Electrical Engineering is the largest department in the School of Engineering at Stanford with nearly 60 faculty and over 1000 undergraduate, masters, and doctoral students. The department’s graduate programs continue to draw from a very strong application pool. University rankings, including the 2010 NRC ranking of doctoral programs, continue to place our department in the top group of all electrical engineering departments in the nation.
Since its formation in 1893, our Department has had a profound impact on society. Myriad innovations by our faculty and students, such as in electric power generation and transmission, wired and wireless communications, integrated electronics, digital computers, healthcare systems, cellular phones, and Internet‐based information technology, have fundamentally transformed all aspects of human life. Today, nearly every tool and manufactured product, from cars and refrigerators to phones and medical devices, includes electronic circuits, uses signal‐processing algorithms, and is linked to a network. These innovations have originated from research across three areas that form the intellectual core of the department:

1、物理技術(shù)與科學

2、信息系統(tǒng)與科學

3、硬件/軟件系統(tǒng)

4、生物醫(yī)學工程

5、能源