| Profession |
Skills Required |
Duties Performed |
| Biological Scientist |
- Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
- Troubleshooting: Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.
- Judgment and Decision Making: Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
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- Confer with departments such as marketing, business development, and operations to coordinate product development or improvement.
- Provide statistical and computational tools for biologically based activities such as genetic analysis, measurement of gene expression, and gene function determination.
- Search scientific literature to select and modify methods and procedures most appropriate for genetic research goals.
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| Biological Technician |
- Troubleshooting: Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.
- Installation: Installing equipment, machines, wiring, or programs to meet specifications.
- Active Learning: Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
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- Keep detailed logs of all work-related activities.
- Examine animals and specimens to detect the presence of disease or other problems.
- Measure or weigh compounds and solutions for use in testing or animal feed.
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| Biomedical Engineer |
- Monitoring: Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- Systems Analysis: Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
- Time Management: Managing one's own time and the time of others.
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- Manage team of engineers by creating schedules, tracking inventory, creating and using budgets, and overseeing contract obligations and deadlines.
- Keep documentation of service histories on all biomedical equipment.
- Develop models or computer simulations of human biobehavioral systems to obtain data for measuring or controlling life processes.
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