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electrical engineering

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the branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication

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I suppose the reason I chose electrical engineering was because I had always been interested in electricity, involving myself in such projects as building radios from the time I was a child. Koichi Tanaka

I wanted to further my education, so I went on to get a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and came back and served about ten years in the Canadian Navy as what we call a combat systems engineer. Marc Garneau

Information theory began as a bridge from mathematics to electrical engineering and from there to computing. James Gleick

I always knew I wanted to be a technologist, so I went to Duke and got a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. Really, I thought my goal in life was to be an inventor, a problem solver, so I thought I needed a Ph.D. to be good at inventions, but it turns out that you don't. Aaron Patzer

After earning his degree in electrical engineering in Germany, Tu arrived in the U.S. in 1971 on a tourist visa his sister procured for him. Source: Internet

After two years of graduate work in electrical engineering at MIT, he returned to Harvard to study physics, earning a MA in 1924. Source: Internet

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