Brake engineer vs student engineer

The differences between brake engineers and student engineers can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. It typically takes 4-6 years to become both a brake engineer and a student engineer. Additionally, a brake engineer has an average salary of $90,807, which is higher than the $71,947 average annual salary of a student engineer.

The top three skills for a brake engineer include DFMEA, CAD and DVP. The most important skills for a student engineer are GPA, C++, and CAD.

Brake engineer vs student engineer overview

	Brake Engineer	Student Engineer
Yearly salary	$90,807	$71,947
Hourly rate	$43.66	$34.59
Growth rate	2%	2%
Number of jobs	86,170	98,036
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 82%	Bachelor's Degree, 78%
Average age	41	41
Years of experience	6	6

Brake engineer vs student engineer salary

Brake engineers and student engineers have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Brake Engineer	Student Engineer
Average salary	$90,807	$71,947
Salary range	Between $61,000 And $134,000	Between $54,000 And $95,000
Highest paying City	-	Yakima, WA
Highest paying state	-	Washington
Best paying company	-	JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Best paying industry	-	Transportation

Differences between brake engineer and student engineer education

There are a few differences between a brake engineer and a student engineer in terms of educational background:

	Brake Engineer	Student Engineer
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 82%	Bachelor's Degree, 78%
Most common major	Mechanical Engineering	Mechanical Engineering
Most common college	Stanford University	Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Brake engineer vs student engineer demographics

Here are the differences between brake engineers' and student engineers' demographics:

	Brake Engineer	Student Engineer
Average age	41	41
Gender ratio	Male, 100.0% Female, 0.0%	Male, 78.8% Female, 21.2%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 2.8% Unknown, 4.4% Hispanic or Latino, 6.5% Asian, 11.1% White, 75.1% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.1%	Black or African American, 3.2% Unknown, 4.6% Hispanic or Latino, 8.5% Asian, 15.9% White, 67.7% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.1%
LGBT Percentage	5%	5%

Differences between brake engineer and student engineer duties and responsibilities

Brake engineer example responsibilities.

Organize and manage multi-disciplinary teams of scientists, business and other professionals to successfully commercialize NASA and other technology.
Perform multiple augments installing and adding new devices/servers along with adding configurations for video streaming using Unix and checking router configurations.
Organize and manage multi-disciplinary teams of scientists, business and other professionals to successfully commercialize NASA and other technology.

Student engineer example responsibilities.

Compose GIS maps using ArcView, manage large data sets, and help in train other personnel learn program
Lead a team of undergraduate students to continue the work done on SEI NASA project (see below).
Manage Terraform and refactore from monolithic to application specific components.
Complete computational fluid dynamics (CFD) calculations and execute data analysis using JMP.
Aid software engineers in programming and debugging internal SQL database.
Perform systems programming in C/C++, Java, MATLAB and Linux.

Brake engineer vs student engineer skills

Common brake engineer skills

DFMEA, 27%
CAD, 24%
DVP, 16%
Dvp R, 16%
MATLAB, 6%
FEA, 4%

Common student engineer skills

GPA, 12%
C++, 8%
CAD, 8%
Co-Op, 6%
Java, 5%
Python, 4%