Electronics Engineering

An electronics engineering technology degree will give you the credentials you need for an exciting career in a field that experiences continual growth in both salaries and opportunities.

As the heirs to Faraday's and Flemings work, today's electrical, electronics, and computer engineers, technologists, and technicians continue to revolutionize the way we live. We depend on the hundreds of thousands of individuals who design, produce, operate and maintain a vast array of equipment and services. The implementation of ideas through new products, systems, and services is the essence of engineering as a socially responsible profession. The rapid changes in electrical, electronics, and computer technology and the diversity of applications require a broad educational background and a lifelong commitment to learning new and specialized information.

Electronics plays a major role in a countries economy for they increase the production in industries like oil, energy, agriculture etc. All the industries including health field depend upon electronic instruments to go ahead with their various functions. The safeties in transportation, factories and mines and in homes rely heavily on electronics. Electronical engineering is a discipline dealing with the behavior and effects of electrons and electronic devices, systems, or equipment. Many UK universities define Electronic as a broad field that deals with power, instrumentation engineering, telecommunications, and semiconductor circuit design amongst many others. In the U.S., however, electrical engineering implies all the wide electrical disciplines including electronics.

Thus electronics engineers team up and work with electronic equipments and components for a wide range of industries and with electronic data processing systems for communication. They work with microprocessors, fibre optics, and telecommunication. They work is involved in almost all the steps required to manufacture, install and maintenance. Electronics engineering is a constantly changing and widening branch of the engineering profession. Electronics industry being a labour intensive industry provides many job opportunities for the skilled job seekers. Increased production and demand by government and businesses for communication equipment, computers and military electronics along with consumer demand and increased research and development on robots and other types of automation contributes to the growth of employment opportunities in the field. Candidates having a creative and inventive mind and also are good at physics and mathematics will probably find electronics engineering a challenging and lucrative career.

CAREER OPTION

A Bachelor's degree in electronics also helps you to find an allied job in the field of electrical, computer, biomedical and aero space engineering. An electronic engineer can fit in any of the following positions

• Design Engineer

• Project Engineer

• Engineering Specialist

• Chief Engineer

• Quality Control Engineer

• Software Engineer

• Development Engineer

• Reliability Engineer

• Research Engineer

• Systems Design Engineer

• Field Engineer

• Test Engineer

• Sales Engineer

They can work in Government organizations and their sponsored corporations. They get employed in public and private organizations which deal in manufacture, sales and services of electronics consumer goods and appliances. An electrical engineer may choose to couple the technical aspects of a position with management responsibilities. The technical expertise required for management today is increasing because of the explosion of knowledge in engineering, technology, and science. Electronic Engineers can start their own business by manufacturing electronic parts, goods and components.

PIONEERS IN THE FIELD OF ELECTRONICAL ENGINEERING

ALAN BOVIK

Alan Bovik earned all three of his degrees from Illinois. Bovik has made fundamental and enduring technical, educational, and service contributions to the field of digital image and video processing. He also serves as the director of the Laboratory for Image and Video Engineering (LIVE), manages several million dollars worth of contracts and grants, and advises more than 15 PhD students.Bovik is co-founder of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, where he served as the longest-serving editor-in-chief. During his tenure, he is among the most cited journals in any engineering field. Bovik created, founded, and served as the first general chairman of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP).

Bovik has published nearly 500 refereed papers and 50 book chapters, and authored four books, including the best-selling Handbook of Image and Video Processing. He has earned high distinction and international prominence in his field, garnering several honors including the IEEE Signal Processing Society Education Award in 2007, which is the highest educational honor given by one of IEEE's largest societies. Other professional recognition include the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award in 2005 - the highest technical honor awarded by the 25,000-member IEEE Signal Processing Society - as well as the 2000 Distinguished Lecturer Award of the IEEE Signal Processing Society and the IEEE Signal Processing Society Meritorious Service Award of 1998. He is both a Fellow of the IEEE and of the Optical Society of America (OSA).

ADEL SEDRA

Adel Sedra is recognized internationally as a pioneer in the field of microelectronics. He has published 150 papers, guided the research of 65 graduate students and co-authored three textbooks. A U of T alumnus, Sedra served the university in numerous capacities, including vice-president, provost, and chief academic officer from 1993 to 2002. In 2003, he joined the University of Waterloo as dean of the Faculty of Engineering.

CHARLES KAO

Electrical engineer Charles Kao is known as the "father of fibre optics" for his work in developing optical fibre communication systems, now the backbone of global communication. As vice-chancellor (president) of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Kao also played an important role in Hong Kong's Educational reform as it moved to a more populist approach. Kao received his honorary doctor of engineering degree.

LATEST ELECTRONIC INVENTION - POWER ELECTRONICS HANDBOOK

Power electronics, which is a rapidly growing area in terms of research and applications, uses modern electronics technology to convert electric power from one form to another, such as ac-dc, dc-dc, dc-ac, and ac-ac with a variable output magnitude and frequency. Power electronics has many applications in our every day life such as air-conditioners, electric cars, sub-way trains, motor drives, renewable energy sources and power supplies for computers. Less expensive, lighter, and smaller than its electromechanical counterparts, power electronics lay at the very heart of controlling and converting electric energy, this in turn lies at the heart of making that energy useful. From household appliances to space-faring vehicles, the applications of power electronics are virtually limitless.

For modern and emerging applications, power electronic devices and systems must be small, efficient, lightweight, controllable, reliable, and economical. The Power Electronics Handbook is your key to understanding those devices, incorporating them into controllable circuits, and implementing those systems into applications from virtually every area of electrical engineering.

FEATURES

• Provides comprehensive coverage of the field with more than 500 illustrations

• Offers a careful blend of traditional topics with innovative technologies at the vanguard of advancements being made

• Emphasizes the practical application of the technologies discussed

• Includes detailed coverage of a variety of motor drives

• Discusses Flexible AC Transmission System (FACTS)

• Explores more-electric vehicles, including aircraft, ships, and terrestrial vehicles

Horoscope - Career for Zodiac Signs

So if you have a creative and inventive mind and an interest in physics and mathematics just check out if these sun signs are yours then go ahead to take up this challenging career.

Aries

Virgo

Capricorn

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