A study to identify the problems faced by serving electrical and electronic engineers in Somalia

Abstract

Electricity is one of those discoveries that have changed the daily life of everybody on the planet. Electricity is the key component to modern technology and without it most of the things that we use everyday simply could not work, and would never have been created. Our mobile phones, our computers, the Internet, our heating systems, our televisions, and our light bulbs - nearly everything in the home would be completely different. Telecommunication plays an important role in our life today. Generally telecommunication is the transmission of signal over a distance for purpose of sending information. By sharing information, human can get such a development today. Information is even considered to be one of standard criteria to assess life quality of a man. Life quality of a man is assessed according to the amount of information he get and means of approaching information. So the currently working engineers in these two main industries (Electric, Telecommunication) faces lot of problems during their normal service. This present study aimed to identify various problems faced by serving electrical and electronic engineers in Somalia. The population of the study comprised of electrical and electronic engineers in four private companies in Somalia. There were many public and private companies in the country. The questionnaires were used for gathering information regarding the opinions of electrical and electronic engineers about the problems faced by serving. The main findings of this study indicated that electrical and electronic engineers face number of problems in management and administration, working environment, promotion, working conditions and safety, benefits/fringes, financial facilities etc.