The original departments in the school were: In addition, the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering is an interdisciplinary program.
[10] Stanford University opened in 1891, and within the year, courses addressing topics such as electrical currents and magnetism were being taught by professors such as A.P.
[7] In 1894, the first undergraduate degree in electrical engineering was awarded to Lucien Howard Gilmore of Capron, Illinois.
Perrine gave the project to students, with the land having been purchased by private owners prior for a railroad that had fallen through.
[15] A telegraph office was set up in the Electrical Engineering building in 1897 to act as an operator for the Western Union Company.
[16] In 1898, it was reported that Perrine was taking a two-year leave of absence from teaching, but would continue to reside in Palo Alto and would still have charge of the electrical engineering department.
Terman joined EE as an instructor, introducing radio courses, and also in 1925, the department opened The Ryan High Voltage Laboratory, financed in large part by Los Angeles and the private power industry.
[11] Leonard Fuller returned to Stanford to serve as an acting professor of electrical engineering from 1946 until he retired in 1954.
"[11] John G. Linvill was appointed EE chair in 1964[11] and subsequently built the semiconductor program at Stanford.
Heffner kept the nature what he called "purely an engineering research project" secret, stating "we accept grants from donors with whom we do not particularly care to be allied, but we will not refuse a gift if its objectives are worthwhile.
In the Gibbons Plan, the students were only allowed partial credits, with their studies financed by their external employers.
[29][30] The students of the April Third Movement occupied the hallways of the Applied Electronics Lab building, shutting down research for the occupation.
[32] The group also used the publishing materials in the basement to product documents linking Stanford trustees to defense contractors.
That year, AEL director William Rambo admitted after criticism and a sit-in protest that the laboratory was working with the Department of Defense in matters related to the Vietnam War.
[36][37] In late 2021 a team in the department was working on ultra-thin solar cell technology, publishing in Nature Communications in December 2021, with co-authors including Nassiri Nazif and Alwin Daus.
[38] In December 2022, Yecun Wu of the department was a co-author of Observation of an intermediate state during lithium intercalation of twisted bilayer MoS2 published in Nature.