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Electrical Engineering

Electrical engineering is the branch of engineering that deals with the study and usage of electricity, magnetics and light. One of its objectives is to research, develop and operate systems and devices that utilize electromagnetic and electric energy (garnered through gas, turbine, water, sun, wind, etc.) for detection, visualization, processing, and use of information. Although electrical engineering had its beginnings in power systems, it is now involved in fields like information technology and electronics, and in other projects that are highly varied. Computer hardware, global positioning systems, electronic circuit synthesis, wireless communication, semiconductor physics and consumer electronics are just some of the practical applications that benefit from the work being done by electrical engineers. Electrical engineers make use of mathematics and physics to carry out their research, since both the quantitative and the qualitative aspects of a system need to be addressed.

There are many smaller, more specialized fields that fall under the heading of electrical engineering, and these are primarily related to the branch of electromagnetism. The most significant of these subfields are: computer engineering, power engineering, signal processing, electronic engineering, control engineering, telecommunications engineering and instrumentation engineering.

Web Resources On Electrical Engineering

Wikipedia: Electrical Engineering
Wikibooks: Electrical Engineering

Book Resources On Electrical Engineering

Foundations of Electrical Engineering by John R. Cogdell
Electrical Engineering Uncovered by Richard M. White, Roger W. Doering

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