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A professional who examines detail, layout, and master drawings of either auto-body or chassis parts, assemblies, and systems, for practicality of design, accuracy of mathematical calculations, dimensional accuracy, projection, and conformity to specifications and standards, using computerized work aids.
* Applies knowledge of auto-body and chassis design, methods of manufacture and assembly, and drafting techniques and procedures.
* Discusses necessary changes with staff members and coordinates corrections.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans and coordinates private or government industrial health program requiring application of engineering principles and technology to analyze and control conditions contributing to occupational hazards and diseases. Responsibilities include:
* Conducts plant or area surveys to determine safe limits of exposure to materials or conditions, such as temperatures, noise, dusts, fumes, vapors, mists, gases, solvents, and radiation which are known or suspected of being real or potential detriments to health, and implements or recommends control measures.
* Directs workers engaged in field and laboratory verification of compliance with health regulations.
* Provides technical guidance to management, labor organizations, government agencies, and civic groups regarding health-related problems, such as stream and air pollution and correct use of protective clothing or accessories.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who observes and interprets celestial phenomena and relates research to basic scientific knowledge or to practical problems, such as navigation. Responsibilities include:
* Studies celestial phenomena by means of optical, radio, or other telescopes, equipped with such devices as cameras, spectrometers, radiometers, photometers, and micrometers, which may either be on ground or carried above atmosphere with balloons, rockets, satellites, or space probes.
* Interprets information obtained in terms of basic physical laws.
* Determines sizes, shapes, brightness, spectra, and motions, and computes positions of sun, moon, planets, stars, nebulae, and galaxies.
* Calculates orbits of various celestial bodies.
* Determines exact time by celestial observations, and conducts research into relationships between time and space.
* Develops mathematical tables giving positions of sun, moon, planets, and stars at given times for use by air and sea navigators.
* Conducts research on statistical theory of motions of celestial bodies.
* Analyzes wave lengths of radiation from celestial bodies, as observed in all ranges of spectrum.
* Studies history, structure, extent, and evolution of stars, stellar systems, and universe.
* May design new and improved optical, mechanical, and electronics instruments for astronomical research.
* May specialize in either observational or theoretical aspects of stellar astronomy, stellar astrophysics, interstellar medium, galactic structure, extragalactic astronomy, or cosmology.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans, directs, and coordinates activities concerned with design, construction, modification, and maintenance of equipment and machinery in industrial plant. Responsibilities include:
* Establishes standards and policies for pollution control, installation, modification, quality control, testing, operating procedure, inspection, and maintenance of equipment, according to engineering principles and safety regulations.
* Directs maintenance of plant buildings and coordinates requirements for new designs, surveys, and maintenance schedules for equipment and machinery.
* Prepares bid sheets and contracts for construction and facilities acquisition.
* Tests newly installed machines and equipment to ensure fulfillment of contract specifications.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans use of wire facilities connecting stations comprising a network to cover changing conditions and requirements. Responsibilities include:
* Evaluates technical capabilities of wire facilities, according to availability and range, to obtain most effective method of transmission.
* Reviews network program schedule to be linked to network stations, and projects use of wire facilities.
* Subdivides wire facilities linking network stations for simultaneous broadcasting of different programs to stations.
* Tests facilities prior to broadcast time to determine readiness of transmission line.
* May prepare engineering estimates of equipment installations or modification of existing equipment.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs, coordinates, and exercises functional authority for planning, organization, control, integration, and completion of engineering project within area of assigned responsibility. Responsibilities include:
* Plans and formulates engineering program and organizes project staff according to project requirements.
* Assigns project personnel to specific phases or aspects of project, such as technical studies, product design, preparation of specifications and technical plans, and product testing, in accordance with engineering disciplines of staff.
* Reviews product design for compliance with engineering principles, company standards, customer contract requirements, and related specifications.
* Coordinates activities concerned with technical developments, scheduling, and resolving engineering design and test problems.
* Directs integration of technical activities and products.
* Evaluates and approves design changes, specifications, and drawing releases.
* Controls expenditures within limitations of project budget.
* Prepares interim and completion project reports.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who prepares detailed scale drawings and tracings from rough sketches or other data provided by landscape architect, performing duties described under drafter master title.
* May prepare separate detailed site plan, grading and drainage plan, lighting plan, paving plan, irrigation plan, planting plan, and drawings and detail of garden structures.
* May build models of proposed landscape construction and prepare colored drawings for presentation to client.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who constructs and tests prototype gas or solid-state laser devices, applying theory and principles of laser engineering and electronic circuits. Responsibilities include:
* Reviews project instructions, such as assembly layout, blueprints, and sketches, and confers with engineering personnel to clarify laser device specifications.
* Interprets production details, such as dimensions and functional requirements, for workers engaged in grinding mirror blanks, coating mirror surfaces, and machining metal parts.
* Installs and aligns optical parts, such as mirrors and waveplates, in laser body, using precision instruments.
* Turns controls of vacuum pump and gas transfer equipment to purge, evacuate, and fill laser body with specified volume and pressure of gases, such as helium, neon, or carbon dioxide, to test laser beam.
* Assembles completed laser body in chassis, and installs and aligns electronic components, tubing, and wiring to connect controls, such as valves, regulators, dials, and switches.
* Sets up precision electronic and optical instruments to test laser device, using specified electrical or optical inputs.
* Tests laser for gas leaks, using leak detector.
* Analyzes test data and reports results to engineering personnel.
* May prepare and write technical reports to recommend solutions to technical problems.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tests materials and monitors operations of nuclear-powered electric generating plant, using specialized laboratory equipment and chemical and radiation detection instruments. Responsibilities include:
* Collects samples of water, gases, and solids at specified intervals during production process, using automatic sampling equipment.
* Analyzes materials, according to specified procedures, to determine if chemical components and radiation levels are within established limits.
* Records test results and prepares reports for review by supervisor.
* Assists workers to set up equipment and monitors equipment that automatically detects deviations from standard operations.
* Notifies personnel to adjust processing equipment, quantity of additives, and rate of discharge of waste materials, when test results and monitoring of equipment indicate that radiation levels, chemical balance, and discharge of radionuclide materials are in excess of standards.
* Carries out decontamination procedures to ensure safety of workers and continued operation of processing equipment in plant.
* Calibrates and maintains chemical instrumentation sensing elements and sampling system equipment, using handtools.
* Assists workers in diagnosis and correction of problems in instruments and processing equipment.
* Advises plant personnel of methods of protection from excessive exposure to radiation.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who copies plans and drawings prepared by drafter master title by tracing them with ink and pencil on transparent paper or cloth spread over drawings, using triangle, T-square, compass, pens, and other drafting instruments.
* Makes simple sketches or drawings under close supervision.
Industry:Professional careers
