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. 

2025 Ranking: Top 40 Medical Device Companies by Revenue

Here’s our annual look at the top medtech companies ranked by revenue.

To download the complete list of the top 100 medical device companies of the year, register through MD+DI online for free.

Medtech’s leaderboard is constantly changing. Keep up …

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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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Career Resources

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