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“Electrical engineering (sometimes referred to as electrical and electronics engineering) is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. The field first become an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century with the commercialization of the electronic telegraph and electrical power supply. The field now covers a range of sub-disciplines, including those that deal with power, control systems, electronics and telecommunications,” states Wikipedia. Electrical engineers have today, become indispensable to the society because of the increasing demand for electrical energy, the developments in audio and visual communication systems and automation in industry. The role of an electrical engineer comprises the design and development of more efficient electrical machinery, power systems and control equipment for the generation, transmission and distribution of electrical energy and telecommunication. Here, the stress is on deep understanding of electrical and electronic networks and devices, electro-magnetic filed theory, study of electrical machines, control systems, digital electronics and circuit theory, computer application, power electronics, electrical energy generation and distribution, microprocessors, DSP, electrical devices and control, etc. Electrical engineers find jobs in power plants, public and private industries, electricity boards, telecommunication sector, railways, computer hardware and software filed, marketing, etc. The growth of the IT sector has provided plenty of opportunities to bright candidates. Electronics and Communication Engineering/Applied Electronics/ Electronics and Instrumentation “Electronic engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the emission, behaviour, and effects of electrons (as in electron tubes and transistors) and with electronic devices, systems or equipment. The term also now covers a large part of electrical engineering degree courses as studied at most European universities. Its practitioners are called electronics engineers in Europe. In the America and some other parts of the world, the term electrical engineer is used to describe a person doing the same work.” This is how Wikipedia describes the branch of engineering. There is now virtually no field of human activity that has been left untouched by electronics. Increased production and demand for communication equipment, computers, electronic equipment used in the entertainment media, in hospitals and defence services by Government and leading business houses along with consumer demand and increased research and development in robotics and other types of automation has contributed to the growth of employment opportunities in the field. Candidates who have a creative and inventive mind and are good in physics and mathematics will find electronics engineering a challenging and lucrative career. Applied electronics mainly focuses on its application and instrumentation. Most of the subjects are common. From the 5th semester onwards there will be changes in two/three subjects in each semester. Basic instrumentation, industrial electronics and applications, industrial instrumentation, process instrumentation, sensors, transducer engineering, process control, etc. Are some of the special subjects included in Applied Electronics and Electronics and Instrumentation branches. An electronics engineer can be employed as a hardware and software professional in multi-national companies, in public and private sector industries and organizations such as Indian Telephone Industries, BSNL, Doordarshan, BHEL, AIR, Civil Aviation, research and development organizations and defence services, etc. Computer Science and Engineering/ Information Technology Wikipedia describes computer engineering as a “discipline that combines elements of both electrical engineering and computer science. Computer engineers are electrical engineers that have additional training in the areas of software design and hardware-software integration.” However, computer science and engineering is the study of computers – namely, their design and their uses for computations, data processing, and systems control. Computer science includes engineering activities such as the design of computers and of the hardware and software that make up computer systems. The field also encompasses theoretical, mathematical activities, such as the design and analysis of algorithms, performance studies of systems and their components by means of techniques like queuing theory, and estimation of the reliability and availability of systems by probabilistic techniques.
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