Despite the dip in the economy following the destruction of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 60 organizations set up shop at the School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) Job Fair Oct. 12 in Dillon Gym.

"We realize that in these economic times, you may not be hiring as aggressively as you have in the past," said Beverly Hamilton Chandler, director of career services, "so we thank you for coming."

The businesses and organizations present were:

Accenture; ALK Associates; AXA Client Solutions; Bloomberg; Boston Consulting Group Inc.; Bridgewater Associates Inc.; Calpine Corp.; Caminus; Capital One; CIA Employment Center; CME Associates; Contemporary Staffing Solutions; Einhorn Yaffee Precott Architecture; Environ Corp.; Ford-Motor Co.; Frito-Lay; George Harns Construction; Green Hills Software Inc.; IBM Corp.; Institute for Defense Analyses; Intersil; Keck Graduate Institute; Kelly Scientific Resources; Kulicke and Soffa; Lab Support; Logicon; Long Island Rail Road; Los Alamos National Laboratory; Lucent Technologies; Lutron Electronics Co. Inc.; McKinsey & Company Inc.; Medarex; Merck & Co.; Michael Baker Jr. Inc.; Microsoft Corp.; MIT Lincoln Laboratory; Morgan Stanley; Multilink Technology Corp.; National Starch and Chemical Co.; Oliver, Wyman & Co.; Parsons Brinckerhoff; Princeton Project 55; Purdue Biopharma L.P.; Rockefeller University; RWD Technologies; Sandia National Laboratories; Schlumberger; SciTec Inc./Subsidiary of TRW Inc.; Susquehanna Partners GP; Teach for America; TIGRIS Consulting; TopCoder Inc.; Trilogy; Turner Construction; U.S. Navy; Virtual Solutions Inc.; VMWare Inc.; Vonage; Whiting Turner; and ZS Associates.

Photos by Frank Wojciechowski Calpine representative Kenneth R. Gaal talks with mechanical and aerospace engineering major Andrew McBride '02.

Stuart De Jonge, senior engineer with Lutron, chats with electrical engineering major Catherine Toppin '02.

From left, Schlumberger representatives Chris Seckar and Anita Bates answer questions posed by Alex Urdea '02, an operations research and financial engineering major.

Ray Hawkins of National Starch and Chemical Co. talks with chemical engineering major Celeste Coleman '03.