Electrical Engineer a Electrician?
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 at
7:20 pm
tylr_brrdnll asked:
If you go to school as a electrical engineer is that person a electrician or certified to wire a house?
Tagged with: Electrical Engineer • Electrician
Filed under: Engineering
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brighton electrician
Electrical engineers don’t necessarily get to the level of practical detail as an electrician since their skills of design are most often for use in products rather than house wiring. They would not have the same familiarity with local codes and they would not have served as an apprentice so they could not be licensed to work as an electrician on their own.
There are exceptions to this generality but this is the most common way it works out.
sussex electrician
No, and electrical engineer can be licensed to do electrical work like you describe but that is not what you go to engineering college for. If you want to wire a house then there are trade schools which will teach you trades like that. Search the Internet for trade schools that specialize in construction trades. Unions have control of a lot of that business but professional contractors usually have certificates for doing home wiring. An electrical engineer designs electronic circuits and stuff like that. Most computer engineers in the old days were electrical engineers as there weren’t any computer engineers.
brighton electrics
Absolutely not. An electrical engineer may have a good knowledge of the expected results of an electrician`s work but an engineering college does not teach students how to wire a house.
Hands on practice for under graduate electrical engineering students is pretty much limited to lab exercises that serve to verify theories that the student has been taught in the classroom.