<p>“At Cornell the majority of engineering school grads go into traditional engineering fields”</p>
<p>Because the majority you knew were studying in the traditional engineering fields, probably. That’s not where the computer-related guys were going. IMO. Way back when I was there, lots of EE grads were headed to places like Tektronix, HP, TI, and the like, these were the hot firms in the digital age at that time. I doubt it’s any different now. It sounds more to me like you didn’t have many EE and CS friends.</p>
<p>With all due respect you are listing a jumble of jobs that are common destinations for the “traditional” disciplines, ie jobs Chem Es mech Es, and “regular” EEs would have taken (which makes perfect sense since you were mech e there) , not jobs computer-related and CS grads would have taken. Also you were not in recruiting there the same years. I doubt CS grads from Cornell were heading in droves to Schlumberger, or Chem Es at CMU were heading in droves to Google.</p>
<p>There are nearly 10,000 Cornell alumni in the Bay area, I imagine all of them are not working the oil rigs at Schlumberger there
[Cornell</a> Silicon Valley | Alumni | Cornell University](<a href=“http://www.alumni.cornell.edu/csv/about.cfm]Cornell”>http://www.alumni.cornell.edu/csv/about.cfm)</p>
<p>The subject is certainly worth following up on by interested prospective CS grads, you should make inquiry into where Cornell CS grads are going, and who is recruiting them. I"m pretty sure they aren’t all heading to Lockheed Martin.</p>