Archive for February, 2012

Enhancing Your Career in Electrical Engineering

February 28th, 2012

Taking a course in circuit analysis is one step in preparing yourself for a career in electrical engineering. Enhancing your communication skill while in school should also be part of that preparation, as large of your time will be spent in communicating.

People in industry have complained again and again that graduating engineers are ill-prepared in written and oral communication. An engineer who communicates effectively becomes a valuable asset. He gets chance to work in the managerial level even though he is an engineer. Success of Business mainly depends on some factors like quality, convincing the potential customer or buyer, reliability and most importantly on communication skill. If you have great communication skill you can convince your buyer or customer with whom you are dealing with in a better way.

You can probably speak or write quickly and easily. But how effectively do you communicate? The art of effective communication is of utmost importance to your success as an engineer. If you can communicate in a better way then you will to attract your customers to your company and if you are an employer of a company then you will get regular promotion in your job. Your demand will increase in the job market and so as your salary and designation. You will be successful in a very short time.

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Hybrid Electric Engines

February 9th, 2012

Have you ever asked yourself about hybrid cars? They certainly look stylish and modern, but what is it about them that makes them so unusual and so special? After all, many cars look the same these days, do they not? They are all designed by computer to be aerodynamic and aerodynamic is aerodynamic, so they all end up looking impossible to tell apart to anyone who is not an aficionado.

Well, the fact is that the distinction between a hybrid car and a standard car lies under the bonnet. There are various types of hybrid vehicles as well, but the most common sort has a hybrid electric engine. Therefore, you could say that what makes hybrid cars different from most other, ordinary cars is their engine.

Or engines actually, because hybrid electric cars essentially have two engines. One, the internal combustion engine, runs on petrol, LPG or diesel and the other, the electric motor, runs off electricity stored in an array of powerful batteries. On the other hand, normal cars only have an internal combustion engine. It is a good idea to investigate these two types of engine separately.

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