Career Opportunities
Commercial Cruise, Internships, and Careers
Our Mechanical Engineering (ME) students highly sought after upon graduation.
ME students pursuing the US Coast Guard 3rd Assistant Engineers License Option can use their license to sail as an engineer aboard commercial vessels or use the licensure to demonstrate technical knowledge and competencies that can valuable to employers. Those students seeking a US Coast Guard 3rd Assistant Engineers License will participate in two sixty day training cruises aboard the TS Golden Bear and one Commercial Cruise.
ME students pursing the Energy Design Option or the Mechanical Design Option will graduate with three summers of work experience on their resume. These students will participate aboard one sixty training cruise aboard the TS Golden Bear and two eight-week engineering or scientific internships.
Commercial Cruise (Internship at Sea)
All students in the Mechanical Engineering degree seeking a US Coast Guard 3rd Assistants Licenses are required to do a sixty day commercial cruise. Commercial Cruise is completed your sophomore summer after successfully passing the first training ship cruise. For Commercial Cruise you will sail aboard an actual working Merchant Marine Vessel. This is an opportunity to get hands on training through opportunities around the world and on all type of vessel platforms and engine types. Students in the past have secured Commercial Cruise Billets with:
| Alaska Marine Highway Alaska Tanker Company American Presidents Lines Chevron Shipping Company Crowley Maritime Dredge Operators Edison Chouest Offshore Foss Maritime G&H Towing Hawaiian Tug & Barge / Young Brothers Horizon Lines Hornblower Marine Services J. Ray McDermott K-Sea Transportation Laborde Marine Maresk Lines Ltd. |
Matson Navigation Company Military Sealift Command Norwegian Cruise Lines Ocean Shipholdings Overseas Shipholding Group Pasha Hawaii Polar Tankers Scripps Institute of Oceanography Seabulk Tankers Seacor Marine Tote United Maritime Group US Army Corps of Engineers United States Shipping Western Towboat |
Internship Opportunities
Students in the Mechanical Engineering degree seeking the Energy Design Option or Mechanical Design Option are required to do two eighty week internships as a graduation requirement. Students have had internship in a wide range of roles and industries. Students in the past have completed internships with:
| ACCO Engineered Systems AGI Engineering, Inc. Arcturus Marine Systems BAE Systems, San Francisco Ship Repair Cardinal Cogen Chevron Constellation Energy Equity Office FM Global Foss Maritime Halcrow Group Hansen Rigging Hornblower Cruises & Events Interface Engineering |
The J. David Gladstone Institutes |
Career Opportunities
Mechanical Engineering graduates go on to exciting careers in a number of maritime and engineering related areas such as 3rd Assistant Engineer, Stationary Engineer, Quality Assurance, Design, Power Plant Operations, Manufacturing, and Building Maintenance to name a few. For example, some of our recent graduates currently work for:
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Able Engineering Services |
Hornblower Marine Services |