What is Electrical Engineering?
What is "electrical engineering"? Electrical engineering is concerned with research, design, development, manufacture, installation, operation, maintenance and management of equipment, plant and systems within the electrical, electronic, communication and computer systems areas.
These activities can apply to electricity generation, transmission, distribution, electrical installations in buildings and on industrial sites, electrical equipment manufacture, instrumentation and control systems applications in industry, communications networks, electronic plant and equipment, and also the integration and control of computer systems.
Previously the Electrical College covered all these areas of interest, however the formation of a separate ITEE College (the College of Information, Telecommunications and Electronics Engineering) means that the ITEE is now available to support and promote the work of engineers in Communications Engineering, Computer Systems Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Information Engineering and Software Engineering.
The Electrical College's activities therefore now apply to electricity generation, transmission, distribution (generally referred to as the electricity supply side), the utilisation side covering electrical installations (power distribution, lighting control systems etc) in buildings and on industrial sites, electrical equipment manufacture, instrumentation and control systems applications in industry.
