Electrical

Electrical engineering

Electrical engineering comprises the study and application of electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism.

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Electronic engineering

The creation of physical devices and abstract methods that make it possible to conduct electricity, magnetism, and light, through low power electrical circuits deemed electronic circuits as well as through communication channels, in such a manner so as to make it possible to control, that is to actuate, on other external entities that can be mechanical, electrical, chemical and even biological in nature, even to the point of automation, and thus achieving a manipulation over those natural phenomena so as to concede to them an specific form so that they abstractly represent something, in a processing action that is called program, and therefore they become abstract signals of information, which can be subject of further processing and even end-user presentation in what is known as computing.

• Control engineering, focuses on the modeling of dynamic systems and the design of controllers using electrical circuits, digital signal processors and microcontrollers
• Telecommunications engineering, focuses on the transmission and processing of information through communications channels that are created by making use of applied electromagnetism in the physical world and are oftentimes divided in wired and wireless.
• Digital electronics systems engineering, covering topics such as microelectronics which is better understood as hardware engineering plus software engineering, which in turn covers topics such as embedded systems, digital signal processing, digital image processing, real time operating systems, and ultimately computing, and as a result, originally computer engineering is a branch of electronics as well.

Computer engineering

The design and control of computing devices with the application of electrical systems.

• Software engineering, the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software, and the study of these approaches; that is, the application of engineering and computer scienceto software.
• Hardware engineering, designing, developing, and testing various computer equipment. Can range from circuit boards and microprocessors to routers.
• Network engineering, designing, deploying and maintaining computer networks, such as corporate networks or the Internet.

Power engineering

The generation, transmission and distribution of electricity, and the design of devices such as transformers, electric generators, electric motors, high-voltage engineering, and power electronics.

Optical engineering

The design of instruments and systems that utilize the properties of electromagnetic radiation.