Electrical Engineering

Electrical Engineering is the study of the various applications of electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It deals with the generation, distribution, and transmission of electricity as well as new age applications in electronics ranging from telecommunications to computers and microprocessors. Electrical engineers are required to develop, design, manufacture, test, evaluate, market, sell, and manage electrical and electronic systems. The course is closely linked with computation and neural systems, applied physics, computer science, and applied dynamic systems. Job opportunities in this field are poised to increase in the coming years due to consistent demand for powerful electric systems and their wide range of applications.

Courses and Eligibility:

The eligibility criterion for admissions to a bachelor’s program is a 10+2 pass in the Science stream with Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics as core subjects. The 2-year MTech course can be pursued after successfully completing an undergraduate course. One can also take up a diploma/certificate course after completing class 10. Students must go through entrance exams such as GATE for admissions to BTech and MTech courses.

The courses offer a wide variety of subjects, including wireless systems, quantum electronics, modern optics, solid state materials and devices, power electronics, control theory, signal processing, and data compression and communications. There are many more new age developments including neuro-fuzzy approaches in engineering system applications, biomedical instrumentation, and analysis of digital systems.

Career Prospects:

Electrical Engineers are needed in all manufacturing units. Major companies of both public and private sectors such as electricity boards, large-scale industries, manufacturing plants, power corporations, and hydroelectricity sectors consistently require electrical engineers for their projects. Electrical engineers also find job prospects in design industries, production plants, natural gas plants, petroleum companies, as well as in steel and chemical plants. Owing to the proliferation of satellite-transmitted television, transcontinental computer networks, and other inventions and breakthroughs in technology, there is a great demand for electrical engineers in the industries that manufacture refrigerators, televisions, computers, microwaves, etc. Electrical Engineers can also get a job in any of the major players in the Public Sector such as the Indian Railways, the Armed Forces (technical branch), and the Thermal and Nuclear Power Corporation Limited.

Many staple Educational and Research Institutions regularly intake electrical engineers as graduate Engineer trainees and Management Trainees to work on research projects. One can also join an engineering college/university as a full time or part time lecturer/professor.

Remuneration:

Electrical engineers usually get handsome salaries after they gain some experience in related fields. Starters can get anywhere between Rs. 15,000 and Rs. 30,000 per month. Lecturers in colleges get a starting salary of Rs. 12,000–Rs. 13,000 per month. Those with management levels can earn up to Rs. 60,000 or even more.