If you like technology and you want to work with people as well as accomplishing something tangible, then electrical engineering courses are for you.

Things change so quickly that sometimes we feel tomorrow has already arrived! People working in today's electrical, electronic and manufacturing engineering are making our world a better, safer and more enjoyable place for everybody. Together, these professionals:

• Ensure that things work at the touch of a switch, from rockets to light bulbs
• Create goods like TV's, CD's, mobile phones and computers, everyday products we all want
• Make certain that the quality is right and the products do the job they were designed to do
• Devise new and better systems, like communication satellites or advanced medical equipment for the diagnosis and the treatment of cancer

As society demands more, technologists face new and bigger challenges. In tomorrow's world, these men and women, these electrical, electronic and computer engineers, will continue to lead the way in robotics, the information super highway and the application of intelligence…plus develop innovations not yet imagined! Dreams will be transformed intro reality thanks to the skills of the design, development and manufacturing engineers who make it all happen.

Your future in tomorrow's technology is already here!

People in the profession

People who work in this challenging profession take on all kinds of roles. People like:

• Men and women working in research, design and development
• Process and manufacturing engineers
• Software and systems engineers
• Information technologists
• Sales and marketing engineers
• Human resource and specialists
• Consultants
• Project managers
  
  

With so many opportunities it's hard to know where to start. At the core, there are three main sectors:

• Power
• Electronics
• Computing and control

Within these three sectors there are sub-sections, which are enormously important in their own right: transport for example, or telecommunications or microelectronics. What's more manufacturing engineering supports all these activities and it too offers lots of opportunities.

So, there are many occupations within one profession, and each dependant on the other. These teams of individuals, each with different kinds of specialist knowledge, share an understanding or technological principals. The knowledge, skills and ideas they all bring to the solution of problems make work both exciting and enjoyable.