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Career Details :: Mathematical Technicians
Description
Apply standardized mathematical formulas, principles, and methodology to technological problems in engineering and physical sciences in relation to specific industrial and research objectives, processes, equipment, and products.
Experience
A minimum of two to four years of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified.
Education
Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.
Training
Employees in these occupations usually need several years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training.
Tasks
- Selects most feasible combination and sequence of computational methods to reduce raw data to meaningful and manageable terms.
- Selects most economical and reliable combination of manual, mechanical, or data-processing methods and equipment consistent with data reduction requirements.
- Analyzes raw data from computer or recorded on photographic film or other media.
- Confers with professional, scientific, and engineering personnel to plan project.
- Analyzes processed data to detect errors.
- Modifies standard formulas to conform to data-processing method selected.
- Translates data into numerical values, equations, flow charts, graphs or other media.
- Calculates data for analysis, using computer or calculator.
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Important Abilities
General Work Activities
- Processing Information
- Analyzing Data or Information
- Getting Information Needed to Do the Job
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
- Interacting With Computers
Important Skills
- Mathematics
- Critical Thinking
- Reading Comprehension
- Synthesis/Reorganization
- Information Organization
Frequent Work Context
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate
- Indoors
- Importance of Being Sure All Is Done
- Degree of Automation
- Sitting
Related Majors
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| Applied Mathematics | [ add ] |
| Applied Mathematics/Computer Science | [ add ] |
| Applied Mathematics/Statistics | [ add ] |
| Applied/Computational Mathematics | [ add ] |
| Computational/Applied Mathematics | [ add ] |
| Mathematical Economics | [ add ] |
| Mathematics/Applied | [ add ] |
| Pre-Engineering Mathematics | [ add ] |
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