- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who applies standardized mathematical formulas, principles, and methodology to technological problems in engineering and physical sciences in relation to specific industrial and research objectives, processes, equipment and products. Responsibilities include:
* Confers with professional, scientific, and engineering personnel to plan project.
* Analyzes raw data from computer or recorded on photographic film or other media.
* Selects most practical and accurate combination and sequence of computational methods, using algebra, trigonometry, geometry, vector analysis and calculus to reduce raw data to meaningful and manageable terms.
* Selects most economical and reliable combination of manual, mechanical, or data processing methods and equipment consistent with data reduction requirements.
* Modifies standard formulas to conform to data processing method selected.
* Translates data into numerical values, equations, flow charts, graphs or other media.
* Analyzes processed data to detect errors.
* May operate calculator or computer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of cartographic drafters; photogrammetrists; and other personnel concerned with preparation of maps or map components. Responsibilities include:
* Develops design concept of map product.
* Defines production specifications, such as projection, scale, size, and colors.
* Provides guidelines for source material to be used, such as maps, automated mapping products, photographs, survey data, and place names.
* Supervises and coordinates compilation and editing of product components and monitors reproduction.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor (any industry) master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who studies structure of subsurface rock formations to locate petroleum deposits. Responsibilities include:
* Conducts research, using geophysical instruments such as seismograph, gravimeter, torsion balance, and magnetometer, pendulum devices, and electrical-resistivity apparatus to measure characteristics of earth.
* Computes variations in physical forces existing at different locations and interprets data to reveal subsurface structures likely to contain petroleum deposits.
* Prepares charts, profiles or subsurface contour maps, and determines desirable locations for drilling operations.
* Directs field crews drilling boreholes and collecting samples of rock and soil for chemical analysis of hydrocarbon content.
* May specialize in particular instrumentation and be designated Electrical Prospector; Gravity Prospector; Magnetic Prospector; Seismic Prospector.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who compiles lists of events (collisions of atomic nuclei) from photographs of bubble chamber, cloud chamber, or other particle detector, and operates machine to record characteristics of events into computers. Responsibilities include:
* Observes projected photographs to locate particle tracks, locate and count events indicated by tracks, and identify nature of observed events.
* Receives instructions from scientist directing project as to specific events that are important in experiment, and identifies such events from other events.
* Turns cranks to move projector and locates point on track under crosshairs of eyepiece.
* Enters data into computer to record coordinates of particles.
* Repeats process to record successive stages of tracks resulting from each event to provide information for scientists to identify particles.
* May use microscope fitted with scales and protractors to scan photographic emulsions previously exposed to direct radiation and to compute direction, angle, length, curvature, density, and depth of tracks from standard formulas.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tests, calibrates, and repairs electrical, mechanical, electromechanical, and electronic measuring, recording, and indicating instruments and equipment for conformance to established standards, and assists in formulating calibration standards. Responsibilities include:
* Plans sequence of testing and calibration procedures for instruments and equipment, according to blueprints, schematics, technical manuals, and other specifications.
* Sets up standard and special purpose laboratory equipment to test, evaluate, and calibrate other instruments and test equipment.
* Disassembles instruments and equipment, using handtools, and inspects components for defects.
* Measures parts for conformity with specifications, using micrometers, calipers, and other precision instruments.
* Aligns, repairs, replaces, and balances component parts and circuitry.
* Reassembles and calibrates instruments and equipment.
* Devises formulas to solve problems in measurements and calibrations.
* Assists engineers in formulating test, calibration, repair, and evaluation plans and procedures to maintain precision accuracy of measuring, recording, and indicating instruments and equipment.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who develops and conducts tests to evaluate product safety levels and recommends measures to reduce or eliminate hazards. Responsibilities include:
* Establishes procedures for detection and elimination of physical and chemical hazards and avoidance of potential toxic effects and other product hazards.
* Investigates causes of accidents, injuries, and illnesses resulting from product usage and develops solutions.
* Evaluates potential health hazards or damage which could result from misuse of products and applies engineering principles and product standards to improve safety.
* May participate in preparation of product usage and precautionary label instructions.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans, directs, and coordinates manufacturing processes in industrial plant. Responsibilities include:
* Develops, evaluates, and improves manufacturing methods, utilizing knowledge of product design, materials and parts, fabrication processes, tooling and production equipment capabilities, assembly methods, and quality control standards.
* Analyzes and plans work force utilization, space requirements, and workflow, and designs layout of equipment and workspace for maximum efficiency (industrial engineer).
* Confers with planning and design staff concerning product design and tooling to ensure efficient production methods.
* Confers with vendors to determine product specifications and arrange for purchase of equipment, materials, or parts, and evaluates products according to specifications and quality standards.
* Estimates production times, staffing requirements, and related costs to provide information for management decisions.
* Confers with management, engineering, and other staff regarding manufacturing capabilities, production schedules, and other considerations to facilitate production processes.
* Applies statistical methods to estimate future manufacturing requirements and potential.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who develops work measurement procedures and directs time-and-motion studies to promote efficient and economical utilization of personnel and facilities. Responsibilities include:
* Directs or conducts observation and analysis of personnel and work procedures to determine time-and-motion requirements of job duties.
* Analyzes work study data and equipment specifications to establish time and production standards.
* Applies mathematical analysis to determine validity and reliability of sampling and work study statistics.
* Applies principles of industrial engineering and applied psychology to evaluate work methods proposals and to develop recommendations to management affecting work methods, wage rates, and budget decisions.
* Trains industrial engineering technician in time-and-motion study principles and techniques.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who prepares original layout and completes detailed drawings of agricultural machinery and equipment, such as farm machinery, irrigation, power, and electrification systems, soil and water conservation equipment and agricultural harvesting and processing equipment. Responsibilities include:
* Applies biological and engineering knowledge, design principles, and theories to ensure compliance with company policy, and an end product which will perform as required.
* Maintains working knowledge of functions, operations, and maintenance of various types of equipment and materials used in the industry to assure appropriate utilization.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who measures tensile strength, hardness, ductility, or other physical properties of metal specimens, using following prescribed series of operations. Responsibilities include:
* Determines tensile strength on tension-testing machines.
* Measures dimensions of specimen with scales and micrometers and records measurements.
* Screws or clamps specimen in holders on machine.
* Clamps extensometer onto specimen and connects wire from extensometer to automatic stress-strain recorder.
* Turns handwheels or moves levers to apply tension to specimen at specified rate.
* Notes reading of indicator dial on control panel of machine or observes stress-strain curve (curve obtained by plotting applied tension against resultant elongation) being drawn by recorder to determine yield point and tensile strength of specimen.
* Removes pieces of broken specimen from machine, fits them together, and measures amount of elongation.
* Makes simple calculations of values, such as unit tensile strength and percentage elongation, using tables.
* Records readings and calculations on special forms.
* Measures hardness of specimens (hardness inspector (heat treating)).
* Measures ductility of sheet metal specimens in sheet metal testing machine.
* May test specimens for plasticity and compression.
* May specialize in testing iron or steel sheets for ductility and be designated Sheet Tester.
Industry:Professional careers
