According to Rhys Bowley, applications engineering intern, National Instruments UK and Ireland.(2012), said that “absolutely every engineer needs to measure real world phenomena in order to interact with the real world, and that means NI has worked on everything from measuring the noise of Boeing aircraft to controlling the particle beams at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
It's very exciting to be part of a new or growing industry, like communications or green engineering, and to see the break neck speed at which things develop and change. At NI I have recently been working with academics at Cambridge University who are writing a case study about their solar-panelled car, which they raced 3,000km across Australia.
In communications engineering, the mobile phone revolutionised the way in which we communicate, use the Internet, take photographs and even shop. I cannot wait to find out what I will be able to do with my mobile phone next. Just as the technology in these areas develops each year, so do the job opportunities. Having qualifications in engineering means that you're very unlikely to struggle finding jobs, and more importantly, jobs that you'll enjoy.