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Q: I write from India; currently I am in my last year of pre-university schooling. I am very interested in engineering, and especially automobile engineering. I am really interested in designing automobiles. What are the top engineering schools in the world where I could pursue these interests?
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Q: I am about to select a major in engineering and would like to know the best major to select in order to excel in Nanotechnology. I hear that Nanotechnology holds enormous promise and can be helpful in areas from cleansing the air to treating bacterial infections. What schools, domestic and international, would you recommend?
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Q: What are the opportunities in industry for holders of a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree in Electronics and Telecommunications (E&TC) Engineering or Electronics (EC) Engineering?
The degree titles mentioned in the question appear to follow the system used in India, and we decided to answer this question by looking at what Indian universities that offer E&TC and EC degrees say about the career paths that degree holders are likely to face.
It is relevant to mention that E&TC and EC graduates are often the groups most sought-after by employers of graduates from electrical engineering programs in India.
Here is what the Department of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering at the Maharashtra Academy of Engineering in Pune(http://maepune.com/home.aspxa>) says about career prospects of E&TC graduates:
"Power generation, wireless communications, robotics and computer multimedia are just some examples of complex systems that require the knowledge and skills that form the basis of modern Electronics Engineering. It is often the public perception that technology solves problems, but it is actually the skill and ingenuity of the engineer that is the real driving force. It is this skill and ingenuity coupled with the technical knowledge that leads to the great range of career paths open to our graduates."
The department then provides examples of student placement in various corporations, including IBM, Cisco, Accenture, TCS, Cognizant, Satyam, KPIT Cummins, HSBC, Mahindra-British Telecon, Tata Technologies, Videocon, and Wipro. A number of students continued to graduate studies in India and in other countries.
Similar lists are available from other institutions. For example, on the list of SSCET (Bhilai Chhattisgarh) we find employers of E&TC engineering graduates that include Microsoft, Mahindra British Telecom, Gajra Bevels, Emerald Industries, Impetus, TCS, Gajra Gears, PCS, Oracle, Hughes Software, KanBay, Wipro, CSC, Onida, Bharati Telenet, Infosys, HCL, L&T, Sara Infosystem, IBM, CDAC, Hero Honda, JK Industries, Kirloskar, Maruti, and HP. Some graduates were also employed by the Indian Army.
Overall the emerging picture is of a vibrant and heterogeneous job market, where E&TC and EC graduates can choose to work for transnational conglomerates or for small local enterprises. Following global trends, some of the jobs are in non-traditional fields such as finance, and many emphasize the software writing and system engineering skills of graduates, not their knowledge in electromagnetics and circuits.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
General description of careers in Electrical Engineering is available on our own site here:
http://www.tryengineering.org/become.php?major=Electrical+Engineering.
Additional information can be found on the Sloan Career Cornerstone Center page, here:
http://www.careercornerstone.org/eleceng/eleceng.htm
In addition, please see our answer to a related question here
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Q: What the kind of courses are you taking?
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Q: Is it usually really hard to find a job once you've completed engineering studies in a college?
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Q: I am an undergraduate student studying toward a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) degree in electrical engineering.
(1) What kind of a pay should I expect from an internship at my second year?
(2) What kind of a pay should I expect to get from a job after I have completed my studies?
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Q: I have a B.E. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from an Indian institute. At present I am working In New Delhi, India as a VLSI front-end design engineer. I wish to pursue MS degree in the USA in the area of Automated Intelligent control Systems, Telerobotics, and Avionics.
Could you please suggest some universities in the USA which have a strong research in these areas?
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Q: I am from India, currently enrolled in the final year of an undergraduate engineering program. I would like to pursue studies toward a Master of Science degree in the United States. How would I go about it? Should I take the GRE? When should I take the exam? When does the typical academic year start there?
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Q: I live in the State of Maharashtra (Pune city) in India, and am currently enrolled in a high school there. When I graduate from high school I will have completed my HSC (12th Grade exam).
I have two questions:
(1) Do you know what the minimum requirements are from each Indian State or high school affiliation for university admission in Computer Science or Computer Engineering? If so, what is the minimum cutoff for a person who has completed his/her HSC exam in Pune, Maharashtra?
(2) What are the minimum academic, as well as non-academic, requirements for a graduate of a high school in India to be admitted to a US university for undergraduate studies in Computer Science or Computer Engineering?
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Q: I plan to be working with embedded systems in the future. What course of studies should I choose � computer engineering or electronics engineering? I reside in Mumbai, India.
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