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Electronics
Qualifications: Degree or diploma in electrical engineering
Electrical engineers work with electricity, from tiny electrons to large-scale magnetic fields. A degree in electrical engineering can lead to a career in bioengineering, telecommunications, power, semiconductors, manufacturing, transportation, or related fields.
"Probably the most exciting project I‘m working on is an upgrade of all the power systems supplying Telecom's main Auckland communications building. The first part switched from the old to the new system without incident, which was good because the building houses fibre-optic circuits and long distance transmission circuits, so a disruption would have had major effects on businesses all around the country.
When a job like that goes well you wouldn’t even know it had happened, and that’s probably part of the reason why a lot of people don’t know much about what engineers do."
When a job like that goes well you wouldn’t even know it had happened, and that’s probably part of the reason why a lot of people don’t know much about what engineers do."
Linda Salamoun, Electrical Engineer, Opus
