What is electrical engineering?

Electrical engineering transforms a 3-kHz phone line into a 56 kb/s modem and 1.5-10 Mb/s ADSL. (Signal Processing)
Electrical engineering designs and builds the next-generation Internet. (Telecommunications)
Electrical engineering provides tools without tether. (Wireless Communications and Networking)
Electrical engineering can map the surface of earth and planets or reveal the heart beat of a one-inch fetus. (Sensors, Microwave, and Image Processing)
Electrical engineering turns sand (yes, sand) into cpu's and memory. (Micro-Electronics)
Electrical engineering makes small MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical systems) and big motors run by controlling the power from picowatts to megawatts and voltage from nanovolts to megavolts. (Energy Systems and Power Electronics)
Electrical engineering creates new materials and discovers novel phenomenon by manipulating atoms and molecules. (Nano-Electronics and Nano-Optics)
Electrical engineering gives energy to electrons and ions. (Plasma Processing)
Electrical engineering tames photons and generates the most brilliant light. (Laser and Photonics)
Electrical engineering designs and predicts performance of systems. (MEMS, CAD, and Microsystems)

Electrical engineering is an integral part of our lives. The biomedical instrumentation developed by electrical engineering-for example, the heart pacemaker, CAT scan, and MRI-saves lives. The electrical engineering specialty nanotechnology produces new materials and devices. Consumer electronics and video games produced by electrical engineering provide entertainment around the world. Electrical engineering makes dreams come true by thrusting us into the future.

Opportunities for electrical engineers—in Western New York, nationally, and internationally—include research, design, production, technical sales, medicine, and law. Salaries for electrical engineers are among the highest in the technical fields. Companies that have hired our graduates include Cisco, Hewlett Packard, Intel, AMD, IBM, Ford, General Electric, General Motors, Lockheed Martin, Lucent Technologies, Moog, Micron, Motorola, Nokia, Qualcomm, Rockwell, Sun Microsystems, and Texas Instruments, to name just a few. Our alumni have established companies, such as Atto Technology and MTI. Our alumni become faculty in universities.

Electrical engineering opens up boxes to see what's inside and how it works. Electrical engineering provides the broad training to make you adaptable-as technologies evolve-and successful throughout your career.