Outline of 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
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]- Power engineering
- Control engineering
- Electronic engineering
- Microelectronics
- Signal processing
- Radio-frequency engineering and Radar
- Telecommunications engineering
- Instrumentation engineering
- Electro-Optical Engineering and Optoelectronics
- Electronics and Computer Engineering
- Computer engineering
Related disciplines
[edit | edit source]- Biomedical engineering
- Electronics and Computer Engineering
- Engineering physics
- Mechanical engineering
- Mechatronics
History of electrical engineering
[edit | edit source]History of electrical engineering
General electrical engineering concepts
[edit | edit source]Electromagnetism
[edit | edit source]- Electricity
- Magnetism
- Electromagnetic spectrum
- Electrostatics
- Magnetostatics
- Electrodynamics
- Electrical circuits
Physical laws
[edit | edit source]- Ampère's law
- Coulomb's law
- Faraday's law of induction/Faraday-Lenz law
- Gauss's law
- Kirchhoff's circuit laws
- Maxwell's equations
- Ohm's law
Control engineering
[edit | edit source]- Control theory
- System properties:
- System modeling and analysis:
- Controllers:
- Control applications:
Electronics
[edit | edit source]- Electrical network/Circuit
- Circuit laws
- Electrical element/Discretes
- Passive elements:
- Active elements:
- Semiconductors:
- Electronic design automation
Power engineering
[edit | edit source]Electric vehicles
[edit | edit source]- Electric motor
- Hybrid electric vehicle
- Plug-in hybrid
- Rechargeable battery
- Vehicle-to-grid
- Smart Grid
Signal processing
[edit | edit source]- Analog signal processing
- Digital signal processing
- Filtering
- Transforms
Instrumentation
[edit | edit source]Telecommunication
[edit | edit source]- Telephone
- Mobile phone
- Wireless network
- Optical fiber
- Modulation
- Communication channel
- Information theory
- Digital television
- Digital audio broadcasting
- Satellite radio
- Satellite
Electrical engineering occupations
[edit | edit source]Electrical engineering organizations
[edit | edit source]Electrical engineering publications
[edit | edit source]- IEEE Spectrum
- IEEE series of journals Hawkins Electrical Guide
- Iterative Receiver Design
- List of electrical engineering journals
Persons influential in electrical engineering
[edit | edit source]See also
[edit | edit source]References
[edit | edit source]External links
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- International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)
- MIT OpenCourseWare in-depth look at Electrical Engineering - online courses with video lectures.
- IEEE Global History Network A wiki-based site with many resources about the history of IEEE, its members, their professions and electrical and informational technologies and sciences.