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Commercial and Industrial Designers
Designs everyday products: phones, furniture, cars, toys and tools.
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Industrial designers sketch and model how products look, feel and work, build prototypes, and work with engineers and marketers to make them. They work for manufacturers and design firms.
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High school courses that build toward it
- Engineering Design · Career and Technical
Builds engineering, which this job uses.
- Computer Science Principles · Computer Science
Builds computers and electronics, which this job uses.
- Calculus · Math
Builds math, which this job uses.
- Physics · Science
Builds physics, which this job uses.
- English 10 · English
Builds reading and writing, which this job uses.
- Studio Art · Arts
Builds design and technical drawing, which this job uses.
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Commercial and Industrial Designers on O*NET OnLine · O*NET 31.0 (U.S. Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0); BLS Employment Projections 2025.