The art of mastering imaginary numbers and theoretical concepts that never actually work in practice. Then applying these idealistic numbers and concepts, followed by messing with the components until the desired result is achieved.
During her co-op, the electrical engineering student pretended to understand why the low pass filter worked properly.
"I made it up. Some people call that imagination, I call it electrical engineering" - Dave, EE
"Electrical Engineering is basically ME*(CE)^2" - Albert Einstein
"I made it up. Some people call that imagination, I call it electrical engineering" - Dave, EE
"Electrical Engineering is basically ME*(CE)^2" - Albert Einstein
by Utternoncents August 11, 2014
by still_sane December 08, 2012
A person with substantial skills in imaginary mathematics and the ability to use these unreal numbers to come up with an answer that applies only some of the time.
Also: A person whose ship is so far past the point of entry that the only hope is to crash through the rocks to the other side.
Also: A person whose ship is so far past the point of entry that the only hope is to crash through the rocks to the other side.
by e^(j * pi) = -1 November 19, 2003
by someone December 01, 2004
A pathetic human being who studies a ridiculous amount of time just to hardly pass a class. Electrical engineering students are known for their love of MARVEL movies and metal music or punk occasionally, spending hours making edits of their professors, having bad hair, being socially awkward and functioning on little to no sleep. Half of them are sexists. An electrical engineering student can either evolve to a decent and happy human being or continue on and become a professor themselves. As some people say, one dies a hero or lives long enough to become the villain
Person A: Why is this guy hugging his laptop and crying?
Person B: Oh, he must be an electrical engineering student
Person B: Oh, he must be an electrical engineering student
by au_in_ece June 15, 2020
Electrical Engineers are a SPECIAL group of individuals. They pitifully study for hours just to nearly fail their classes. They are known for their love of alcohol, (mainly the kind that helps them forget the degree they chose), memeing their professors, radical bed head, and functioning on RedBull and hopes and dreams. Half of them are socially inept, while the other half can only speak about circuits and NAND gates. You can normally find them in a lab getting high off of soldering fumes.
by Clever_Club_Brawl October 08, 2024
noun
1. (of an undergraduate in college) a branch of STEM that focuses primarily on the movement of electrons and their applications in various ways. Those who practice electrical engineering (called Electrical Engineers, abbreviated EEE's) tend to lose touch with reality and become completely engulfed by concepts and math incomprehensible to all except other EEE’s and MATLAB. People often enter the field due to a severe lack of social success, including being unpopular in high school. They are then inspired to power through one excruciating class after another, enticed by the promises of large cash rewards straight out of college. The percentage of male electrical engineering students with girlfriends is given by the Planck constant, 6.626e-34…another reason why EEE's are persuaded to give up all hope of regular life and instead devote every last drop of mental energy to nearly failing every single class their academic advisor tells them to take. In between getting bullied by their coursework, many EEE’s take great delight in ridiculing other college students in general, and mechanical engineers and computer science majors in particular, for earning easier and less valuable degrees than their own.
ORIGIN
early-mid 19th century: from English, refers to researchers and scientists that discovered the foundational principles of electrical engineering, such as Georg Ohm (Ohm’s Law), Gustav Kirchhoff (KCL, KVL), James Maxwell (Maxwell’s Equations), and more.
1. (of an undergraduate in college) a branch of STEM that focuses primarily on the movement of electrons and their applications in various ways. Those who practice electrical engineering (called Electrical Engineers, abbreviated EEE's) tend to lose touch with reality and become completely engulfed by concepts and math incomprehensible to all except other EEE’s and MATLAB. People often enter the field due to a severe lack of social success, including being unpopular in high school. They are then inspired to power through one excruciating class after another, enticed by the promises of large cash rewards straight out of college. The percentage of male electrical engineering students with girlfriends is given by the Planck constant, 6.626e-34…another reason why EEE's are persuaded to give up all hope of regular life and instead devote every last drop of mental energy to nearly failing every single class their academic advisor tells them to take. In between getting bullied by their coursework, many EEE’s take great delight in ridiculing other college students in general, and mechanical engineers and computer science majors in particular, for earning easier and less valuable degrees than their own.
ORIGIN
early-mid 19th century: from English, refers to researchers and scientists that discovered the foundational principles of electrical engineering, such as Georg Ohm (Ohm’s Law), Gustav Kirchhoff (KCL, KVL), James Maxwell (Maxwell’s Equations), and more.
1.
Girlfriend: I love you so much!
Electrical Engineer: I love you as much as the Bose-Einstein Distribution’s value at E = µ!
Girlfriend: What does that mean?
Electrical Engineer: It means I love you infinitely much, because at the point where the function goes to…*continues to ramble for a half-hour*
Business major: I feel so stressed, I think I’m going to crash out.
Electrical Engineer: Come do these MOSFET circuit experiments, obtain expressions for these electric fields, convolve these CT signals using Fourier transforms, and derive wave equations for these free electrons. If you aren’t doing electrical engineering, you don’t know what being stressed really feels like.
Girlfriend: I love you so much!
Electrical Engineer: I love you as much as the Bose-Einstein Distribution’s value at E = µ!
Girlfriend: What does that mean?
Electrical Engineer: It means I love you infinitely much, because at the point where the function goes to…*continues to ramble for a half-hour*
Business major: I feel so stressed, I think I’m going to crash out.
Electrical Engineer: Come do these MOSFET circuit experiments, obtain expressions for these electric fields, convolve these CT signals using Fourier transforms, and derive wave equations for these free electrons. If you aren’t doing electrical engineering, you don’t know what being stressed really feels like.
by shit, the crayon consumer March 08, 2025