电机工程与资讯科学(Electrical Engineering and Computer Science）

电机工程原先是麻省理工学院物理系所的科目，在西元1882年时变成独立的学位课程。电机工程系所成立于西元1902年座落于新家罗威尔大楼（Lowell Building），当时麻省理工学院还是在波士顿的科普来广场（Copley Square）附近。在西元1973秋天，系所搬移到目前的雪曼．费尔乔电机工程和电子馆。一年之后，由于在电脑科学方面的研究持续增加，本系将名称改为电机工程与资讯科学系所。集中电脑、资讯和人工智能研究的史塔塔夫妇中心目前正在兴建中，本系所未来的资讯科学、通讯和控制方面的活动将会搬迁到该处。

本系所主要的任务是教导学生，我们的三种大学部的课程吸引了麻省理工学院百分之三十的大学部学生，而硕士以上学位的规划也名列前茅，教育出相当多的菁英。本系在建教合作上拥有丰富经验，自从1917年就成功的执行着VI-A实习专题。（朱注：这是麻省理工学院电机工程与资讯科学系所特有的规划，学生必须花费三个暑假和一个学期在产业界实习，同时必须缴交相关的论文，详情请见http://www.eecs.mit.edu/via/）本系最近刚规划了一个五年的工程硕士学程，只要在麻省理工学院完成五年的学业，学生就可以同时获得工程学士与硕士学位。

在本系过去的历史中，许多教职员和学生都曾经在各自的领域中做出重大的研究贡献，有些甚至开启了全新的研究领域。

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 Ray and Maria Stata Center for Computer, Information, and Intelligence Sciences, currently under construction, will house the Department's activities in computer science, communications, and control.

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.

若要了解更多资讯，请前往http://www.eecs.mit.edu/。

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