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Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering

Field of Study

Widespread use of communication technology has made this world a much smaller place and has also resulted in an increased dependency on technology as a way of life. This makes the role of an Electronics & Communication Engineer much more important in our lives.

An Electronics & Communication Engineer must find new solutions to the practical problems affecting our daily lives. An electronics engineer will work in team with other specialists to design, fabricate, produce, test and supervise the manufacture of complex products and systems i.e. electronic equipments and components for a number of industries including hospitals, computer industry, electronic data processing systems for communication and in defense etc. They supervise production and manufacturing processes and oversee installation and maintenance. Electronics engineers work with devices that use extremely small amounts of power. They work with microprocessors, fibre optics, and in telecommunication, television, radio etc.

What is it all about

Digital Systems

Digital systems permeate technology in all its forms; the world has gone digital, with digital control, digital communications, and digital computation. Electronics & Communication Engineers design, develop, and manufacture all kinds of digital products, including both hardware and software: laptops, personal computers; mainframes; supercomputers; workstations; virtual-reality systems; video games; modems; telephone switches; embedded microcontrollers for aircraft, cars, appliances, and machines of all types.

Telecommunications

Telecommunications engineering focuses on the transmission of information across a channel such as a coax cable, optical fiber or free space. Transmissions across free space require information to be encoded in a carrier wave in order to shift the information to a carrier frequency suitable for transmission, this is known as modulation.

Signal Processing

Signal processing deals with the analysis and manipulation of signals. Signals can be either analog, in which case the signal varies continuously according to the information, or digital, in which case the signal varies according to a series of discrete values representing the information. For analog signals, signal processing may involve the amplification and filtering of audio signals for audio equipment or the modulation and demodulation of signals for telecommunications. For digital signals, signal processing may involve the compression, error detection and error correction of digitally sampled signals.

Integrated Circuits, VLSI Design, Testing, and CAD

Electronics & Communication Engineers working in this area focus on enhancing the speed, reliability, and energy efficiency of next-generation Very Large-Scale Integration (VLSI) circuits and micro systems, as well as automating the design process. Projects might include low-power VLSI algorithms and architectures, noise-tolerance for VLSI and DSP (digital signal processors), mixed-signal analog IC (integrated circuit) design, MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) for integrated passive RF (radio frequency) components and electro thermal simulation.

Embedded Systems

Electronics & Communication Engineers working in this area focus on enhancing the speed, reliability, and performance of systems, by means of computer technology - for example, consumer products, and business and industrial machines. Most functions of the modern automobile are controlled by embedded microprocessors. Embedded systems are currently being developed that coordinate systems such as automated vehicles and equipment to conduct search and rescue, automated transportation systems, and human-robot coordination to repair equipment in space.

Computer Networks, Mobile Computing, and Distributed Systems

Individuals working in this area would build integrated environments for computing, communications, and information access over heterogeneous underlying technologies. Specific projects might include shared channel wireless networks, adaptive resource management in dynamic distributed systems including mobile systems, improving the quality of service in mobile and ATM environments and reliable and efficient communication on a fast Ethernet cluster.

Communications and Wireless Networks

Electronics & Communication Engineers working in this area may explore wireless communication opportunities to take advantage of new frequency bands and increase the efficiency of current bands. Other areas of focus are design techniques for high speed networks, interference suppression and modulation, design and analysis of fault-tolerant systems, and storage and transmission schemes.

Semiconductors

The chief enabling technology at the heart of the electronic components booming computer industry is semiconductor technology, in particular the development and manufacture of integrated circuits. As integrated circuits companies strive to search for faster and more powerful chips, they seek engineers to investigate new materials and improved packaging -- engineers who can handle the challenge of competitive pressure and ever-shorter development time.

Aerospace

Electronics engineers in the aerospace field design and develop Displays, controls, communications, and navigation equipment for aircraft, helicopters, and spacecraft. Defense and aerospace companies still employ hundreds of thousands of engineers. Prospects in the two major branches of the industry are looking brighter. Interest in space exploration and travel is reviving in India and World over, and new satellites are needed to meet swelling demand for global communications.

The Workplace

The basic functions of engineering are defined by the sequencing of engineering work: research, design and development, testing, manufacturing, construction, service and maintenance, and management. Engineers also apply their expertise in non-engineering jobs such as purchasing, sales, law, human resources, education, and consulting. The workplaces of Electronics & Communication engineers are just as varied as the types of work they do. They may be found in the spotless laboratory of a fabrication plant, the offices of consulting or on BTS Tower of a mobile network.

Job Prospects:

The ISA-Frost & Sullivan reports outlined that the Indian electronics equipment production grew at 25 per cent in 2005, and is slated to touch a growth rate of 50 per cent in 2010 and 34 per cent in 2015. The reports cover all the end-user products and capture their individual contribution to the total market, with market and technology trends. The second report reveals the semiconductor and embedded design (including chip design, hardware board design and embedded software) industry in India generated revenues of $3.25 billion in 2005, and could reach $43 billion by 2015 growing at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 30 per cent during the forecast period. On the industry potential to create jobs, it said that the industry has been able to generate 0.52 million jobs (including semiconductor and electronic equipment manufacturing, semiconductor and embedded design) in 2005. The entire industry (semiconductor and embedded design, electronic equipment manufacturing and semiconductor manufacturing) is expected to generate revenues of $73.92 billion by 2010, and generate employment for 1.85 million employees. In 2015, the industry revenues are expected to increase to $202.57 billion, which is expected to generate employment for 3.58 million workers," it added. The field of the Electronics & Communication Engineering and Electrical & Electronics Engineering has great job opportunities because of such growth prospects.