What are the opportunities in electronics and instrumentation engineering?

Electronics and Instrumentation Engineers have a bright future ahead of them as they are needed by almost all Industries in various cadres like Design, Development, Automation, Control, Fabrication, Inspection, Quality control, Maintenance and Service and so on. Graduates from instrumentation and control programs can expect to fill positions such as:

Instrument Engineer

Automation Engineer

Control Engineer

Instrumentation Technologists or Technician

Instrument Mechanic

Control Systems Technologist

Process Analyzer

Salaries in the field varies depending on the position, but the average starting salary is between Rs.8,00,000 and Rs.25,00,000 a year, and can increase to Rs.35,00,000 to Rs. 45,00,000 with experience.

An Instrumentation engineer has opportunities in many central government organisations like DRDO, ISRO,IOC, BARC, NTPC, Railways, BSNL, HAL, AAI, etc. Also many core companies like Honeywell, Texas Instruments, National Instruments, ABB, Larsen & Tourbo, Robert Bosch, Invensys, GE, Suzlon, Apna Technologies, Whirlybird, ESSAR, Yokogawa, Orange, LG, SAMSUNG, SONY, SANSUI, Whirlpool, Intel, Vedanta, Oil & Coal, Cadence, Cairn India, Linde, Allan Bradley, many software companies like TCS, Infosys, Wipro, CTS, HCL etc recruit these engineers.

Apart from it,  if you take EIE,  you get eligible for almost 95% of the companies visiting the college campus. You can sit for IT, CORE ELECTRONICS Or Analytic and finance company. Your probability of getting placed increases.