electrical engineers in the US and Britain

electro · 07-31-2007, 06:19 PM

Hello, I see electrical engineer is used much but what is actually this field?
In my country people either choose something called electronic or energy and then they can work with electric power. But when people say electrical engineering what do they usually mean?

RootBeerCaesar · 07-31-2007, 06:45 PM

electronics - building computers, building electronic devices, ex. Michael Bloomberg (NYC Mayor) is a electrical engineer whos company makes computer terminals.

electro · 08-11-2007, 01:32 PM

Okey, but what is considered the biggest field in electrical engineering?, what does most people choose?

Jason1117 · 08-13-2007, 09:26 AM

electric power is just a small branch of electrical engineering.
Electrical engineering a broad concept. The biggest filed in EE?I don't know exactly,but it wouldn't be electric power.
by the way,where are you from?Britain?

electro · 08-13-2007, 10:16 AM

I am from Norway, and here signal processing and communication, circuit and systems design, nanoelectronics and photonics and radiosystems all go under electronics. You can also choose acoustics.

Hehe so it's a little confusing.

chaoses · 08-20-2007, 10:51 AM

In the US, electrical engineering is differnet than in other countries. Most other countries think that EE are just related to power/electricity. In the US, the field ranges from signal processing, microelectronics, power, computer ... to software, hardware, even electrophysics and many more. In a nut shell, it's everything related to electronics, system designs ... that's why there are more job opportunities because you can go into so many different areas (you can also go into non-engineering related like banking and business and all other stuff).

chaoses · 08-20-2007, 11:13 PM

the biggest field in electrical engineering (currently) is computer engineering. Some departments separate computer engineering as a different major. It has evolved so fast in the last decades that some school thinks it's essential to be a separate major from electrical engineering. Next is probably signal processing / microelectronics. The less popular ones are power/electricity, electrophysics.

However, this is relative depending on what school you're talking about and what area of the country you are.