Approximately 10 years ago I was in the exact same position as you all are, I was slightly nervous, confused, would I be able to manage? Well, of course we’ll do more than just manage. Well, congratulations on making it to the EIE department. May the next four years work for you, so that you get to work on wherever destiny takes you.

2 things about BMS

1. you’ll always find atleast 1 group to hangout with.
2. Nobody will ever appear lost, except for CAD in first year and Field theory in 2nd year.
3. Involve in as many clubs as possible, EIE has a wonderful association with ISA, IEEE on the tech side, and there are many arts and cultural clubs as well.

In the end I’ll tell you a survival guide that can make your life way easier, this should help esp. from 2nd year onwards.

Let me tell you a story of what got me to your place 10years ago.

Let’s begin with why instrumentation?

• Do what you love they said, but they never told how to find what you love?
• Just like most of us here I assume, I took instrumentation because it was the closest to Electronics and communication. Well, did I do any research about the instrumentation before making that choice?
  Indeed, during my days CET counselling was not online, telecom was slightly ambititious for me. I knew I may miss it so the next option I had was electrical or instrumentation. So, I asked around for help. A few seniors told based on the syllabus they have removed all the tough parts of Communication, Mixed Signal processing and Power Electronics. I said Wow! Good choice then, huh?
• Well, all my assumptions were not great. Thats where you realize how do you really find what you love? I’m still searching.

What is Instrumentation ?

• Instrumentation engineering is the engineering specialization focused on the principle and operation of measuring instruments that are used in design and configuration of automated systems in areas such as electrical and pneumatic domains, and the control of quantities being measured.
• Is it really electronics engineering? electrical engineering? chemical engineering? mechanical engineering?
• Intrumentation combines all basic displines and lets us build a full system.
• A short answer in layman probably is, anything that has a meter to read and a actuator I guess that would constitute instrumentation engineering.
• It is that tool that makes all the primary engineers do what they love and you get to experience everything and build a holistic view of the systems.
• I strongly urge you to make friends in other departments, see if you can skim some projects.
• Looking at our enthusiasm for doing project, they infact got a working space for us to do side projects with all the necessary infrastructure like oscillscopes, function generator, computers. What does this mean? This means no effort goes unnoticed and they will always unblock you from any hurdles you come across.

Doing engineering in BMS is a experience for a lifetime.

So coming to a survival guide:

• THere is plenty of time to whatever you want to do.

• your gpa does not matter(as long as it is above 7.75 they say)

• I paid attention as much as I could in class, never touched anything at home.

• Internals, exams everything would be from what was taught in class.

• Lot of places to hangout inside and outside, I guess no other campus can beat ours in that aspect.

• Instrumentation has an amazing breadth in terms of choice of courses, I guess more than enough to discover what you love.

• Clubs in the college has enough to let you explore non-technical and technical stuff.

• I took a long time to discover my passion,

• In short there is no survival guide.

Trust me 4 years at the university will eat a large portion in your thesis of life. Its a great experience, you’ll make so many dependable friends (Talk about Rahul, Sandeep, and Sachin)

Enough said, will I get a good job at the end?

• That is a key you have, it is in your hand to find which door it could open.
• Trust me everyone has a key or two or many more. Make sure you open a door you’ll cherish.