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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
June 15, 2026 12:00 am

Summer Term begins

June 16, 2026 3:00 pm

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Special Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Modeling and Controlling Nonlinear Dynamics from Data (without Neural Networks)
June 17, 2026 9:00 am

Due Date for Instructors' Final Grade Reports for Undergraduates

June 24, 2026 9:00 am

Undergraduate Academic Standards and Honors Committee Meeting

July 13, 2026 9:30 am

Transforming Your Research Into Teaching - Postdocs Only

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)

News

All News
June 11, 2026
Winners of the 2026 Henry Ford II Scholar Award Announced
June 4, 2026
Haowen Zhou Wins Charles Wilts Prize
May 27, 2026
Finalist in NASA Space to Soil Challenge
April 28, 2026
Simple New System Keeps Microscopes in Focus Automatically
April 24, 2026
Scanning the Body with Sound
March 25, 2026
Topological Solitons Power a Chip-Scale Frequency Comb Source

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