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Chosen career:
Systems Engineer
Interests:
Engineering
Skills:
CommittedHard-workingPatient
Description
Systems engineers manage building whole spacecraft or instruments. They must make sure that the system does everything a customer asked for but keeps within energy, mass, and power limits. They see the big picture of the project all the way from first designs to the final product.
Routes
A degree in science or engineering and sometimes a postgraduate qualification. There are also apprenticeships instead of degrees.
Example UK Employers
BAE Systems
Key Stage 2 Curriculum Links
Maths
Number: Systems engineers make sure that the project stays within energy, mass and power limits.
Ratio and proportion: Systems engineers weigh up the contribution to the limits of different instruments on the spacecraft.
Science
Forces: Systems engineers know about the effects of the forces experienced by the spacecraft.
Electricity: Systems engineers make sure that enough power is distributed to each instrument on the spacecraft.
Key Stage 3 Curriculum Links
Maths
Number: Systems engineers make sure that the project stays within energy, mass and power limits.
Ratio, proportion and rates of change: Systems engineers weigh up the contribution to the limits of different instruments on the spacecraft.
Physics
Energy: Systems engineers make sure that enough power is distributed to each instrument on the spacecraft.
Motion and forces: Systems engineers know about the effects of the forces experienced by the spacecraft.
Matter (inc Space physics): Systems engineers know about the conditions in space and how they will affect the spacecraft.
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