Also called: Gearbox Engineer, Wind Performance Engineer
Keeps wind turbine gearboxes, bearings, and generators from failing by analyzing data from thousands of turbines.
You study vibration data to predict which gearbox will fail next month, then plan its replacement before it breaks and strands a crane crew.
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. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering.
Growing much faster than average (about 9% over 10 years). Uses BLS mechanical engineers projection.
Medium risk for 10 years. Machine learning on turbine sensor data spots failures automatically; engineers still find root causes and choose fixes.
Classes: AP Physics, AP Statistics, AP Calculus.
Official data: O*NET occupation 17-2141.
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