Careers in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Exciting Possibilities
Since the invention of the integrated circuit in 1968, electrical and computer engineers
have been able to double the number of transistors per chip every eighteen months. This
exponential progress, unprecedented in other fields, has made electrical and computer engineering
the most dynamic fields of enterprise today. Electrical and computer engineers design and implement
devices, circuits, and systems for communication, computing, power, control, medical diagnostics, and
transportation. Computer engineering is focused more on digital hardware and software systems, such
as computers, operating systems, digital communication systems including digital telephones and high-definition
television, medical instruments, internets and networks, and embedded processors for automotive,
entertainment, and communication applications. Electrical engineering is broader, encompassing
digital hardware systems but also instrumentation, power, consumer electronics, digital still
cameras and video cameras, lasers, fiber optics, photonic devices, superconductors, semiconductor
devices such as high-speed transistors, automotive and aerospace control systems, and military
tracking and control applications.
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