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

Wind

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Power Transmission

Power Distribution

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Microelectronics

• Circuit level designs• Integrated circuit designs• Instrumentation

DVD player

Advanced Bar Code Readers

Pneumatic to electrical signal transducer circuit

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The Fed Ex hybrid

Power Electronics

Atmel Diopsis 740 System on Chip

Intel 8742 8-bit microcontroller