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Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering is one of the largest,

evergreen and fastest growing fields of engineering. Technically,Electronics & Telecommunication engineering is an engineering discipline which uses the scientific knowledge of the behavior and effects of electrons to develop components, devices, systems, or equipment (as in electron tubes, transistors, integrated circuits, and printed circuit boards) that uses electricity as part of its driving force. Telecommunication involves the use of electric means such as the telegraph, the telephone, and the teletype, the use of microwave communications, fiber optics and their associated electronics, and the Internet. This branch denotes a broad engineering field that encompasses many subfields including those that deal with Semiconductor Circuit Design, Microprocessors, Digital Systems, VLSI Design, Microwave Engineering , Antenna Design , Mobile Communication, Power, Instrumentation Engineering, Telecommunications and many others .Electronics and Communication Engineering subjects like Digital Electronics and Logic Design, Fundamentals of Communication Engineering, Electronic Circuits, Signals and Systems, Power Electronics, Applied Electromagnetic Theory, Integrated Circuits, VLSI, Control Systems and Computer Architecture are just few to mention. Most of these subjects are highly dependent on Computer Aided Design and require a good exposure to Computer Science related subjects such as Computer Networks, Operating System, Data- structures. This branch also requires very good programming skills on C, C++, Matlab, etc.

Influence of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering in our day-to-day life

Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering covers a wide range of applications which make our life easier and enjoyable such as Television, Radio, Computers, Telecommunication etc. These engineers help us to see, hear and communicate over vast distances and do things faster. They play a major role in various sectors which include -

• Help in improving productivity in industries like Oil, Energy, Agriculture and many other sectors of economy.
• In Steel, Petroleum and Chemical Industries, it is the electronic devices that direct control and test production processes.
• Health care industry depends on electronic instruments to perform chemical tests and to check body functions.
• Safety in transportation, factories, mines and in homes rely heavily on electronics
• and many more.

In a nutshell, an Electronics & Communication Engineer must find new solutions to the practical problems affecting our daily lives.

Future Prospects for Electronics & Communication Engineers

The huge gap between the demand and supply of Electronics & Communication Engineers in the industrial sector contributes to its one of the highest paid jobs in the country and abroad. A degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering gives ample job opportunities in the high profile HI TECH Electronics as well as Software industry. All electronic devices need software interface to run and come with one other or other device controlling programs architected and developed by Electronics & Communication engineering. It also gives great opportunities for research and development, as everyday consumer need new devices to support them in daily life. An Electronics & Communication engineer starts with a salary of Rs. to Rs. per month which may go to Rs. lakhs to Rs. lakhs per month in the due course of his career.

Companies offering jobs to Electronics & Communication Engineers:

• TCS, INFOSYS, WIPRO (for Software)
• Automotive companies such as Mahindra, Volvo, Tata Motors (for Embedded Systems)
• INTEL (for VLSI i.e, IC design)
• ISRO, DRDO, ECIL, BHEL (for Electronics)
• ONGC, OIL, GAS CRACKER, Philips Semiconductors (for Electronics Instrumentation)
• BSNL, RELIANCE Communication, Ericsson, Nokia Siemens, Nokia, CISCO, HP & IBM
• Number of small PCB design and manufacturing companies
• Various sales and marketting companies for electronic products.

Prospects for Higher Qualification in this Arena

A graduate from Electronics & Communication Engineering can opt for following -

• Can appear GATE for Higher Qualification (M.Tech, Ph. D from IITs, NIITs, etc )
• Can appear exams as IES, IPS, CDS, APSC, IAS
• Can appear GMAT, GRE, TOEFEL for MBA in India as well as abroad
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Electronics & Communication Engineering at NITS Mirza

An Electronics & Communication Engineer starts his journey into this specialized profession right from the first year. This course is of four years duration and comprehensively covers the theoretical and practiacal aspects of Electronics & Communication industry. It is pertinent to know that the students are trained to develop the innovative engineering skills necessary to keep pace with the needs of the booming Electronics industry.

Electronics & Communication Engineering at NITS MIRZA can be broadly divided into three basic categories:

• ELECTRONICS:

Electronics will be carried out under the guidance of experts from the Semiconductor and Electronics industry. In this regard, NITS MIRZA has already established a region of excellence of SYNOPSIS TOOLS, CALIFORNIA, USA. The Art of Electronics will be taught through the use of both hardware and software. A Basic Electronics Lab is established which will enable students to design all types of analog circuits. Moreover, a Digital Electronics Lab is being established which will empower the students to design their own processors.

• SOFTWARE

Software is the field of study dedicated to designing, implementing, and modifying software so that it is of higher quality, more affordable, maintainable and faster to build. It is particularly meant to meet the everchanging needs of the software industry. A tie up with the experts from the software industry will be established. Presently, it is envisaged that the industry is moving equally towards Microsoft technologies as well as Open Source software. Hence, equal focus will have to be placed on this ground. Apart from this, a new paradigm has come in computing with the launch of Multicore Processors (Core to Duo, Qad Core, Octa Core, etc) i.e, the super computing on the desktop.

• COMMUNICATION

Communication will be carried out under the guidance of B.N. Saikia Communication Research Centre. Right from the beginning, students will be exposed to radio transmitters and receivers. The Research Center has already developed various trainer kits for Advanced training of the students to carry out various projects in Communication , Advanced Communication equipments such as signal generators, digital storage oscilloscope, various communication ICs and header boards. There is also a plan to start a HAM Radio Centre here which will include the design of antennas and varios radio frequency circuits.

BASIC ELECTRONICS LAB

The following facilities are available at the Basic Electronics Lab -

• Breadboard
• Veroboard
• PCB design and fabrication
• Digital Oscilloscopes
• Digital Multimeters
• Cathode Ray Oscilloscope (CRO)

Following experiments will be carried out in the Basic Electronics Lab -

• Half wave and Full wave rectifier
• BJT amplifier types such as fixed bias, self bias, voltage divider, Emitter configuration
• Biasing techniques with MOSFETs
• Introduction to PSpice and Circuit Analysis
• Use of Operational amplifiers for summing, subtraction, integrator
• Filters: passive and active
• PLL

DIGITAL LAB

Following experiments will be carried out -

• Understanding of basic AND,OR gates
• Design of Half Adder , Full Adder, 4 bit Ripple Carry Adder
• Conversion of various types of flip-flops
• Design of Counters: Ring counters and Johnson counters
• Introduction to Verilog
• Implementation of simple circuits on FPGA