Alex Kratochvil

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Mr. Gustafson Engineering 1

Electrical Engineer
The field of engineering field that will be researched in this research paper is Electrical
engineer. I will be discussing the daily routines, places of work, different employers, what
education is needed, and the ranges of salaries that an Electrical engineer would get. There are
many different things to prepare for before you become an Electrical engineer. Electrical
engineering also has a career ladder just like any other job and I will be discussing that as well.
This field of work has a variety of different ways of preparing new engineers as they progress
into the world of Electrical engineering.
If someone were to decide to make a career out of Electrical engineering they would need
to need to prepare for the type of on the job duties you will have to complete along with where
you are going to work. The environment you will work in varies on what company and where on
the career ladder you are but for the most part you can expect to work in an office or laboratory
doing research. In a company that manufactures complex devices an Electrical engineer would
evaluate and develop the production of the devices or equipment that his or her company makes.
In general electric engineers typically work in an office type of setting but there are occasions
that they might have to travel to operating sites or a construction or infrastructure sites and be
more hands on. Where you are located and what you do it up to your employer so it varies.
Electrical engineering is not a very upcoming job at the moment but that doesnt mean
there is not work to be found in this career path. This career path has plenty of opportunities to
find work. There might not be very many at the moment and the projected amount wasnt
supposed to grow very much at all but as technology grows its all hard to tell what the future
might bring. To become an Electrical engineer you at the bare minimum need a bachelors degree

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in electronics engineering, electrical engineering technology, or just electrical engineering. Some

of the programs that you could take for electrical engineering are classroom, laboratory, and field
studies. The courses vary, most likely with certain colleges but some courses you could take are
electrical circuit theory, electrical engineering, and digital system design. There is no need for
any kind of special training that you need to do to prepare for a job in this department but some
colleges do offer practical training for electrical engineers. Certain qualities that people have can
help them in this field if they are organized, have good writing skills in a sense that they can
understand what is written well, math skills are very important too, being able to concentrate and
keep track of multiple things at once, most people can learn these type of skills so there is
nothing that is crazy that you need to do to become an electrical engineer, just be prepared to
work and think of new things.
Just like any job Electrical engineering has a career ladder and some benefits that you can
get with certain employers. The entry level jobs for electrical engineer may require for you to be
more hands on but as you go higher in the career ladder you work more of an office job or
oversee what is going on in the company. When asking someone who works at Sandia labs they
said they work in an office with a small group of coworkers. In that group the workout problems
that are hard to solve by ones self. Also when asking someone who works at Sandia labs there
main job is to work with satellites that the militarys uses. There wasnt much explaining that
could be done, because its on a need to know basis. The pay on average is ranged to about
$100,000 yearly. This salary ranges from about $50,000 and up. Benefits that some engineers can
get if they work in government is a pension. Pensions are starting to be offered less and less
because they cant be afforded as much anymore so they are becoming rarer. Normally for just
about any company that would hire an Electrical engineer would have insurance and some type

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of coverage just in case something does happen. Theres always some type of benefits that will
cover you.
Potential employers are everywhere for electrical engineers. There are potential jobs in
government and private companies that make any type of electrical product. Electrical engineer
are not in high demand by many companies at the time being so there are not too many places to
go. In government there are many potential opportunitys that an electrical engineer can have.
They can work on satellites like I stated before or help program different types of things for new
upcoming tech.
An early start is the best thing you can do for any career. High school is a great place to
start to prepare for what you want to do. For an electrical engineer you can prepare in
high school by taking engineering classes. In most high schools there are not too many
options for specific engineering classes so any expose will do you good. Computer
classes are also good to take. To be more specific, some computer classes that would be
good to take in high school are classes that expose you too any type of programming or
designing. Those classes would help prepare you for future engineering classes. In high
school if you want to go above and beyond during summer you can take beginner classes
in college to have an even earlier start than most. Electrical engineers have a lot of
preparing to do if they want to make it, and be good at their job. It is not an easy task to
become an electrical engineer but if you find this field of work interesting you should go
for it and do you best.
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