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.