optical engineer
Code 2149.12
Optical engineers design and develop different industrial applications with optics. They have knowledge of light, light transmission principles, and optics in order to design engineering specs of equipment such as microscopes, lenses, telescopes, and other optical devices.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- optical glass characteristics
- optical components
- physics
- optical engineering
- optical equipment standards
- design drawings
- refractive power
- engineering principles
- optical manufacturing process
- types of optical instruments
- optics
Skills and competences
- interact professionally in research and professional environments
- analyse test data
- approve engineering design
- model optical systems
- demonstrate disciplinary expertise
- develop optical test procedures
- operate open source software
- design optical prototypes
- manage research data
- adjust engineering designs
- think abstractly
- prepare production prototypes
- test optical components
- conduct quality control analysis
- conduct literature research
- record test data
Transversal competences
- manage personal professional development
- perform project management
- report analysis results
- operate scientific measuring equipment
- mathematics
- think analytically
- synthesise information
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences