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What Do Electrical & Computer Engineers Do?
Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 21st Century
- Electrification
- Automobile
- Airplane
- Electronics
- Radio and Television
- Computers
- Telephone
- Air Conditioning and Refrigeration
- Spacecraft
- Internet
- Imaging
- Household Appliances
- Health Technologies
- Laser and Fiber Optics
Top 50 Inventions of the Last 50 Years
- 1955-Microwave Oven
- 1955-Polio Vaccine
- 1955-TV Remote Control
- 1955-Velcro
- 1957-Birth-Control Pill
- 1957-Three-Point Seatbelt
- 1958-Jet Airliner
- 1958-Laser Beam
- 1958-Super Glue
- 1959-Float Glass
- 1959-Fuel Cell Vehicle
- 1959-Integrated Circuit
- 1961-Carbon-Fiber Composites
- 1961-Cordless Tools
- 1961-Industrial Robot
- 1962-Communications Satellite
- 1962-Computer mouse
- 1962-LED
- 1962-Video Games
- 1964-Music Synthesizer
- 1964-Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
- 1965-Kevlar
- 1966-High-Yield RIC
- 1967-Coronary Bypass Surgery
- 1969-Automated Teller Machine
- 1969-ARPANET
- 1969-Smoke Detector
- 1969-Charge-Coupled Device
- 1970-Digital Music
- 1970-Telecommunications Fiber Optics
- 1971-Waffle-Sole Running Shoes
- 1972-Electronic Ignition
- 1973-MRI
- 1977-Personal Computer
- 1978-Genetic Engineering
- 1978-GPS
- 1978-In-Vitro Fertilization
- 1979-Sony Walkman
- 1981-Scanning Tunneling Microscope
- 1984-DNA Fingerprinting
- 1985-Polymerase Chain Reaction
- 1987-PROZAC
- 1989-World Wide Web
- 1995-HIV Protease Inhibitors
- 1997-HYBRID-Electric Car
- 1998-Genetic Sequencing
- 1998-MP3 Player
- 2002-IEEE 802.16
IEEE Technical Societies
- Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
- Aerospace and Electronic Systems
- Antennas and Propagation
- Broadcast Technology
- Circuits and Systems
- Communications
- Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology
- Computers
- Consumer Electronics
- Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation
- Education
- Electromagnetic
- Electron Devices
- Engineering Management
- Engineering in Medicine and Biology
- Geoscience and Remote Sensing
- Industrial Electronics
- Industry Applications
- Information Theory
- Instrumentation and Measurement
- Lasers and Electro-Optics
- Magnetics
- Microwave Theory and Techniques
- Oceanic Engineering
- Power Electronics
- Power Engineering
- Professional Communications
- Reliability
- Robotics
- Social Implications of Technology
- Solid State Circuits
- Systems, Man and Cybernetics
- Ultrasonics, Ferroelectronics, and Frequency Control
- Vehicular Technology
Where and in what areas do Electrical & Computer Engineers work?
- Communications
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- Radar/Stealth Design
- Internet Connectivity
- Telecommunications Products
- Remote Sensing
- Wireless/Satellite Communications
- Antenna Design
- Controls
- Automotive Controls
- Vehicular Technology
- Aerospace Controls
- Automation and Robots
- Microelectronics/VLSI
- Consumer Products
- Electronics and Instrumentation
- Digital Logic and Design
- New Semiconductor Materials
- Power
- Power Generation/Transmission
- High-Energy Lasers
- Lightning Effects
- Digital Systems
- Custom Logic(FPGA or Chip Design)
- Peropheral(I/O) Design
- Embedded Systems
- Graphics and Visualization
- High-Performance Graphics Hardware
- Virtual Reality
- Animation
- Visualization of Scientific Data
- High Performance Computing
- Parallel and Distributed Computer Design
- Computer Arithmetic
- Computer Communications
- Information and Signal Processing
- Audio and Video Processing
- Signal Processing
- Speech Processing
- Speech Recognition
How much do Electrical & Computer Engineers make?
| Electrical Engineers | $77,000 |
| Computer/Software Engineers | $75,800 |
| Veterinarians | $74,900 |
| Engineers (all types) | $74,800 |
| Architects | $64,800 |
| Psychologists | $59,600 |
| Statisticians | $59,400 |
| Dental Hygienists | $58,500 |
| Physical Therapists | $58,400 |
| Biological/Life Scientists | $56,000 |
| Landscape Architects | $54,900 |
| Registered Nurses | $54,000 |
| Real Estate Agents | $45,000 |
| Interior Designers | $44,500 |
| Social Workers | $38,000 |