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Electronics is essential to the modern world of instant global communication. The subject has a history going back 60 years or more, but it is only in the last 30 years that electronics has become indispensable in the form of powerful and low-cost computers accessible to all. Applications include: digital media for audio and video storage and reproduction; satellite navigation systems which can pinpoint a location anywhere on earth to within a meter; digital cameras and camcorders at affordable prices; and automated manufacturing that makes many products reliable and inexpensive.

Computer Engineering have been revolutionized by modern electronics, making possible worldwide instant telephony with automated international dialing and, of course, the internet is possible only because of advanced optical communication which links the continents with sufficient capacity to carry all the intercontinental internet and telephony traffic over submarine cables. None of this would be possible without the technology, but it is also the design and development engineers and graduates in electronic engineering, computer engineering and telecommunications engineering that make possible the products that we all use, directly or indirectly, in our daily lives.

Demand for computer engineers is high throughout the world. The profession offers a range of careers from design and development to marketing, management, production engineering and applications engineering. Graduates also find employment in other disciplines because of the highly numerate nature of the subject.