Outline of electrical engineering
Overview of and topical guide to electrical engineering
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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to electrical engineering.
Electrical engineering – field of engineering that generally deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century after commercialization of the electric telegraph and electrical power supply. It now covers a range of subtopics including power, electronics, control systems, signal processing and telecommunications.
Classification
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 to which their practitioners belong.
- Branch of engineering – discipline, skill, and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes.
Branches of electrical engineering
Related disciplines
- Biomedical engineering
- Electronics and Computer Engineering
- Engineering physics
- Mechanical engineering
- Mechatronics
History of electrical engineering
General electrical engineering concepts
Electromagnetism
Physical laws
Control engineering
- Control theory
- System properties:
- System modeling and analysis:
- Controllers:
- Control applications:
Electronics
- Electrical network/Circuit
- Circuit laws
- Electrical element/Discretes
- Passive elements:
- Active elements:
- Semiconductors:
- Electronic design automation
