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electrical engineering

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field of engineering that deals with electricity (its control and processing as information in electronic form, or during the control and generation of mechanical, magnetic, or other forms of energy; compare Q988785)

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Electrical engineering is the field that works with electricity—controlling and using it to process information through electronic devices, or to generate and manage mechanical, magnetic, and other types of energy. It matters because it enables the technologies and systems that power modern life, from the devices we use daily to the infrastructure that delivers energy.

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Commons category: Electrical engineering
Classification of Instructional Programs code: 14.1001
Stack Exchange tag: engineering.stackexchange.com/tags/electrical-engineering
vocalized name: הַנְדָּסַת חַשְׁמַל
Stack Exchange site URL: electronics.stackexchange.com

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Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems that use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the latter half of the 19th century after the commercialization of the electric telegraph, the telephone, and electrical power generation, distribution, and use.

Electrical engineering is divided into a wide range of different fields, including computer engineering, systems engineering, power engineering, telecommunications, radio-frequency engineering, signal processing, instrumentation, control engineering, photovoltaic cells, electronics, and optics and photonics. Many of these disciplines overlap with other engineering branches, spanning a huge number of specializations including hardware engineering, power electronics, electromagnetics and waves, microwave engineering, nanotechnology, electrochemistry, renewable energies, mechatronics/control, and electrical materials science. Machine learning and computer science techniques are also further studied due to being historically developed as fields of electrical engineering.