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AUTOMATION ENGINEERING


Automation Engineering also known as Robotics deals with design, construction and application of robots. Hence it ranks as one of the topmost choices as a subject for Masters. Basically this field puts emphasis on the design of modern robotic systems. So all you people whose childhood dream was to build a robot, now you get to live that fantasy.

With the advent of 21st century, the use and functionality of robotics have gained much impetus because of its use in hazardous jobs such as defusing bombs, mining etc. Many corporations and national governments are showing interest to use robotic technology to bring about economic and social development.

SCOPE

  • Demand for automation or robotics professionals are at an all time high. Most of the industrial set ups are using robotic technology due to cost effectiveness and quality improvement.

  • Automation Engineers can also work in areas like manufacturing, mining, research, maintainence of nuclear power plants etc. Moreover robotic technology is also used in agriculture, power plant maintainence, space exploration, packaging, assembling minute products etc. The possibilities are endless.

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DUTIES OF AUTOMATION ENGINEERS

  • Design, program, simulate and test automated machinery or processes that are intended to complete a specific task.

  • Responsible for detailed design specifications and other documents in their creation.

  • Design, engineer, test and troubleshoot control systems.

  • Automated Engineers will provide detailed documentation including design specifications that enable production or the application of their products.

  • Maintain technical project files.

  • Publishing reports documenting the design details of new projects and qualification test results.

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TOP COLLEGES IN INDIA

NAME (QS WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKING 2018)

  1. IIT Bombay (179)

  2. IIT Kanpur (293)

  3. IIT Madras (264)

  4. IIT Kharagpur (308)

  5. IIT Delhi (172)

TOP COLLEGES ABROAD

NAME (QS WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKING 2018)

  1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1)

  2. Carnegie-Mellon University (47)

  3. Georgia Institute of Technology (70)

  4. John Hopkins University (17)

  5. University of Pennsylvania (19)

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