Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering

Instrumentation engineers serve industries with automated process with the goal of improving the productivity, reliability, safety, optimisation and stability. Instrumentation engineers are commonly responsible for integrating the sensors with the recorders, transmitters, displays or control systems. They may design or specify installation, wiring and signal conditioning. They may be responsible for calibration, testing and maintenance of the system. They have ample opportunities in process control industries including petroleum and chemical industries. They have opportunities in Middle East. A certification in PLC/SCADA will be useful.

Hi Karan,
Firstly, It depends upon the cutoff marks for your shortlisting in these branches. To get an idea, please go through this link:
http://www.bitsadmission.com/cutoffscores2017.aspx
For the understanding of the difference, between the two branches, both have origin in Electrical Engineering. But in detail, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering deals with Electrical technology and machines, circuit analysis, electronics, electromagnetism, electrical engineering materials, instrumentation etc while ECE consist of analog transmission, basic electronics, solid state devices, microprocessors, digital and analog communication, analog integrated circuits, manufacturing of electronic devices, circuits etc. BITS Goa and Hyderabad are both at par with each other with the aspect of these branches.
Best wishes.

The course content is such that it covers a little bit of every engineering discipline, before focusing on the core Electronics and Instrumentation subjects. This helps in making a switch to other disciplines (eg. Computer Science) if anyone wishes to. Many students from this stream go to good universities abroad to pursue MS/ Ph.D. in their desired fields of interest, every year. There are seats in the IITs and IISC too, where it is relatively more difficult to get in, because of the fierce competition. Jobs prospects:
- PSUs recruit through GATE. One can appear for GATE in 'Instrumentation'paper and make himself eligible to apply for PSUs like NTPC, IOCL, BPCL, GAIL, ONGC, etc. - I have seen my seniors getting placed in electronics companies like Texas Instruments, Cadence Design systems and giving a good competition to the ECE guys. - There are also companies, which come looking for Instrumentation engineers in particular, like Foster-Wheeler, CAIRN India, LINDE, etc. - Moreover, during Campus placements E & I guys are generally allowed to sit in almost every type of company that is coming for recruitment: From Coding to Consultancy, Financial services to Decision Sciences. Almost all.