Difference between electrical engineering & electronics engineering?
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Electronic engineering is a professional discipline that deals with the behavior and effects of electrons (as in electron tubes and transistors) and with electronic devices, systems, or equipment. The term now also covers a large part of electrical engineering degree courses as studied at most European universities. Its practitioners are called electronics engineers in Europe. In the Americas and some other parts of the world, the term electrical engineer is used to describe a person doing the same work.
In many areas, electronic engineering is considered to be at the same level as electrical engineering, requiring that more general programmes be called electrical and electronic engineering (many UK universities have departments of Electronic and Electrical Engineering). Both define a broad field that encompasses many subfields including those that deal with power, instrumentation engineering, telecommunications, and semiconductor circuit design amongst many others.
Electrical engineering (sometimes referred to as electrical and electronic engineering) is a semi-professional and professional engineering discipline that deals with the study and/or application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century after commercialization of the electric telegraph and electrical power supply. The field now covers a range of sub-studies including those that deal with power, electronics, control systems, signal processing and telecommunications.
The term electrical engineering may or may not encompass electronic engineering. Where a distinction is made, electrical engineering is considered to deal with the problems associated with large-scale electrical systems such as power transmission and motor control, whereas electronic engineering deals with the study of small-scale electronic systems including computers and integrated circuits.Another way of looking at the distinction is that electrical engineers are usually concerned with using electricity to transmit energy, while electronics engineers are concerned with using electricity to transmit information.
Electrical engineering focused a lot on using calculus to find current (and hence, power) in systems with motors, transformers, capacitors, inductors, and resistors. There were also several classes on digital circuitry and design.
Maybe electronics engineering focuses more on the digital side and less on the analog side?
Electronics engineers tend to deal more with circuit boards an the like applications while Electrical Engineers tend to deal with more Power System stuff. Although, as an Electrical Engineer, you can specialize in circuit board design or communications as well as others.
Electronic Engineering is not a University degree here in Canada. It's a College diploma and only allows you to work as a Technician/Technologist. If you wanted to pursue a degree after the diploma, you would have to take Electrical Engineering in University and speciailize in Circuits or something of the like.
electrical-deals with current in conductors, circuits,electrical machines,etc.
electronics, dealt with all semiconductors, electronic devics, even consumer products such as tv, mobile etc....
VLSI, embeded, applied electronics....
Electrical engineering is basically power engineering, which is studying about electrical devices of macroscale nature.
Electronics engineering deals with circuit design, microprocessors and is related to computers. It involves MEMS ( Micro electomechanical system ) and NEMS ( Nano electromechanical system )....that is electrical devices of micro or nano scale.
Essentially, electrical engineers deal with power and electronic engineers deal with information, although there is a substantial overlap. Electrical engineering is the foundation of electronic engineering as even complete geeks need to know about volts, amps, ohms and watts at both AC and DC.
Electronic engineers, however, will go on to learn about using active amplifying and switching devices – mainly transistors – and about electromagnetic waves, oscillators, feedback systems, logic circuits, optical devices, error-correcting codes and other complex stuff. It can be more intensely mathematical than plain old electrical, but IMHO is much more fun.
Electrical engineering encompasses everything to do with electricity. Generation, distribution, motors, electromagnetic waves, antennas, all types of circuits, computer hardware theory and application component use, design and fabrication, etc. Anything that has to do with electrons or electromagnetic waves moving about. Two people could get a university degree in EE and have taken none of the same advanced electives. They would have taken the same core EE, math and science classes, but then their last year might be totally different. I got a EE degree taking electives concerning microprocessors, amplifiers and RF/radio theory.
Electronics engineering is a subset of electrical engineering focusing on semiconducting devices and their applications. You'd probably learn about digital logic, microprocessors, and RF circuits.
In the US, an electronics engineering degree would likely imply a non-traditional university degree. The university degrees tend to be in electrical engineering or computer engineering (which would be closer to electronics engineering, but with a focus on computer architecture and communication)
Electronics is micro; electrical is macro
I consider "electronics" engineering to be a subset of "electrical" engineering. I've designed digital electronic circuits for many years, but I still consider myself an Electrical Engineer.
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