Electrical engineering is evergreen, with undisputed demand in the engineering industry. This job market will rarely fluctuate and this field promises a huge scope in India and abroad. This includes the scope for job as well as research and higher studies," explains Prithwiraj Purkait, professor and head, department of electrical engineering, Haldia Institute of Technology,West Bengal.
Despite being one of the oldest streams of engineering, this programme has adapted itself to the changing technology and industry demands. It is considered the mother of all streams of engineering and is seen as one of the most desired and rewarding areas of specialize.
This field is an applied science stream that deals with the study of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. They specialise in designing and building systems and machines that generate, transmit, measure, control and use electrical energy essential to modern life.
This discipline is grounded in sciences and mathematics and provides intense training in all essential subjects of electrical science such as electrical circuits, power systems, rotating electrical machines, electrical measuring instruments and automatic control systems.
After a B.Tech in electrical engineering, one can opt for an M.Tech in a specialised field such as electric drives and power electronics. Integrated five-year dual degree progammes are offered by institutes across the country, especially at the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT). This dual degree saves a year and provides focused training.
Both private and public sector players hire electric engineers for their diverse projects. The job opportunity can range from power grids and thermal power stations to communication systems, robotics and artificial intelligence.
The salary for graduates in India can vary from four to nine lakh per annum, depending on the sector. Job prospects are even higher in foreign countries due to lack of trained manpower there. There is scope of research, higher studies and professional teaching in this field.
As Purkait adds, "It is important to know the underlying principles, learn "why" and "how" things work and match theory with practice in order to excel in this field. Electrical engineering is all about sincerity, punctuality and hard work. There is rarely any short cut."
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Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Pan India
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Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani
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National Institute of Technology (NIT), Pan India
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Delhi Technology Institute, New Delhi
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Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (DIT), New Delhi
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Despite being one of the oldest streams of engineering, this programme has adapted itself to the changing technology and industry demands. It is considered the mother of all streams of engineering and is seen as one of the most desired and rewarding areas of specialize.
This field is an applied science stream that deals with the study of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. They specialise in designing and building systems and machines that generate, transmit, measure, control and use electrical energy essential to modern life.
This discipline is grounded in sciences and mathematics and provides intense training in all essential subjects of electrical science such as electrical circuits, power systems, rotating electrical machines, electrical measuring instruments and automatic control systems.
After a B.Tech in electrical engineering, one can opt for an M.Tech in a specialised field such as electric drives and power electronics. Integrated five-year dual degree progammes are offered by institutes across the country, especially at the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT). This dual degree saves a year and provides focused training.
Both private and public sector players hire electric engineers for their diverse projects. The job opportunity can range from power grids and thermal power stations to communication systems, robotics and artificial intelligence.
The salary for graduates in India can vary from four to nine lakh per annum, depending on the sector. Job prospects are even higher in foreign countries due to lack of trained manpower there. There is scope of research, higher studies and professional teaching in this field.
As Purkait adds, "It is important to know the underlying principles, learn "why" and "how" things work and match theory with practice in order to excel in this field. Electrical engineering is all about sincerity, punctuality and hard work. There is rarely any short cut."
Positive charge
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Pan India
www.iit(m/d/b/kgp/r/k/g/m/rpr/gn/h/p/i)ac.in
Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani
www.bits-pilani.ac.in
National Institute of Technology (NIT), Pan India
www.NIT(dgp/rkl/t/w/jsr/c/j/k)ac.in
Delhi Technology Institute, New Delhi
www.dce.edu
Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (DIT), New Delhi
www.nsit.ac.in
With Washington crimping visas for visiting Indian workers, some companies such as Mumbai-based Aegis Communications are slowly hiring workers locally as their largest corporate customers are based in North America, the Washington Post reported Sunday.
'Many of them are call centre workers. Many are African Americans without college degrees. Some lack high school diplomas,' it noted saying, 'In this evolution, outsourcing has come home.'
Aegis, a subsidiary of India's Essar Group, an energy, telecom and metals conglomerate, is quoted as saying it's pioneering the next generation of outsourcing: putting the work close to its global customers.
Its executives call the practice 'near-sourcing', 'diverse shoring' and, sometimes, 'cross-shoring'.
Companies such as Tata Consultancy Services, Genetic and Infosys are the largest users of the H-1B visa programme and have collectively brought as many as 30,000 workers into the country in a year on H-1B or other visas.
But the companies that use the visa programmes have faced opposition from US labour unions as well as age-discrimination lawsuits from American tech workers alleging that they were passed over by the hiring practices, the Post noted.
At the same time, as high unemployment lingers and the economic recovery lags, India-based companies have seized on an opportunity to improve their image and expand their US businesses by taking over companies and hiring more US talent, it said.
Tata Consultancy Services, for example, is ramping up its North American presence in major deals with Citibank, Dow Chemical and Hilton Worldwide.
It plans to hire more than 1,000 Americans in 2011 and to base 10,000 of its 185,000 global employees in the country.
The Post cited Robert Webb, chief information officer at Hilton Worldwide, as predicting that the India-based companies 'will evolve to be more like one of the traditional consulting firms in the US' by taking on higher-end capabilities such as business planning, industry knowledge and change management.
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