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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

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