Introduction:
Electrical and electronics engineering graduates have a wealth of favourable job opportunities. More than 25% of engineering jobs are in electrical engineering.Electrical Engineering graduates find jobs in sectors like engineering and business consulting firms,government agencies,manufacturers of electrical, electronic, and computer equipment, and manufacturers of industrial machinery.
Sub Sectors:
Electrical engineering can be classified into the following broad sectors:
Communication
Micro Electronics
Power Electronics and Power Systems
Applied Mechanics
Photonics
Control and instrumentation.
Growth Opportunities:
Electrical Engineers are very much in demand in India. In the recent years, from house to companies everywhere there is a necessity of electricity to function, offering numerous opportunities to electrical engineers. These engineers can work in atomic power plants, hydel or thermal power plants. Job opportunities are ample in both private and public sector like railways, civil aviation, electricity board and utility companies, electrical design and consultancy firms and all types of manufacturing industries.
Exit Opportunities:
Electrical graduates can get job offers at industries such as defence and FMCG. Defence systems are now so integrated that engineers need to operate cross-discipline, for example using a mixture of mechanical, electronic and electrical engineering knowledge. For FMCG industry, the real work is not defined in separate buckets of mechanical, electrical, chemical etc., but normally a mixture of different disciplines as a general manufacturing or logistics engineer. Also, they can go into teaching field or join a research lab. Teaching career is also rewarding, with job in top engineering colleges of India offers attractive remuneration packages.
Some can also join software industries which demands knowledge of electricity and electronics.
Skill Sets:
CGPA is one of the important factors that matters for getting selected to company. Interns, research interns involving work in the area of the work of the company is an important criterion to get recruited into companies. Companies test the knowledge of the person in the area of the profile the company offers. Coding skills help in getting selected in case of some companies.
The curriculum also includes laboratory courses by which students gain practical experience. Final year projects in topics in a specialization over a period of one year helps the students to become expertise in those areas. The internship that students do at companies is mandatory and gets the exposure to industry, its challenges, standards and expectations. Thus the students get a professional work experience.
Following are the profiles and the relevant skills required for the same:
Digital Circuits - Basic Digital Circuit, VLSI design
Signal Processing - Digital Communications or Wireless Communications and Computer networking fundamentals
Power Companies - Knowledge of motors, generators, entire EMEC course CS Companies - C/C++ and coding experience
Companies:
ITC India Honeywell
Texas Instruments India ARM Embedded-Engineer
Eaton Technologies-Engineer Qualcomm-Engineer
Maxlinear Synopsis
Tata Motors Analog Devices
Philips Chennai Sandisk
Taiwan Semiconductor Tiger Analytics
Alstom Transport Cypress Semiconductor
Mathworks National Instruments
Applied Materials Aruba Networks
Ittiam Systems Robert Bosch
Photon Interactive Energo
Tata Communications TVS Motor Company
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd
Preparation material:
Books:
Data structures and algorithms by Cormen Quantitative Aptitude by R.S Agarwal.
R S Agrawal Optics, by Hect
Modern optical engg.by WARREN J SMITH. Fundamentals of lasers by NAMBIYAR
Optical workshop technology "by KARROW OPTICAL WORKSHOP TECHNOLOGY"by HRIDAYANAT Fundamentals of optics by JENKINS & WHITE LASER PHYSICS & APPLICATIONS"by THYAGARAJAN Rabaey (Chapter 10 mainly) Rabaey and Weste & harris Text books for Digital Ic
design.
Digital logic design Notes (Nagendra sir) for Analog Circuits.
Book on C++ by Yashwath Kanetkar Test your C++ by Yashwant Kanetkar.
Galwin Uresh walia
Ferozeon Narasimha Karumanchi,Test your C skills
Skills:
Data Processing Recursion Speech Signal Processing
Image Processing Statistical Signal Processing Mathematical methods in Signal Processing
Machine Learning Communication Networks Network protocols
Network architecture. Good Knowledge of hardware and
software. Good analyzing and problem
solving skills.
Good coding skills. DBMS Algorithms,Computer Networks
Digital and analogue parts of VLSI Digital circuits and
microprocessors Control Systems and Analysis
Good technical skills. Algorithm C, Data Structure
C++ Programming knowledge Courses:
Signal Processing Machine Learning Speech Technology
Communication Networks Communication Systems Network Protocols and
Architecture
Data Structures and Algorithms Digital Signal Processing Image Signal Processing
Communications Speech Technology Digital communications in 6th sem
Machine Learning Computer vision in 7th Communication courses
DS&A C programming. C++ and data structures.
CMOS VLSI. Operating Systems. Power System Practices
Electromagnetic Effects Capability Analog Circuits Digital Designs Electric and Magnetic circuits
Tips:
For VLSI part a HDL is needed and knowing software related to VLSI CAD is added advantage. Also good logical ability and problem solving skill helps since they ask puzzles and digital design problems.
You should be clear about your M.Tech thesis, B.Tech project, summer training, Term papers.
Understand their terminologies and concepts since almost all companies ask about it.
For aptitude preparation, solve the material available in preparation portal, appear honestly in the mock tests organized by SPO. Aim on accuracy and speed.
For Programming preparation, revise basic concepts of C and DS, you can use book by Denis Ritche, YeshwantKanetkar. Solve online mock programming tests, so you get aware of standard questions and most common mistakes. Try to write some codes while preparing so that you will be confident writing in front of interviewer, especially of DS like linked list, trees, sorting, searching etc. I did not prepare for OS, but most of the software companies do ask questions on it. Galvin is the standard book for OS.
Technical: very vast field includes all the course and practical knowledge you have been studying.
Basic concepts should be clear. Prepare Digital circuit design, Communication, Wireless Communication, DSP,
Study you subjects of your interest thoroughly.
Do prepare in groups, it will help you in clearing your doubts and also it will improve your interview skills.