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Electronics => Beginners => Topic started by: 42Bits on May 01, 2019, 12:26:11 am
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What is the acronym for Electronics Engineering ? And it's not EE because that's for Electrical Engineering.
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EE
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When I was in school we referred to "Electrical Engineering" as in designing power plants as "single E" since we were studying "Electrical Engineering" as in circuits, transisters, etc which was "Double E". Rather myopic point of view now that I think about it since I'm sure those power plants needed every much as much imagination, mathematical calculations and understanding.
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It is EE. Are electronics not electric?
There is no special acronym for most of the specialties within electrical engineering. RF engineers, power engineers, control system engineers, analog engineers, digital engineers, semiconductor engineers (except for those that are chemists or physicists or whatever), are all electrical engineers.
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"EE" is an abbreviation. Nobody pronounces it as a scream.
"Acronyms" are abbreviations that can be pronounced as a word, such as "laser", "NASA", and "FET".
The suffix "nym" shows up in other names for types of words, such as "homonym" and "antonym".
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It is EE. Are electronics not electric?
Electric is what produces phenomena like
- Heat
- Light
- Sound
- Chemical energy
- Mechanical energy
"The distinction comes from the two fields of electrical engineering and electronics (which some consider a subset of the former). Electronics refers to technology that works by controlling the motion of electrons in ways that go beyond electrodynamic properties like voltage and current. That is, electrical technology would work the same if you replaced electrons by some other charge-carrying particles, but electronic technology depends on the specific properties of electrons themselves, such as in semiconductor medium.
Because electronic devices are typically used for representing and manipulating information, this makes for a simple rule of thumb for distinguishing electrical and electronic. Typically, if something uses electricity merely as energy, it is electrical, while if it uses electricity as the medium for manipulating information, it is almost surely electronic."
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It is EE. Are electronics not electric?
Electric is what produces phenomena like
- Heat
- Light
- Sound
- Chemical energy
- Mechanical energy
"The distinction comes from the two fields of electrical engineering and electronics (which some consider a subset of the former). Electronics refers to technology that works by controlling the motion of electrons in ways that go beyond electrodynamic properties like voltage and current. That is, electrical technology would work the same if you replaced electrons by some other charge-carrying particles, but electronic technology depends on the specific properties of electrons themselves, such as in semiconductor medium.
Because electronic devices are typically used for representing and manipulating information, this makes for a simple rule of thumb for distinguishing electrical and electronic. Typically, if something uses electricity merely as energy, it is electrical, while if it uses electricity as the medium for manipulating information, it is almost surely electronic."
So using your definition where do Triacs and other thyristors fit? Are the designers of those devices not moving electrons in a semiconductor? Are they not doing power engineering? Is RTL logic not electronic? How about waveguides, which are purely conductors, no semiconductors? And no information if they are conducting power to a rocket motor. Pidgeon holes are wonderful but you always end up with some labels like miscellaneous or doesn't fit classify later.
The real message is that there are a wide range of problems in the world, and whatever the label on your degree says, if you can solve them you will be economically rewarded. If you can only solve a few the rewards will be less, and if you can't solve any you are in trouble.