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Timeline
Career preparation timeline by year
- Year 1
- Year 2
Foundations · exploration
- Year 3
Decision pointBS–MS track · Lab contact · Industry scholarship
- Year 4
Career Fields
Guidance by career field
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R&D
MS/PhD preferredVerifies new technologies and develops the core, next-generation product technologies.
Key work
Idea generation · Prototype build & performance testing · Mechanism validation
Core skills
Four mechanicsDesign of Experiments (DOE)Paper·patent analysis
Representative industries · companies
Electronics · Mobility · Aerospace · Energy
Degree Requirements
Reach by degree level
Each higher degree includes all the paths of the degrees below it.
DoctoratePh.D.
- Principal Investigator
- Professor
- Senior researcher
Master'sM.S.
- R&D
- Analysis (CAE)
- Gov. research inst.
- Research personnel
Bachelor'sB.S.
- Product Design
- Manufacturing
- Quality·Reliability
- Plant·PE
- Public-enterprise mech.
- Civil-service mech.
Bachelor'sB.S.
Master'sM.S.
DoctoratePh.D.
Cumulative reachDegree level →
Opens at BS
Product DesignManufacturingQuality·ReliabilityPlant·PEPublic-enterprise mech.Civil-service mech.
＋ Added at MS
R&DAnalysis (CAE)Gov. research inst.Research personnel
＋ Added at PhD
Principal InvestigatorProfessorSenior researcher
Minimum degree by path
- Product DesignB.S.+
- ManufacturingB.S.+
- Quality·ReliabilityB.S.+
- Plant·PEB.S.+
- Public-enterprise mech.B.S.+
- Civil-service mech.B.S.+
- R&DM.S.+
- Analysis (CAE)M.S.+
- Gov. research inst.M.S.+
- Research personnelM.S.+
- Principal InvestigatorPh.D.+
- ProfessorPh.D.+
- Senior researcherPh.D.+