Electronics Engineers, Except Computer

Overview

Electronics Engineers, Except Computer has a national median salary of $130,220 per year, with +3.7% projected job growth from 2025–2035. The Bureau of Labor Statistics lists a bachelor's degree as the typical education needed to enter this occupation.

Description

Research, design, develop, or test electronic components and systems for commercial, industrial, military, or scientific use employing knowledge of electronic theory and materials properties. Design electronic circuits and components for use in fields such as telecommunications, aerospace guidance and propulsion control, acoustics, or instruments and controls.

Work Values

• Recognition
• Working Conditions
• Achievement

Work Styles

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Design electronic components, software, products, or systems for commercial, industrial, medical, military, or scientific applications.
• Operate computer-assisted engineering or design software or equipment to perform electronics engineering tasks.
• Evaluate project work to ensure effectiveness, technical adequacy, or compatibility in the resolution of complex electronics engineering problems.
• Direct or coordinate activities concerned with manufacture, construction, installation, maintenance, operation, or modification of electronic equipment, products, or systems.
• Confer with engineers, customers, vendors, or others to discuss existing or potential electronics engineering projects or products.

Work Activities

• Working with Computers
• Analyzing Data or Information
• Drafting, Laying Out, and Specifying Technical Devices, Parts, and Equipment
• Making Decisions and Solving Problems
• Getting Information
• Processing Information
• Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
• Documenting/Recording Information
• Thinking Creatively
• Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates

Detailed Work Activities

• Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
• Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
• Providing documentation, detailed instructions, drawings, or specifications to tell others about how devices, parts, equipment, or structures are to be fabricated, constructed, assembled, modified, maintained, or used.
• Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
• Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
• Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
• Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
• Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
• Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
• Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.

T-A-S-K

Technology, Abilities, Skills & Knowledge

Education

Education Levels of Current Workers

The Bureau of Labor Statistics lists a bachelor's degree as the typical education needed to enter this occupation. The chart below shows the highest level of education held by people already working in this field, ages 25 and older. It includes workers who earned more education than the job requires and workers who entered the field under earlier requirements, so the largest bar is not the entry requirement. For example, if someone finished a master's degree and then started working in this field, they are counted under “Master's degree” here, but the job itself typically asks for a bachelor's degree.

Certificates

Certifications applicable to Electronics Engineers, Except Computer:

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