Department of Physics
What can you do with a physics degree?
ECU physics graduates have worked:
- in physics/engineering/environmental science labs in industry and government.
- in high schools as teachers
- in universities as professors
- in hospitals as doctors (after medical school)
- in courtrooms as lawyers (after law school)
- in the military as fighter pilots, etc.
- in their own business
- in medical/electronic device design plants
- in the communication field (MCI, etc.)
- in computer science/electrical field at OG&E and PEC
- in NASA subcontracted businesses
- as golf coaches in universities and private clubs
- as scientific computer programmers and systems analysts
- as scientific graphics artists
- as engineers in engineering consulting firms
Graduates have attended graduate school in:
- physics
- mathematics
- engineering
- medicine
- law
- computer science
- medical physics
What's HOT?????
Lately, computer science/physics BS double major...these majors are
doing internships at OG&E and PEC before they even have their degrees!
Even more recently, medical physics is in high demand. ECU is trying to get a medical physics concentration (see physics web page for tentative curriculum). Inital feedback has been good. If you are interested, you can always get a BS in physics, take the appropriate courses and still be accepted into a MS or PhD Medical Physics Program. Salaries are $80,000 100,000 range for Med physicists. For more info, see Dr. Williams. We even have a video from AIP that describes what a medical physicist does.