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An engineer’s calling is a noble calling indeed! Engineers have shaped the course of society – their innovations have continuously improved the standard of life of common people. It is vital therefore to understand the contributions made by various engineering fields to society, as this will inspire budding engineers to contribute towards society’s development.
In the “Be the engineer of your career” series of the current edition of CADDZOOM, let us take a look at the advancements made in the field of electronic engineering!
Electronic Engineering
Electronics is defined as “The science and technology of the conduction of electricity in a vacuum, a gas, or a semiconductor, and devices based thereon”. If electronics is also about the conduction of electricity, you may wonder how electronics differs from electrical engineering.
Electronic devices and electrical devices manipulate electricity differently to do their work. Electrical devices take the energy of electric current and transform it in simple ways into some other form of energy – most likely light, heat, or motion. In contrast, electronic devices do much more. Instead of just converting electrical energy into heat, light, or motion, electronic devices are designed to manipulate the electrical current itself to coax it into doing interesting and useful things.
One of the most common things that electronic devices do is manipulate electric current in a way that adds meaningful information to the electric current. For example, audio electronic devices add sound information to an electric current so that you can listen to music or talk on a cell phone. Don’t fit in when you were born to stand out!