energy
  • CenturyTel
  • Cerner Corporation
  • Chemic Engineers
  • Chevron
  • Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP
  • Cirrus Logic
  • Cisco Systems
  • CNA Corporation
  • ConocoPhillips
  • Constellation Energy Commodities Group
  • Continental Tire North America, Inc.
  • Cooper B-Line, Inc.
  • CPS Energy
  • Crosstex Energy
  • Cummins Inc.
  • Dallas Semiconductor-Maxim Integrated Products
  • Data Systems & Solutions
  • DBR Engineering Consultants
  • Dell Computer Corporation
  • Deloitte Consulting
  • Denali Software, Inc.
  • Dolby Laboratories
  • Dow Chemical U.S.A.
  • Dupont
  • Eaton Corporation
  • EDG Consulting Engineers
  • El Paso Corporation
  • Emerson Process Management
  • Entergy Corporation
  • Epic Systems Corporation
  • ETHICON Johnson & Johnson
  • Exeltech Inc.
  • ExxonMobil
  • F1innegan Henderson
  • Fluke Networks
  • Fluor Corporation
  • FM Global
  • FMC Technologies
  • Foster Wheeler Corporation
  • Freescale Semiconductor
  • Freese & Nichols Inc.
  • General Electric Company
  • General Motors
  • Goldman Sachs & Co.
  • Goodyear
  • Gulf Interstate Engineering
  • Halliburton Company
  • Harutunian Engineering, Inc. (HEI)
  • Hewlett Packard
  • IBM
  • Infosys Technologies Ltd.
  • Innovative Signal Analysis
  • International Paper
  • Intrinsity
  • Invista
  • Invocon
  • J. Ray McDermott
  • Jacobs Technology
  • Jet Propulsion Lab
  • Johns Manville
  • JP Morgan
  • Keyence Corporation of America
  • Kimberly Clark Corporation
  • KLA-Tencor Corp.
  • L-3 Communications Integrated Systems
  • Lincoln Electric
  • Lockheed Martin Corporation
  • Lufkin Industries Inc.
  • Lyondell Chemical Company
  • Lyondell Houston Refining LP
  • M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratory
  • Manhattan Associates LLC
  • Marvell Semiconductor
  • Maximus
  • McVeigh & Mangum Engineering, Inc.
  • MeadWestvaco
  • Medtronic, Inc.
  • Merrill Lynch
  • MH Pyramid
  • Micron Technology Inc.
  • Microsoft Corporation
  • Microstrategy Inc.
  • MPR Associates, Inc.
  • Mustang Engineering
  • NASA - Johnson Space Center
  • NASA - Glenn Research Center
  • National Instruments
  • National Oilwell Varco
  • NetQoS
  • Occidental Chemical
  • Optaros, Inc.
  • PathFinder Energy Services
  • Poly-America, L.P.
  • PPG Industries
  • PPM Energy
  • Precision Castparts Corp.
  • Procter & Gamble/Engr/Mfg
  • Qualcomm Inc.
  • Quorum Business Solutions
  • Raytheon
  • Raza Microelectronics
  • Samsung Austin Semiconductor
  • SanDisk
  • Schlumberger
  • Schneider Electric
  • Shah Smith & Associates
  • Shell Oil Company
  • Sherwin-Williams Company, The
  • Silicon Laboratories
  • SMSC
  • Southern Union Company
  • Southwest Research Inst.
  • Spectra Energy
  • SSC San Diego
  • Sunoco Chemicals
  • TAC Americas, Inc.
  • Technip USA
  • Teradyne Inc.
  • Tesoro Companies, Inc.
  • Texas Instruments
  • TICOM Geomatics, Inc.
  • Tokyo Electron America Inc.
  • Trane Co.
  • TXU
  • U.S. Navy Recruiting Command
  • Union Pacific
  • Universal Lighting Technologies
  • Valero Energy Corporation
  • Verizon
  • VI Technology
  • W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
  • Washington Group International
  • Way Holding Limited
  • Weatherford International
  • WellDynamics
  • Wintegra Inc.
  • WorleyParsons