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
