Career Roles
This person assembles prototypes, performs testing, and often holds an associate degree or certification.
What is an engineering technician?
This pathway is a Department of Labor–registered program that pays trainees and combines on-the-job training with classroom instruction.
What is an apprenticeship?
This field focuses on the physical structure, drivetrain, arms, and forces acting on a robot.
What is mechanical engineering?
True or False: Apprenticeships have no rules or regulations and require no research by applicants.
What is False?
This professional applies theory to troubleshoot, create evaluation plans, and often programs and tests prototypes.
What is an engineering technologist?
A short-term, often unpaid position where students work at a company to gain experience over a summer.
What is an internship?
This field covers wiring, printed circuit board design, and often lower-level control code.
What is electrical engineering?
Which organization administers industry certifications in lean manufacturing like Yellow and Green Belts?
What is IASSC?
This person typically has a bachelor's degree, designs systems or components, and revises designs based on test data.
What is an engineer?
This program pairs a student with an experienced professional who acts as a long-term resource during study.
What is mentorship?
This discipline develops high-level algorithms for path planning and machine vision.
What is computer science (or computer engineering)?
True or False: All engineers seek certification as a Professional Engineer (P.E.).
What is false?
Choose the best match: writes high-level navigation and obstacle-avoidance programs for robots.
Who is a computer scientist?
True or False: Graduating from an ABET-accredited, four-year engineering program is the most common pathway to becoming an engineer.
What is True?
A specialist who focuses on designing systems for flight or underwater robots would most likely be called a(n) ________ engineer.
What is an aerospace (or ocean) engineer?
Which activity is best described as a short-term, unpaid opportunity to observe workers at a company (usually one day or a short visit)?
What is job-shadowing?
Which role would most likely specify components for a circuit board and design wiring and power systems?
Who is an electrical engineer?
Which organization is responsible for licensing individuals as Professional Engineers?
What is NCEES?
Match the task: "Design a robotic arm using knowledge of forces and mechanics of materials." Which engineering discipline does this describe?
What is mechanical engineering?
List four career-preparation methods that make an engineering student more desirable to employers (select all that apply):
Apprenticeships
Becoming an ABET-accredited engineer
Internships
Studying for and earning a technical certificate
What are: Apprenticeships; Graduating from an ABET-accredited program (becoming an ABET-accredited engineer); Internships; and technical certificates?