What different things electrical engineers designs???

Answer 1

Don't forget robots. And software, too, nowadays, since most EEs are graduating as ECEs (Electrical and Computer Engineers) to meet the pervasive requirements for computer controlled electronics.
Everything from the design of architectural lighting, through kitchen gadgets, phones, computers, video games, mp3 players, roller coasters, to space shuttle components, power plants, and submarines are candidates for inclusion in Electrical Engineering.

Look around you. If you can think of it, and it is electrical, then add it to your list.

Answer 2

Electrical engineering can be broken down into 6 categories:
Controls, Power, Electronics, Signal Processing,computers, and communications. They are all connected. Mostly you can say anything that has electricity was designed by an electrical engineer. Here is a small list of things each discipline would have a hand in.

Controls: DC/AC motor control, hard drives, large machinery
Power: Lighting, generation, distribution, batteries
Signal Processing: digital cameras, cell phones
Electronics: design of semiconductors, cellphones, amplifiers
Computers: hardware programming(VHDL), computer architecture, cellphones
communications: FM radios, TV, Internet, satellites, cell phones

Answer 3

I almost became an EET. An EET takes designs and blue prints that engineers design and draw. The EET then makes that product work and creates the parts within the item.

Normally EET's don't actually design something from scratch, they are more the puzzle solvers in the middle of the equation.

An engineer thought up the VCR but it took an EET to make it work. An engineer came up with the idea of an ipod but it took an EET to make it become reality.

Answer 4

Electrical Engineers design many things, but the term "Electrical" sometimes throws people off. Normally, the "Electrical" in Electrical Engineer implies power station and electromagnetic machine applications. Many of the specialties in the field of Electrical Engineering are also known as Electronics Engineer.

Several answers have listed devices and some of the specialties in the field of Electrical or Electronics Engineering. In reality, there are far more specialties and a new design is a team effort making use of each engineers particular skills and talents.

Many of Electrical Engineering skills "bleed" over into physics and computer science. In fact, the basis of most engineering fields is physics and mathematics. Some examples of specialty areas in Electrical Engineering:

Analog Electronics: Usually applying discrete RLC, operational amplifiers, filters, and interfacing various analog sensors.
Digital Electronics: Discrete digital circuits, field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) using VHDL.
RF Electronics: Sort of superset of analog electronics, but at GHz frequencies.
Antenna Design and Electromagnetic Wave propogation - EMC grounding and shielding is a part of this - fiber optics
Electrical machine design (this is one of the oldest forms of electrical engineering and was how the field got started - think Tesla and Westinghouse)
Power Systems - transmission lines, substation design and operation, load balancing, etc.
Control Systems - covers math techniques for analyzing and designing analog and digital controls like automotive speed controllers to autopilots - can you say Kalman filter?
Semiconductors and Microelectonics - high paying specialty making custom ASICs - semiconductor physics and chemical engineering closely tied.
Computer engineering - microprocessors, algorithms and techniques like cache memory, virtual memory, etc - closely interelated to computer science.
Power Electronics - analog circuit design on steroids - large MOSFET, IGBT, and Bipolar transistors and components for high current and high voltage power supply design and motor drive applications.

I can speak most knowledgeably about the things I have designed in 19 years as a mixed analog/digital design engineer. Laser communications and laser radar systems, various high power pulsed laser systems, controllers for digital PID control of incubators and freezers, digital radio downconverters, and various instruments for detecting and analyzing gamma and neutron radiation. I have tended to work on esoteric or exotic projects and not the mainstream consumer stuff, mainly because I find it more interesting.

If you are considering a career in electrical engineering, I recommend it for the sheer creativity of it.

Answer 5

Anything that uses, controls, or modifies electricity is designed by electrical engineers.

Answer 6

EE's design electrical circuits for anything that runs on or uses electricity. Just look around, and if it uses electricity and EE worked on it.

Answer 7

I am an electrical engineer and I design buildings: Lighting, power distribution, data, sound, fire alarm, etc.

Answer 8

As much as you could imagine...maybe even more. The sky is the limit. Electrical engineers are very versatile!

Answer 9

Everything that uses electricity: computers, power supplies, radios, speakers, video gear, DVD players, appliances, broadcasting systems, lighting systems, communications equipment, sensors, medical tools, imaging systems, printers, scanners, digital cameras, power generators, avionics systems...To name a few.

Answer 10

Control panels for air planes and power plants.
Electrical systems for houses and buildings.
Electrical layouts of computer systems.