Timeline for Renaming Electrical Engineering
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| Dec 8, 2017 at 4:27 | comment | added | Brethlosze | Having or not a program has anything to do with the scope of the site. DSP has its own site and no DSP degree exists. This is an specialization, just like many others. Besides, no engineering is dealt in here, such code compliance, power transmission, distribution, etc., only electronics, schematics, designs, circuits. | |
| Apr 30, 2013 at 11:06 | comment | added | RedGrittyBrick | In other parts of the world it is different. At university.which.co.uk there are 585 electronics courses and 321 electrical courses. It is conceivable that the name "Electrical Engineering" may be putting off some electronics engineers from visiting this site. "Electrical and Electronic Engineering" would probably be seen as more inclusive (by many engineers outside the US). | |
| Mar 16, 2013 at 1:30 | comment | added | Scott Seidman | Look toward the ABET accreditations of the programs you listed, and watch them all point to the same program criteria, regardless of the name | |
| Mar 13, 2013 at 20:53 | comment | added | The Photon | @AnindoGhosh, I think Matt's answer is partly a response to a comment saying that most north american uni's have separate electronics and electrical engineering departments; which was meant to show that north american usage is actually similar to rest-of-the-world usage. I agree with Matt that the original comment is nonsense. | |
| Mar 13, 2013 at 20:52 | comment | added | The Photon | The "electronics" concentration in EECS at Berkeley doesn't even mean what we mean by electronics. It means basically device design, figuring out where the electrons go in the diodes and transistors. The one closest to our topic is "circuits & systems" (or was 15 years ago, anyway). | |
| Mar 13, 2013 at 0:32 | comment | added | Anindo Ghosh | @MattYoung - That is, sadly, a patently USA-centric view. In the rest of the world (Yes, we exist too), electrical engineering does not necessarily encompass electronics, in fact I can say for certain that it does not. This is a global site, not EE-USA. | |
| Mar 12, 2013 at 23:11 | comment | added | Kortuk Mod | @tmwoods we are still growing, again it is local so each locality thinks they are right. Writing this comment for the benefit of Matt mostly. | |
| Mar 12, 2013 at 20:18 | comment | added | tmwoods | I feel like people are getting a little touchy about this and I'm not sure why. I also love that this is a place of great minds in one spot. What I want is even more great minds in one spot. The distinction between electrical and electronic does exist. This isn't my opinion, that is evidenced by the fact that there are two separate words to describe two separate things. All I am suggesting is a discussion about trying to attract even more people here, because compared to something StackOverflow, the traffic is tiny (see SO has 928,000 unanswered vs. 674 at EE). | |
| Mar 12, 2013 at 20:13 | history | answered | Matt Young | CC BY-SA 3.0 |