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Caltech
Electrical Engineering Division of Engineering and Applied Science

Established in 1910, Electrical Engineering (EE) at Caltech has an extended record of excellence and innovation. EE at Caltech emphasizes not only the fundamentals of physical (devices) and mathematical (systems) sides of EE, but also the multi-disciplinary nature of the field. It offers both undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity for study and research, both theoretical and experimental, in a wide variety of subjects.

Academic Programs

Events

All Events
July 17, 2026 9:30 am

Transforming Your Research Into Teaching - Postdocs Only

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
July 21, 2026 10:00 am

Course Redesign Workshop: Assessments and Grading Day 1 of 3

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
July 22, 2026 10:00 am

Course Redesign Workshop: Assessments and Grading - Day 2 of 3

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
July 23, 2026 10:00 am

Course Redesign Workshop: Assessments and Grading - Day 3 of 3

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
July 24, 2026 1:00 pm

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Special Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Model Discovery in Mechanics: From Conventional to Data-Driven Methods

News

All News
Alumni News
July 15, 2026
Alumni Establish Ingenuity SURF to Support Research that Could Lead to the Unexpected
Students in the Electrical Engineering 154ab course built payloads for the ISS with the help of the Brinson Hub and JPL.
July 7, 2026
The Students in This Caltech Class are Building Payloads for the Space Station
Green parallel lines on a black background with small yellow clusters
June 19, 2026
Stressed-Out Soil Bacteria Adapt to Environmental Conditions
2026 Ford Award
June 11, 2026
Winners of the 2026 Henry Ford II Scholar Award Announced
Haowen Zhou
June 4, 2026
Haowen Zhou Wins Charles Wilts Prize
Space to Soil
May 27, 2026
Finalist in NASA Space to Soil Challenge

Research Areas

Bio-Electronics, Bio-Optics, and Medical Imaging
Biological Information Science
Circuits and VLSI
Control and Learning
Devices
Electromagnetics, RF, Microwave Circuits, and Antennas
Energy and Sustainability
Information and Data Science
Information Theory
Learning, Pattern Recognition, and Neural Networks
MEMS and Micromachining
Networks and Wireless Communication
Optimization
Quantum Science and Engineering
Signal Processing
Vision