Electrical and Computer Engineering

Date: 16.7.13
Time: 10:30
Location: Cornell University

The second lecture of the second day of Catalyst Academy was given by Professor John C Belina and it was on Electrical and Computer Engineering.  This field of engineering covers designing computer systems, integrated circuits, enhancing virtual reality, and secure cyberspace.  Just as biomaterials is the hot portion of biomedical engineering, cloud computing is a very lucrative portion of computer engineering.

There are three major school subjects that feed into electrical engineering.  The first is physics, which is used to work with circuits, semiconductor devices, and optical systems.  Next comes computer class, which would make sense considering it is computer engineering.  Finally, math is incredibly important for electrical engineering as it is used to generate information, and manipulate systems or networks.



Cloud computing is most definitely the newest and fastest growing part of electrical engineering.  As time presses forward, people are trying to get rid of as much physical materials as possible.  Cloud computing gets rid of the need for physical servers, saving space and money.  Many companies and institutions are uploading all of their information to the cloud allowing users to access files and information from any device anywhere.  Cloud computing is definitely the future of computer engineering and computer systems as a whole.

Within industry, electrical engineers are used at Wall Street firms, in the government, and within traditional engineering firms.  All in all they are incredibly important members of the engineering family and will be more in the public eye in the future.

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