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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
Ongoing

Spring Recess

March 23, 2026 9:00 am

Due Date for Instructors' Final Grade Reports

March 25, 2026 7:30 pm

POSTPONED: Watson Lecture - Katie Bouman: Illuminating the Hidden Universe with Physics and AI

Beckman Auditorium
March 26, 2026 2:00 pm

Canvas Course Set-Up and Drop-In Help

Online Event
March 26, 2026 3:00 pm

POSTPONED: EE Devices Seminar- Ady Arie, Tel-Aviv University

Moore B270
Application of structured quantum light in sensing, communication and computing

News

All News
March 11, 2026
Haowen Zhou Wins Best Oral Presentation Award
February 17, 2026
Joudi Hajar and Reza Ghane Khiabanian win the 2025 IEEE CDC Best Student Paper Award
February 4, 2026
Haowen Zhou Receives the 2026 Jakob van Zyl Predoctoral Research Award
January 23, 2026
Bringing Optical Color to Ultrasound
January 16, 2026
Untangling Entanglement and More
January 12, 2026
Intraoperative Tumor Histology May Enable More-Effective Cancer Surgeries

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