Electrical Engineering Profession

Practice of electrical engineering. - a person is deemed to be in the practice of

electrical engineering when he renders or offers to render professional
electrical engineering service in the form of:
1. Consultation, investigation, valuation and management of services
requiring electrical engineering knowledge;
2. Design and preparation of plans, specifications and estimates for electric
powers systems, power plans, power distribution system including power
transformers, transmissions lines and network protection, switchgear,
building wiring, electrical machines, equipment and others;
3. Supervision of erection, installation, testing and commissioning of power
plans, substation, transmission lines, industrial plans and others;
4. Supervisions of operation and maintenance of electrical equipment in
powers plants, industrial plants, watercrafts, electric locomotives and
others;
5. Supervisions on the manufacture and repair of electrical equipment
including switchboards, transformers, generators, motors, apparatus and
others;
6. Teaching of electrical engineering professional subject; and
7. Taking charge of the sale and distribution of electrical equipment and
systems requiring engineering calculations or applications of engineering
data.
Electrical engineers: Electrical engineering covers a wide spectrum of civilian
and military careers. Electrical engineers can generally place themselves in one
of the following categories.
building and construction services
public works
educational institution
military
design house
Electrical engineers are expected to be able to calculate mathematically every
element within their particular field. Unlike many other types of engineer,
electrical engineers are trained to a minimum of a "higher education" grade.
That is to say that every electrical engineer is a graduate. Let me elaborate on
this and take a deeper look at the areas covered above.
Building and construction services
These electrical engineers have duties ranging from assessing the maximum
current demand of a new high rise block to calculating harmonics within switch
mode power supplies. Typically, these electrical engineers work on behalf of a
contracting company or are "in house" in larger buildings.

The duties of these electrical engineers are possibly the most diverse of all. Not
only do they have to design and calculate a prospective installation, they may
well have to use software to design it, like AutoCAD et cetera, work out the
costings, schedule delivery dates for equipment and accommodate rapid
changes in their designs as requested by the clients and other contractors.
In house electrical engineers are based in a high rise or similar building
complex and are available throughout the day for consultation and emergency
situations. Depending on the style and purpose of the building, the in house
electrical engineer will have a number of electricians to undertake the daily
tasks.
Public Works
Electrical engineers within this field are typically experts in a particular field
but that is by no means the only type. For example, he may be a lighting
specialist and work solely in the street and space lighting field. Another
example is an electrical engineer that oversees public works projects, such as
shopping centers, cinemas and theatres et cetera.
Although many of these electrical engineers are employed directly by the public
utilities, a growing number are contractors. Public works electrical engineers
frequently find themselves in a consultation role whereby they mediate
between works contractors and the higher echelons of government bodies.
Educational Institution
electrical engineers that work in educational institutes are by genre the allrounders that are experts in only the direct subjects relating to electrical
engineering. For example, an electrical engineer in the building and
construction trade will readily know the difference between a high quality
power transformer and a low quality one that may just be poorly constructed
and yet have an identical specification. As you can see this clearly falls outside
the realms of electrical engineering and pertains perhaps more to
manufacturing engineering.
These electrical engineers are, however, expected to be exceptionally
resourceful and be of a standard that is at the cutting edge of technology.
Military
electrical engineers within the confines of the military are an entirely different
kind of engineer to the rest. They are expected to be able to deal with
emergency and disaster situations at any time of the day. These electrical
engineers have to be considerably resourceful in a different way to the
educational electrical engineer. Frequently they find themselves in situations
where acquisition resources are poor and have to overcome the challenge with
their mind and knowledge.
The greatest demand for military electrical engineers is possibly the ability to
construct makeshift or temporary installations without compromising safety.

This is a generalization and it should be noted that much military engineering

is restricted information and not publishable on this webpage.
Design House
Design house electrical engineers cover a wide range of responsibilities. Duties
can be as diverse as designing hydro-electric power generators to programming
software for electrical engineering uses, such as cable sizing programs. These
electrical engineers are almost all multi skilled engineers and noted for their
flexibility within accompanying engineering environments.