Also called: CCUS Process Engineer, Direct Air Capture Engineer
Designs systems that grab carbon dioxide from smokestacks, or straight out of the air, so it can be stored or reused.
You design an absorber tower that pulls CO2 from a power plant's exhaust, run pilot tests, and figure out how to cut the energy it uses.
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 chemical engineering; master's common.
Ways in: 4-year college, Graduate school. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Chemical Engineering, Environmental Engineering.
Growing about average (about 3% over 10 years). Uses BLS chemical engineers projection.
Medium risk for 10 years. AI speeds process design; building first-of-a-kind capture plants keeps engineers in demand, though policy can swing it.
Classes: AP Chemistry, AP Calculus, AP Physics.
Official data: O*NET occupation 17-2041.
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