Did you know Electrical Engineering ranked seventh among the top engineering degrees awarded to women all over the world in 2020? Let it be the first electrical engineer Edith Clarke or the head of the Women’s Engineering Society Dame Caroline Harriet Haslett - women have contributed to the Electrical and Electronics Engineering domains.

Will the Magdeburg Intel factory keep Germany on top of the European chip market? With a freshly inked contract, Intel and Germany are establishing Magdeburg as the site of one of Europe’s major semiconductor factories. After months of wrangling, the 33-billion-euro project has been finally signed off on. Will this be the start of Europe breaking away from the grip of the Asian microchip behemoths?

Although power engineering and electronics may not be seen by many as “exciting” as other forms of engineering, the field plays a hugely important role that has wide reaching applications, and this cannot be understated.

Designing top-notch Printed Circuit Boards “PCB” is a crucial step to serve various industries like consumer electronics, power electronics, industrial equipment, and medical devices. Besides cutting-edge manufacturing technology, the design process is a challenging aspect of the industry as it involves continuous research, effort, testing, and knowledge. The article lists five EDA tools used by engineers for effective PCB design.

TWI has recently invented a new technique, derived from friction stir channelling called CoreFlow that allows for sub-surface networks of channels to be machined within monolithic metallic parts in a single step.

At PCIM 2023, Franz Musil, Power Electronics Engineer at Fronius International, explored the important role that life cycle analyses are playing in the design of power electronics converters, and how this can help to optimize product development practices and improve sustainability. Get the summary here!

One of the applications of a BJT transistor is to perform switching functions. Operating a BJT in cut-off and saturation regions enables it to perform switching in various applications. The switch logically turns “ON” and “OFF” during its operations with less power dissipation. The article explains the operation of an NPN BJT in a common-emitter configuration as a switch.

Can ecologically sustainable circuit boards for the electronics industry be produced from cellulose fibers? Empa researcher Thomas Geiger looked into this question. He is now part of a multinational EU project called "Hypelignum". Its goal: biodegradable electronics.

The global EV battery swapping market share is currently in its development stage but is projected to grow at a significant rate between now and 2030 as government-backed incentives and demand for EVs increase.

In this article we discuss the question: How can you easily select the right coil for high voltage inverting buck-boost topologies? In summary, using simplified duty cycle equations, we plot the ripple of the coil current vs the input voltage for the output voltage of our circuit and then validate the results using LTspice.