Chris Angove, Chartered Electronics Engineer
Introduction
Welcome to my website. A career in Electrical and Electronics Engineering continues to drive my passion for all things electrical and electronic. You will see from the Wikipedia articles for these terms that there is a broad overlap across their descriptions, but they both make these reciprocal assertions:
I would suggest that there is plenty of scope for confusion with these subjects, especially if you are at an early stage of your career and you have good grades in the STEM subjects. After many years working in these sectors, I am still confused, very confused. However, I stopped worrying about that long ago. So we will ignore any ambiguities between the descriptions 'electrical' or 'electronic' and concentrate on the sub-categories or industry sectors themselves. You wll be familiar with many of these. Some examples are lised below with Wikipedia links.
.Some Sectors of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
After supporting many corporate clients, I am writing some articles on the various areas I have found particularly interesting in that time, including the problems I encountered in my initial learning, various ambiguities and mis-understandings which I eventually solved. People talk about 'the benefit of hindsight'. I believe I have some of that now and some of my comments I hope will reflect this in a positive way for the future.
References
What I say here is worthless without reliable and reputable references. Therefore I have provided many of these to support the statements I make. Wikipedia is a great resource but has been known to contain errors and mis-understandings. I recommend only using it as a starting point to finding more traditional references. Examples are industry standard and academic reference books, peer reviewed journals, user manuals, datasheets and application notes published by respected hardware manufacturers.
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