Successful Graduates
Coe students who have pursued our pre-engineering program have gone on to obtain advanced degrees from some of the most prestigious engineering schools in the country, including: Stanford, MIT, Northwestern, Lehigh, Vanderbilt, U. of Minnesota, UCLA. Many have then gone to excellent engineering companies like Rockwell Collins, Boeing, Intel, Advanced Micro Devices, Cargill, and others.
| Amy Marquardt ’09 Amy Marquardt received a full ride to the University of Maryland, where she is currently attending the graduate program in Material Science and Engineering. While at Coe, Amy pursued many research opportunities, including attending the International Borate Conference in Himeji, Japan, and doing an internship at the Smithsonian Institution. She worked on glass research for two summers. |
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Sara Campbell ’05 Sara did glass research for two summers while at Coe, working on infrared measurements of several exotic glass families. Her capstone experience came when she was able to spend three weeks in China in a collaborative optics project with Fudan University in Shanghai. Currently she is a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Nanoscale Reliability Group. |
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Eric Hemesath ’05 Eric also took full advantage of the research opportunities afforded to him. He did glass research under Professor Mario Affatigato his first summer, presented his results at an international conference held at Coe, then went on to the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory the next year. His capstone experience came in the year before graduation, when he spent the whole summer at the prestigious Max Planck Institute in Germany, a rare opportunity. Eric is currently a Process Engineer at Intel Corporation. |
| Colleen Hinman ’03 While at Coe, Colleen co-authored 5 journal articles in peer-reviewed journals and spent weeks in Japan in the laboratory of a scientific collaborator. After graduating from Coe, Colleen was accepted with a full ride to Iowa State University, where she obtained a master’s degree in Materials Science and Engineering. She is currently an Instrumentation Specialist at Cargill Inc., an international producer and marketer of food and agricultural products. |
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| Nate Lower ’01 Nate Lower obtained a full ride at the University of Missouri Rolla, where he received his Ph.D. in Material Science in 2004. While at Coe, he carried out glass research under Professor Steve Feller, and he attended the conference on Non-Crystalline Materials in Aberystwyth, Wales. Upon graduation with his doctorate he was hired by Rockwell Collins, where he is currently Senior Mechanical Engineer. |
Other students have also gone on to pursue advanced degrees or to obtain employment in the field immediately following graduation from Coe. Here is a look at what those graduates are doing today.
Graduate School |
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Year |
Number of Students |
Schools Attended |
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2011 |
9 |
Yale, Georgia Tech (2), Iowa State University, NC State, Minnesota, UC Davis, SDSU, UT-Auston |
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2010 |
2 |
Iowa State University, Minnesota |
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2009 |
6 |
Harvard, Georgia Tech, U. Maryland, Iowa State University, University of Iowa, UTSI |
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2008 |
3 |
UC Davis, University of Iowa, Tulane |
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2007 |
3 |
Columbia Univeristy, Missouri University of Science and Technology, U. of Arizona |
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2006 |
3 |
Penn State, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Minnesota |
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Average percent of majors going to graduate school: 66% |
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Percent going from those who applied: 93% |
Employment |
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Year |
Number of Students |
Jobs |
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2011 |
3 |
Two in high school teaching; One at Los Alamos National Laboratory |
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2010 |
3 |
One at Corning Inc.; One in WorldTeach; One applying for graduate school |
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2009 |
1 |
One teaching English in the Czech Republic |
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2008 |
1 |
One working as an actuary; One employed and looking for a teaching job |
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2007 |
0 |
N/A |
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2006 |
4 |
One at FEI, Two in software programming; One working as an actuary |
| Net in graduate school or employed: 100% | ||
