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Careers & Alumni
You will graduate from Cal Poly Humboldt with the knowledge and skills you need to design and implement systems and think critically to create a more just and sustainable society.
Related Job Titles
The following list is not meant to be all-inclusive; many other job alternatives and titles may exist. Many of the job titles listed require further education.
Energy Systems Engineering
The Energy Systems degree prepares you for a career in developing, designing, operating, and analyzing clean energy systems.
- Energy Engineer
- Environmental Engineer
- Public Works Engineer
- Utility Engineer
- Energy Policy Advocate
- Building Energy Efficiency Analyst
- HVAC Engineer
- Wind Power Analyst/Engineer
- Solar Power Engineer
- Energy Storage Systems Engineer
- Energy Policy Analyst
- Energy Manager
Environmental Resources Engineering
Students will graduate from Humboldt prepared for work in industry, private practice, or government, or for continued studies in graduate school.
- Air Pollution Engineer
- Consulting Engineer
- Design Engineer
- Ecological Engineer
- Energy Management Engineer
- Environmental Engineer
- Fisheries Engineer
- Geo-Environmental Engineer
- Hydrologist
Mechanical Engineering
- Aerospace engineer
- Automotive engineer
- Biomedical engineer
- Construction engineer
- Mechanical engineer
- Production engineer
- Process engineer
- Product designer
- Structural engineer
- Thermal engineer
Engineering & Community Practice, MA
- Environmental Engineer
- Water Resources Engineer
- Engineering Planning and Management
- Water and Wastewater Engineer
- Energy Systems Engineer
- Energy Policy Specialist
- Environmental Consultant
- Tribal/Municipal/City Engineer
Marketable Skills
Communication
- Writing precise technical reports
- Working as part of a team
- Media, public relations, and public speaking
- Writing precise technical reports and research papers
- Designing and presenting scientific posters
Technical Skills
- Knowledge of plant and animal ecology
- Operating and maintaining specialized scientific equipment
- Conducting chemical analyses
- Culturing body fluids or tissue samples
Recording & Interpreting Data
- Categorizing specimens & experiments
- Studying & describing normal plant and animal physiological functions
- Observing and recording animal behavior or habits
- Observing, characterizing, and recording traits of microorganisms and eukaryotic cells
- capturing and analyzing microscopy data
- collecting and analyzing molecular markers from a wide range of sample types
- performing statistical analyses and reasoning
- bioinformatics analysis
Featured Alumni
Degrees in Engineering have given alumni opportunities to work in their fields around the world.
Alumni Profiles - Environmental Resources Engineering, B.S.
Alumni Profiles - Environmental Systems, M.S.
Alumni Updates
Joseph Caminiti
Environmental Resources Engineering, 2018
Joseph has been working with CALTRANS District 1 for almost 6 years now, and he highly recommends it for many reasons, such as great benefits, fantastic work-life balance, great staff, multitude of disciplines including planning, safety, hydraulics, electrical, and the list goes on!
Emily Frances Klee
Environmental Resources Engineering, 2017
After graduating from Humboldt State, Emily went off to grad school and got a Master's in Mechanical Engineering. She then moved out to Huntsville, AL, and worked at NASA in the Environmental Control and Life Support System Branch. After 2 years of loving her job, but hating the area, she decided to move to Fort Collins, CO. She is now an Operations Manager at a local non-profit food rescue, Vindeket Foods.
Tai-Aqua Morgan-Marbet
Environmental Resources EngineeringEconomics, 2010
Tai-Aqua Morgan-Marbet, Environmental Resources Engineering, 2010, started in 2012 working for Lincoln and Long Engineering in Grass Valley, CA. She still works for them here and there as they need help. She then worked for AM Baird Engineering and Surveying in Fortuna, CA from 2013 to 2014. She worked for LACO Associates in Eureka, CA from 2014 to 2016. Finally, she is currently working for Kolstad Land Surveying and has started her own firm, Lost Coast Engineering, with two other engineers (an HSU graduate and a UC Berkeley graduate).