Spotlight On: Electrical Engineering

Electrical engineering is the branch of engineering that deals with electricity and its applications. This can be on a large scale, such as power generation and transmission or small scale, such as design of chips and consumer electronics sometimes referred to as electronics engineering. The profession appeared in the mid-1800s, as major advancements in the understanding of electrical phenomena were put forward by Ohm, Tesla, Faraday, Maxwell, and others. Today, electrical engineering is a wide-ranging profession vital to our society. Few human-made devices are without any electrical components, and electrical engineering figures prominently in virtually every product or device you see before you. Electrical ...

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