Posted by: Shubhangi Sarah Posted on: Thu 22 Nov 2012Instrumentation engineers typically work for industries with automated process such as chemical or manufacturing plants, with the goal of improving system productivity, reliability, safety, optimisation and stability. The control of processes is one of the main branches of applied instrumentation.
Posted by: Shubhangi Sarah Posted on: Thu 22 Nov 2012Instrumentation engineers typically work for industries with automated process such as chemical or manufacturing plants, with the goal of improving system productivity, reliability, safety, optimisation and stability. The control of processes is one of the main branches of applied instrumentation.
What's it about
Instrumentation engineering can be referred to as a 'mixture' of different subjects that can be the launch padfor many careers. Indeed, instrumnetation enginnering is an interndisciplinary branch that includes study of electrical, chemical, electronics as well as computer engineering. Instrumenta
Instrumentation engineering can be referred to as a 'mixture' of different subjects that can be the launch padfor many careers. Indeed, instrumnetation enginnering is an interndisciplinary branch that includes study of electrical, chemical, electronics as well as computer engineering. Instrumentation and control engineers design manufacture and fix snags in devices or systems that are used to measure or control physical quantities such as temperature, pressure and flow.
They step in wherever 'sensing' of physical quantitites is required and work in power plants, chemical plants, manufacturing facilities, oil refinerires, steel industry as well as drug makers and software and hardware companies, to name a few avenues.
Clock Work
The average day of an instrumentation engineer at an oil refinery:
9am: Check systems complaints against the instruments. Start trouble-shooting. Ask technicians to replace faulty instrumen ...
The average day of an instrumentation engineer at an oil refinery:
9am: Check systems complaints against the instruments. Start trouble-shooting. Ask technicians to replace faulty instruments or repair them.
12:30pm: Lunch
1pm: Meeting with the boss to discuss a new projectof installingnew system/intruments.
2pm: Come back to plant. Follow up on the morning's job and look at new complaints. Work out plans for implementation of the new automation system.
5pm: Pack up for the day. Woken up at midnight to check a snag in the system at the plant.
How do i get there
Take science with physics, chemistry and maths at plus two level. Instrumentation engineering is available as BTech oe BE programmes, entry to which is normally through a written test. Institutes l ...
Take science with physics, chemistry and maths at plus two level. Instrumentation engineering is available as BTech oe BE programmes, entry to which is normally through a written test. Institutes like BITS Pilani offer it with electronics, as BE (Hons) electronics and instrumentation.
Job optionsin ths field are good. Instrumentation engineers work in software firms like HCL and TCS, as well as hardware companies. Other employers include Larsen & Toubro, ABB (Asea Brown Boveri), Siemens, Texas Instruments, Bechtel, Fluor Daniel, Foster Wheeler and even Americam Express.
In the public sector, there are companies like EIL, BHEL, SAIL, GAIL and ONGC.
