What is an Electrical Engineer?

What is an Electrical Engineer?

Engineering Science Seminar Series

October 16, 2007

EE subdisciplines*

• Power• Control• Microelectronics• Signal Processing• Telecommunications• Instrumentation• Computers

*from Wikipedia

Power-- Generation

Clarkson University

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Hoover_dam_from_air.jpg

Wind

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Windenergy.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/Wind_2006andprediction_en.png

Power Transmission

Power Distribution

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/Queen_Mary_II_Einlaufen_Hamburg_Hafengeburtstag_2006_-2.jpg

http://www.ship-technology.com/contractors/propulsion/abb/

Microelectronics

• Circuit level designs• Integrated circuit designs• Instrumentation

DVD player

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:WM_WM8775SEDS-AB.jpg

Advanced Bar Code Readers

http://www.handheld.com/Site.aspx/na/en/technology/categories/?cat=39&line=156

Pneumatic to electrical signal transducer circuit

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/Radar_composantes.png

The Fed Ex hybrid

Power Electronics

Atmel Diopsis 740 System on Chip

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmel

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/Diopsis.jpg

Intel 8742 8-bit microcontroller

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcontroller

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/153056995_5ef8b01016_o.jpg

Documents

What is an Electrical Engineer?