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Electrical Engineering What Do Ees Do?
Electrical Engineering What Do Ees Do?
EE Disciplines (continued)
Electronic Circuit Design Engineering. Energy Conversion. Image Processing. Instrumentation Engineering. Information Processing Engineering. Microelectronic and VLSI Engineering. Microprocessor Systems Engineering.
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EE Disciplines (continued)
Microwave Engineering Photonic Engineering Power Electronics Power Systems Solid-state Engineering Telecommunications Engineering.
Electromagnetics
The study of electric and magnetic fields arising from charged particles in rest and in motion. Theory based on physics and uses complex mathematics. Explains how many electrical engineering systems work. Used to design numerous things we use.
Applications
Radio and TV. Cellular telephones. Computers. Electric Machinery. Superconductors.
Electronic systems made using ICs and discrete components. analog and digital circuits made up of semiconductor devices ICs: Designed, fabricated, tested, marketed.
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Systems Engineering
Communications: Study of how human speech, music, text and image data can be encoded on electrical signals and transmitted . Controls: Study of making systems behave in a
prescribed manner.
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Digital
Amplitude assumes one of a large number of
Communications
Cellular Telephony Personal Communication Systems (PCS) Satellite telephone systems (Iridium) Global Positioning System (GPS)
More Communications
Computer Networking Internet Intranets Telephone system Cable TV Satellite data networks Military communications
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Signal Processing
High Definition Television (HDTV) Digital Radio Sound, Image, and Video compression Speech Recognition Image Recognition Noise Cancellation
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Control Applications
Acoustic - acoustic cancellation for a concert hall; intelligent hearing devices Aerospace - all-weather landing system; launch vehicles Automation and Manufacturing navigation for autonomous robot (e.g. pathfinder) Biological - cardiovascular control systems Defense - high performance fighters; tactical missiles; guidance and navigation; attack helicopters
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Control Systems
P - Vehicle r - Reference (desired) speed y - Actual speed u - Fuel flow to engine K - Controller error
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References
Dr. Keith Holbert, The Electrical Engineering Program at ASU.
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