Engineering - Elect., Electronics
Electrical engineering became a distinct field of study as a college degree course and a profession only in the late nineteenth century when electricity was produced commercially. The commercial widespread applications of electricity such as wire telegraphy and the usage of electricity to modernise homes and offices from power plants came into being only when the debate between Nikolai Tesla and Thomas Edison was resolved in Tesla’s favour. Electrical engineering courses are often offered in colleges together with electronics engineering since both are very closely related subjects – both dealing with electricity. But strictly speaking, electrical engineering deals with large-scale electrical systems such as power plants and high voltage transmission lines while electronics engineering deals with electricity on the smaller scale such as computers and silicon-wafer integrated circuits and microchips.
Electrical engineering departments