Which Engineering degree to go for?

By: Tanveer Ahmad

Many youngsters these days are seeking admission in Engineering Universities, but are not too sure about which engineering discipline to pursue.
This article is for those who are interested in pursuing a Bachelors degree in Electrical, Electronics, and Computer Engineering and differentiate between some of the engineering majors that one should choose while applying for an admission.

1. Power:
It comes under the umbrella of Electrical Engineering, and is the most demanding major among the students. The course is all about the electrical power generation, transmission, and its distribution. The generation includes generating the electrical power(or Electricity) at the dams, IPPs, and through Solar or Nuclear energy. The transmission part is all about transmitting the generated power through 500KV, 250KV transmission lines, and the distribution sector involves all those grid stations that lowers the voltage to 11kv and provides the electricity to the domestic users.

2. Communication:
Most of the universities offers Electrical Engineering in Communication because of the ease in establishing labs and hiring the concerned faculty. This sector is even more interesting than the power one because one has many more options to choose from.
Communication engineering involves the study of Communication Basics, radio waves, modulation techniques, encryption/decryption, signals and systems, digital signals processing, mobile communication, telecommunication, satellite communication, microwaves engineering, antennas & wave propagation, and broadcasting etc. You have the option to choose your field from that vast variety.

3. Electronics:

The building block of Electronics is the study of semi conductor devices, because the whole electronics revolves around these devices.

Electronics degree mainly involves the study of diodes, transistors, rectifiers, amplifiers, filters, ICs, microprocessors, micro-controllers, Assembly language, C/C++ programming, FPGA, and all type of electronics circuits.
The opportunities one gets after completing their degree in electronics are Electronics Design Engineer, Embedded systems Engineer, Service Engineer etc.

4. Telecommunication:
The youngest of all the disciplines that entered Engineering market in 2000-2002. Many universities now a days are offering Engineering degree in Telecommunication.
The degree’s main focus is on Mobile Communication and makes a person able to get into mobile industry of Pakistan. Due to a limited number of Cellular Networks in Pakistan, fresh graduates these days are finding it difficult to get into the action.
The course includes studies of Telecommunication, mobile communication, GSM architecture, GSM standards, encryption/decryption, EDGE, GPRS, CDMA, etc

5. Computer Engineering:
Another exciting field for those who want to excel in the field of computer, and want themselves to be known as Engineers.

Its a four years course and the aim of the course is to expertise students in Computer Programming (C/C++, assembly, Java, VB etc), computer hardware, software development, networking(Wired & wireless), port programming(serial/parallel/usb), FPGA, VLSI, Computer games development, and hence other emerging technologies.

I hope that the article will helpful for those seeking admission in Engineering universities.

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