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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
May 20, 2026 8:00 am

Last Day for Dropping Courses, Exercising Pass/Fail Option, and Changing Sections

May 20, 2026 8:30 am

2026 Caltech Mentoring Conference

May 21, 2026 8:00 am

Registration for Fall Term and Registration for Summer Graduate Research

May 21, 2026 10:00 am

Future Faculty Workshop Series: Faculty Job Process Workshop

Center for Student Services 360 (Workshop Space)
May 21, 2026 11:00 am

Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
X-ray Based Full Field Stress-Strain Measurements in Metals

News

All News
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
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

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