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electronics engineering
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electrical engineering discipline which utilizes nonlinear and active electrical components to design electronic circuits, devices, and their systems
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- academic discipline
- Subclass of
- electrical engineering
- Has part
- computer engineering
- Image
- Bundesarchiv Bild 183-Z0116-402, Zella-Mehlis, VEB Robotron, Ingenieur.jpg
- Significant event
- World War II
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- topic's main category
- Category:Electronics engineering
- name in kana
- でんしこうがく
- practiced by
- electrical technologist
- Commons category
- Electronic engineering
- different from
- electrical engineering
- history of topic
- history of electronics engineering
- significant person
- Walter Houser Brattain
- Usenet newsgroup
- sci.electronics.design
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Encyclopedic overview
Electronics engineering is a sub-discipline of electrical engineering that 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. 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.
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