| Abstract from DBPedia | Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the latter half of the 19th century after commercialization of the electric telegraph, the telephone, and electrical power generation, distribution, and use. Electrical engineering is now divided into a wide range of different fields, including computer engineering, systems engineering, power engineering, telecommunications, radio-frequency engineering, signal processing, instrumentation, photovoltaic cells, electronics, and optics and photonics. Many of these disciplines overlap with other engineering branches, spanning a huge number of specializations including hardware engineering, power electronics, electromagnetics and waves, microwave engineering, nanotechnology, electrochemistry, renewable energies, mechatronics/control, and electrical materials science. Electrical engineers typically hold a degree in electrical engineering or electronic engineering. Practising engineers may have professional certification and be members of a professional body or an international standards organization. These include the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) (formerly the IEE). Electrical engineers work in a very wide range of industries and the skills required are likewise variable. These range from circuit theory to the management skills of a project manager. The tools and equipment that an individual engineer may need are similarly variable, ranging from a simple voltmeter to sophisticated design and manufacturing software.電気工学（でんきこうがく、英: electrical engineering）は、電気や磁気、光（電磁波）の研究や応用を取り扱う工学分野である。電気磁気現象が広汎な応用範囲を持つ根源的な現象であるため、通信工学、電子工学をはじめ、派生した技術でそれぞれまた学問分野を形成している。電気の特徴として「エネルギーの輸送手段」としても「情報の伝達媒体」としても大変有用であることが挙げられる。この観点から、前者を「強電」、後者を「弱電」と二分される。 (Source: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Electrical_engineering) |
