DEGREE IN ELECTRONICS: CONSCIOUS CHOICE

The electronics is now perceived by the general public with two faces: one is sparkling, popular, full of promise. The Anglo-Saxons call Consumer Electronics (Consumer Electronics): we could call it the Electronics showcases.

The other is a little witchcraft. It is the electronics laboratories, similar to hospitals and is therefore vaguely disturbing.

For the Engineer (or would-be), the Electronics comes instead from two scientific cultures that with the "faces" just mentioned have little in common: The Electrical (especially as Theory of Electrical Circuits) and the physics of materials.

In fact, the Electronics studies, designs and manufactures equipment for the processing and transmission of information which consist of circuits comprising electronic devices, artifacts (now reduced size), made from natural materials processed with the application of technologies chemical and metallurgical very complex.

The reference to the two cultures scientific indicates undergone two main directions of activity Electronic Engineer.

The first is primarily concerned with the study and design of products (often hastily called "packets") to meet the demands of operators, which mainly belong to the sectors of Telecommunications, Information Technology and Automatic Control.

The second addresses the technological problems associated with the implementation of the packages themselves and then bordered with solid State Physics and Engineering of Materials.

Both activities are developed side by side, interacting each other, and do not just meet the demands of operators, but help to qualify them through incessant innovation process.

Considering that modern society is now universally known as the information society, it follows that the Electronic Engineering plays an irreplaceable role in society, comparable to that of the central nervous system in the human body.

Engineers study electronic with this awareness, which on one hand makes them sure to find their place in the world of science and technology and the other in promoting their responsibility to take charge of the constant search for a better quality of work and of life.