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Career as an electronics engineer

The moment we get a call for the counseling sessions in engineering college, our mind starts wondering which Engineering course we shall opt for. Shall it be computer science or mechanical or electronics, or chemical?

This article discusses what electronics engineering has to offer. Electronics Engineering is a very interesting field to chose and off late it has become an enticing career option. A B.tech course in electronics mainly covers subjects like Digital electronics(And gates, flip flops, FIFOs etc.), Analog electronics(oscillators, amplifiers), microprocessors, Hardware description languages(Verilog and VHDL) , little bit of software programming language like “C”,  Instrumentation or telecommunication, depending on whether you have opted for “Electronics and Communication” or Instrumentation.

A degree in electronics engineering earns you employment opportunities from companies like BEL, STMicroelectronics, Nvidia, ARM, Intel, Ciena, Flextronics, Freescale, LG, Samsung, Cadence, Synopsys. These are the big names in the industry and this is to name a few. There are many smaller setups providing job opportunities.

 If you are keen on working abroad, then electronics engineering doesn’t have as much to offer as computer engineering. However a B.TEch in electronics followed by an MTech at one of the colleges abroad opens up your career opportunities in the western counterparts of above mentioned organization.

Once you get employed, you will be working on many interesting projects. You may work as a design engineer designing multi-million gates integrated circuits using hardware description language, or a verification engineer who

Simulates and verifies these IC’s, using the same language sets, before they are actually sent for fabrication. There is another Job description called Layout Designer, as a layout designer you will be actually laying out the paths for AND gates and OR gates to sit and connecting them. As a QA engineer, you may be doing quality checks for TVs manufactured at LG factory. These job descriptions are a few of the options you have as an Electronics Engineering graduate.

Now the interesting part – Dollars J. An MNC like STMicro, ARM and Intel offers a annual package of 4 to 7 lacs to a fresher. As you must have already heard by now, the compensation will vary depending on the college you have completed your BTech from.

There are smaller startups that may offer around 2.5 lacs.

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As an ending note, you might hear people saying that Computer Engineering and Electronics Engineering are essentially the same, with comp engineering focusing more on languages. That’s not true. Computer engineering dives deep into topics like operating systems, advanced language concepts and more number of languages. Any organization that needs software engineers will give first preference to computer engineers. So if you really are keen to do coding and software, do go for computer engineering.