Personally, I think it is better to have electrical automation.
Mechatronics learning is more miscellaneous, mechanical knowledge relative to electrical automation to learn more. The electrical automation degree of specialization is higher, to the basis of electricity and automatic control, mainly from the perspective of the magnetic field of the circuit as well as control to learn. Both majors have higher requirements for physics and math. So students who are good at physics and math can consider studying.
But the direction of electrical automation is a lot more than the above two, for example, there are also biased in the direction of automation of the profession. Mechatronics students graduated from the production-oriented enterprises, electrical automation graduated from the electric power industry, the employment surface compared to electromechanical to be a little wider.
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Electrical automation technology employment direction
1, transportation
Electrified railroads, such as the current light rail, subway, and magnetic levitation trains, but also includes the majority of the current trains are relying on the electrification of the automated remote control. Airplanes in the sky, the launch of satellites, and so on
2, industrial
Petroleum, chemical, electric power, production, and other fields are mainly by electrical automation for operation, production, processing, monitoring and maintenance. Like coal to oil, coal to hydrogen, coal power generation, like fertilizer plants, refineries, steel production, a variety of automatic and semi-automated production lines, automotive manufacturing, processing, packaging, transmission, oilfield oil extraction, gas extraction, daily operation and maintenance, remote monitoring, remote control, etc., all aspects of the basically must be used in electrical automation expertise.
3, civil
Civil alarm, fire alarm systems, HVAC systems, security systems, automated mechanical processing, power distribution systems, power supply systems, banking systems, including our usual card systems and so on must use the knowledge of electrical automation.
4, communication
Satellite launch, cell phones, computer communication networks, fiber optic communications, cable communications, various control systems and so on must use the knowledge of electrical automation to achieve.