Industry / Career Communities

As part of our industry relations and career engagement, the new McKelvey Connect has an Industries section that features tailored and carefully-cultivated content, aimed at supporting the career development journey for students. As with all industry and community pages, students will have access to relevant events, blogs, jobs, career advice, campus resources, and more! Feel free to contact us with any engineering related opportunities or resources that you find valuable. 

Consulting Recruiting Timeline: When Things Actually Happen

by The EduAvenues team

The first thing we tell candidates about consulting recruiting: the timeline starts earlier than you think. The cycle has compressed year by year, and candidates who begin in the fall of their junior year are usually …

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Model Uses Real Image to Train AI to Look for Fakes

Beth Miller  06.01.2026

AI-generated images have become increasingly more sophisticated from early ones that showed humans with more than five fingers on a hand, making it even harder to determine if photos are authentic. A team of computer scientists in the …

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Tips for Using AI Tools in Technical Interviews : Today’s interviews are about critical thinking, not completion

by Brian Jenney

Last year, I was conducting interviews for an AI startup position. We allowed unlimited AI usage during the technical challenge round. Candidates could use Cursor, Claude Code, ChatGPT, or any assistant they normally worked with. We wanted …

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WashU Launches Doctoral Program in Neuroengineering

Channing Suhl  03.30.2026

The McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, in collaboration with WashU Medicine, plans to launch a doctoral degree program in neuroengineering in fall 2027 to train students who will drive new technologies and methods …

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Learn What It Takes to Become a Cybersecurity Consultant

Cybersecurity consultants have never been more in demand. Information security analyst roles are projected to grow nearly 30 percent between now and 2034, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. More than 15 million cybercrime incidents occurred worldwide in …

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Nationally Competitive Industry Graduate Fellowships & Research Internships

Below is a list of competitive industry graduate fellowships and research internships for MS and PhD students. The majority have …

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