Methods whose primary historical significance is fabricating electronic components and circuits. Belongs here: photolithography and semiconductor doping as the core methods of integrated-circuit fabrication. Does not belong here: general materials-processing methods, grouped under Materials Engineering, or software development methods, grouped under Software Engineering, even where both intersect with electronics.
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1. Wikipedia: Engineering
WikipediaIntroduction, traditional disciplinesQuote, Introduction, traditional disciplines
The traditional disciplines of engineering are civil, mechanical, electrical, and chemical.
2. Wikipedia: Electrical engineering
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It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the latter half of the 19th century after the commercialization of the electric telegraph.
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