Employment Information
SDSU's EE graduates are in high demand by numerous employers, many right here in South Dakota and the upper Midwest.
Nearly all of these graduates are working as either design engineers or in research & development (R&D).
Several also work in technical sales and marketing or have pursued military careers.
Quite a few graduates have also chosen graduate schools to obtain Master of Science (MS), Doctorate (Ph.D.) and Masters of Business Administration degrees.
Several have also pursued medical school following their undergraduate EE degree.
Below is a list of employers of our graduating students:
- 3M, Inc. (Brookings, SD)
- 3M, Inc. (St. Paul, MN)
- ABB-Asea Brown Boveri, (Houston, TX)
- ADC Communications (Minneapolis, MN)
- Ag Chem, Inc., (Jackson, MN)
- Airborne Data Systems, (Brookings, SD)
- American Express/Special Teams, (Brookings, SD)
- American Science & Technology (Brookings, SD)
- Amonix, (Seal Beach, CA)
- Analysts International Corporation, (Rochester, MN)
- Alaska Anvil Corporation (Anchorage, AK)
- Bapco, Inc., (Viborg, SD)
- Black Hills Power, (Rapid City, SD)
- Black & Veatch, (Kansas City, KS)
- Bobcat (Boeing, (Kansas City, MO)
- Boeing, (Seattle, WA)
- Booz Auken & Hamilton Consultants (McLean, VA)
- Brocade, (Omaha, NE)
- Brooks Borg Skiles Architecture Engineering LLP, (Des Moines, IA)
- Brookings Municipal, (Brookings, SD)
- Burns & McDonnell, (Kansas City, MO)
- BW Systems, (St. Paul, MN)
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- B&W Patex, (Amarillo, TX)
- Caterpiller (Chicago, IL)
- Chrysler Corporation, (Detroit, MI)
- CoEv, Inc., (Watertown, SD)
- ComEd (Chicago, IL)
- Comstrand, (Fridley, MN)
- Connect, Inc., (Woodbury, MN)
- Control Technology, (Sioux Falls, SD)
- Cooper Power Systems, Energy Automation Solutions (Minneapolis, MN)
- Daktronics, Inc., (Brookings, SD)
- Dakota Supply Group (Sioux Falls, SD)
- Dana Larson Roubal & Associates, (Minneapolis, MN)
- DeWild Grant and Reckert & Assoc., Co., (Rock Rapids, IA)
- Dukes Aerospace,
(Minneapolis, MN)
- East River Electric Power Cooperative, (Madison, SD)
- Electrical Consultants, Inc., (Billings, MT)
- Emanuelson-Podas, Inc.(Minneapolis, MN)
- EMD Benchmark, Inc., (Winona, MN)
- EMPI, Inc., (Clear Lake, SD)
- EROS Data Center (Baltic, SD)
- Fargo Electronics (Eden Prairie, MN)
- Gateway, (North Sioux City, SD)
- Garmin, (Olathe, KS)
- General Electric (Sioux Falls, SD)
- Goodrich Sensors and Integrated Systems, Burnsville, MN
- Harris-Allied Broadcast Division, (Quincy, IL)
- Heartland Consumers Power District, (Madison, SD)
- Hutchinson Technology, Inc. (Sioux Falls)
- Hutchinson Technology, Inc. (St. Paul, MN)
- IBM, (Rochester, MN)
- I-Control, Inc., (Watertown, SD)
- Intel Corp., Inc., (Rio Rancho, NM)
- Intel Corp., (Phoenix, AZ)
- Intel Corp., Inc. (Malaysia)
- Interactive Technologies, Inc., (St. Paul, MN)
- Interstates Control Systems, (Sioux Center, IA)
- Interstates Engineering, (Sioux Center, IA)
- Iowa Beef Processors, Inc., (South Sioux City, NE)
- John Deere, (Waterloo, IA)
- Kentucky Educational Television
- Larson Binkley, (Overland Park, KS)
- Lockheed Martin, (Denver, CO)
- Loral Vought Systems, (Dallas, TX)
- Magnavox, (Fort Wayne, IN)
- Malloy, (Sioux Falls, SD)
- Malaysian Power Utilities, (Malaysia)
- Marshall Municipal Utilities, (Marshall, MN)
- Martin and Associates, (Mitchell, SD)
- Mayo Clinic, (Rochester, MN)
- Micron Technology, (Boise, ID)
- Michaud Cooley Erickson, (Minneapolis, MN)
- MidAmerican Energy, (Sioux City, IA)
- Midcom, Inc. (Watertown, SD)
- Minnesota Rubber, (St. Louis Park, MN)
- Missouri River Energy Services, (Sioux Falls, SD)
- MISO (St. Paul, MN)
- Motorola Corp., (Fort Worth, TX)
- Motorola Corp., (Malaysia)
- MTR Systems, Inc., (Brookings, SD)
- Nebraska Public Power District (Kearney, NE)
- Nestle USA, (St. Joseph, MO)
- Naval Undersee War Center (Providence, RI)
- Northwestern Energy, (Mitchell, SD)
- Northwestern Energy, (Yankton, SD)
- Northwestern Energy, (Aberdeen, SD)
- Northwest Iowa Power Cooperative (Sioux City, IA)
- Ontrack, (Minnetonka, MN)
- Ontrack, Inc., (Bloomington, MN)
- Otter Tail Power, (Fergus Falls, MN)
- Plexes, Inc. (Neenah, WI)
- Patrick Energy Service, Chicago, IL)
- PE Group, (Sioux Falls, SD)
- Ratheon (Los Angelos, CA)
- Raven Industries, (Sioux Falls, SD)
- Peoples Cooperative Services, (Rochester, MN
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- POWER Engineers, Inc., (Billings, MT)
- Precision Inc., (St. Paul, MN)
- Power/mation, (Sioux Falls, SD)
- Rockwell Collins, (Cedar Rapids, IA)
- Rosemount, Inc., (Rosemount, MN)
- Rushmore Electric Power Cooperative, (Rapid City, SD)
- Sencore, Inc., (Sioux Falls, SD)
- Sheldahl, Inc., (Britton, SD)
- Sioux Valley Energy, (Coleman, SD)
- Spectra Logic Corporation, Boulder, CO
- Tanaga National Power, (Malaysia)
- Tellabs, (Bolingbrook, IL)
- The Schemmer Associates (Omaha, NE)
- T&R Electric, (Coleman, SD)
- TSP, (Sioux Falls, SD)
- Tyco Electronics (Watertown, SD)
- Xcel Energy, (Sioux Falls, SD)
- Xcel Energy, (Monticello, MN)
- Ulteig Engineering, Sioux Falls, SD)
- Ulteig Engineering, (Fargo, ND)
- Unified Theory, (Sioux Falls, SD)
- U.S. Air Force
- U.S. Army
- U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers, Omaha District (Omaha, NE)
- U.S. Marine Corps
- U.S. Wireless, (Baltimore, MD)
- Vantage Point (Mitchell, SD)
- Watertown Municipal Utilities Dept., (Watertown, SD)
- WebTite.com (Watertown, SD)
- Western Area Power Administration, (Huron, SD)
- Western Area Power Administration, (Watertown, SD)
- West Plains Engineering, (Sioux Falls, SD)
- West Plains Engineering, (Rapid City, SD)
- Winco, Inc., (LaCenter, WI)