In the present day world, the electrical
energy is a vital resource for industrial and all round development of a
country. Electric power plays an important role in our lives. The degree of
development of a country is often measured by the consumption of electrical
energy by its population. A high degree of efficiency in generation,
transmission and distribution with effective utilization and control is imperative
to provide electrical energy at affordable price.
About half a century ago, there were only
three branches of engineering taught formally in colleges; electrical, civil
and mechanical. They were indeed three pillars of development and growth; civil
engineering to design and construct dams and huge structures to accommodate
factories, mechanical engineering to design and manufacture massive plants and
machineries and of course, electrical engineering to provide all important
power so that these industries get life. The advent of electronics and its
spectacular growth in every walk of life has had an impact in generation and
distribution of electric power in control and measurement areas. Thus, today
power electronics is studied by electrical engineers and the branch itself is
renamed as “Electrical and Electronics Engineering”.
As a career option Electrical
Engineering is second to none primarily because of its primacy in all
fields of human activity. With the kind of GDP growth being witnessed in this
country, there is no dearth of job openings; be it manufacturing or research
and development or software development. Electrical engineers are needed
everywhere.
In a good engineering college students are
exposed to latest technologies and encouraged to explore new ideas under the
guidance of experienced and devoted staff drawn from industry as well as
academic. In these colleges faculty is supported by well equipped state of the
art laboratories, which train the students to address all issues pertaining
power generation, distribution and control. Building on these fundamentals the
students move on to applications like solid-state electronics for control and
conversion of electrical power. Along the way students used to get to
experiment on power electronics, logic design, control systems, micro
controllers, measurement devices, transformers and induction machines etc.
You can choose
further specialization after completing your graduation degree. Few of them are -
- Biomedical Engineering
- Communication and Signal Processing
- Control Engineering
- Electromagnetics
- Electronics and Microelectronics
- Power Systems
- Optical Engineering
Article by;
Written by Prof Indira Merani Who
is a faculty at SCT Institute of Technology, College is co-located among
several DRDO laboratories and PSUs such as HAL & BEML in Bangalore. SCT
Institute of Technology is leading Engineering Colleges in Bangalore.
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