Electronic engineering is an engineering discipline which develops electronic components, devices, systems, and equipment. Like the electron tubes, transistors, integrated circuits, and printed circuit boards. The electronic components use electricity as a part of its driving force to deliver information. This is a broad engineering field that encompasses many sub fields including those that deal with power, the instrumentation engineering field, the telecommunications industry, the semiconductor circuit design companies, and many others.
In this field, the electronics engineer, does research on electronic components and equipment, they do the designing, the development of, and the testing of the electronic systems for commercial, industrial, military, and scientific fields and industries.
Utilizing their knowledge of electronic theory and materials properties the engineering staff, design electronic circuits and components for use in the telecommunications industry, in aerospace guidance systems and the propulsion control units, in the defense related equipment industry, the ever growing medical electronics fields, all of the consumer products engineering and industrial endeavors, as well as the acoustics engineering field, and the various instruments and controls, manufacturers.
The needed skills and abilities of the electronics engineer, include some of the following tasks and duties they preform. They design electronic components, use the software necessary, and develop products and systems for commercial, industrial, medical, military, or scientific applications.
The staff provides technical support and instruction to their customers regarding equipment standards, and assists with any in service engineering needs. These engineers, operate the computer assisted engineering and design software and equipment to perform all the various engineering tasks.
They analyze system requirements, the capacity, cost, and their customers needs to determine the feasibility of a project. The electronic engineering staff will do reviews and evaluate the work of others, inside and outside of the organization, to ensure efficiency in the resolution of engineering problems and issues.
There are ongoing inspections of the electronic equipment, instruments, products, and systems; for compliance to all safety standards, and applicable codes and regulations. The electronics engineer, evaluates operational systems, the prototypes and proposals; recommend repair or design modifications, based on the need of their customers and the environment, service, cost, and system capabilities.
Finally, they prepare documentation containing descriptions and specifications of proprietary hardware and software, the products development stages and introduction schedules, list the product costs, and include information about the products performance strengths and/or weaknesses.
The engineers that make up this field, work in a number of disciplines and have many job titles, listed are some of the job titles for this group of engineers: Engineer, Electrical Engineer, Design Engineer, Product Engineer, Test Engineer, Electronics Engineer, Engineering Manager, Integrated Circuit Design Engineer (IC Design Engineer), Application Engineer, Broadcast Engineer, and the Electronic Engineer.
For more information on electronic engineering, contact: IEEE Computer Society, 2001 L St. NW., Suite 700., Washington, DC 20036.
Electronic engineering jobs, are expected to experience little to no change over the next decade. Growth will be fastest in firms that provide engineering and design services.
Alright all you engineers go forth and wire up the world.
