What do electronics engineers do?

I am preparing to be an electrical engineer and would want to know the various tasks performed by them in various organizations.

As you would know electronics engineering is one of the largest and fastest growing fields of engineering. It covers a wide range of applications which make our life easier and enjoyable such as TV, radio, computers, telecommunications, etc. It has a major role in improving productivity in industries like oil, energy, agriculture and so many other important sectors of economy.

As electronics engineer you must find new solutions to the practical problems, affecting our daily lives. An electronics engineer will be required to work in team with other specialists to design, fabricate, produce, test and supervise the manufacture of complex products and systems i.e. electronic equipments and components for a number of industries including hospitals, computer industry, electronic data processing systems for communication and in defense etc. They supervise production and manufacturing processes and oversee installation and maintenance. Electronics engineers work with devices that use extremely small amounts of power. They work with microprocessors, fiber optics, and in telecommunication, television, radio etc.

Electronics engineering is a constantly changing and widening branch of the engineering profession. Electronics industry being a labor intensive industry provides many job opportunities for the skilled job seekers. There is a huge increase in the production and also in the demand by government and businesses for communication equipment, computers and military electronics along with consumer demand and increased research and development on robots and other types of automation that this contributes to the growth of employment opportunities in this particular field. Candidates having a creative and inventive mind and also are good at physics and mathematics will probably find electronics engineering a challenging and lucrative career.