Also called: Professor of mechanical/electrical/civil engineering
Teaches engineering and runs a research lab inventing new technologies.
Engineering professors teach courses like thermodynamics, supervise PhD students building robots or batteries, write grant proposals, and sometimes start companies from their lab's inventions.
BLS engineering teachers, postsecondary.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Doctorate (PhD), about 11 years after high school. Bachelor's, then a PhD (usually 5-7 years), often a postdoc, then a competitive faculty job search; tenure takes about 6 more years.
Ways in: Graduate school. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Civil Engineering.
Growing about average (about 4% over 10 years). BLS projects ~4% growth for postsecondary teachers overall; tenure-track jobs are very competitive.
Low risk in 5 years, medium in 10. AI speeds coding, simulation and paper writing; running labs, mentoring PhD students and winning grants stay human.
Classes: AP Calculus BC, AP Physics C, Engineering CTE.
Official data: O*NET occupation 25-1032.
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