"Electronic engineering is a sub-discipline of electrical engineering which emerged in the early 20th century and is distinguished by the additional use of active components such as semiconductor devices to amplify and control electric current flow."
This branch of engineering includes the study of electronic circuits and systems, which are useful in digital communication, control systems, and electronic device fabrication.
Circuit Analysis: Understanding the behavior of electrical circuits using principles of Ohm's law, Kirchhoff's laws, and other circuit analysis techniques.
Analog Electronics: The study of electronic circuits that work with continuous variables to represent information. Includes amplifiers, oscillators, filters, and other analog circuits.
Digital Electronics: The study of electronic circuits that operate with discrete binary signals. Includes logic gates, flip-flops, registers, and other digital circuits.
Electronic Devices and Materials: The study of semiconductor materials and electronic devices such as diodes, transistors, and integrated circuits.
Power Electronics: The study of electronic circuits that control the flow of electrical energy in high-power systems. Includes power converters, inverters, and motor drives.
Control Systems: The study of systems that use feedback to control the behavior of physical and electrical systems. Includes feedback systems, PID controllers, and other control theory techniques.
Signal Processing: The study of techniques for analyzing, filtering, and transforming signals in electronic systems. Includes Fourier analysis, digital signal processing, and other signal processing techniques.
Communication Systems: The study of systems that transmit and receive information through electrical signals. Includes digital communication techniques, modulation, and error correction.
Microcontrollers and Embedded Systems: The study of small, specialized computers that are embedded in electronic systems. Includes programming, interfacing, and other embedded system techniques.
Robotics: The study of mechanical and electrical systems that are designed to perform tasks autonomously or under remote control. Includes sensors, actuators, and control systems for robotic systems.
"Electronic engineering is distinguished by the additional use of active components such as semiconductor devices to amplify and control electric current flow, while previously electrical engineering only used passive devices such as mechanical switches, resistors, inductors, and capacitors."
"It covers fields such as analog electronics, digital electronics, consumer electronics, embedded systems and power electronics."
"It is also involved in many related fields, for example, solid-state physics, radio engineering, telecommunications, control systems, signal processing, systems engineering, computer engineering, instrumentation engineering, electric power control, photonics, and robotics."
"The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is one of the most important professional bodies for electronics engineers in the US."
"The equivalent body in the UK is the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)."
"The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) publishes electrical standards including those for electronics engineering."
"Previously electrical engineering only used passive devices such as mechanical switches, resistors, inductors, and capacitors."
"Electronic engineering emerged in the early 20th century."
"Active components such as semiconductor devices are used to amplify and control electric current flow."
"Electronic engineering contributes to fields such as solid-state physics, radio engineering, telecommunications, control systems, signal processing, systems engineering, computer engineering, instrumentation engineering, electric power control, photonics, and robotics."
"Electronic engineering covers analog electronics, digital electronics, consumer electronics, embedded systems, and power electronics."
"The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is one of the most important professional bodies for electronics engineers in the US."
"The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) publishes electrical standards including those for electronics engineering."
"The equivalent body in the UK is the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)."
"Electronic engineering emerged in the early 20th century and is distinguished by the additional use of active components such as semiconductor devices to amplify and control electric current flow, while previously electrical engineering only used passive devices such as mechanical switches, resistors, inductors, and capacitors."
"It is also involved in many related fields, for example, solid-state physics, radio engineering, telecommunications, control systems, signal processing, systems engineering, computer engineering, instrumentation engineering, electric power control, photonics, and robotics."
"Electronic engineering is involved in electric power control."
"Electronic engineering is involved in computer engineering."
"Electronic engineering is involved in robotics."