17-2072.00 - Electronics Engineers, Except Computer

17-2072.00 - Electronics Engineers, Except Computer
Electronics Engineers, Except Computer
17-2072.00
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Research, design, develop, or test electronic components and systems for commercial, industrial, military, or scientific use employing knowledge of electronic theory and materials properties. Design electronic circuits and components for use in fields such as telecommunications, aerospace guidance and propulsion control, acoustics, or instruments and controls.
Sample of reported job titles:
Compatibility Test Engineer, Design Engineer, Electronics Design Engineer, Engineer, Evaluation Engineer, Integrated Circuit Design Engineer (IC Design Engineer), Product Engineer, Radio Frequency Engineer (RF Engineer), Research and Development Engineer (R and D Engineer), Test Engineer
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Radio Frequency Identification Device Specialists
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Occupation-Specific Information
Overview
Tasks
Technology Skills
Occupational Requirements
Work Activities
Detailed Work Activities
Work Context
Experience Requirements
Job Zone
Training & Credentials
Apprenticeship
Worker Requirements
Skills
Knowledge
Education
Worker Characteristics
Abilities
Interests
Work Styles
Workforce Characteristics
Wages & Employment
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Occupation-Specific Information
Tasks
Design electronic components, software, products, or systems for commercial, industrial, medical, military, or scientific applications.
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Operate computer-assisted engineering or design software or equipment to perform electronics engineering tasks.
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Evaluate project work to ensure effectiveness, technical adequacy, or compatibility in the resolution of complex electronics engineering problems.
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Direct or coordinate activities concerned with manufacture, construction, installation, maintenance, operation, or modification of electronic equipment, products, or systems.
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Confer with engineers, customers, vendors, or others to discuss existing or potential electronics engineering projects or products.
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Provide technical support or instruction to staff or customers regarding electronics equipment standards.
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Recommend repair or design modifications of electronics components or systems, based on factors such as environment, service, cost, or system capabilities.
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Prepare documentation containing information such as confidential descriptions or specifications of proprietary hardware or software, product development or introduction schedules, product costs, or information about product performance weaknesses.
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Develop or perform operational, maintenance, or testing procedures for electronic products, components, equipment, or systems.
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Analyze electronics system requirements, capacity, cost, or customer needs to determine project feasibility.
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Prepare, review, or maintain maintenance schedules, design documentation, or operational reports or charts.
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Inspect electronic equipment, instruments, products, or systems to ensure conformance to specifications, safety standards, or applicable codes or regulations.
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Determine project material or equipment needs.
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Prepare necessary criteria, procedures, reports, or plans for successful conduct of the project with consideration given to site preparation, facility validation, installation, quality assurance, or testing.
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Plan or develop applications or modifications for electronic properties used in components, products, or systems to improve technical performance.
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Prepare engineering sketches or specifications for construction, relocation, or installation of equipment, facilities, products, or systems.
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Prepare budget or cost estimates for equipment, construction, or installation projects or control expenditures.
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Investigate green consumer electronics applications for consumer electronic devices, power saving devices for computers or televisions, or energy efficient power chargers.
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Represent employer at conferences, meetings, boards, panels, committees, or working groups to present, explain, or defend findings or recommendations, negotiate compromises or agreements, or exchange information.
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Research or develop new green electronics technologies, such as lighting, optical data storage devices, or energy efficient televisions.
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Technology Skills
Analytical or scientific software
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Compiler and decompiler software
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Computer aided design CAD software
— Autodesk AutoCAD
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; Dassault Systemes CATIA; Dassault Systemes SolidWorks
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Data base user interface and query software
— Oracle Database
Hot Technology
; Structured query language SQL
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Development environment software
— C
Hot Technology
; Formula translation/translator FORTRAN; National Instruments LabVIEW; SystemVerilog
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Electronic mail software
— IBM Lotus Notes
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Enterprise application integration software
— Extensible markup language XML
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Enterprise resource planning ERP software
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File versioning software
— Apache Subversion SVN
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Geographic information system
— ESRI ArcGIS software
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Graphics or photo imaging software
— Graphics software; Trimble SketchUp Pro
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Industrial control software
— Supervisory control and data acquisition SCADA software
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Internet browser software
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Object or component oriented development software
— C++
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; Python
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Office suite software
— Microsoft Office software
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Operating system software
— Hewlett-Packard HP OpenVMS; Linux
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; Magellan Firmware; UNIX
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Presentation software
— Microsoft PowerPoint
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Project management software
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Spreadsheet software
— Microsoft Excel
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Word processing software
— Microsoft Word
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Occupational Requirements
Work Activities
Working with Computers
— Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
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Analyzing Data or Information
— Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
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Drafting, Laying Out, and Specifying Technical Devices, Parts, and Equipment
— Providing documentation, detailed instructions, drawings, or specifications to tell others about how devices, parts, equipment, or structures are to be fabricated, constructed, assembled, modified, maintained, or used.
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Making Decisions and Solving Problems
— Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
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Getting Information
— Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
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Processing Information
— Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
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Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
— Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
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Documenting/Recording Information
— Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
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Thinking Creatively
— Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
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Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates
— Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
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Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards
— Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
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Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge
— Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
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Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others
— Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used.
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Repairing and Maintaining Electronic Equipment
— Servicing, repairing, calibrating, regulating, fine-tuning, or testing machines, devices, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of electrical or electronic (not mechanical) principles.
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Communicating with People Outside the Organization
— Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.
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Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships
— Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
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Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings
— Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
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Controlling Machines and Processes
— Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles).
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Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work
— Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
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Developing Objectives and Strategies
— Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them.
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Providing Consultation and Advice to Others
— Providing guidance and expert advice to management or other groups on technical, systems-, or process-related topics.
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Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information
— Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.
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Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials
— Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.
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Developing and Building Teams
— Encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members.
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Scheduling Work and Activities
— Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.
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Detailed Work Activities
Design electronic or computer equipment or instrumentation.
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Operate computer systems.
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Evaluate characteristics of equipment or systems.
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Direct industrial production activities.
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Communicate technical information to suppliers, contractors, or regulatory agencies.
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Confer with technical personnel to prepare designs or operational plans.
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Discuss designs or plans with clients.
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Advise customers on the use of products or services.
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Provide technical guidance to other personnel.
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Recommend technical design or process changes to improve efficiency, quality, or performance.
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Document technical design details.
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Determine operational criteria or specifications.
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Test products for functionality or quality.
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Analyze design requirements for computer or electronics systems.
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Prepare operational reports.
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Schedule operational activities.
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Inspect finished products to locate flaws.
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Estimate technical or resource requirements for development or production projects.
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Create schematic drawings for electronics.
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Estimate operational costs.
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Prepare project budgets.
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Research design or application of green technologies.
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Explain project details to the general public.
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Work Context
E-Mail
— 14% responded “Once a week or more but not every day.”
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Freedom to Make Decisions
— 70% responded “A lot of freedom.”
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Face-to-Face Discussions with Individuals and Within Teams
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Indoors, Environmentally Controlled
— 85% responded “Every day.”
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Work With or Contribute to a Work Group or Team
— 25% responded “Very important.”
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Spend Time Sitting
— 41% responded “Continually or almost continually.”
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Determine Tasks, Priorities and Goals
— 58% responded “Some freedom.”
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Importance of Being Exact or Accurate
— 58% responded “Very important.”
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Contact With Others
— 43% responded “Contact with others about half the time.”
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Telephone Conversations
— 26% responded “Every day.”
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Duration of Typical Work Week
— 31% responded “40 hours.”
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Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results
— 29% responded “Important results.”
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Time Pressure
— 38% responded “Once a month or more but not every week.”
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Physical Proximity
— 60% responded “Slightly close (e.g., shared office).”
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Experience Requirements
Job Zone
Title
Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed
Education
Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.
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A considerable amount of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified.
Job Training
Employees in these occupations usually need several years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training.
Job Zone Examples
Many of these occupations involve coordinating, supervising, managing, or training others. Examples include real estate brokers, sales managers, database administrators, graphic designers, conservation scientists, art directors, and cost estimators.
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Range
(7.0 to < 8.0)
Training & Credentials
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Worker Requirements
Skills
Complex Problem Solving
— Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
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Critical Thinking
— Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
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Reading Comprehension
— Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
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Speaking
— Talking to others to convey information effectively.
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Active Listening
— Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
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Judgment and Decision Making
— Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
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Systems Analysis
— Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
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Mathematics
— Using mathematics to solve problems.
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Writing
— Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
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Monitoring
— Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
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Systems Evaluation
— Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
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Operations Analysis
— Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design.
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Active Learning
— Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
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Quality Control Analysis
— Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.
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Coordination
— Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
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Instructing
— Teaching others how to do something.
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Learning Strategies
— Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
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Operations Monitoring
— Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.
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Science
— Using scientific rules and methods to solve problems.
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Technology Design
— Generating or adapting equipment and technology to serve user needs.
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Troubleshooting
— Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.
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Knowledge
Engineering and Technology
— Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services.
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Computers and Electronics
— Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
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Design
— Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
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Mathematics
— Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
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English Language
— Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, and rules of composition and grammar.
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Mechanical
— Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.
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Physics
— Knowledge and prediction of physical principles, laws, their interrelationships, and applications to understanding fluid, material, and atmospheric dynamics, and mechanical, electrical, atomic and sub-atomic structures and processes.
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Education and Training
— Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.
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Education
How much education does a new hire need to perform a job in this occupation? Respondents said:
83%
responded:
Bachelor’s degree required
14%
responded:
Associate’s degree required
3%
responded:
Master’s degree required
Worker Characteristics
Abilities
Deductive Reasoning
— The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
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Inductive Reasoning
— The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
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Information Ordering
— The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
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Near Vision
— The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
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Oral Comprehension
— The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
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Oral Expression
— The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
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Written Comprehension
— The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
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Problem Sensitivity
— The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.
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Written Expression
— The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
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Mathematical Reasoning
— The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
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Category Flexibility
— The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
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Fluency of Ideas
— The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
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Originality
— The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
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Visualization
— The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
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Number Facility
— The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
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Speech Recognition
— The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
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Flexibility of Closure
— The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
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Speech Clarity
— The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
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Arm-Hand Steadiness
— The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
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Finger Dexterity
— The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
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Perceptual Speed
— The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.
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Speed of Closure
— The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.
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Realistic
— Work involves designing, building, or repairing of equipment, materials, or structures, engaging in physical activity, or working outdoors. Realistic occupations are often associated with engineering, mechanics and electronics, construction, woodworking, transportation, machine operation, agriculture, animal services, physical or manual labor, athletics, or protective services.
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Investigative
— Work involves studying and researching non-living objects, living organisms, disease or other forms of impairment, or human behavior. Investigative occupations are often associated with physical, life, medical, or social sciences, and can be found in the fields of humanities, mathematics/statistics, information technology, or health care service.
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Conventional
— Work involves following procedures and regulations to organize information or data, typically in a business setting. Conventional occupations are often associated with office work, accounting, mathematics/statistics, information technology, finance, or human resources.
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Work Styles
Innovation
— A tendency to be inventive, to be imaginative, and to adopt new perspectives on ways to accomplish work.
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Achievement Orientation
— A tendency to establish and maintain personally challenging work-related goals, set high work-related standards, and exert high effort toward meeting those goals and standards.
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Intellectual Curiosity
— A tendency to seek out and acquire new work-related knowledge and obtain a deep understanding of work-related subjects.
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Cautiousness
— A tendency to be careful, deliberate, and risk-avoidant when making work-related decisions or doing work.
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Integrity
— A tendency to be honest and ethical at work.
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Attention to Detail
— A tendency to be detail-oriented, organized, and thorough in completing work.
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Dependability
— A tendency to be reliable, responsible, and consistent in meeting work-related obligations.
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Workforce Characteristics
Wages & Employment Trends
Median wages
(2024)
$61.34 hourly, $127,590 annual
State wages
Local wages
Employment
(2024)
95,900 employees
Projected growth
(2024-2034)
Faster than average (5% to 6%)
Projected job openings
(2024-2034)
5,700
State trends
Top industries
(2024)
Manufacturing
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
2024 wage data
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2024-2034 employment projections
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