Also called: Heat Battery Engineer
Builds 'heat batteries' that store energy as heat in bricks, sand, or molten salt for later use.
You test a stack of special bricks heated red-hot by cheap solar power, measure how much heat they keep overnight, and design a system to power a factory.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 4 years after high school. Bachelor's in mechanical engineering.
Ways in: 4-year college, Graduate school. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering.
Growing much faster than average (about 9% over 10 years). Uses BLS mechanical engineers projection.
Low risk for 10 years. A new, growing field where AI assists with modeling but first-of-a-kind hardware needs engineers.
Classes: AP Physics, AP Chemistry, AP Calculus.
Official data: O*NET occupation 17-2141.
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