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Details about a career in electrical engineering?

smichaels2006 asked:

I’m a current college student, and I’m lost as far as a career goes. I’m finishing up my basic courses this semester and need to get my act together for my future.

Right now i have a job with an electrical/ac-hvac service company. I’ve done electrical work for the past 5 years. Hard manual labor is not something I want to spend the rest of my life doing.

I’m curious about electrical engineering. I have a lot of experience in the grunt work of the electrical field and think that it could benefit me in the long run if I chose to pursue this career.

Can anyone give me some insight about electrical engineering?
Michael
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3 Responses to “Details about a career in electrical engineering?”

  1. surfer on March 26th, 2009 1:29 am

    Electrical Engineers apply electronic and electromagnetic/optical design principles to design, build, and test analog or digital devices, circuits, and systems - for processing, communication, and storage of information; distribution, conversion, and storage of energy; and process automation or robotics. Application areas include communication, manufacturing, power and energy, health care, computing, security, entertainment, and many others. By their choice of elective courses, students specialize in the following broad domains:

    * Systems for communication, control, or power.
    * Digital hardware, software, and the computer as a component.
    * Electronic, radio-frequency, or optical devices, circuits, and fabrication.

    These are summarized in Figure 1.
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  2. David B on March 29th, 2009 1:16 am

    I’m an EE and I started out life as an Electrician. It certainly was a benefit to me but I can see that it wouldn’t be as beneficial to some EE’s. I concentrated in Power so much of what I do now is very much associated with my old job as an Electrician. If I had specialized in Telecommunications, Digital Systems or Electronics then being an Electrician wouldn’t help me out as much.

    When I was an Electrician I worked for a large chemical company and was involved with general installation work. I mainly dealt with installation of MCC’s and their feeders. I finally went back to school and got my EE degree and ironically I work for the same company. My first job was to replace a substation that fed the very first MCC I had helped install as an Electrician. I see a lot of the same people I used to work around and now I go to meetings with my old bosses boss! It was a bit of a shocker at first.

    My first job was with an engineering division where we mainly worked out specifications for equipment, performed load analysis to add additional load to our power system, provide circuit coordinations and work as an electrical leader on various large capital projects. I also worked as a design engineer to replace 480V substations throughout the plant. It was a good job and allowed me to learn a lot.

    After a couple years I was transferred to the company’s utilities division. Now I work on the other side of the fence, much closer to those doing the actual installation. The group I am in is responsible for all of the high voltage distribution in the plant (2400V through 13.8kV). We also take care of substation maintenance as well as work with our generation system along with a good amount of troubleshooting. It can be challenging at times but it is very rewarding to me personally. In this job I can draw on my experience I had previously when working there and elsewhere as an Electrician.

    Both jobs require me to be very knowledgeable of the NEC which was a bit of a surprise to me. When I went to school to become an Electrician I was always told that engineers didn’t deal that much with the code. My work as an Electrician greatly prepared me to work with the code.

    Hope this helps somewhat. Feel free to contact me if you’d like to discuss further.

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