Agricultural Engineer

Average Salary
$80,110
$56,560
$107,830
Degree Requirements
Bachelor's Degree
Career Focus

Technology makes a lot of our daily tasks easier, but reaching better solutions takes a creative mind that also understands how things work. Today’s modern agriculture needs individuals who can combine and use creativity and mechanical knowledge to solve agricultural problems concerning power supplies, the efficiency of machinery, the use of structures and facilities, pollution and environmental issues, and the storage and processing of agricultural products.

Also known as: Agricultural Safety and Health Program Director, Agricultural Systems Specialist, Conservation Engineer, Project Engineer, Research Agricultural Engineer
Monitoring
Negotiation
Operation Monitoring
Operations Analysis
Science
Social Perceptiveness
Speaking
Systems Evaluation
Assess and test agricultural machinery, components, structures and systems to determine if efficiency can be improved
Create plans, reports, sketches, specifications and budgets for proposed projects
Design structures, mechanical components and equipment instrumentation as applicable
Meet with regulatory councils, farmers or developers to discuss and recommend ways to optimize agricultural output
Collaborate with other engineers and industry professionals to solve complex technical problems
Communicate technical information to suppliers, contractors and/or regulatory agencies

Have you ever wondered how Netflix knows what shows “you might also like…”? That’s the work of a data scientist! They transform large amounts of unruly data so that useful information can be extracted. They’re responsible for cleaning data to remove inaccuracies and transforming it so that patterns and valuable insights can be obtained. The resulting information can be used to detect consumer or market trends, patterns and behaviors that will assist agbioscience companies in producing the best consumer products.

Also known as: Marketing Analyst, Digital Analytics Product Manager, Information Technology Systems Administrator, Application Developer, Asset Manager, Operations Analyst
Mathematics
Monitoring
Operations Analysis
Programming
Systems Analysis
Systems Evaluation
Collect large amounts of unstructured data from disparate sources
Scrub and validate data to ensure accuracy
Transform data into a useable format from which data can be extracted
Utilize data-driven techniques to solve problems
Work with a variety of programming languages
Detect patterns and trends in data
Employ of statistical methods, tests and distributions.
Meet Jie
Computation Biologist
Corteva Agriscience
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"Being a data scientist is like being the brain of the project team. Because you get to integrate all pieces of information that comes with the data and you get to come up with the decisions or the proposals for the next steps."
Jie
B.S. Chemistry, Ph.D. in Computational Chemistry, Post Doctoral work in Computational Biology

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