Engineering & Tech Recruiting

Penn Career Services offers a variety of career fairs throughout the year to suit your recruitment timeline and needs, with several events are focused on STEM candidates.

Fall: In early-to-mid September we host Engineering and Technology Career Days – our largest focused recruiting program specific to this population. Each year across both in-person and virtual events, you’ll have the opportunity to meet candidates from the more than 1400 undergraduates, Master’s and PhD students and postdoctoral fellows seeking internships and full-time opportunities.

Additional large-scale recruiting events are also available for employers in the early season: CareerLink – appropriate for recruiting a broad pool of candidates and attended by employers representing the widest variety of industries, an All-Industries Virtual Fair, and the Biosciences Career Fair – more expansively focused on opportunities in biotech, pharmaceuticals, and other life and physical science disciplines. Our fall events also typically include a Policy & Government consortium fair and Nursing Career Day, among others.

Spring: Held in February, our STEM Fair draws over 1000 students seeking internships and full-time opportunities in science, technology, engineering and mathematics/quantitative disciplines. We also hold a broader Spring Fair on campus, a second All-Industries Virtual Fair, a Design Career Fair in virtual and in-person formats and several consortium fairs, including the All-Ivy Environmental and Sustainable Development Fair, the Ivy+ “Just In Time” Career Fair held each year in late spring, Graduate Career Consortium (GCC) events specifically for advanced degree/Master’s and PhD candidates, and more!

Visit our Career Fairs page to get the most up-to-date information about fairs hosted by Penn Career Services throughout the academic year, as well as All-Ivy, Ivy+, specialized and consortium events attended by Penn candidates throughout the year.

Each year, the Penn Engineering Career Development & Career Services teams offer Industry Days, focusing on areas highlighted by the University and Penn Engineering’s areas of expertise and strategic commitment to innovation and accelerating impact. Prior Industry Days have included:

• Data Science
• Energy & Sustainability Science, Technology & Policy
• Translational Research: in collaboration with industry and building mechanisms to accelerate lab-to-market
  
• Future Industry Days will be planned in support of signature initiatives in key areas that:
  • are central to engineering grand challenges in society and leverage synergies across campus, including health, quality of life, climate & energy, sustainable infrastructure, food and water
  • address emerging technologies built on Penn’s foundational strengths, including regenerative medicine; synthetic biology; novel materials; next-generation computing; quantum science and engineering; and autonomous systems that connect and link innovative devices to data and computation and information to knowledge and action.

Please reach out to Jamie Grant, Sr. Associate Director for Penn Engineering in Career Services with interest in participating in an upcoming Industry Day!

Of the hundreds of clubs at the University of Pennsylvania, there are approximately 30 student organizations formally recognized by the Engineering Student Activities Council (ESAC) and Penn Engineering, each focusing on their own technical, affinity, social, academic, professional or community outreach initiatives. Student groups exist at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Career Services works closely with Ryan Hopely, Associate Director for Student Activities in Penn Engineering, to facilitate organization engagement with clubs.

Additional Penn Engineering-affiliated clubs funded outside of ESAC:

• Cybersecurity at Penn
• Google Developer Student Club (GDSC) Penn Chapter
• Penn Blockchain
• Penn Data Science Group
• Penn Quant Trading Club
• Penn Quantum Computing Club
• oSTEM at Penn
• Women in Animation

Host your organization’s own personal “meet and greet” tabling in the heart of the Engineering school buildings!
We have a unique opportunity for organizations to directly engage with candidates in engineering, scientific and technical disciplines through “Meet & Greet” events – showcasing your organization within the “heart” of our co-located School of Engineering & Applied Science buildings. Bring your recruitment team, technical staff and/or Penn alumni to chat with undergraduates, graduate students, faculty and staff between classes, and build your talent pipeline for internships and early career opportunities. Meet & Greet events are a high-profile, successful way to build and expand your brand recognition with our engineering students and bridge your recruitment calendar between career fairs.

Our students, especially at the graduate levels, are excited to engage your researchers, engineers and scientists through “Tech Talks,” where the focus of the session is the “how” and “why” involved in a specialized technology or process that your organization wishes to profile as a way to attract top talent. Typically presented by technically-focused staff members, Tech Talks also often have a recruiting component towards the end of the session where, either formally or informally, you’re welcome to speak with students about opportunities and how they can be considered for your hiring needs.

If you have ideas for events or engagements you would like to organize or want to know what’s possible and provides the greatest yield, please contact us! From graduate research symposiums to Senior Design competitions, department panels and seminars, there’s always a way to get more involved in Penn’s School of Engineering and Applied Science.

If you are new to recruiting engineering and technology candidates at Penn, please email Jackie Moriniere at jmorini@upenn.edu so that we can be in touch to discuss and support your recruiting strategy, alternate event ideas, or opportunities for engagement with specific programs within Penn Engineering.