CLusTER PROFiLE
Build a Better
scieNTisTs
and engineers
imagine the
future and turn
it into reality.
M
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of those working in
Science, Technology,
Engineering & Mathematics
careers as adventurers and
explorers, but they’re wrong.
In their heads, these high-tech
workers are boldly going where
no one has gone before. From
the iPod in your pocket to the personal computers in the school systems, and bridges—the infrastructure we need to move people
library, the things they discover and invent transform the way we and goods.
live, work, and play. “As the world’s population continues to grow, the demand for
“Engineers and technologists are those prepared to imagine, infrastructure can only increase,” he says, “and the need for more
design, and build a better world,” says John Hansen, Ph.D, infrastructure will certainly mean a need for more and more
director of the Ingenuity Center at the University of Texas engineers.”
at Tyler. The Ingenuity Center is dedicated to promoting the
training of tomorrow’s scientific adventurers in middle and high Focus on the Future
schools. Hansen says this field “People who succeed in this cluster generally have a strong
is full of exciting—sometimes attention to detail,” says Hansen. “After all, get one letter wrong in
THe Texas maTH
earthshaking—careers. chemistry and instead of aluminum—Al—you could end up with
“The Science, Technology, arsenic—As. That could be a pretty serious mistake.”
websITe, Utlc.UtexaS.
Engineering & Mathematics
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cluster offers a wide range of
sTudenTs free, onlIne
important career choices,” he
says. “In fact, the world’s future
10
Fast-Growing Careers
maTH InsTrucTIon
will be propelled by ideas that
and Help.
will be developed by many of the
Occupation
% Growth New Jobs Created
(2002–2012) (2002–2012)
men and women in these fields.”
agricultural engineer 100.0% 50
Texas is Terrific
environmental science and protection Technician 44.8% 1,500
Texas is a terrific place to be if you’re interested in a career in forensic science Technician 33.3% 150
science and technology. According to the Texas Healthcare and
medical scientist, except epidemiologist 32.8% 950
Bioscience Institute, the state boasts the third-largest number of
environmental scientist and specialist, including Health 29.0% 1,350
scientists and engineers in the United States.
There’s plenty of room for talented new minds, too. Texas had
atmospheric and space scientist 27.3% 150
more than 450,000 jobs in the professional, scientific, and technical
surveying and mapping Technician 27.2% 1,700
services fields in 2002, and the Texas Workforce Commission biochemist and biophysicist 26.7% 200
expects jobs in the sector to leap by 24 percent by 2012, well above
biological Technician 23.9% 550
the growth rate for all jobs in the state.
physicist 20.0% 50
Jonathan Startin, manager of the Trans-Texas Corridor
This is a projection of 10 fast-growing careers in Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics in Texas
construction project for Halcrow, Inc., says the future is
from the year 2002 to 2012 and the number of new jobs created in each occupation. Note that while the
particularly bright for engineers who design our roads, rail
percentage of growth in jobs may be high, the actual number of jobs created may be low. For example, there
will be only 50 new jobs for physicists created in Texas during the decade that the data covers.
Source: Texas Workforce Commission.
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