Job: Research Engineer

There are, as well, many research engineers who also actively participate in the research process itself, depending on the type of research or project. It is often difficult to distinguish between engineers and applied physicists. For example, half of the Nobel Prize for Physics this year went to Charles Kao, an electrical engineer, for his ground-breaking work in fiber optics at Standard Telecommunication Laboratories in the UK.

I have ended up a physics teacher, though I never had any intention of doing so (my degree is in Biology). I wanted to tell you that you are my hero.

wow jack nicholson is an engineer

I'm surprised they let you touch anything!

you should go for lockheed martin they pay really good for skills like that should have never quit there for dell to be laid off.

I want to go into physics, but as research, not as a guy who fixes things.... I also heard physics is like math. It gets you the tools but you really can't find a job to do outside of teaching.

> I want to go into physics,

I'd get to the nearest college library and read lots of "PRL," the journal "Physics Review Letters." That should give a good view of current physics.

Yep, physics is math first, PhD minimum requirement. But you could go into experimental.

Then there's the other tradition. Get a normal 9-5 day job in hardware or software or the Swiss Patent Office, and work on physics/inventing/etc. in your spare time. Get lucky like Einstein and others, and strike it rich.

woot! woot!
go dawgs
u know what I'M talkin' about!

riknapeclipse: Auburn University has a wireless engineering program.

Awesome! I like the real world shop!