Electrical Engineering – A Short History
It all started with static electricity. Yeah — the stuff that makes your socks stick to your pants.
You probably take it for granted. You know static electricity when you see it, right? But before the 1500s, nobody had clothes dryers, so finding static electricity wasn’t as simple as doing a load of laundry. Fortunately, William Gilbert — the father of modern electrical engineering services — came along to show us the light.
Gilbert was, in all likelihood, the world’s first electrical engineer. He invented the versorium, a device that could tell the difference between charged and non-charged objects. Basically a metal needle mounted on a base, it would spin toward charged objects, indicating that they were carrying some amount of static electricity. And while you probably won’t find a versorium an electrical engineer’s toolbox, it did eventually evolve into the electroscope — a device an electrical engineer might use to detect an electric charge’s magnitude.
With the exception of a few relatively important discoveries, electrical engineering didn’t grow much as a discipline until the 1800s, when Michael Faraday and George Ohm made important new observations and developed a few new theories. Then, in the later part of that century, the “War of Currents” came along, which pit electrical engineer against electrical engineer, scientist against scientist, and brother against brother.
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How To Market To Electronics Engineering Industry
Electronics industry is a very huge industry, and engineers, who are very hard to be convinced, take most of the purchasing decisions. Therefore, if you are planning to market your products to electronics industry, you have to be more cautious in your marketing efforts.
Engineers are interested in quality and attributes of the product. Moreover, the things that make differentiation are pricing and branding. These guys do not look at the subjective qualities like delightful, elegant, experiential etc; rather they are more interested in knowing the actual and useful qualities of the product. That is why marketing element has to have more product specifications.
How Can You Market Products to Engineers?
A recent survey says engineers have two types of information needs:
Heads – Up Information: This kind of information is related to latest technology, the competitive environment, and what is going on in the industry and related industries. For such kind of information, engineers rely on print media and e-mail newsletter.
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Profession of Electrical Engineering
The modern world has affected tremendously from the inventions in the field of electronics that have changed and continue to change our lifestyle. Today, our lives are directly affected by electricity without which we cannot perform most of our day-to-day tasks. The advancement in the field of electrical engineering has definitely created wonderful opportunities for professionals linked to this field. Geniuses like Nikola Tesla and Thomas Alva Edison made lives easier when they gifted mankind fantastic inventions. Similarly today’s electrical engineers are also striving to give this world more advanced tools to make the life easier than ever before.
The basic job of an electrical engineer is to design systems that provide electrical power, such as the power distribution scheme in any infrastructure
All the major engineering universities of Pakistan namely, NED University of engineering and Technology, National University of Science and Technology (NUST), University of Engineering Science and Technology, Sialkot, offer degree program in electrical engineering. Since today’s world would be impossible to run without electricity, career and Job prospect for electrical engineers is very bright in Pakistan and abroad.
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