Microsystems Engineers
Research, design, develop, or test microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) devices.
Also called: Process Engineer, Product Design Engineer, Project Engineer, Radio Frequency Design Engineer (RF Design Engineer)
Knowledge:
Engineering and Technology
- computers and electronics
- product and service development
- arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics
- physics
Manufactured or Agricultural Goods
- manufacture and distribution of products
Skills:
- listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
- reading work related information
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
People and Technology Systems
- figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it
- thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
Abilites:
- listen and understand what people say
- read and understand what is written
- make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
- use rules to solve problems
- choose the right type of math to solve a problem
- add, subtract, multiply, or divide
- pay attention to something without being distracted
Personality:
Description: People interested in this work like activities that include ideas, thinking, and figuring things out.
They do well at jobs that need
- Analytical Thinking
- Attention to Detail
- Innovation
- Integrity
- Initiative
- Dependability
Technology:
Analytical or scientific software
- FLorida Object Oriented Process Simulator FLOOPS
- The MathWorks MATLAB
Computer aided design CAD software
- Autodesk AutoCAD
- Dassault Systemes SolidWorks
Development environment software
- Microsoft Visual Basic
- National Instruments LabVIEW
