What is Electrical Engineering?

Electrical engineering is apprehensive with the essential forms of energy that run our world. Whether it's gas, hydro, turbine, fuel cell, solar, geothermal, or wind energy, electrical engineers deal with distributing these energies from their sources to our homes, factories, offices, hospitals, and schools. Electrical engineering also involves the moving field of electronics and information technology. Do you have a cellular phone or a computer? Wireless communication and the Internet are just a few areas electrical engineering has helped flourish, by developing better phones, more powerful computers, and high-speed modems. As we enter the 21st century, the technology that surrounds us will continue to enlarge and electrical engineers are top the way.

What do Electrical Engineers do?

With electricity and light (photons), electrical engineers apply specific engineering skills to the design; make application, installation and operation of electrical products and systems.

Almost all we use and rely on in our everyday life has an electrical element from the microwave that heats up our food, to the computer we use at work, the computer games we play with, the television we watch, and the cell phone we use to keep in touch -- all relies on electricity, electronics, computer chips and/or programming. The analytical equipment used in hospitals is also designed by electrical engineers working in the field of biomedical engineering. Electrical engineers keep the world in touch and running easily by designing new devices or improving on existing ones. For example by designing a smaller, cheaper and more powerful cell phone.

Electrical tools can be mutual with other fields of engineering, such mechanical engineering and biomedical engineering in the case of designing an synthetic limb for the victim of an accident. Electrical engineering offers a wide range of research in areas as varied as communications, systems control, biomedical engineering, electromagnetic, photonics, electronics and energy systems.