NewThoughtOnTheBlock

Engineering is a good field to go into because there is genuine demand for engineers (unlike MBAs, for example) and it's *hard* (natural limitation of supply). I went to OIT and I definitely feel I got a good deal for the money - a four-year degree at less than half the price of one of the big-name schools. Oregon has a few tech firms (Intel, Synopsys, etc.) but the largest community of tech employers is definitely in Silicon Valley. The OIT computer engineering department has some pipelines into various smaller firms that do a lot of embedded computer engineering, such as IGT in Reno, etc. Unfortunately, the US economy is almost certainly going to be in much worse shape four years from now than it is in today. I assume that you are young and unencumbered - if I was in your place now, I would definitely be thinking about learning a foreign language. As depressing as it sounds, you might find you can earn a much better after-tax salary in Hong Kong, Bangkok or Penang than you can in the continental US.