Also called: Demo Coordinator, Lecture Demonstrator
Builds and runs the dramatic live physics demos used in university lectures, from Tesla coils to bed-of-nails tricks.
You spend the morning wheeling a giant pendulum or a liquid-nitrogen setup into a lecture hall and testing it before 300 students arrive. In the afternoon you repair old equipment, design new demos with professors, and sometimes put on shows for school groups.
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 physics or engineering technology helps; hands-on building skills matter most.
Ways in: 4-year college, On-the-job training. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Physics, Engineering Technology.
Growing about average. Only larger universities have these jobs, so openings are rare.
Low risk for 10 years. Building Tesla coils and running live demos for 300 students is hands-on showmanship AI can't do.
Classes: AP Physics, Woodshop or metalshop, Theater.
Official data: O*NET occupation 19-4099.
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