The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT[1] is an engineering department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.It offers degrees of Master of Science, Master of Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy, and Doctor of Science.
[2] The curriculum for the electrical engineering program was created in 1882, and was the first such program in the country.
[3] It was initially taught by the physics faculty.
In 1902, the Institute set up a separate Electrical Engineering department.
The department was renamed to Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1975, to highlight the new addition of computer science to the program.