Outline of electrical engineering

See also: Index of electrical engineering articles
Electrical engineering

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

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

History of electrical engineering

History of electrical engineering

General electrical engineering concepts

Electromagnetism

Electromagnetism

Physical laws

Physical laws

Control engineering

Main article: Outline of control engineering

Control engineering

Electronics

Electronics

Power engineering

Power engineering

Electric vehicles

Electric vehicles

Signal processing

Signal processing

Instrumentation

Telecommunication

Telecommunication

Electrical engineering occupations

Electrical engineering organizations

Electrical engineering publications

Persons influential in electrical engineering

See also

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