What does an environmental test engineer do?

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What does an environmental test engineer do?

Translates system operational requirements into environmental design and testing requirements for systems,sub-systems,and component to ensure life-cycle durability.

Functions include participation in design,testing,and manufacturing procedures described (but not limited to)in the following tasks:

Detrermine life-cycle requirements for systems,sub-systems,and components.Request detailed analysis from others (FEA,thermalanalysis) when required.

Supply environmental design and test requirements with proper margins for types of hardware and phase development.Tailor standard requirements for application(IEC,ISTA,UL,810F).

Conduct design trade-off analyses for environmental control,mitigation,or protection and inputresults to design,raliability and others.

Prepare environmental test requirement for in-house laboratory tests;input specification requirements for suppliers tests.

Monitor or participate in environmental tests(supplier,in-house,customer)and review,report and use results for possible design corrective action.

Collect and maintain environmentaldata bank (and FRACAS).

List of Units

1.Operating-High temperature

2.Operating-Low Temperature

3.Storage and Transportation-High and Low temperature

4.Temperature Shock

5.Humidity-Condensing and non-condensing

6.Altitude

Operational/Storage transportation

Temp/Altitude

7.Rapid Decompression/Explosive Decomp

8.Combined Environments

9.Solar Radiation -actinic and thermal effects

10.Salt Fog

11.Sand&Dust

12.Rain

13.Immersion

14.Explosive Atmosphere

15.Icing

16.Fungus

17.Acceleration

18.Space Simulation

19.Test Documentation