Engineering and Technology


Instrumentation and Production Engineering


An instrumentation engineer designs, constructs and maintains instruments and instrumentation units. They are considered to be vital for the industrial processes. Special instrumentation systems for investigation during research, industrial demands for better quality products and increased productivity stresses the need for specialists. A variety of instrumentation systems are needed by such organisations.

Employment

The demand for instrumentation engineers is most in industries like steel, chemical, fertiliser, refineries, the power industry, etc., as well as in research and development organisations of defence, government and the private sector.

Instrumentation engineers are also employed by instrument manufacturers and by the growing industrial automation industry.