<p>hello im looking into becoming an electronics engineer but when i look at a colleges' major i notice electrical and electronics what exactly does this mean.</p>
<p>At most schools regardless of title they are teaching electrical. Electrical engineering includes all applications of electromagnetics, electronics specifically deal with devices operating through the movement of electrons. The former includes things like plasmas, waveguides, antennas, and other areas that the latter does not. The distinction is going to be vague until you have some real engineering education under your belt, so I would simply recommend looking at senior-level classes in your schools of interest and seeing if those concepts appeal to you - if they don’t you have the wrong school.</p>
<p>Define ‘electronics’. Are we talking Furbies, iPods, or chargers? reference hardware, IC’s, or power lines?</p>
<p>A friend is making a KILLING designing analog power IC’s for chargers btw. Some of our products have antennae and the RF group seems to be practicing the Dark Arts… Is a piece of wire ‘electronics’? :)</p>
<p>I’m an electrical engineer working in the semiconductor industry. “Electronics” refers to design typically made on a printed circuit board… and usually low voltage (24V or under).</p>
<p>Electrical engineering has traditionally incorporated electronics, but electronics has obviously grown in complexity over the years. Writing firmware for microcontrollers and working with operating systems (from a simple RTOS to Linux, Android or Windows) on microprocessors is commonplace. Electronics has become a blending of the semiconductor portion of electrical engineering and computer science.</p>