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Skills and Abilities
  • Solving analytic and logic problems
  • Operating and using information derived from computers
  • Organizing, analyzing, and interpreting scientific data
  • Making critical observations and appropriate decisions
  • Conducting and explaining scientific research
  • Identifying relationships between problems and solutions
  • Utilizing formulas
  • Designing experiments
  • Applying knowledge creatively
  • Maintaining precision and accuracy
  • Writing for both technical and non-technical audiences
  • Presenting alternative explanations for phenomena
  • Understanding computers
  • Making measurements
Potential Career Paths
Career Area
Employment Settings
Sample Employers & Internship Sites
ASTRONOMY
Education Colleges & universities Institutions w/ physics dept.
Research Observatories

 

  Planetariums

Science museums

 

ACOUSTICAL PHYSICS
Research & development Government labs & non-profit research ctrs.  
Education Colleges & universities Institutions w/ physics dept.
Consulting Industry - electronics, noise pollution, recording & film production Lucent Technologies

Harris Miller Miller and Hanson Inc.

Raytheon
ASTROPHYSICS
Research & design Government labs & research centers  
Education Colleges & universities Institutions w/ physics dept.
Astronautics   American Association for the Advancement of Science/NASA

Ametek Aerospace & Power Instrument

United Space Alliance
BIOPHYSICS
Education Colleges & universities Institutions w/ physics dept.
Research & development Government labs & research centers

Industry - biotechnology, environment

 

FLUID & PLASMA PHYSICS
Education Colleges & universities Institutions w/ physics dept.
Research & development Automobile, jet engine/space vehicle design industry Lockheed Martin

Raytheon


United Space Alliance
Consulting Government agencies  
GEOPHYSICS
Research & development Industry - petroleum, mining & exploration firms  
Education Colleges & universities Institutions w/ physics dept.
Consulting Federal government U.S. Geological Survey
HEALTH PHYSICS
Research & development Industry - instrumentation, nuclear power, radioisotope products  
Education Colleges & universities Institutions w/ physics dept.
Monitoring/Inspection Hospitals

Government agencies
Departments of Public Health Service
MEDICAL PHYSICS
Research & development Industry - medical instrumentation  
Education Colleges, universities & medical schools Institutions w/ physics dept.
Consulting/Advising Hospitals  
NUCLEAR PHYSICS
Research & development Industry - nuclear weapons, accelerators & reactors  
Quality control  

 

Education Colleges & universities >Institutions w/ physics dept.
OPTICAL PHYSICS
Research & Development

Consulting
Gov't labs & non-profit research centers
Industry
Kodak
TECHNICAL
Engineering (Process & Testing) Research & development firms Lucent Technologies
Technical Writing Professional & technical journals  
Quality Control Manufacturing firms

 

SOLID STATE PHYSICS
Research & Development Gov't labs
Non-profit research ctrs.
 
Consulting Electronics industry

 

HUMAN SERVICES & EDUCATION
Teaching English as a Second Language (TESOL) Language schools
Corporations
Park's Overseas Personnel Service
Teaching Colleges or universities
K-12
Institutions w/ physics dept.
Teach For America
Service/Volunteerism Government programs American Foreign Service Association

Americorps

Peace Corps
University Student Services Admissions Offices
Alumni Offices
International Student Services
Multicultural Offices
Study Abroad Offices
Any college or university, including community colleges
Community Outreach Community Centers/Agencies

Youth Programs
Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood
Case Management Community agencies Occupations, Inc.
Advocacy   Hunger Action Network of NYS

US Department of Housing & Urban Development
Research Health care centers

Social policy research centers
Albany Medical Center

MDRC
Human Resources & Affirmative Action/Recruiting Universities Any college or university, including community colleges
Companies Chase Manhattan Bank
Training & Development Corporations M&T Bank
Computer training firms New Horizons
PUBLIC RELATIONS
Writing/Editing Publishing companies  
Media Liaison Public Relations firms Hill & Knowlton, Inc.

Makovsky & Co.
Corporate PR department CSEA - Communications Department
Special Events Planning Hotels/Conference Ctrs.
Radio Stations
Entertainment Facilities
Marriott

WQBK-FM

Times Union Center (Pepsi Arena)
Technical Writer Corporate publications  
Web design Web design firms Media Logic
BUSINESS
Management Any company Enterprise Rent-A-Car

Macy's

Chase Manhattan Bank
Consulting Management consulting firms  
Banking/Financial Services    
Sales Technical companies  
Market Research Specific companies
Market research firms
MapInfo
PUBLISHING/JOURNALISM
Sales Publishing companies Delmar Publishers

Avalon Publishing Group
Editorial Science journals

 

Reporting/Reporting Newspapers

Guidebooks
Legislative Gazette
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