电气工程学学士学位

长期以来，电气工程在促进创新，提高生活质量，支持经济增长和解决社会问题方面发挥了关键作用。在19世纪后期，它作为一个单独的研究领域而出现，与大规模引入电报和电子照明相呼应。电气工程在电力和能量分配，通信和计算中继续发挥着举足轻重的作用，即使在载电通道已从重金属电缆发​​展为纳米线或光纤的同时，通信网络也已从电线演变为无线网络。神经元和基本的电开关已经从真空管发展到晶体管再到碳纳米管。连接社会的基本技术：手机，笔记本电脑，无线通信，下载的视频，发光二极管，电子显示器，“智能”电网以及快速发展的货币交易系统，
Electrical Engineering has long played a critical role in undergirding innovations that improve the quality of life, support economic growth, and address societal problems. Electrical Engineering plays a pivotal role in power and energy distribution, communications, and computation, even with the evolution of power-carrying channels from metal cables to nanowires or optical fibers, networks of communications from wires to wireless to neurons, and basic electrical switches from vacuum tubes to transistors to carbon nanotubes. <br><br>At Harvard College, students choose a concentration, which is what we call a major. All prospective undergraduate students, including those intending to study engineering and applied sciences, apply directly to Harvard College. During your sophomore fall youll declare a concentration, or field of study. You may choose from 50 concentrations and 49 secondary field (from Harvard DSO website).<br><br>The Electrical Engineering concentration spans a broad range of topics, ranging from the physics of new materials and devices, the circuits and next-generation computing platforms made from these devices, and the algorithms that run on these platforms. The range of subtopics includes power systems, (micro) electronics, control systems, signal processing, telecommunications, and computing systems. Students learn how to analyze, design and build devices and systems for computation, communication and information transfer.