What is an Electronic Engineer

Electronic engineers undertake a wide variety of tasks - everything from initial investigations through development and design to applications, field service support and much more.


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Electronic engineers have a wide and varied job description. Any engineer is generally taken to be someone who can take on a job that incorporates a variety of different skills and bring all the different aspects of a project together.

When considering a career as an electronic engineer, it is useful to discover what the career involves – whether it is what will be wanted and whether it can change as your career progresses.It is not possible to fully describe what an electronic engineer is, but it is possible to give a taste of what is involved; its positives (and the negatives) and the sorts of things involved and whether you can feel that becoming an electronic engineer is the correct career choice for you.

What is an electronic engineer

When considering a career in electronic engineering, it is worth taking a look at what areas it covers.There is a huge variety of different areas covered by electronics engineering, but they all have the same common thread of having a creative outlook.

Also professional electronics engineers are typically qualified to degree level and may have a membership fo a professional institution or institute.

Although anyone can call themselves an engineer, and the term often refers to electrical repair and maintenance people, a professional engineer tends to address a different type fo career.

In reality an engineer is someone who designs items and has a creative flair. It is often said that an engineer is someone who can create designs that fulfil a useful function.

View of famous people about engineering

It is also worth considering what a number of people have said about engineers and engineering. A number vert eminent people have described their views of engineers and engineering.

Engineering is not just a profession to be learned and practised as a way of making a living. It is one of the few ways in which human talent can be given the chance to improve, and frequently to transform, the comfort and prosperity of the human community. In fact, engineering has made a greater positive difference to human life than almost any other human endeavour.

Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh


A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

Freeman Dyson

Ian Poole   Written by Ian Poole .
  Experienced electronics engineer and author.




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