Career opportunities in electronics & instrumentation engineering

- Aakash, Bowenpally

Electronics and instrumentation is a specialised branch of both electrical and electronic engineering and focuses on the principle and operation of measuring instruments, process control which are used in design and configuration of automated systems.

There is lot of scope for an E&I engineer and multiple multinational companies offer jobs throughout the world. The scope is in both public sector as well as the private sector. Jobs are mainly available in hardcore industries like companies dealing in microprocessor, electrical appliances, integrated circuits, etc.

Under the private sector, jobs for an IE engineer are available in all software companies, all electronics companies, all production/manufacturing companies and all machine/instrument companies. Under the public sector, jobs are available in the Railway Recruitment Board, DRDO, IES, ONGC, BSNL, NTPC, BEL, BHEL, Indian Army/Air Force, JPTO and Telecommunication Department. Some of these companies consider GATE score for recruitment.

Private companies which are in the field of developing new & intelligent sensors, MEMS Technology, smart transducers, bluetooth technology, etc, always have an opening for an IE engineering and you have two options, one is the IT field and the other is your core field. Jobs in software field is offered by software companies like Dell, TCS, Wipro, Tech Mahindra, Accenture, IBM, etc.

For a job in your core field, you can go for Phillips, L&T, Samsung, etc.

Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, offers, BE (Hons) in electronics and instrumentation engineering;

Satyabhama University, Chennai; Bengal Engineering and Science University, Howrah, West Bengal; Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Rourkela; Chirala Engineering College, Chirala; College of Engineering, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam; CVR College of Engineering; Dr M G R Educational and Research Institute University, Chennai; Kakatiya Institute of Technology and Science, Warangal, and a couple of National Institute of Technology (NIT).

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