All About Applied Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering

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May 20, 2017
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Applied Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering is a combination of Electronics and Instrumentation Science for applied engineering. It is primarily an engineering course, combining the electronics part for sensing with instrumentation engineering.

Applied Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering students learn about a variety of courses covering electronics and instrumentation. Being a multi disciplinary stream, it covers courses from various engineering branches such as chemical, mechanical, electrical, electronics and computer science besides basic science courses.

Important courses include Measurements, Control system, signals, Industrial Instrumentation, Process control, Power Electronics, Machines, Biomedical Instrumentation, Robotics, Communication and Telemetry. The students of this programme deal with software and hardware topics such as microprocessor and microcontroller - based instrumentation, Virtual Instrumentation system, VLSI and Embedded System Design, Computer Control of Processes etc. Computer languages such as C, C++, object oriented programming, data structure etc. are also part of the curriculum. Apart from this, students also learn how to program microcontrollers and to design and implement communication networks composed of sensors, actuators, and programmable logic controllers (PLC). Mathematics being an important part of the curriculum is included as higher engineering mathematics, computer-aided mathematics and fuzzy mathematics. This makes electronics and instrumentation engineers fit for both hardware and software industries.

The scope of Applied Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering is very wide with emerging fields like high-speed computing, data acquisition and feedback systems, high-speed telemetry, advanced remote control systems, Healthcare field of sophisticated medical electronics equipment Optical fibre, Telecommunication, Robotics, Computer Control in Process applications, VLSI etc.

Since this branch of engineering is related to the major branches of engineering, a graduate of this branch finds opportunities in wide variety of industries. Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) through GATE exams. There is also huge scope for a graduate in Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering in Research and Academics. Research centres, IIT’s, NIT’s, Centrally funded Institutions which are doing research in development of new sensors, control mechanisms, medical instruments, Virtual instrumentation systems, VLSI and embedded systems recruit graduates of this branch as JRF, SRF or Project Engineer. Through GATE exam conducted every year, a graduate of this branch can opt for Higher education (M.Tech or Ph.D) in IITs, NITs and other central or state Institutions and Universities. Apart from Electronics and Instrumentation engineering, a graduate of this branch of engineering can shift his/her career in other fields like Management service, IT service, Banking service etc.

The most common areas of employment for these professionals include the following: