Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study,design,and application of equipment,devices,and systems which use electricity,electronics,and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the latter half of the 19th century after the commercialization of the electric telegraph,the telephone,and electrical power generation,distribution,and use.
John Roy Whinnery was an American electrical engineer and educator who worked in the fields of microwave theory and laser experimentation.
Chih-Tang "Tom" Sah is a Chinese-American electronics engineer and condensed matter physicist. He is best known for inventing CMOS logic with Frank Wanlass at Fairchild Semiconductor in 1963. CMOS is used in nearly all modern very large-scale integration (VLSI) semiconductor devices.
James R. Wait was a Canadian electrical engineer and engineering physicist. In 1977,he was elected as a member of National Academy of Engineering in Electronics,Communication &Information Systems Engineering for his contributions to electromagnetic propagation engineering as it affects communication and geophysical exploration.
Vijay K. Bhargava is a researcher and Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He served the department as its Head for 5 years. Before moving to UBC,Bhargava was a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Victoria.
Ronold Wyeth Percival King was an American applied physicist and electrical engineer,known for his contributions to the theory and application of microwave antennas. He published twelve books and over three hundred articles in his area,as well as mentored one hundred doctoral dissertations.
Behzad Razavi is an Iranian-American professor and researcher of electrical and electronic engineering. Noted for his research in communications circuitry,Razavi is the director of the Communication Circuits Laboratory at the University of California Los Angeles. He is a Fellow and a distinguished lecturer for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Among his awards,Razavi is a two-time recipient of the Beatrice Winner Award for Editorial Excellence at the 1994 and 2001 International Solid-State Circuits Conferences. In 2017,he was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to low-power broadband communication circuits.
Peter Peet Silvester was an electrical engineer who contributed to understanding of numerical analysis of electromagnetic fields and authored a standard textbook on the subject.
Kenneth Carless Smith was a Canadian electrical engineer and academic. He was a Professor Emeritus,University of Toronto,cross-appointed to the departments of electrical and computer engineering,mechanical and industrial engineering,computer science,and the faculty of information science. Smith died on October 29,2023,at the age of 91.
Levent Gürel is a Turkish scientist and electrical engineer. He was the director of Computational Electromagnetics Research Center (BiLCEM) and a professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at the Bilkent University,Turkey until November 2014. Currently,he is serving as an adjunct professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is also serving as the founder and CEO of ABAKUS Computing Technologies.
Donhee Ham is the John A. and Elizabeth S. Armstrong Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University and Fellow of Samsung Electronics.
Dr. Renato Giuseppe Bosisio (1930–2019) was a Québécois Canadian academic and expert on microwave engineering. He is also known for returning the Order of Canada in protest of Henry Morgentaler's appointment to the Order.
Robert Emmanuel Collin was a Canadian American electrical engineer,university professor,and life fellow of the IEEE,known for his fundamental contributions in applied electromagnetism.
Fadhel M. Ghannouchi is a Tunisian-Canadian electrical engineer,who conducts research in radio frequency (RF) technology and wireless communications.
Payam Heydari is an Iranian-American Professor who is noted for his contribution to the field of radio-frequency and millimeter-wave integrated circuits.
Yendluri Shanthi Pavan is an Indian electrical engineer and a professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Indian Institute of Technology,Madras. He is known for his studies on mixed signal VLSI circuits and is an elected fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering. He is also a fellow of IEEE. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research,the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research,awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology,one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Engineering Sciences in 2012.
Azzedine Boukerche is a Distinguished University Professor [Professeur Eminent] and Senior Canada Research Chair at the University of Ottawa,Ontario,Canada.
Stepan Lucyszyn FREng,FIEEE is a British engineer,inventor and technologist,and has been a Professor of Millimetre-wave Systems at Imperial College London,England,since 2016. He was elevated to Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2014 and elected to Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) in 2023. Lucyszyn's research has mainly focused on monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs),radio frequency microelectromechnical systems,wireless power transfer (WPT),thermal infrared technologies and additive manufacturing.
Weng Cho Chew is a Malaysian-American electrical engineer and applied physicist known for contributions to wave physics,especially computational electromagnetics. He is a Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University.
Mohamad Sawan is a Canadian-Lebanese electrical engineer,academic and researcher. He is a Chair Professor at Westlake University,China,and an Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal,Canada.
