Where did the 2000 Mechanical Engineering (Environmental Engineering) graduates go ?
	Careers Education and Placement Centre

I. Introduction

The information in this paper is extracted from the Graduate Employment Survey of 2000 to answer the following questions about Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering (Environmental Engineering) graduates : -

How many were employed within six months after graduation ?

For those who pursued further studies, what programmes were they enrolled in ?

For those who were employed full-time, how long did it take them to get their first job offer ?

In which sectors were they employed ?

How much salary did they receive ?

How many job offers did they receive ?

Who were their employers ?

What were their job titles ?

II. Employment Situations in 2000

Of the 17 graduates from this programme, 16 responded to the survey. Their employment situations are listed below.

	*BENG(MEEP)*				HKU Overall*
	*2000*		*1999*		*2000*		*1999*
	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%
No. of respondents	16	100	13	100	2575	100	2475	100
Employed	15	94	12	92	2030	79	1928	78
Unemployed seeking F/T job	0	0	1	7.7	59	2.3	79	3.2
Further Studies	1	6.3	0	0	461	18	455	18
Emigrated/Returned to home country	0	0	0	0	2	0.1	4	0.2
Not seeking F/T job	0	0	0	0	23	0.9	9	0.4

* HKU Overall refers to the figure for the total HKU population and includes M.B.B.S. and B.D.S. graduates.

III. Further Studies

One graduate proceeded to postgraduate studies. The tables below show the academic programmes that he pursued and his source of funds.

	Academic Programme
Field of Study	M.Phil.
Mechanical Engineering	1

*Source of Funds*	No. of Graduates
Teaching Assistantship / Studentship	1

IV. Time Taken to Secure Employment

The time taken for graduates to secure employment is shown below.

	% of new graduates who have secured employment
By the end of	2000	1999
Before end of May	6.7%	-
June	33%	11%
July	53%	44%
August	60%	56%
September	80%	89%
October	93%	100%
November	100%	100%

V. Employment Sectors

All the graduates in Mechanical Engineering (Environmental Engineering) were employed in commerce & industry.

	% of graduates
Sector	2000	1999
Commerce & Industry	100%	90%
Educational Institutions	-	10%

No Response = 2

VI. Basic Salary and Gross Income

The remuneration received by graduates in Mechanical Engineering (Environmental Engineering) is shown below.

	Basic Salary				Gross Income
	BENG(MEEP)		HKU Average*		BENG(MEEP)		HKU Average*
	2000	1999	2000	1999	2000	1999	2000	1999
Mean	$9,606	$10,161	$14,125	$14,480	$10,551	$11,192	$15,448	$15,716
Median	$10,000	$10,000	$12,000	$10,870	$10,417	$10,833	$13,000	$11,917
Minimum	$6,000	$8,000	$1,300	$1,000	$6,500	$8,000	$3,000	$3,000
Maximum	$13,000	$15,000	$58,000	$58,000	$16,250	$19,250	$74,967	$60,000

* HKU Average refers to the figure for the total HKU population and includes M.B.B.S. and B.D.S. graduates.

VII. Number of Full-Time Job Offers

The number of job offers received by graduates in Mechanical Engineering (Environmental Engineering) is shown in the following table.

*No. of job offers received*	No. of graduates (% of graduates)
One	6 (40%)
Two	6 (40%)
Four	2 (13%)
Eight or more	1 ( 6.7%)

VIII. Names of Employers and Job Titles

The job titles of graduates in Mechanical Engineering (Environmental Engineering) in full-time employment and the names of their employers are listed below.

Employers	Job Titles
COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY –
Chevalier	Design Engineer Assistant
Dah Chong Hong Trading Co	Sales Executives
Furama Hotel Hong Kong	Bar Attendant
Grant Lloyd Audio Ltd	Mechanical Engineer
Green Technology Consultants Ltd	Assistant Environmental Consultant
Hung Fung Company	Project Engineer
Meinhardt (M&E) Consulting Engineer Ltd	Graduate Engineer
Motivator	Media Executive
Nature & Technologies (HK) Ltd	Assistant Environmental Consultant
S & V Samford Instruments Ltd	Sales Engineer
TUV Rheinland Hong Kong Ltd	Mechanical Engineer
US Filter China Ltd	Assistant Engineer
Nam Long Limited	Engineer
Organization’s name not reported	Project Engineer

No Response = 1

Note : Some of the 2000 graduates indicated willingness to talk to individual students about their work. Contact numbers can be obtained from counsellors at the CePc.

Further Information

Similar information on graduates from other disciplines is available for reference in the Careers Library. Please contact the CePc for further details.

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August, 2001

The analysis is based on information provided by the respondents, and the Careers Education & Placement Centre should not be held responsible for any errors arising therefrom.

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