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Career Details :: Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary

Description

Teach courses pertaining to the application of physical laws and principles of engineering for the development of machines, materials, instruments, processes, and services. Includes teachers of subjects such as chemical, civil, electrical, industrial, mechanical, mineral, and petroleum engineering. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of both teaching and research.

Experience

Extensive skill, knowledge, and experience are needed for these occupations. Many require more than five years of experience. For example, surgeons must complete four years of college and an additional five to seven years of specialized medical training to be able to do their job.

Education

A bachelor's degree is the minimum formal education required for these occupations. However, many also require graduate school. For example, they may require a master's degree, and some require a Ph.D., M.D., or J.D. (law degree).

Training

Employees may need some on-the-job training, but most of these occupations assume that the person will already have the required skills, knowledge, work-related experience, and/or training.

Tasks

• Prepares and delivers lectures to students.
• Advises students on academic and vocational curricula.
• Conducts research in particular field of knowledge and publishes findings in professional journals.
• Directs research of other teachers or graduate students working for advanced academic degrees.
• Acts as adviser to student organizations.
• Serves on faculty committee providing professional consulting services to government and industry.
• Compiles, administers, and grades examinations, or assigns this work to others.
• Stimulates class discussions.
• Compiles bibliographies of specialized materials for outside reading assignments.

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Important Abilities

• Oral Expression
• Written Comprehension
• Oral Comprehension
• Speech Clarity
• Written Expression

General Work Activities

• Teaching Others
• Getting Information Needed to Do the Job
• Communicating With Other Workers
• Coaching and Developing Others
• Interpreting Meaning of Information to Others

Important Skills

• Mathematics
  
• Reading Comprehension
  
• Instructing
  
• Active Learning
  
• Science
  

Frequent Work Context

• Job-Required Social Interaction
• Indoors
• Importance of Being Exact or Accurate
• Responsibility for Outcomes and Results
• Coordinate or Lead Others

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