What are the job prospects in India as well as overseas for Instrumentation Technology?

<p><span aria-haspopup="dialog" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="radix-:rp:" data-state="closed">Instrumentation Technology includes good job opportunities at both national and global level. </span><span aria-haspopup="dialog" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="radix-:rq:" data-state="closed">This field is currently popular owing to its utility in different sectors including <strong>manufacturing, automation, energy and healthcare</strong>.</span><br><br><span aria-haspopup="dialog" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="radix-:rr:" data-state="closed">India, especially has a vast scope for these degree holders in <strong>PSU&rsquo;s, private sectors and research organizations</strong>. </span><span aria-haspopup="dialog" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="radix-:rs:" data-state="closed">The developed international countries such as the <strong>US, UK, Canada, and Australia </strong>have good paying offer and career progression for the instrumentation engineers.</span></p>

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Hi, Almost all process and manufacturing industry such as steel, oil, petrochemical, power and defence production will have a separate instrumentation department, which is manned and managed by instrumentation engineers. Automation is the buzz word in process industry, and automation is the core job of instrumentation engineers. Hence, the demand for instrumentation will always be there, says the professor. The growth in the avionics, aeronautical and space science sectors has also increased the scope for instrumentation engineers. Instrumentation engineers can also fit in both software and hardware sectors. Apart from covering core subjects such as system dynamics, industrial instrumentation and process control, analytical and bio-medical instrumentation and robotics, the students deal with software and hardware topics such as microprocessor and micro controller based instrumentation, VLSI and embedded system designs, computer architecture and organisation and computer control of processes. Computer languages such as C' and Fortran are also part of the curriculum. This makes an instrumentation engineer fit for both the hardware and the software industry. Moreover, since instrumentation engineers are presumed to be good in physics, the logical ability is expected to be on the higher side, which is a basic quality needed to excel in the software industry. 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. All the best.

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Instrumentation technology finds a new place in the new culture of engineering in India. This branch is not much popular and is taught in few IITs and only a rare institutions in India. Although this finds a very practical application in the modern scientific and industry oriented world. The instrumentation technology forms the basis of the fundamental of measurement and processing. For example, the hydraulic shift in turbines, the up thrust and aerodynamic flow of rockets in aerospace industry and the pressure exertion and instrument related activity in research. Rather than job, this field finds a scope in the research and teaching field though the immense knowledge of the field would also take you to the corporate world. Every company appoints a group of instrumentation engineer for the working of the factories and manufacturing process. Though India has a lack in the field, we have a very less manufacturing setups in India. If someone finds the interest in the stream, one should definitely go with that because this industry needs more passionate minds and ready to reward beyond expectation.

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