Electrical Engineering
Electrical engineers are highly employable, largely because they aren’t trained in a specific vocation but are qualified in a specific branch of science.
You can choose your own field and working environment. You could choose to work as a systems designer or project manager, for instance, or you could opt for research in one of the industry’s research and development labs or a semi-public organization such as TNO or a hospital.
Another alternative would be a job as a consultant or teacher at an engineering consultancy or in secondary, higher or adult education.
Whichever branch you choose, you will be welcomed with open arms. The demand for electrical engineers is set to rise, particularly in view of the spectacular boom in the information technology industry. Employment prospects in this field are excellent and the opportunities are endless.
Many graduates end up working in large national organizations such as KPN, Lucent Technologies, Philips or Ericsson. Others choose smaller companies or engineering consultancies, hospitals, patenting agencies or software companies. So as you see, a job in an electrical engineering company is not your only option with a degree in electrical engineering!
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“You can do almost anything with this degree. You could work on finding the successor to the hard disk, for example, or developing even faster computers. But the experience you acquire from all the projects and the broad-based technical know-how also enables you to oversee projects that combine several different specializations. I’m not sure which direction I’ll eventually take; it depends on the specialization I choose. Luckily, even nowadays companies are still queuing up to employ new electrical engineering graduates so there’s no shortage of opportunities!” |
