Instrumentation Engineering Overview

If you thought that electrical/instrumentation engineering was all about just merely dangling with
some electrical wires or at best, toying with certain instruments – THINK AGAIN !

Thanks to the ‘Herculean’ efforts of Instrumentation Engineers, we have seen the light of the day (not literally, of course)! Had it not been for their saving grace, we would have perennially remained in the ‘Dark Ages’. Pigeons or emissaries, would have perpetually been our sole mode of communication and leave alone computers, even tele-communication would have been a distant dream. So, without instrumentation engineers functioning in our society, it would inevitably have become sparkless!

There are various alternative titles for Instrumentation Engineering viz

  i) Electrical Engineering (Heavy) / Engineering (Electrical) 
  ii) Instrumentation Engineering
  iii) Power Systems Engineering / Power Supply Company Engineering
  iv) Building Services Engineering (Electrical)
 
With the increasing demand for electrical energy, the development in audio and video communication systems and the automation industry, instrumentation/ electrical engineers have become indispensable to society today. Instrumental engineering comprises the design and development of more efficient electrical machinery, power systems and control equipment for the generation, transmission and distribution of electrical energy and telecommunication.
  
Instrumentation Engineering Technology provides knowledge and skill development in understanding and applying the instrumentation used to measure, record and control process variables (such as flow, temperature, level and pressure). After two years of suitable industrial experience, graduate instrumentation engineers are eligible for the position of Applied Science Technologists. Graduates also receive advance credit standing for apprenticeship training in the Industrial Instrument Mechanic trade.

Instrumentation technicians commission, install, calibrate, maintain and repair complex measurement and control systems used in a variety of process control applications. Instrumentation measurement and control principles, as applied to both pneumatic and electronic instruments, will be studied providing the student with a sound background in theory and practice.Those who want to opt for instrumentation engineering should be aware of these facts.

The ‘Tasks and Duties’ of Instrumentation/Electrical engineers constitutes of:

a) Developing concept designs and feasibility studies                                                        
b) Designing or updating specifications and designs of electrical systems and equipment
c) Designing ways to generate and manage electricity
d) Devising ways to control processes using automation techniques and computers
e) Preparing the specifications, plans and drawings
f) Calculating estimates of the cost and amount of materials required
g) Examining the safety aspects of the planned work
h) Planning the manufacture or use of equipment and appliances
i) Overseeing the testing of new systems and correction of faults
j) Supervising the installation and maintenance of systems and equipment

Instrumentation engineering also has the following specializations:
• Infrastructure (power stations, water and waste treatment, transport etc.)
• Buildings (high rise, commercial, residential)
• Production (factories, products etc.)
• Research (university, industrial etc.)

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