Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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The electrical sciences are at the heart of today’s crucial issues. Mastering the development of information technologies and data transfer; guaranteeing reliable, responsible and sustainable energy supplies; innovating in the fields of micro- and nano-technology: These are just some of the challenges that today’s electrical and electronic engineers are called upon to meet.

Electricity is a vital part of our daily lives. It is a unique resource, endowed with twin properties: it is both energy and an information vector.

Electrical and electronic engineering is constantly at the crossroads between these two fields. Thanks to the extraordinary growth in micro- and nano-electronics, it has become possible to design increasingly complex electronic functions for common devices (telephones, computers, MP3 players, etc.), with nanometric components installed in increasingly smaller media (microchips). Other fields are also fully benefitting from these advances: biomedical technology, with sensors that are increasingly sensitive, and embedded systems, as well as space engineering.

Electrical engineers are actively involved with the development of all tools (images, sound, multimedia) that are used by new information and communication technologies. They therefore develop technologies in the field of acoustics (sound recording and broadcasting), wireless antenna or sensors, electromagnetic waves, signal processing (digitizing, compressing, security), optics, photonics, and also image analysis.

Energy also constitutes a bedrock for training in electrical and electronic engineering. While the production, transportation, and storage of electricity remain crucial, another key challenge relates to its management from the point of view of sustainability.

For example, the irregular energy production from a wind turbine must be absorbed and made useful within a wider network. This operation involves coordinating with other energy sources which is often difficult to achieve. Thanks to their background in the field of power electronics, distributed electrification systems, management and rapid communication of information, or microelectronics, electrical engineers will play a major role during the forthcoming decades in developing solutions to the energy problems which will need to be solved.