Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Our
Programmes
Sports & Exercise Engineering (GY411) is offered by the College of Engineering & Informatics in collaboration with the College of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences at NUI Galway. Sports & Exercise Engineers design systems for monitoring and improving sports and exercise performance. The programme was launched by John Treacy.
Rob is an Electrical and Electronic Engineer.
Electrical & Electronic Engineering incorporates the design and development of devices, circuits and systems that are used in a wide range of high-tech products.
Find out from our students and graduates why they chose this programme.
Máire is an Electronic and Computer engineer.
Electronic & Computer Engineering (GY406) is about the design of electronic hardware and computer software and making them work together.
Find out from our students and graduates why they chose this programme.
Prospective/CAO Students
Information about Electronic Engineering and Electronic & Computer Engineering and the NUI Galway degree programmes in particular, is available on the
Prospective Students page. All our programmes have electronic or electrical engineering as major component.
Postgraduate Study/Research?
Are you interested in learning about the research activities of the Electrical & Electronic Engineering? We offer at postgraduate level M.Eng.Sc. and Ph.D. postgraduate qualifications by research & thesis. Comprehensive information about our research activities including research opportunities is available in our
research section.
About Our
Staff
Would you like to find out about our staff? Details of the education and training of our staff as well as their research interests and publications are available on the
staff page.
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Electricity and NUI Galway
NUI Galway has a long association with developments in Electricity.
George Johnstone Stoney, who was born in 1826 near Birr, Co. Offaly and was Professor of Natural Philosophy at Queen's College, Galway (now the National University of Ireland, Galway) from 1852-1857, was the proposer of the term '
electron' to describe the fundamental unit of electrical charge, and his contributions to research in this area laid the foundations for the eventual discovery of the particle by J.J. Thomson in 1897.
Alexander Anderson, who was born in 1858 in Co. Derry and was Professor of Natural Philosophy at Queen's College, Galway from 1885 to his retirement in 1934, was the inventor of an important instrumentation circuit, now called the Anderson Bridge, used for the measurement of inductance. Anderson developed his innovative circuit during his 50 years at the University and during this time also wrote prolifically on induction and potential difference. More than a century after its inception, the "
Anderson Bridge" remains the first choice for accurate measurement of inductance.
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