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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
February 17, 2026 9:00 am

Due Date for Midterm Grades

February 19, 2026 11:00 am

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
"The Inherent Resilience of Large Cities to Natural Hazards: Records, Evidence and Predictions"
February 19, 2026 12:00 pm

CTLO - Winter Faculty Lunch Series

Center for Student Services, 3rd Floor, Brennen Conference Room
February 19, 2026 3:00 pm

CFAM Speaker CALE: Alternative Careers in Education: Looking Beyond the R1

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
February 20, 2026 4:00 pm

EE Devices Seminar

Moore B280
Ultra-low noise Phase-locked Loop Technique

News

All News
February 17, 2026
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
December 5, 2025
Pietro Perona Receives Honorary Degree

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