Wikibooks talk:Engineering bookshelf

I would like to contribute to a basic, first college semester electrical engineering text, but I am confused about which category would be appropriate to write under: electrical engineering, electronic engineering, or the physics electronics section, which seems to hold information I would consider appropriate to electrical engineering. How should we delineate these categories?

Thanks much,

Jill Coffin

Please go ahead and start writing. One of the nice features of this wiki is that a book can be in several categories at the same time. For example, the Electronics book is on the Physics bookshelf as well as the Engineering bookshelf. --DavidCary 16:44, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Electrical Engineering
I have written up a general outline of a few EE books on my user page, and would like to get some feedback about them. I've started books on Circuit Theory and Digital Circuits, which will form an introductory base for the rest of the books. --Whiteknight 14:24, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Electrical Engineering and Electronic engineering
I was wondering if we could merge the titles of electrical and electronic engineering, they are both the same exact subject. Another engineering topic 'Computer engineering' is the same as electrical but focuses more on digital logic and programable controllers. so would it be possible to merge electronic and electrical and then rename it to Electrical/Computer engineering? --Asm2750 19.37, 22 March 2006 (UTC)


 * I merged the two sections, and included a note. I did not, however, rename the section "Electrical/Computer Engineering". Such a change would break alot of links, I think. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 23:41, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

I would like to add my opinion(s) to this discussion about electrical/electronic engineering. In particular, I do not believe (as Asm2750 asserts) they are "the same exact subject".

Electrical engineering is concerned with the provision (generation, transmission, distribution, etc.) of electricity. Electronics engineering is concerned with the manipulation of the electrical supply in more complex processes ("electron" ics, related to the behaviour of electrons). Electronics is more concerned with the manipulation and study of the flow of charge within a circuit.

I am an Electronic Technologist. To distinguish my specialty from that of the electrician, I often tell people "The Electrician is the person who provides the power. The Electronics Technician (or Technologist, or Engineer, etc.) is the person who makes it get up and dance.

If you will check "Electrical Engineering" in Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_engineering you will find opinions similar to those I have just stated. Thank You.

Books to be moved
I think the text in Theoretical Mechanics is more aproriate here instead of the Physics Bookshelf --Mart!n

I moved Basic Electricity in Physics to Basic Electrical Generation and Distribution, and it should be removed from the Physics bookshelf and placed on the Electrical Engineering shelf. My first contribution over on wikibooks, so I'm not sure of the protocol. I know right now it is a redirect from Basic Electricity, but I don't want to sever that as there are a dozen or so links.

Jtvisona 02:47, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Both materials science texts need to be moved out of civil engineering and, most appropriatly, placed under a new heading called materials science.SmoJoe (talk) 18:05, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Low completion rating
Electric Vehicle Conversion is tagged as only 25% - this seems low, given the current state of the article - Leonard G. 02:48, 21 October 2007 (UTC)