Electronic Engineering

 

General definitions and terms:

Electronics is a branch of physics that deals with the behavior of electrical charges and its utilities. Electronic engineering covers low power-based systems, like systems built with semiconductors. In contrast, electrical engineering covers high power-based systems.

A brief history of Electronic Engineering:

At the end of the XIX century and beginnings of the XX century scientists performed the first electromagnetic phenomena that were the basis for electronics. Initially electronics was a branch of physics and then it evolved into engineering. In 1884 Thomas Alva Edison discovered the first electronic valve, the diode, and this allowed the improvement of electronics.

Things that are manufactured in Electronic Engineering:

Electronic engineers design circuits, devices and systems, which are composed of passive elements like resistors and capacitors, and active elements, like transistors and diodes. As examples, manufactured things in electronics are microprocessors, signals processing systems, control systems, and the hardware needed for storing, processing, and transferring information.

Areas of knowledge that electronics engineers are required to master:

An electronic engineer is required to master areas like physics, math, semiconductors, electricity, signals processing and circuits design.

Activities that electronics engineers typically carry out:

Electronic engineering has a wide field of applications. Some of them are:

• Power electronics: Adapting and transforming electricity for use in electronics.
• Digital electronics:  Developments systems based on microprocessors.
• Process Control: Planning, designing, managing, and supervising instrumentation systems, automation and control of industrial process.
• Telecommunications: Planning, designing and administration of all the systems related to communications.

Conclusion:

All  engineering branches have been and are very important areas of knowledge. At the beginning of humanity, engineering did not exist as science but people practiced it. Because of those people  we could evolve and reach new technological advances.

Today, the majority of people cannot appreciate electronic engineering  because they are in contact with it every day of their life. It is impossible to imagine life without light, computers, or the Internet. Because of that, it is very important to continue growing in engineering.   

References:http://en.wikipedia.org