Also called: Vehicle Safety Engineer, Crash Safety Engineer
Designs and runs crash tests to make cars safer, using sensor-packed crash test dummies.
You set up a car on a sled track, position the dummies, and watch a high-speed crash recorded at 1,000 frames per second. Then you analyze the data to see how hard the dummy's head hit.
Based on BLS mechanical engineers.
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 biomedical engineering.
Ways in: 4-year college, Graduate school. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering.
Growing much faster than average (about 9% over 10 years). Tied to mechanical engineer growth.
Low risk in 5 years, medium in 10. Simulation cuts some physical tests; designing and running real crash tests stays human.
Classes: AP Physics, AP Calculus, Biology.
Official data: O*NET occupation 17-2141.
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