How Can You Become A Mechanical Engineer ? By: Dominick cuypers

1. How Can You Become A Mechanical Engineer?By: Dominick cuypers

2. Why I Chose this Job • I’m good at finding dimensions • I enjoy constructing things • I work with machines all the times

3. What is the Job About? • Improving energy systems -Making systems that conserve energy • Designing more efficient engines -Making engines that are more fuel efficient • Studying of: - Gases - Solids - Liquids

4. Tools Used • Computers -dimension diagrams -spreadsheets • Hand Held Tools -pliers -wrenches -hammers

5. Educational Requirements • Bachelors degree Helpful High School Classes: • Calculus and Advanced Algebra • Chemistry and Physics • Technical Writing

6. Hours and Salary • 40 hour work week • 4 ten hour days Entering- • $45,860 a year • $22.05 per hour Median- • $66,770 a year • $32.10 per hour Experienced- • $95,490 a year • $45.91 per hour

7. Promotions and Other Jobs • Can become managers or business executives Other Jobs- • Tool Designers • Sales Engineers • Engineering Managers • Instrumental Technicians

8. Good and Bad Good Qualities- • Get to work in hands-on situations • Get to us new technology Bad Qualities- • Staying late for prototype testing • May have to work overnight hours

9. Works Cited “Mechanical Engineers.” WISCareers. Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System, 2011. Web. 18 May 2011.