importance of ict in electrical and electronic

                                                                          

 Electrical Engineering and Information Technology

Progress achieved in the fields of information and communication technology, embedded systems, microelectronics and nanoelectronics, and microsystems as well as in the most recent fields of renewable energy and medical technology.

Key buzzwords include smart homes and ambient-assisted living, both of them pointing to future-oriented technologies designed to make life easier – from intelligent refrigerators that replenish themselves after ordering on the Internet to heating systems controlled by a smartphone to assistant robots for the elderly.

Electrical power engineering encompasses the generation, transmission, distribution and application of electrical energy. This includes disciplines like electrical mechanical engineering, electric heat, high-voltage engineering, power supply and performance electronics. Renewable energies (sun, wind, biomass) are meeting with growing interest.

Information and communications technology (communications engineering) deals with the transmission, communication and processing of messages (information) using wireless or landline technology. Key branches include digital signal processing, electrical and optical communications technology, high frequency engineering and communications networks. Due to the great significance of digital communications technology (digital engineering), the use of computers and programmable processes plays a predominant role in this field.

Automation engineering deals with the development and application of procedures for controlling technical processes, including the development of the requisite hardware and software for these processes. Automation tasks plus instrumentation and control problems require, among other aspects, the application of systems theory and control technology methods, measurement technology/metrology, process computer and communications technology. The results are complex systems that interconnect with computer science, electronics and mechanics (cyber physical systems). At the interface between people and machines, multi-media technologies play increasingly important roles since they are needed to visualize and leverage the wealth of data for users in a sensible manner. 

Microelectronics and nanoelectronics are of great significance for all three fields. With its development of electronic circuits, semiconductor elements and highly-complex integrated circuits, it forms the basis for the commercial and technical expansion of the above-mentioned fields. This study area treats both the physical-technical principles of electronic components as well as their systems-specific, i.e. applications focused aspects. Computer-aided design methods and simulation techniques play a major role, along with technological aspects.

 

Another field is optoelectronics: Light is used to gain and transmit information, and to reproduce it on monitors and displays. Occupational fields for optoelectronic engineers include, inter alia, laser engineering, image processing, optical communications engineering and optical sensors used in industry, traffic and transport engineering and in medical engineering and technology.

To ensure that the knowledge conveyed is as broad as possible, studies in general electrical engineering are incorporated into the programs listed above.