Workforce 2012

Aviation Week Study Ranks Universities

The 2012 Aviation Week study look at universities through three different lenses.

1. Go‐To Universities. These are the universities respondents to the study ranked as their preferred “suppliers” for new graduate hiring in critical skill areas.

2. By the Numbers. These rankings reflect where the industry hired the most new graduates. 

3. Making the Difference – young professionals from these universities believed their alma mater made a difference for when landing their first job or vying for promotions/new assignments.


Go To Universities By The Numbber - Where A&D Hired the Most Making the Difference - These
1. Cal Poly – San Luis/Obispo 1. Iowa State University 1.Georgia Institute of Technology
2. Purdue University 2. University of Washington 2.(tie) Purdue University, Virginia Tech, Rose‐ of Hulman InstituteTechnology
3. (tie) University of Maryland, Rochester Institute of Technology 3. Purdue University 3.Cal Poly – San Luis/Obispo
4. Georgia Institute of Technology 4. (tie) University of Iowa, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University 4.Penn State
5. Virginia Tech 5. Georgia Institute of Technology 5.(tie) Brigham Young University, Embry Riddle Aeronautical
University

Mid-Career Pay for A&D Employees

  2012 2011 2010 2009
Aerospace Engineering $93,251.00 $90,398.00 $85,375.00 $84,385.00
Chemical Engineering $92,700.00 $87,462.00 $73,395.00 $86,041.00
Computer Hardware Engineering $96,712.00 $94,014.00 $94,214.00 $87,705.00
Computer Software Engineering $94,255.00 $86,324.00 $85,010.00 $90,587.00
Electrical/Electronics Engineering $92,813.00 $81,425.00 $82,708.00 $82,450.00
Industrial Engineering $86,963.00 $80,963.00 $77,466.00 $79,762.00
Materials Engineering $148,770.00 $86,538.00 $81,412.00 $83,115.00
Mechanical Engineering $91,884.00 $83,440.00 $79,748.00 $83,957.00
Nuclear Engineering $89,400.00 $104,800.00 $94,475.00 $94,512.00
Systems Engineering $93,842.00 $87,019.00 $83,774.00 $89,224.00
Applied Mathematics/Statistical Analysis $95,192.00 $97,547.00 $97,160.00 $95,494.00
Chemistry/Materials Science $97,148.00 $96,108.00 $86,998.00 $95,216.00
Physics $105,022.00 $101,343.00 $85,692.00 $96,773.00
Program/Project Management $92,711.00 $94,992.00 $86,212.00 $94,273.00
Enterprise IT/Architecture $87,525.00 NA NA NA
Business Development $86,870.00 $81,657.00 $90,907.00 $89,916.00
Supply Chain Management $79,743.00 NA $72,085.00 NA
*Note: Respondents to survey vary year to year

Top Companies

Technological Challenge Respect for the Individual Learning/Professional Development
1. Aerospace Corp. 1. Aerospace Corp. 1. Aerospace Corp.
2. Rockwell Collins 2. Rockwell Collins 2. Hamilton Sundstrand
3. (tie) Orbital Sciences Corp.and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems 3. Hamilton Sundstrand 3. (tie) AcutecPrecision Machining, Pratt & Whitneyand Therm

Source: Aviation Week 2012 WorkforceStudy

Organizations Participating in Corporate Study

AGI HITCO
ATK L-3 Communications
Acutec Precision Machining LMI Aerospace
Aerojet Lockheed Martin Corp.
Aerospace Corp. Loral Space Systems
Alenia Aermacchi NA LORD Corp.
Aurora Flight Sciences MITRE
BAE Systems Northrop Grumman
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. Orbital Sciences Corp.
Bell Helicopter Parker Aerospace Group
The Boeing Co. Pratt & Whitney
Curtiss-Wright Controls RTI International Metals
Eaton Aerospace Raytheon Co.
GE Aviation Rockwell Collins
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems SAIC
Hamilton Sundstrand Therm Inc.
Harris Corp. United Launch Alliance

Organizations Participating in Young Professionals’ Study

AGI NASA
Aerojet Northrop Grumman
The Aerospace Corp. Orbital Sciences
The Boeing Co. RTI International
L-3 Communications Raytheon Co.
Lockheed Martin Corp. Rockwell Collins
MITRE Rolls-Royce N.A.

Universities Participating in Student Study

Cal-Poly/San Luis Obispo Purdue University
Georgia Institute of Technology VA Tech
Penn State.