From environmental scientist to computer hardware engineer
32 of the 63 essential skills of a computer hardware engineer are already essential for a environmental scientist — about 51% of the job, before you learn anything new.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 32
- skills carry over
- 31
- would be new
- 51%
- of the target job covered
- 63
- essential skills of a computer hardware engineer
What a computer hardware engineer does
Computer hardware engineers design and develop computer hardware systems and components, such as circuit boards, modems, and printers. They draught blueprints and assembly drawings, develop and test the prototypes, and supervise the production process.
What carries over
32 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- apply for research funding
- apply research ethics and scientific integrity principles in research activities
- communicate with a non-scientific audience
- conduct research across disciplines
- demonstrate disciplinary expertise
- develop professional network with researchers and scientists
- disseminate results to the scientific community
- draft scientific or academic papers and technical documentation
- environmental legislation
- environmental threats
- evaluate research activities
- increase the impact of science on policy and society
- integrate gender dimension in research
- interact professionally in research and professional environments
- manage findable accessible interoperable and reusable data
- manage intellectual property rights
- manage open publications
- manage personal professional development
- manage research data
- mentor individuals
- operate open source software
- perform project management
- perform scientific research
- promote open innovation in research
- promote the participation of citizens in scientific and research activities
- promote the transfer of knowledge
- publish academic research
- speak different languages
- synthesise information
- think abstractly
- use technical drawing software
- write scientific publications
What would be new
31 skillsEssential for a computer hardware engineer and not for a environmental scientist. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- abide by regulations on banned materials
- adjust engineering designs
- analyse test data
- approve engineering design
- computer engineering
- computer technology
- conduct literature research
- conduct quality control analysis
- design drawings
- design hardware
- design prototypes
- electricity
- electricity principles
- electronics
- engineering principles
- hardware architectures
- hardware components
- hardware materials
- hardware platforms
- hardware testing methods
- mathematics
- model hardware
- network standards
- operate scientific measuring equipment
- perform data analysis
- prepare production prototypes
- printed circuit boards
- read engineering drawings
- record test data
- report analysis results
- test hardware
Other moves from environmental scientist
2 roles- hydrologist32 skills in common
- chemist32 skills in common
← environmental scientistcomputer hardware engineer →The other way round
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