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Automotive Engineers

  • Bright Outlook
  • Rapid Growth

Develop new or improved designs for vehicle structural members, engines, transmissions, or other vehicle systems, using computer-assisted design technology. Direct building, modification, or testing of vehicle or components.

What you’d do

  • Conduct or direct system-level automotive testing.
  • Provide technical direction to other engineers or engineering support personnel.
  • Perform failure, variation, or root cause analyses.
  • Calibrate vehicle systems, including control algorithms or other software systems.
  • Design or analyze automobile systems in areas such as aerodynamics, alternate fuels, ergonomics, hybrid power, brakes, transmissions, steering, calibration, safety, or diagnostics.
  • Prepare or present technical or project status reports.
  • Conduct research studies to develop new concepts in the field of automotive engineering.
  • Establish production or quality control standards.

Skills that matter

  • Complex Problem Solving
  • Critical Thinking
  • Reading Comprehension
  • Judgment and Decision Making
  • Mathematics
  • Speaking

How to get there

Considerable preparation: most need a four-year bachelor's degree

Also called

  • Engineer
  • Product Engineer
  • Project Engineer
  • Research Engineer
  • Dimensional Integration Engineer

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