electrical engineering

noun

: a type of engineering that deals with the uses of electricity

Examples of electrical engineering in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Erickson advises students who want to get into the field to take courses in mechatronics, which provide a good blend of mechanical and electrical engineering. IEEE Spectrum, 22 May 2024 David Wallace is an assistant clinical professor of electrical engineering at Mississippi State University. David Wallace, CBS News, 14 May 2024 And the school got the Marines to mentor some of its electrical engineering students. Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 May 2024 Ronald Yancey defied the odds and earned his electrical engineering degree from Georgia Tech 59 years before his granddaughter would achieve a similar feat. Melissa Noel, Essence, 10 May 2024 Prahlad Iyengar, an MIT graduate student studying electrical engineering, was among about two dozen students who set up a tent encampment on the school's Cambridge, Mass., campus Sunday evening. Nick Perry, arkansasonline.com, 23 Apr. 2024 The idea of a wireless network probing the brain is not new, says Federico Corradi, a researcher and assistant professor of electrical engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology. IEEE Spectrum, 28 Mar. 2024 Co-author Shamim Nemati, a UCSD associate professor of bioinformatics with a doctorate in electrical engineering and computer science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said the key was finding a way to parse conditions that mimic sepsis but are actually something else. Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2024 Priem got his start in electrical engineering at IBM and Sun Microsystems, where the programming language Java was invented. Sydney Lake, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2024

These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'electrical engineering.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Dictionary Entries Near electrical engineering

Cite this Entry

“Electrical engineering.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/electrical%20engineering. Accessed 29 May. 2024.

Kids Definition

electrical engineering

noun
: engineering dealing with the practical applications of electricity
electrical engineer noun
Last Updated: - Updated example sentences
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!