Research specialties include speech communication, modeling and simulation, multicomputer architecture, quantum electronics and lasers, gaseous electronics, pulsed electric field effects on biological cells, robust neural network adaptive control, thin film technology, and diamond crystal growth. Engineering is the application of fundamental scientific and mathematical principles to the design, development and operation of devices and systems required by society. Electrical engineering is the engineering discipline that deals with electrical and optical devices and systems. Electrical engineers design and build devices and systems that transmit, process, store and display information, and which generate, store, transmit and utilize electrical energy. In addition, electrical engineers make important contributions in other fields of engineering and science by devising measurement instruments and systems.
Electrical engineers affect nearly every aspect of our daily lives.
They design and operate the electric utilities, which generate and distribute the energy we so readily use. They build the communication systems, including radio, telephone, television and data networks, which allow us to communicate nearly instantly with anyone on earth. They build computers, which have become essential to manage and store the increasing amount of information present in our society. They build the measurement systems that allow doctors to view the workings of the body and scientists to study the effect man is having on his environment. They build the control systems that operate our nuclear power plants and navigate our spacecraft to distant planets.