Engineering & Tech Recruiting

In addition to recruiting candidates from across the University of Pennsylvania through On-Campus Interviewing, Coffee Chats and Information Sessions, organizations interested in specialized recruiting events for Engineering and Computer Science majors are welcome to review the unique programs offered below.

Penn’s Career Services hosts many career fairs throughout the year to suit your recruitment timeline, with several events focused on STEM candidates.

Fall: In the early recruiting days of the fall, Engineering and Technology Career Days is our largest Engineering & Technology focused recruiting event, bringing together both virtually and in-person over 1400 undergraduates, Master’s and PhD candidates and postdoctoral fellows and appropriate for any organization or industry seeking these candidates for internships and full-time opportunities.

Engineering & Technology Career Days are also complemented earlier in September by CareerLink – appropriate for recruiting a broad pool of candidates in a 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 Spring Fair on campus and a virtual fair for all industries and candidates, and a Design Career Fair in virtual and in-person formats. We are also members of several consortium fairs in the spring term, including February’s All-Ivy Environmental and Sustainable Development Fair, the Ivy+ “Just In Time” Career Fair in April, Graduate Career Consortium (GCC) events specifically for 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, as part of Penn Engineering’s commitment to innovation and priority of “Accelerating Impact” within the School and across the University, we host Industry Days – focused recruitment opportunities in support of building the talent pipeline to areas of our expertise, including but not limited to:

  • Data Science
  • Energy & Sustainability Science, Technology & Policy
  • Translational Research: in collaboration with industry and building mechanisms to accelerate lab-to-market
  • 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.

For more information about upcoming Industry Days, please contact us!

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, in addition to the broader environment of student groups on campus. Student groups exist at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Our team would be delighted to connect you with the Penn Chapters and student leaders of any other groups of interest.

To learn more about specific clubs and/or to find additional information on student groups, please visit the Penn Clubs directory and filter by “ESAC”.

With any questions regarding student groups, please contact Bryanna Bonner, Associate Director of Student Life for Penn Engineering, at bryannab@seas.upenn.edu.

AIChE: The American Institute of Chemical Engineers

ASME: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers

BMES: The Biomedical Engineering Society

CSS: The Computer Science Society

IEEE: The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

MSES: The Materials Science & Engineering Society

Penn ACM SIGGRAPH

NSBE: National Society of Black Engineers

oSTEM: Out in Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics

PGWISE: Penn Graduate Women in Science and Engineering

SASE: Society of Asian Scientists & Engineers

SHPE: Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers

SWE: Society of Women Engineers

USABE: Underrepresented Student Advisory Board in Engineering

WiCS: Women in Computer Science

ADAPT: Assistive Devices & Prosthetic Tech

ECP: Engineering Consultants at Penn

EWB: Engineers Without Borders

Penn Aerospace Club

PennApps: Nation’s first student-run hackathon

Penn Electric Racing

UPGRADE: University of Pennsylvania Game Research & Development Environment

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

Directly engage with candidates in engineering, scientific and technical disciplines through “Meet & Greet” events, specifically showcasing your organization within the School of Engineering & Applied Science’s Levine Lobby in the geographic center and “heart” of our Engineering & Technology buildings. Bring your recruitment team, technical staff and/or Penn alumni to chat with undergraduate and graduate students between classes, and build your talent pipeline for internships and full-time opportunities. Meet & Greet events are a great way to build and expand your brand recognition on campus and bridge the calendar between career fairs.

Contact us to request your organization’s unique event date and schedule a planning call with our team where we can discuss your recruiting goals.

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.

Please contact our team and we’ll gladly work with you to determine the most appropriate space, target audience, and scheduling of your event.

Have ideas about a different event you would like to organize or want to know what’s possible? From graduate research symposiums to our Senior Design competitions to 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 fill out our interest form if you’d like to discuss your recruiting strategy, alternate event ideas, or opportunities for engagement with specific programs within Penn Engineering.

If you would like to discuss recruiting across the University of Pennsylvania (in addition to Penn Engineering), please connect here with our partners in Career Services’ Employer Relations team.