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Electrical engineering can be described as all of the following: Academic discipline – branch of knowledge that is taught and researched at the college or university level. Disciplines are defined (in part), and recognized by the academic journals in which research is published, and the learned societies and academic departments or faculties ...
India’s first female electrical engineer Benjamin G. Lamme: Niagara Falls power engineering Bertha Lamme: Westinghouse's first female engineer, first American woman to graduate in a main discipline of engineering other than civil engineering Georges Leclanché: Primary battery: Morris E. Leeds: Leeds & Northrup measurement and control devices
The curriculum for the electrical engineering program was created in 1882, and was the first such program in the country. [3] It was initially taught by the physics faculty. In 1902, the Institute set up a separate Electrical Engineering department.
Electrical telegraphy may be considered the first example of electrical engineering. [5] Electrical engineering became a profession in the later 19th century. Practitioners had created a global electric telegraph network, and the first professional electrical engineering institutions were founded in the UK and the US to support the new discipline.
"For contributions to electrical engineering education and the advancement of thin-film technology" 1995: David Conner "For leadership in the integration of engineering design education into the electrical engineering curriculum" 1995: Periasamy Rajan "For contributions to research and teaching in multi-dimensional circuit theory and signal ...
Electronic engineering is a sub-discipline of electrical engineering that emerged in the early 20th century and is distinguished by the additional use of active components such as semiconductor devices to amplify and control electric current flow. Previously electrical engineering only used passive devices such as mechanical switches, resistors ...
The Data Engineering for Large-Scale Applications, DELSA [permanent dead link ], research group explores semantics, databases, and interoperable systems in scientific and business domains. The research group aims at broadening the focus of database and data management techniques beyond their traditional scope.
The Dictionary of Occupational Titles lists a number of occupations in electrical/electronics engineering. It describes them as concerned with applications of the laws of electrical energy and the principles of engineering for the generation, transmission and use of electricity , as well as the design and development of machinery and equipment ...