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8 unusual facts about Electrical Engineering


Apprenticeship learning

Apprenticeship learning, or apprenticeship via inverse reinforcement learning (AIRP), is a concept in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning, developed by Pieter Abbeel, Assistant Professor in Berkeley's EECS department, and Andrew Ng, Associate Professor in Stanford University's Computer Science Department.

Fredric J. Harris

Fredric J. Harris (or, as he prefers to spell his name, fred harris) is a professor of Electrical engineering and CUBIC signal processing chair at San Diego State University and an internationally renowned expert on DSP and Communication Systems.

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The firm employs over 550 people in the disciplines of human factors, mechanical, electrical and software engineering, industrial design, interaction design, and communication design.

Ishaq Khan Khakwani

After which he was admitted into Engineering University, Mughalpura, Lahore and obtained his Electrical Engineering Degree with distinction, in 1967.

Rashid Maidin

While employed at the power station, he studied basic electrics and eventually obtained a first-class electrical chargeman certificate.

Sterling Lands II

He is a graduate of the Southern University School of Engineering, with a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, and a Doctor of Divinity degree from Master's International School of Divinity.

Thomas Commerford Martin

Thomas Commerford Martin (July 22, 1856–May 17, 1924) was an American electrical engineer and editor, born in London, England.

Wet nanotechnology

Electrical and mechanical engineers are on the other side of the line in dry engineering.


ACEC California

As of February 2010 the membership includes nearly 1100 civil, structural, geotechnical, electrical and mechanical engineering and land surveying firms.

An Wang

A native of Kunshan County in Suzhou Prefecture, he was born in Shanghai, China, and graduated from Chiao Tung University with a degree in electrical engineering in 1940.

Andrew H. Bobeck

Bobeck was born in Tower Hill, Pennsylvania, received his B.S. (1948) and M.S. (1949) degrees in electrical engineering from Purdue University, and in 1949 joined Bell Laboratories where he helped design communication and pulse transformers, and then one of the first solid-state digital computers.

Axel Teichmann

In addition to professional sport, Teichmann studies electrical engineering at FernUniversität Hagen.

Belgrade University Library

It is located on King Alexander Boulevard, close to the Faculty of Law and adjacent to the Faculties of Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Architecture.

Camillo Olivetti

Camillo Olivetti (August 1868 in Ivrea, Piedmont, Italy– December 1943 in Biella, Italy) was an Italian electrical engineer and founder of Olivetti & Co., SpA., the Italian manufacturer of computers, printers and other business machines.

Dan Maynes-Aminzade

He was also mentioned in the February 2006 issue of EE Times, an academic and industry-oriented publication dedicated to issues in the field of Electrical Engineering.

Dave Forney

He received the B.S.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 1961, summa cum laude, and the M.S. and Sc.D degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1963 and 1965, respectively.

Emmett Leith

Emmett Norman Leith (March 12, 1927 in Detroit, Michigan – December 23, 2005 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) was a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Michigan and, with Juris Upatnieks of the University of Michigan, the co-inventor of three-dimensional holography.

Game port

High-end game port joysticks such as the Microsoft SideWinder rely on multiplexing a proprietary data stream through the 4 standard button inputs and sometimes through the "unused" pins, achieving full support for a rather high number of buttons (e.g. 16 or 20) while special features such as daisy-chaining multiple joysticks, force feedback or joystick programming become possible in some cases.

Garrett Camp

Garrett completed his undergrad in Electrical Engineering and Masters in Software Engineering at the University of Calgary where he researched collaborative systems, evolutionary algorithms and information retrieval.

Israel Rokach

He traveled to Switzerland, where he continued his education at a high school in Lausanne and then studied electrical engineering at the Zürich polytechnic.

Jacob Millman

Jacob Millman (1911 in Novohrad-Volynskyi, Ukraine – May 22, 1991 in Longboat Key, Florida) was a professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University.

Jerre Noe

Stationed in Europe during World War II, he conducted research and development related to radar, before returning to California to complete a Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Stanford University.

JNTUA College of Engineering, Pulivendula

The college started its first academic year with five branches of CSE, ECE, MEC, EEE and BioTech with an intake of about 300 students in the first batch.

Kirchhoff's circuit laws

Widely used in electrical engineering, they are also called Kirchhoff's rules or simply Kirchhoff's laws (see also Kirchhoff's laws for other meanings of that term).

Man Singh Tyagi

After retiring from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur as a Professor of Electrical Engineering, he joined Electrical Engineering and Electronics Engineering department of the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani as a Professor.

Miguel Roman

After he graduated from CROEM high school, he attended the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus and, in 2004, earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering.

Mir Imran

He received his B.S. in electrical engineering and his M.S. in biomedical engineering and attended three years of Medical School before deciding to leave and work on the first implantable cardioverter-defibrillator with Intec Systems, which was acquired by Eli Lilly, spun out to form Guidant, and acquired by Boston Scientific in 2006 for $27.5B

Murray Joslin

Joslin obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University in 1923.

Mutah University

In the field of postgraduate studies, the University established a Ph.D. program in Arabic language and literature in addition to various master programs in Sciences, literature and Languages, Economics and Management, Geography, Electrical Engineering (Communications), Education, Law and Police Studies.

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

After graduating from university with a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering, he went to London and Kathmandu, Nepal, to decide what to do in life.

Pedro Crespo

Pedro M. Crespo Bofill is Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Tecnun School of Engineering of the University of Navarre in Spain, and Head of the Electronics & Communications Department at CEIT Research Institute.

Peter P. Silvester

After a period of industrial practice, he continued his studies at the University of Toronto, obtaining the MASc in 1958, and then at McGill University (Montreal), where he was awarded the PhD in Electrical Engineering, in 1964.

Petr Beckmann

He defected to the United States in 1963 and became a Professor (later, Emeritus) of electrical engineering at the University of Colorado.

Prosecutor sex scandal

He passed the patent bar only at the age of 20, the youngest person to do so in that year and graduated from Seoul National University with a degree in Electrical engineering.

Ralph Griswold

He attended Stanford University, receiving a bachelor's degree in physics, then an M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering.

Rehabilitation engineering

While some rehabilitation engineers have master’s degrees in rehabilitation engineering, usually a subspecialty of Biomedical engineering, most rehabilitation engineers have undergraduate or graduate degrees in biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering, or electrical engineering.

Robin Lingle

In December 1966, Lingle married Margaret "Marky" Williams, completed his master's degree in electrical engineering, and passed up the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program in order to return to The Stony Brook School as a science and Bible teacher and track coach.

Sanjar Umarov

Umarov attended the Tashkent University of Irrigation and Mechanization of Agriculture, earning a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering.

Sanjeev Kulkarni

Sanjeev Ramesh Kulkarni (born Mumbai, India, September 21, 1963) is Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University, where he teaches and conducts research in a broad range of areas including statistical inference, pattern recognition, machine learning, information theory, and signal/image processing.

Stanley Meyer's water fuel cell

His car was due to be examined by the expert witness Michael Laughton, Professor of Electrical Engineering at Queen Mary, University of London and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

Surya Kant

Sury received his Masters in Electrical Engineering with a specialization in Computer Technology from Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT), Delhi, in 1978, and his Bachelors of Electrical Engineering with specialization in Electronics from Delhi College of Engineering, in 1976, both at the top of his class.

Technological University of Pereira

The university offers studies in Engineering (Industrial engineering, Systems engineering and Computer science, Electrical engineering, Mechanical engineering); Science and Technology (Veterinary medicine, Medicine, Chemical technology, Industrial chemistry, Environmental management); Liberal arts (English, Spanish language and Literature, philosophy, Communication and Computer Education); Child pedagogy; and Sports science and recreation.

Thévenin's theorem

The theorem was independently derived in 1853 by the German scientist Hermann von Helmholtz and in 1883 by Léon Charles Thévenin (1857–1926), an electrical engineer with France's national Postes et Télégraphes telecommunications organization.

University of Stavanger

The university offers doctorates in Petroleum Technology, Offshore Technology, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Special Needs Education, Literacy and Social Science (with specializations in Medicine and Health, Risk Management and Societal Safety, Management, Economics, Tourism, Sociology, Social Work and Culture & Society).

Upendra J. Chivukula

Chivukula received a B.E.E. from Guindy Engineering College (now part of Anna University) in Electrical Engineering and an M.E.E. degree from City College of New York in Electrical Engineering.

Varun Grover

in Electrical Engineering in 1982 from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, his MBA in 1985 from Southern Illinois University, and his Ph.D. in Management Information Systems in 1990 from the University of Pittsburgh.

Vector group

In electrical engineering, a vector group is the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) method of categorizing the high voltage (HV) windings and low voltage (LV) winding configurations of three-phase transformers.


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A. Michael Noll

The electrical-engineering honor society Eta Kappa Nu awarded him Honorable Mention as an Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer in 1970.

Aart de Geus

De Geus graduated with a masters degree in Electrical Engineering (1978) from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Swiss Federal Institute of technology), EPFL, Switzerland followed by a Ph.D. from Southern Methodist University, Texas, USA.

Ahmad Motamedi

He is a faculty member of Electrical Engineering department of Amirkabir University of Technology since 1984.

American Institute of Electrical Engineers

The 1884 founders of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE) included some of the most prominent inventors and innovators in the then new field of electrical engineering, among them Nikola Tesla, Thomas Alva Edison, Elihu Thomson, Edwin J. Houston, and Edward Weston.

Bernadette Pajer

Pajer's Bradshaw applies his knowledge of the new science of electrical engineering to solve murders in novels that resonate with the classic style of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Edgar Alan Poe.

Bertram Kelly

Bertram Kelly was educated at Southend High School for Boys and Walton College before studying electrical engineering at the Royal Technical College, Glasgow.

Birmingham Metropolitan College

The classes available were Chemistry, Physics, Mechanical & Electrical Engineering, Metallurgy, Mathematics, Handicrafts and Typography and Drawing.

Chananporn Rosjan

She studied at the Francis Lewis High School and returned to Thailand to study at Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology at Thammasat University where she later received Bachelor of Electrical Engineering.

Constantine A. Balanis

From 1964 to 1970 he was with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia and from 1970 to 1983 he was with the Department of Electrical Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV.

Dallas County, Alabama

Shwetak Patel, (1981-), from Alabama, was born in Selma and went on to become a professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington and invent a number of new sensing technologies.

Dan Geer

Geer received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, where he was a member of the Theta Deuteron charge of Theta Delta Chi fraternity.

Donald Pederson

Donald O. Pederson (September 30, 1925 – December 25, 2004) was an American professor of electrical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley and one of the designers of SPICE, the canonical integrated circuit simulator.

Erik Hoffmann

He moved to University of Stuttgart, Germany in 2001 to study Electrical Engineering.

Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Sarajevo

The Faculty of Electrical Engineering (Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian: Elektrotehnički Fakultet) or ETF is one of the faculties of University of Sarajevo.

Ghavam Shahidi

He studied electrical engineering at MIT, where he wrote a PhD thesis on "velocity overshoot in deeply scaled MOSFETs", under supervision of Professor Dimitri Antoniadis.

Gisele Bennett

Bennett holds a 1987 B.S. and a 1989 M.S. from the College of Optics and Photonics at the University of Central Florida and a 1995 Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology, all in electrical engineering.

Gregory Minor

A native of Fresno, California, Minor received an electrical engineering degree from the University of California in 1960.

Igor Kluvánek

Igor Kluvánek obtained his first degree in electrical engineering from the Slovak Polytechnic University, Bratislava, in 1953.

Ilya Lopert

Lopert studied electrical engineering after the First World War in Switzerland, in Belgium at the University of Ghent, and the University of Grenoble from 1930 to 1933.

Irving Hale

Hale pursued studies in electrical engineering following his commission as a second lieutenant, but eventually resigned from the regular army to take a position with General Electric.

Jay Salkini

Following his graduation from FAU with his bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering, he took a position at Siemens working on software development for telecommunications switching systems.

Jerome Swartz

Swartz received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from The City College of New York and a Ph.D. also in electrical engineering from Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, receiving fellowships from the National Science Foundation and Ford Foundation along the way.

Jianyou Cao

After returning to China in 1951, He joined Department of Electrical Engineering of Tangshan Institute of Technology (now Southwest Jiaotong University), where he became the dean of department later.

John A. Young

He received his BS degree in electrical engineering in 1953 from Oregon State University, later receiving an MBA degree from Stanford University.

John G. McKnight

He received his BS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1952, and worked for Ampex Corp from 1952 thru 1972, except for the years 1953..

Josip Pečarić

He studied at the University of Belgrade's Faculty of Electrical Engineering, and completed his master’s degree in electrical engineering under the supervision of mathematics professor, Dobrilo Tošić, who inspired him to dedicate himself to mathematics.

Klaus Knopper

He received his degree in electrical engineering from the Kaiserslautern University of Technology (in German: Technische Universität Kaiserslautern), co-founded LinuxTag in 1996 (a major European Linux expo) and has been a self-employed information technology consultant since 1998.

Marcelo Dascal

Marcelo Dascal is a graduate of philosophy and electrical engineering from the University of São Paulo, Brazil.

Maya Paczuski

Maya Paczuski received a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from M.I.T. in 1986 and then went on to study with Mehran Kardar, earning her Ph.D in Condensed matter physics from the same institute.

Michael Fourman

In 1983 he moved, with a Science and Engineering Research Council Fellowship, to the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at Brunel University.

N. Ahmed

Alumnus of the Bishop Cotton Boys' School; received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore, India in 1961;

Naser Qureshi

He did his PhD in Physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara (Thesis: Therahertz dynamics in semiconductor heterostructures); A.B. in Physics from Princeton University (Thesis: High-Tc superconductivity); and a post-doctorate in Electrical Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz (Ultrafast magnetism).

Ned Kock

He holds a B.E.E. in Electrical Engineering from the Federal Technological University of Parana at Curitiba, Brazil, a M.Sc.

Onaral

Banu Onaral, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Electrical Engineering at Drexel University

Peter Chen

Born in Taichung, Taiwan, Peter Chen received a B.S. in electrical engineering in 1968 at the National Taiwan University, and a Ph.D. in computer science/applied mathematics at the Harvard University in 1973.

Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo

The Polytechnic School was classified among the 51-100 best Engineering Schools in the world (Electrical Engineering), according to the 2012 QS World University Rankings.

Prasanna Alahakoon

However he left to joined the Sri Lanka Navy without graduating and gained a BTech in engineering from the Naval College of Engineering, Lonavla (INS Shivaji) and specialized in electrical engineering at INS Valsura, Jamnagar.

Prokopis Doukas

Born in Athens, Greece in 1963, he has studied electrical engineering (M. Sc. in electronics, telecommunications and networks) at the University of Patras, Greece and music technology at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), Stanford University, Ca.

Ramachandra Naidu Galla

He did his bachelors in Electrical Engineering at Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Anantapur, then took a masters degree at the Regional Engineering College, Rourkela and a second masters degree at Michigan State University.

Robert Bowie Owens

After seven years of service left the now-department in shape comparable to other universities of the time, in August 1898, Owens took a position as MacDonald Chair of Electrical Engineering at McGill University in Montreal.

Siemens-Schuckert

Siemens-Schuckert (or Siemens-Schuckertwerke) was a German electrical engineering company headquartered in Berlin, Erlangen and Nuremberg that was incorporated into the Siemens AG in 1966.

Sixto González

In 1983, he traveled to Massachusetts and enrolled in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at MIT and joined the Mu Tau chapter of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity.

SoulStice

In addition to his career in music, he continues to pursue his career in Electrical Engineering as a Senior Researcher at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.

Syed Abu Nasar

Syed Abu Nasar (December 25, 1932 - January 29, 2012) was a James R. Boyd Professor of Electrical Engineering (Emeritus) at the University of Kentucky.

Tarek Kamel

From 1989 to 1992 he pursued his Ph.D. in electrical engineering and information technology at the Technical University of Munich with the support of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

Technion Faculty of Electrical Engineering

Today, the Faculty of Electrical Engineering is the largest faculty in the Technion with over 2,000 undergraduate students and over 400 master and doctorate students.

UNSW Faculty of Engineering

Michael Uzzell, Electrical Engineering - Head of Navy Engineering, Royal Australian Navy; Engineers Australia "Top 100 Influential Engineers, 2013"

Zorica

Zorica Pantic (born c. 1951), college administrator and professor of electrical engineering