Electrical engineering

List other skills, training, and experience you have that will be useful in an engineering research internship position. Although my research career has just begun, I have accumulated a strong background in a several research fields and more importantly have developed a strong research foundation that will help to ensure my future endeavors as an intern as well as a researcher. In my past two semesters I have gained valuable research experience by participating in the Honors Program at the…

receives almost no credit for his master mind. Even though he was not recognized for his works, he still kept pursuing his dream primarily to create a better world for man-kind to inhabit. Nikola Tesla, known only as a footnote in the history of engineering, has shaped our modern day interactions by his dedication to doing the “impossible.” How a man is raised will not only impact him, but those who are prominent in his life too. Nikola Tesla grew up in a Croatian household, with Milutin Tesla…

using alternative sources without any main restrictions. This moment will be very soon, and this sparks my motivations to be an effective and contributing electrical power engineer in this paradigm shift. This rapid increase of renewable sources integration necessarily leads to new power grids. In brief, my research concerns fundamental engineering and economic challenges facing our rapidly evolving electricity smart grid. The electricity industry is experiencing vast changes. Generation and…

proficient inventors. Both became interested in design and engineering at a young age, so it is hard not to compare the two. They worked for years creating and perfecting their various inventions. Edison is best known for creating a commercially viable light bulb, and Tesla is remembered for his contributions to the design of alternating current electricity. Though Edison is more well known, both men contributed greatly to the field of electrical science and should forever be remembered.…

physicist of the Terrestrial Electricity and Magnetism Section at the Carnegie Institute in Washington, D.C. (Bartik, Rickman, and Todd 6). Mauchly showed engineering talent at a young age: "When neighbours had trouble with their wiring... they called John Mauchly." (McCartney 29) He earned near-perfect scores in high school and received an engineering scholarship to John Hopkins University. After becoming bored with…

inventor, who may have had some mental issues but never let that prevent him from doing amazing things. My interest in Nikola Tesla comes from his work including electric power. As an electrical engineer I am obviously interested in electricity myself. When he was nineteen years of age he started studying electrical engineering at Polytechnic Institute at Graz in Austria. There he was an excellent student. In June of 1884, Tesla traveled to New York City and got a job working for Edison,…

for us in today's world. We are in an ever ending loop of searching for a source of power that is both efficient and clean. As a child, the thoughts of how electricity powers everything from a toaster to our own brain sparked my interest in electrical engineering. The thoughts of creating light from a potato is unfathomable. I have burnt myself countless of times trying to connect batteries and other sources of power together and never accounting for over-voltage and grounding. In popular…

efficiency of electric current, discovered transmitting and receiving radio signals, created first RC boat, and his most popular invention the Tesla coil. Arriving in the US in 1884 at age 28, Nikola had always has the passion to advance the electrical engineering. His most famous invention, the Tesla Coil generates high voltage and a large magnetic field. The coil works at such a high voltage that it ionizes and gives the air an electric charge. This invention showed the…

major by encouraging me to see if this certain major will enable me to use it so I can find a way to help others to my best capabilities. Specifically, this would be designing new ways to effectively provide electrical power to those in need of it. A concern that I have about Electrical Engineering is knowing if this major is the correct one to carry out my passion. I also question whether or not I will have gain enough knowledge and skills by completing this program in order to make an impact…

American history misrepresents the origins of modern electricity and radio. Thomas Edison is often credited with sparking the Electrical Revolution that led to the electrical systems in place today, and Guglielmo Marconi for advancements in radio technology, but both of these claims are misleading. Nikola Tesla, a Serbian-born immigrant, holds over 40 U.S. patents for advancements in alternating current technology, the type of electricity most used today. The U.S. patent office and U.S. Supreme…