Electrical Engineering
Major
The Electrical Engineering (EE) program at Caltech prepares its students for either graduate study, entrepreneurial careers, or research and development work in government or industrial laboratories. It inspires them to undertake careers and professional practices that provide an opportunity to address the pressing technological needs of society. It accomplishes this by building on the core curriculum to provide a broad and rigorous exposure to the fundamentals (e.g., math, science, and principles of engineering) of electrical engineering. EE's other program objectives are multiple. The program strives to maintain a balance between classroom lectures and laboratory and design experience, and it emphasizes the problem formulation, system-design, and solving skills that are essential to any engineering discipline. The program is also intended to develop in each student self-reliance, creativity, teamwork ability, professional ethics, communication skills, and an appreciation of the importance of contemporary issues and lifelong intellectual growth.
Electrical Engineering Coursework at a Glance
EE 91. Experimental Projects in Electronic Circuits. An opportunity to do advanced original projects in analog or digital electronics and electronic circuits. Selection of significant projects, the engineering approach, modern electronic techniques, demonstration and review of a finished product. DSP/microprocessor development support and analog/digital CAD facilities available.
We're an engineering department, so we care about solving problems, putting systems together, designing things, optimizing performance, and all that. Different people use different tools for that. The tools that my group uses are very mathematical—but they are tools, nonetheless—and actually do help in solving problems that otherwise cannot be solved.