Mechanical engineers
Education
-bachelor's degree (at least)
-mechanical engineering
-professional engineering license
Starting salary and how it increases
-$79,500 annually
-increases from 6,ooo to about
20,000 dollars per year
Advantages/disadvantages
Hours per week
disadvantages:
-math and science courses
-low job growth
-lots of traveling
Advantages:
-high salary
-89% job satisfaction
-cultural benefits
-63 hours per week average
-9 hours per day (from 8-5 average)
Interesting
Fact
Tasks and skills
Social skills
Job Environment
Mechanical Engineers can be the rarest Job in the area and for major corporations such as Disnay, it can be nearly impossible to get the job. You must be very determined
-team working
-communication
-planning/decision making in
a group
- read and interpret blueprints
- identify components of project
- research/design
- evaluate projects
- oversee Projects
- offices
- Work site occasionally
research question
Q: what are things that mechanical engineers make and build that people see in everyday life?
A: refrigerators, airplanes, cars, trucks, mechanical pencils. ;)
By: zoe hagglund, Lauren Felix, hayley dorfman
High school courses
-geometry
-trigonometry
-algebra
-calculus
-physics
-chemistry
-biology