The engineer´s job: It moves toward abstraction: Automated modeling and analysis minimize the practitioner´s contact with real hardware

As engineering tasks have become more complex and the tools available to grapple with them have become increasingly sophisticated, the job of electrical engineering has become more analytical and abstract. Far more emphasis is being placed on designing a product that will work properly the first time it is built, rather than on making a series of prototypes and debugging them. This trend toward analysis and modeling is changing the way engineers work, both individually and as members of organizations.