電機工程與資訊科學(Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)

電機工程原先是麻省理工學院物理系所的科目,在西元1882年時變成獨立的學位課程。電機工程系所成立於西元1902年座落於新家羅威爾大樓(Lowell Building),當時麻省理工學院還是在波士頓的科普來廣場(Copley Square)附近。在西元1973秋天,系所搬移到目前的雪曼•費爾喬電機工程和電子館。一年之後,由於在電腦科學方面的研究持續增加,本系將名稱改為電機工程與資訊科學系所。集中電腦、資訊和人工智慧研究的史塔塔夫婦中心目前正在興建中,本系所未來的資訊科學、通訊和控制方面的活動將會搬遷到該處。
本系所主要的任務是教導學生,我們的三種大學部的課程吸引了麻省理工學院百分之三十的大學部學生,而碩士以上學位的規劃也名列前茅,教育出相當多的菁英。本系在建教合作上擁有豐富經驗,自從1917年就成功的執行著VI-A實習專題。(朱註:這是麻省理工學院電機工程與資訊科學系所特有的規劃,學生必須花費三個暑假和一個學期在產業界實習,同時必須繳交相關的論文,詳情請見http://www.eecs.mit.edu/via/)本系最近剛規劃了一個五年的工程碩士學程,只要在麻省理工學院完成五年的學業,學生就可以同時獲得工程學士與碩士學位。
在本系過去的歷史中,許多教職員和學生都曾經在各自的領域中做出重大的研究貢獻,有些甚至開啟了全新的研究領域。
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Electrical engineering, originally taught at MIT in the Physics Department, became an independent degree program in 1882. The Department of Electrical Engineering was formed in 1902, and occupied its new home, the Lowell Building, when MIT was still located near Copley Square in Boston. The Department dedicated its present facilities in the Sherman Fairchild Electrical Engineering and Electronics complex in fall 1973, and a year later, it recognized its growing activity in computer science by changing its name to Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. The Department's activities in computer science, communications, and control moved into the architecturally unique and exciting Ray and Maria Stata Center for Computer, Information, and Intelligence Sciences in Spring 2004.
The primary mission of the Department is the education of its students. Its three undergraduate programs attract more than 30 percent of all MIT undergraduates, and its doctoral programs are highly ranked and selective. A leader in cooperative education, the Department has operated the highly successful VI-A Internship Program since 1917. It has recently established a five-year Master of Engineering program, under which students stay for a fifth year and receive simultaneously a Bachelor's degree and a Master's of Engineering degree.
During its history faculty and students of the Department have made major, lasting research contributions, some of which have opened up entire new fields of study.
For more information, go to http://www.eecs.mit.edu/.





