| Biographical/Administrative Information: | Electrical Engineering first appeared under the guise of Electrotechnics and developed as a joint enterprise between Physics and Engineering, led by Oliver Lodge and Henry Selby Hele-Shaw. It joined civil and mechanical engineering as a College certificate subject studied by no-degree students in 1890-1. Immediately after World War II it was the largest department in the Faculty of Engineering but began to decline after the 1960s. However, in the 1970 the department became well known for its research into the fields of silicon chips in the use of microprocessors and optical and microwave communication. |
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