Hello my name is Scott Shepard and I
teach in the Electrical Engineering
Technology department. Typically the
electronic side is dealing with lower
voltage stuff, so stuff in your
electronics like your computers, your
cell phones, your laptop, different
communications type stuff, whereas the
electrical side is looking at higher
voltages of 120 volts, which is your
outlet voltage at your house - up to seven
hundred and thirty-five thousand volts,
which is high voltage power line
transmission lines, so anyone that has to
work with electricity needs to know some
very basic stuff. So electrical and
electronics - those first two semesters
are common between electronics and
Electrical Engineering Technology for
that reason and then at that point we
diversify into more specialized courses
for those two different programs.
Electrical Engineering - I took up this
course same course in Philippines and
also I like electricity, like high
voltage. Electrical stood out when I choose
the specialization especially the
distribution because I like to work on
you have three choices of work after
you graduate you can go on utility you
can go on commercial and then you can
do also like residential like a
contracting company so and and then I'd
really like to work on high voltage.
I think part of the electrical side is I
do have a definite interest in
motors and solar energy and wind
energy renewable and clean technologies
and though there is an electronics
component to those the distribution side
of those alternative energies are a
little more interesting to me.
People only notice when the power goes out but
our technologists and engineers are the
ones that keep the power on and get it
back on when the power's been out so
that's one of the places that
they go behind the scenes and any type
of manufacturing process from how paper's
made to
beers brewed our technologist could have
a hand in that. Before the students even
graduate usually we have a couple that
already have jobs lined up but NB Power's
one of the more well-known. They've hired
a number of our former grads. Some of the
JDI companies have also hired some of
our former grads. A lot of the
engineering firms throughout the
province have hired a number of our
grads that probably accounts for 30%
of our grads are hired by engineering
firms which do work for all those larger
companies in a consulting basis.
Year Two of Electrical Engineering Technology
provides more training in one of two
possible pathways: Power Distribution,
Alternate Energy. To learn more about
Electrical Engineering Technology, visit
NBCC.ca.
