No sooner than stepping into the last 2 years at the higher secondary school level, the prime concern shared by the students as well as their parents and guardians is the graduation. This is deemed to be the live link to chalk out a professional and lucrative career. The visualisation would centre round the commerce stream for the job of a banker. Likewise, the focus would be on medical and engineering colleges so as to graduate either as an engineer or a doctor.
Of course, it is fairly a crucial stage since what you aspire, decide and lastly manage to achieve have a direct bearing on the entire life. In the background of this scenario, patience is a should while an in-depth and long-term oriented foresight solves your ultimate choice for graduation.
In case, your preference is the technical stream, graduation in electrical engineering would be an ideal choice. Remember that power is the basic source on which each activity takes place, be it domestic or industrial.
So evident is the eternal need for qualified B tech electrical engineers in generation and transmission of power as well as design, development, manufacture and maintenance of appliances of use in each walk of daily life. These are gadgets and machinery that operate on the principles of electronics and electromagnetism.
Further downstream disciplines like electronics, instrumentation, digital computers, power engineering, telecommunications, control systems, audio-video technology, signal processing etc. are directly related to electrical engineering. To this list, you may even add power audit and also research in energy conservation and efficiency as extra career prospects.
Hence at the outset, your initial objective must be to ascertain an ideal Electrical Engineering College to pursue your goals. No doubt, prior to this is the basic need to clear the common entrance test for admission in engineering courses.
As for the academic topics, at the graduation level, you study fundamentals and principles of
- Physics
- Mathematics
- Computer Science
- Project Management
- Apart from the above, the focus would be on
- Designing and Testing ICs (integrated circuits)
- Inductors, Capacitors and Resistors
- Designing electronic circuits
- Computer systems
- Development of Control Systems
On close of the final hurdle at the college, you earn a scroll of B.E or B.Tech. In case you have scholarly aptitude, there are advanced specialisation post-graduation courses to supplement your B Tech Electrical leading to M.Tech, M.E or M.Sc. The masters are in exclusive streams like -
- Communication Engineering
- Control & Computing
- Power Electronics & Systems
- Control & Instrumentation
- Microelectronics & VLSI Design
While the sky is the limit for the job profiles and chances for an engineer, the academic base has to be ought to be from an institution or university of established reputation. Almost all these institutions have their own respective websites to facilitate your judicious selection.
Besides the faculty, you must pay minute attention to the facilities like the library and laboratory obtainable for the students on the campus. At the end of it all, enrolment in a well-known university or a college would mean a passport to a fruitful career. Top industries and corporate houses from across India tap these campuses for 'on-the campus' talent scout hunting to select successful electrical engineers of the future.
P.Araya has been an observer of the changing trends in the world educational sector. He is open to informative discussion on the changing trends in a variety of disciplines, including management college, Electrical Engineering College , hotel management, etc.
