Electrical Engineering Today’s blog post is brought to you by Xander Kalna Since some of our students in the YCITYSCI Program are interested in electrical engineering, today’s blog post is going to explore the electrical engineering career. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics defines electrical engineering as designing, developing, testing, and supervising the manufacture of…
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