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Welcome to The Department of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering

MIT on the Truckee

The Department of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering started life in 1906 with the new field of electrical engineering that was just coming into being. Professor J. J. Thomson won a Nobel Prize that year for discovery of the electron. Thomson's work was actually completed in 1897. His work utilized a primitive CRT, Cathode Ray Tube, which has been used untill recently in televisions and other instruments, So even though he put a name on this partcle, electrical theory was really quite advanced by that time. Motors, Generators, Light bulbs, telegraph and telephone had been around for many years. And Department helped bring this technology to the people of the state of Nevada. Throughout our long history , The Department of Electrical Engineering, which became the Department of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering in 2006, has endeavored to keep pace with an ever increasing rate of change in the industry, Nevada and the world.
Without Electrical Engineers, the robots, the computers, the automobiles, the lights in you home, television nor the internet would exist.