Why should you become
an electrical engineer?
Electrical engineering stands at a time of extraordinary opportunity, as we rise to meet the changing energy, information, communication, transportation, and environmental needs of our society. Electrical Engineers (EE's) are on the cutting edge of high technology. It is an electronic/information data-driven world and economy.
Electrical engineers are equipped to lead exciting, innovative and productive careers designing enormous electrical power grids that span continents and bring electricity to our homes and offices, designing control and instrumentation systems for the oil and gas industry, designing communications systems, designing electronic devices for commercial applications, designing computers and their applications and much more. Many electrical engineers choose to become managers heading up technical departments within a company, or scientists inventing new kinds of electrical technology helping humankind. Electrical engineers are very well respected and admired in their profession.
There is a high demand on electrical engineers in the oil and gas industry. They are an important part of the petrochemical industry ensuring safe, reliable and economic production of oil and gas. Electrical engineers design, monitor, control and manage the electric power system that supplies power to the hundreds of high voltage motors and thousands of low voltage motors in the field. It is with those motors that the oil and/or gas could be extracted from the wells for processing at the plant. Electrical engineers also design, supervise, run and monitor instrumentation control consoles protecting personnel, machinery and equipment in the plant.
Would you like to become an electrical engineer? Any one with the desire and motivation can! For more information on the electrical engineering program at The Petroleum Institute, click on Electrical Engineering at The Petroleum Institute and/or send an email message to yabdelmagid@pi.ac.ae |
