History of Electronic Engineering:
Electronic engineering as a profession sprang from technological improvements in the telegraph industry in the late 19th century and the radio and the telephone industries in the early 20th century. People were attracted to radio by the technical fascination it inspired, first in receiving and then in transmitting. Many who went into broadcasting in the 1920s were only 'amateurs' in the period before World War I.
The modern discipline of electronic engineering was to a large extent born out of telephone, radio, and television equipment development and the large amount of electronic systems development during World War II of radar, sonar, communication systems, and advanced munitions and weapon systems. In the interwar years, the subject was known as radio engineering and it was only in the late 1950s that the term electronic engineering started to emerge.
Our Department Vision:
The vision of the ECE Department is to become a leading institution for higher learning, building upon the culture and the values of universal science and contemporary education, and a center of research and education generating the knowledge and the technologies which lay the groundwork in shaping the future in the fields of electronics and communication engineering.
The mission of the ECE department is to:
- Create and disseminate knowledge of electrical and computer systems and technologies in a manner that impacts the direction of the field, industrial practice, and society.
- Educate and train students so that they have the knowledge to enter the marketplace and the skills to continually enhance this knowledge, and provide leadership in industry, academia, and government.