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Electrical engineering is a field of engineering which studies and applies principles of electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism.
Description
This field first became an identifiable occupation in the latter half of the 19th century after commercialization of the electric telegraph, the telephone, and electric power distribution and use.
Subsequently, broadcasting and recording media made electronics part of daily life.
The invention of the transistor, and later the integrated circuit, brought down the cost of electronics to the point they can be used in almost any household object.
Electrical engineering has now subdivided into a wide range of subfields including electronics, digital computers, power engineering, telecommunications, control systems, radio-frequency engineering, signal processing, instrumentation, and microelectronics.
The subject of electronic engineering is often treated as its own subfield but it intersects with all the other subfields, including the power electronics of power engineering.
See also
External links
- Electrical engineering @ Wikipedia
