A brief introduction to electrical engineering

1. Electrical Engineering
A brief Introduction
Samundra Gurung
Department of Electrical Engineering
IOE, Paschimanchal Campus

2. Introduction
• Definition
• The branch of engineering that specializes in the
design, construction and practical uses of electrical
systems

3. • Engineering is doing something useful
• Physics Engineering

4. Notable Electrical Greats
• George Ohm Michael Faraday Maxwell

5. Edison Tesla

6. Electronics and Electrical
• Electronics is more into
semiconductors
• E.g. smart phones,
robots,
telecommunication etc
• Electrical is more into
conductors
• It mainly deals with
energy harvesting

7. Major areas in EE
• Power system
• Study of power generation
and delivery within proper
limits
• Imagine a large spider web
• Most economical
generation and
transmission

9. • Power electronics
• Design of electronics
circuits for larger power
applications
• Major force in the future
• E.g inverters, UPS etc

10. MPPT

11. Electrical machine
• Synchronous machine, induction, dc machine etc

12. Control system
• Sensors, automatic control, robotics, guidance system

13. Robotic Surgery Missileguidance

14. High voltage
• Study of impulse generator, lightning and other surge
effects etc

15. More…………..
• You get to learn other cool softwares like
matlab, proteus, emtp, etap, work bench etc
• You’ll learn to do both hardware and software
• Design and fabrication of electrical circuits
• Numerous field visits and tours 

16. For example
• Hardware • Modeling

17. Projects and Others

18. Scope
• Companies: NEA, BPC, Hydro solution
• AEPC,ESAP others
• Different NGOS and INGOS
• Hydropower companies and consultancies
• Industries, Renewable energy sectors
• Independent consultancies
• Academics
• Further studies with numerous scholarships like
Erasmus mundus, DAAD, Indian govt. scholarship etc
• Most importantly ,You have a huge scope within the
country