The Pros And Cons Of Electrical Engineering

What is electricity? The term electricity means the force that makes electronics move from place to another. This is similar to the meaning of the engine as the force that moves a car or any mechanical machine. However, here it is explained as the effect not the physical movement. Throughout the ages, scientists have realized that electricity’s behavior can be predictable pattern when subjected to given conditions (Naiah & Kamakshaiah, 1995). What Electrical engineering? Electrical engineering is a field that deals with the applications the technology of electricity, such as generating, distributing electrical energy, and programing electrical systems.

In this field, there are many famous scientists. For example, Alexander Graham Bell, who

Throughout the ages, electrical engineers have been improving new methods and devices to decrease the risk of using electric power. They are essential because they avoid electric circuit being burned. They created many machines and devices for this purpose. For example, a circuit breaker is one of these devices that increases the safety level of using electric power. a Circuit breakers is switching machine which according to the American National Standards Association (ANSI) are defined as “[a] mechanical device capable of making, carrying and breaking currents under normal circuit conditions and also making, carrying for a specific time and breaking currents under specified abnormal circuit conditions such as those of short circuit” (Garzon, 2005). Basically these are devices which can break any vast circuit in buildings and houses, meaning that the current is not going through the circuit. Moreover, circuit breakers break these vast circuits in some specific situations such as, overcurrent or overload current is going through the circuit (Garzon,

Fuses which according to electric fuses 3rd edition are the best devises because they can be found in every machine, and they break electric circuit in the same specific situations that the circuit breakers break electrical circuits. Fuses are similar to the breakers; however, fuses are more sensitive and more quickly to respond to the current than circuit breakers do (Wright & Newbery, 2004). Fuses are one type of electronic devices that are placed in electrical machines. They are fixed to a specific rate of current which is necessary for the device to run in a safe way. When a fault happens, the fuse will melt and open the circuit; therefore, electricity will not go through the circuit. Although fuses are more sensitive than circuit breakers, fuses have to be replaced after being broken down. They only can be used once, while breakers can be worked again without changing them. Both of circuit breakers and fuses decrease the risks of using the electrical power (Wright & Newbery,