Also called: Marine Renewable Energy Engineer
Designs machines that make electricity from ocean waves and tides.
You build a scale model of a wave energy buoy, test it in a wave tank, then help deploy a full-size device off the Oregon coast and hope it survives winter storms.
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 or ocean engineering; master's helpful.
Ways in: 4-year college, Graduate school. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Ocean Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Naval Architecture.
Growing faster than average. Emerging clean-energy field not tracked separately by BLS; growth depends heavily on policy and investment.
Low risk for 10 years. A tiny, experimental field where engineers build and test devices at sea; AI is just a modeling aid.
Classes: AP Physics, AP Calculus, Earth science.
Official data: O*NET occupation 17-2121.
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