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Job Description
Design, evaluate, modify, or construct fuel cell components or systems for transportation, stationary, or portable applications.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 17-2141.01
Also Known As…
- Senior Stack Engineer
- Senior Scientist
- Senior Research Engineer
- Senior Engineer
- Scientist/Engineer
- Research Engineer
- Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Engineering Professor
- Division Director
- Director, Hydrogen Storage Engineering
- Subsystems Engineer
- Mobile Battery Technician
- Fuel Cell Test Engineer
- Fuel Cell Systems Engineer
- Fuel Cell Engineer
- Fuel Cell Designer
- Fuel Cell Battery Technician
- Design Cell Engineer
- Battery Technician
- Alternative Energy Technician
Tasks for “Fuel Cell Engineers”
- Develop fuel cell materials or fuel cell test equipment.
- Recommend or implement changes to fuel cell system designs.
- Design or implement fuel cell testing or development programs.
- Manage fuel cell battery hybrid system architecture, including sizing of components, such as fuel cells, energy storage units, or electric drives.
- Write technical reports or proposals related to engineering projects.
- Plan or implement fuel cell cost reduction or product improvement projects in collaboration with other engineers, suppliers, support personnel, or customers.
- Plan or conduct experiments to validate new materials, optimize startup protocols, reduce conditioning time, or examine contaminant tolerance.
- Identify or define vehicle and system integration challenges for fuel cell vehicles.
- Conduct post-service or failure analyses, using electromechanical diagnostic principles or procedures.
- Conduct fuel cell testing projects, using fuel cell test stations, analytical instruments, or electrochemical diagnostics, such as cyclic voltammetry or impedance spectroscopy.
- Evaluate the power output, system cost, or environmental impact of new hydrogen or non-hydrogen fuel cell system designs.
- Develop or evaluate systems or methods of hydrogen storage for fuel cell applications.
- Prepare test stations, instrumentation, or data acquisition systems for use in specific tests of fuel cell components or systems.
- Validate design of fuel cells, fuel cell components, or fuel cell systems.
- Provide technical consultation or direction related to the development or production of fuel cell systems.
- Authorize release of fuel cell parts, components, or subsystems for production.
- Integrate electric drive subsystems with other vehicle systems to optimize performance or mitigate faults.
- Calculate the efficiency or power output of a fuel cell system or process.
- Characterize component or fuel cell performances by generating operating maps, defining operating conditions, identifying design refinements, or executing durability assessments.
- Read current literature, attend meetings or conferences, or talk with colleagues to stay abreast of new technology or competitive products.
- Coordinate fuel cell engineering or test schedules with departments outside engineering, such as manufacturing.
- Analyze fuel cell or related test data, using statistical software.
- Fabricate prototypes of fuel cell components, assemblies, stacks, or systems.
- Define specifications for fuel cell materials.
- Design fuel cell systems, subsystems, stacks, assemblies, or components, such as electric traction motors or power electronics.
- Simulate or model fuel cell, motor, or other system information, using simulation software programs.
Related Technology & Tools
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- Gravity convection ovens
- X ray photoelectric spectroscopes
- Mass spectrometers
- Flow reactors
- Laptop computers
- Desktop computers
- Fuel cell test stands
- Induction furnaces
- Gas chromatography equipment
- Molding presses
- Surface area analyzers
- High pressure liquid chromatographs HPLC
- Personal computers
- Laboratory glove boxes
- Laboratory vacuum ovens
- Portable emissions analyzers
- Frequency response analyzers
- Fourier transfer infrared FTIR spectrometers
- Programmable logic controllers PLC
- Thermovolumetric analyzers TVA
- Digital sonifiers
- Fluorescence detectors
- Scanning electron microscopes SEM
- Thermal gravimetric analyzers
- X ray crystallography equipment
- Differential scanning calorimeters
- Scanning spectrophotometers
- Microbalances
- Dilatometers
- Infrared IR spectrophotometers
- Laboratory ball mills
- High temperature tube furnaces
- X ray fluorescence XRF spectrometers
- Transmission electron microscopes TEM
- Ultrasonic blenders
- Flame ionization detectors FID
- Power analyzers
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Autodesk AutoCAD
- Minitab
- Statistical software
- Microsoft Office
- ANSYS FLUENT
- GE Energy GateCycle
- ASPEN PLUS
- FactSage
- Supervisory control and data acquisition SCADA software
- Ansoft Simplorer
- C++
- Maplesoft Maple
- Gaussian GaussView
- Microsoft Excel
- The MathWorks Simulink
- Wind River Systems C/C++ Compiler Suite
- C
- Wolfram Research Mathematica
- National Instruments LabVIEW
- Gaussian software
- Microsoft Word
- Failure mode and effects analysis FMEA software