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17-2199.11 — Solar Energy Systems Engineers

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Tools

Abrasion testers
Ageing ovens
  • Accelerated weathering machines
  • Solar simulators
Ammeters
  • Picoammeters
Analytical balances
  • High-precision balances
Atomic absorption AA spectrometers
  • Atomic absorption spectrometers
Binocular light compound microscopes
  • Optical compound microscopes
Calculators or accessories
  • Hand calculators
Calorimeters
  • Differential scanning calorimeters
  • Thermogravimetric analyzers
Capacitance meters
  • Inductance capacitance resistance LCR meters
Colorimeters
  • Spectrocolorimeters
Compression testers
Coulometers
  • Flow coulometric detectors
Creep testers
Electrometers
Extruders
  • Film extruders
Facsimile machines
  • Fax machines
Fatigue testers
Fish tape
  • Pull testers
Flexure or transverse testing machines
  • Flexure testers
Goniometers
Graphic recorders
  • Current versus voltage IV curve tracers
Hand held camcorders or video cameras
  • Video cameras
Hardness testers
Hipot testers
Impact testers
Infrared dryers
  • Ultraviolet UV exposure units
Infrared imagers
  • Infrared cameras
Infrared spectrometers
  • Fourier transform infrared FTIR spectrometers
Isolation glove boxes
  • Inert atmosphere glove boxes
Laboratory evaporators
  • Electron beam evaporators
  • Vacuum evaporators
Laboratory mechanical convection ovens
  • Bench ovens
  • Humidity ovens
Laminators
  • Vacuum laminators
Laser printers
Lasers
Liquid chromatographs
  • Liquid chromatographs LC
Load frame
  • Load frames
Low voltage alternating and direct current AC DC panelboards
  • Direct current DC power supplies
Mass spectrometers
Metal testing instruments
  • Adhesion testers
Moisture meters
  • Moisture analyzers
Multi gas monitors
  • Permeation testers
Optical character recognition systems
  • Optical scanners
Orbital shakers
  • Mechanical shakers
Personal computers
pH meters
Photocopiers
  • Copy machines
Plotter printers
  • Plotters
Polarimeters
  • Polarographic analyzers
Portable data input terminals
  • Data loggers
Potentiometers
  • Chronopotentiometers
  • Potentiostats
Refrigerated and heated reach in environmental or growth chambers
  • Environmental chambers
Resistance thermometers
  • Digital resistance thermometers
Rheometers
Roughness measuring instruments
  • Surface profilometers
Scanning electron microscopes
  • Field emission scanning electron microscopes FESEM
  • Scanning electron microscopes SEM
Scanning probe microscopes
  • Scanning probe microscopes SPM
Semiconductor process systems
  • Focused ion beam FIB systems
  • Ion beam assisted deposition IBAD systems
  • Ion mills
  • Mask aligners
  • Micromanipulators
  • Plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition PECVD systems
  • Spin coaters
  • Sputtering systems
Semiconductor testers
  • Lifetime testers
Shear strength testers
  • Shear testers
Signal generators
  • Digital pattern generators
Spectrometers
  • Auger electron spectrometers
  • Electron energy loss spectrometers
  • Energy dispersive x-ray spectrometers EDS
  • Photoluminescence spectrometers
  • Raman spectrometers
  • Reflectance spectrometers
  • X-ray photoelectron spectrometers
Spectrophotometers
  • Fluorescence spectrophotometers
Strain gauges
Temperature cycling chambers or thermal cyclers
  • Thermal cyclers
Tension testers
  • Tensile testers
Thermocouples
Thickness measuring devices
  • Spectroscopic ellipsometers
Transmission electron microscopes
  • Transmission electron microscopes TEM
Tube furnaces
  • Laboratory tube furnaces
Ultrasonic cleaning equipment
  • Ultrasonic cleaners
Vacuum ovens
Videoscopes
  • Digital imaging microscopes
Voltage or current meters
  • Voltmeters
X ray diffraction equipment
  • X ray diffractometers

Technology

Analytical or scientific software
  • ANSYS FLUENT
  • Energy-10
  • Finite element method FEM software
  • HOMER Micropower Optimization Model
  • Maui Solar Energy Software Corporation PV-DesignPro software
  • National Instruments Compact FieldPoint System
  • Optical Physics Technologies SUN_CHART
  • PV Optics
  • PVsyst
  • Regional Energy Deployment System ReEDS
  • RETScreen Clean Energy Project Analysis Software
  • Simple Model of the Atmospheric Radiative Transfer of Sunshine SMARTS
  • Simulation software
  • Solar Advisor Model
  • Solar and Wind Energy Resource Assessment SWERA
  • SOLAR-2
  • SolTrace
  • The MathWorks MATLAB
Computer aided design CAD software
  • Autodesk AutoCAD LT
  • Autodesk AutoCAD software
  • Dassault Systemes SolidWorks software
  • IMSI Design TurboCAD software
Data base user interface and query software
  • Microsoft Access
Development environment software
  • National Instruments LabVIEW
Electronic mail software
  • Microsoft Outlook
Mobile location based services software
  • Global positioning satellite GPS system software
Office suite software
  • Microsoft Office software
Presentation software
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
Spreadsheet software
  • Microsoft Excel
Word processing software
  • Microsoft Word

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