Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Studying Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Since Edison came out with his first lamp and the world's view of electricity and electric energy has shifted, it has become one of the pillars of life today. Therefore, what is electrical engineering? And what are its secrets? This is what we will discuss together in this article, my friend.

Electronics engineering has played an essential role in this era, as many projects and businesses have turned into 'technological projects.' As a result, electronics engineering has begun to take its paramount importance today.

Electrical engineering can be defined as a branch of engineering concerned with the practical application of electricity in all its forms, including electronic applications. Electrical engineering deals with electrical and light power devices and systems.

It is also based on designing and developing electrical machinery and equipment and new electrical control systems and seeks to solve problems and test equipment.

The basis of this specialization is the production and distribution of electrical energy on a large scale, as this is done through the application of several scientific fields such as aspects related to electricity from Physics, Mathematics, Electromagnetism, and Electronics to all systems of all sizes.

Departments of Electrical and Electronics Engineering:

This specialization includes many different and independent departments with their essential tasks and role in this field. They are a mixture of information technology and engineering disciplines, and we list them as follows:

1. Communication Engineering: It transmits information remotely and is closely related to data transmission by encoding all information, then compressing and encrypting it.
2. Control Engineering: It has many different applications.
3. Instrumentation Engineering: It concerns with measuring physical quantities.
4. Computer Engineering: It is concerned with designing computer hardware and components.
5. Super Integration Circuit Engineering: it deals with the manufacture of integrated circuits and electronic components.

Subjects included in the specialization:

The study content includes many subjects that are keen to teach electrical engineering students how to develop and prepare systems, and many topics that focus on electronic technology, including:

1. Calculus
2. Engineering Mathematics
3. General Physics
4. Practical General Physics
5. Computer Applications
6. Circuits
7. Digital Logic
8. Analyzing Signals and Systems
9. Assembly language and microprocessor
10. Electromagnetic
11. Electronics
12. Engineering Numerical Methods
13. Probabilities and random variables
14. Embedded Systems
15. Embedded Systems Lab
16. Measurements and Instruments
17. Control Systems
18. Communication
19. Communication Lab
20. Measurements and Control Laboratory
21. Power Electronics
22. Electric Machines
23. Electrical Instruments Laboratory
24. Power Systems Analysis

At the end of the study, the students submit a graduation project based on all that they have studied.

Knowing that these subjects are either theoretical or practical; Some subjects are divided into basic and advanced levels.

Electrical and Electronics engineering students must pass these courses in order to solidly build their skills to build valuable software that helps in solving problems and improving systems.

The duration of studying this specialty:

1. The duration of studying Electrical and Electronic Engineering in general and in Turkey, in particular, is four years. However, some Turkish universities provide a preparatory year for the language you want to study, whether Turkish or English.
2. If you decide to study a prior year, the number of study years will increase to five years.

And such universities, Ostim Technical University, provides a preparatory year for study and provides the entire specialization in the English language. And as is customary, it leaves the choice in the end to the student.

1. This is also due to the number of hours required to graduate from this department in general.

The rate of excellence in this discipline:

- The specialization of Electrical and Electronic Engineering is one of the disciplines with a solid and influential future for its owner. As we mentioned earlier, we are in the age of technology that strongly needs every minor electronic detail to create new technological space; this strongly needs many electrical engineers to keep up with this rapid development.

- It is also a future discipline for which demand is increasing daily, specifically in European countries. Therefore, Electrical engineers have a secure, qualified future that is almost indispensable to the labor market, especially if this market needs many technological tools.

Practical and field training:

Universities provide practical and applied training for all theoretical studies that the student undergoes during his university period for this major.

One of the most important universities that are keen to provide practical training and help its students participate in prominent national projects to contribute to developing their scientific and practical skills and qualify them to enter the labor market with full strength is Ostim Technical University.

It strives with all its strength to give its students sufficient experience through many training and applications for all theories they passed through during their studies.

It even helps its students strongly to get a prestigious job and prepares them to face the labor market and enter it steadily and correctly. It arranges practical training for them in the most critical national companies during their study period. And with their academic excellence, they can get solid and vital job opportunities in the best companies interested in Electrical and Electronic engineering and development technology.

Qualities of distinguished Electrical and Electronic engineer:

Attending the Electrical and Electronic engineering profession is one of the most desirable professions in the labor market, and students of this specialization have many skills and ingredients; we will mention them to you in general:

Academic qualifications:

1. Good level in Mathematics and Physics.
2. an outstanding level in the English language. And even the student is developing his language level, as this specialization contains many technical terms, and most of the subjects are taught in English.
3. Having an acceptable academic percentage.
4. Having High technical skills and teamwork.
5. Having routine and office work skills.
6. Familiar with the rules and basics of public safety.
7. Careful with professional work ethics.

Personal skills:

1. Skilled in design.
2. Skilled in analysis.
3. Master code writing skills.
4. Can document and take notes at the right time.
5. Have the desire to develop systems.
6. Able to distinguish between engineering and software engineering.
7. Able to withstand office and routine work.
8. Able to work, create, design, and build programs and systems.
9. Team-worker.
10. Creative and innovative.
11. Accurate and have an eye of details.
12. Talented in simplifying and explaining complex things.
13. Able to conclude.
14. Able to collect data and information, and link it to each other.
15. Fast in storing, acquiring, and learning new things.
16. Decision-maker.
17. Ready to work in one of information technology (IT) specialties.
18. Have good work ethic.
19. Familiar with programming languages and knowledge of statistics.
20. Passionate and ambitious.

This is the first way to achieve excellence in this field, and whoever wants to reach, must seek it. These skills are not difficult to acquire; all you have to do is continue training day by day to get the required level.

And we never underestimate the importance of academic performance; you have to try to get the academic courses needed to develop your skills, do not just rely on university lessons.

Benefits of studying this specialty:

1. It is one of the crucial specialties associated with most household appliances and essentials around us, all that we see in our lives is related to it.
2. It is one of the distinguished specializations that enable the specialized engineer to achieve what he seeks from knowledge and money.
3. The specialization is concerned with studying the applications of electrical, electronics, and energy sciences.
4. Electronics engineering is related to the study of electronic systems that have low current and voltage scales.

Fields of work for graduates of the specialization:

The field of electrical and electronics engineering is like a vast sea, it has many specializations and jobs; we will mention to you the most critical jobs available in this field:

1. Electrical engineering technician
2. Telecom engineering technician
3. All kinds of factories
4. Research centers
5. Electronics companies and factories
6. Engineering consulting firms
7. Telecom companies
8. Scientific laboratories
9. The fields of alternative energy and renewable energy
10. Power plants
11. Contracting companies
12. Mechanical services for buildings such as plumbing installations
13. Mechanical design of production machines and lines
14. Modern areas of communication, transceivers, and optical fibers
15. Automotive manufacturing, maintenance, and auto parts

The world’s most famous Electrical and Electronic engineers:

1. Nikola Tesla: Founder of the Tesla Electric Company.
2. John Barden: The only innovator to win the Nobel Prize for Physics twice in its history, and he holds a Master's degree in Electrical engineering.
3. Thomas Edison: And we do not forget the first inventor of the light bulb.

The best countries in the world in providing technical jobs:

Electronics engineering is a major requirement anywhere in the world, but there are many countries that require it primarily, including:

London.

Sweden.

Singapore.

India.

Studying Electrical and Electronic Engineering in Turkey:

1. Studying Electrical and Electronic Engineering at private universities in Turkey is one of the things available to international students, as it does not set impossible conditions; it is sufficient to have a high school diploma at a minimum rate of 50%, in addition to the English language proficiency certificate, or attending an English or Turkish preparatory year.
2. One of the most famous private universities in this field is Ostim Technical University, which offers the major entirely in the English language and provides the practical training to its students, as well as a preparatory year for the English language for non-holders of any international language certificate.