<p>I personally like my method of stalking people’s public profiles to see where they went to school and the jobs they had/have. Remember all those JPL control room photos from the recent Mars landing? The captions at the bottom had most of those people’s names. I found vast majority came from state schools like Boise State, Penn State, UC-Irvine and the like. Now I did find two people from Cal-tech, though you’d think there would be more considering JPL’s affiliation with the school. Oddly enough, no MIT, Cornell, Berkeley, or CMU grads; for that matter, most of the top schools were absent. Did find one Stanford and one Hopkins. </p>
<p>The other approach I’ve had success with is doing a Google search for linked in profiles using quoted school names and majors. For example search field ‘LinkedIn “University of Maryland” “Aerospace Engineering”’ </p>
<p>I found it to be a real eye opener when it came to figuring out just what kind of pathways are out there in engineering.</p>