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- There is NOTHING called as electronics and instrumentation engineering in the real world. The simple name of the engineering branch is electronics engineering. Electronics engineer is a person who can make use of his command over the low level computer programming languages to make the computers do what he wants them to do. If two chapters of electronics instruments are taught to Indian electronics engineering students then they shall not become electronics and instrumentation engineers.
- All the kinds of Indian electronics engineering students in India should follow GATE/IES ECE syllabus to be able to compete in some competitive exam to become an electronics engineer in the govt sector. There is infinite demand of highly skilled electronics engineers with an impressive TopCOder and GitHub profiles, even without any school or college degrees.
- Electronics engineer is a person who can make use of his command over the low level computer programming languages to make the computers do what he wants them to do.
- There is infinite demand of highly skilled electronics engineers with an impressive TopCoder and GitHub profiles, in all the developed countries of the world, even without any school or college degrees.
- Negligible electronics engineering happens in India.
- None of the known electronics engineering companies(Intel, Qualcomm, Samsung, Snapdragon etc) have their engineering offices in India. Most of such known electronics engineering companies have their engineering offices in the USA, Israel, Poland, EU, UK, Belarus, Australia etc.
- There are two ways to become an electronics engineer in India
- competing in some competitive exam to become an electronics engineer in the govt sector (initial salary 6–10 LPA)
- getting recruited in some private electronics engineering company on the basis of the topcoder-github profiles, even without going to any school or college. ( initial salary 8–15 LPA)
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