电气工程师和计算机科学家遍及各个行业和研究领域，包括计算机和通信网络，电子电路和系统，激光和光子学，半导体和固态设备，纳米电子，生物医学工程，计算生物学，人工智能，机器人技术，设计和制造，控制和优化，计算机算法，游戏和图形，软件工程，计算机体系结构，密码学和计算机安全性，电源和能源系统，财务分析等等。信息时代的基础设施和结构，包括互联网和Web，搜索引擎，手机，高清电视和磁共振成像等技术，在很大程度上是电气工程和计算机科学创新的结果。麻省理工学院的电气工程和计算机科学系（EECS）及其毕业生在许多此类进步
Electrical engineers and computer scientists are everywherein industry and research areas as diverse as computer and communication networks, electronic circuits and systems, lasers and photonics, semiconductor and solid-state devices, nanoelectronics, biomedical engineering, computational biology, artificial intelligence, robotics, design and manufacturing, control and optimization, computer algorithms, games and graphics, software engineering, computer architecture, cryptography and computer security, power and energy systems, financial analysis, and many more. The program starts with three foundation courses in circuits, signal processing, and computer architecture. Those are followed by specialization in three header subjects chosen from signals, nanoelectronics, electromagnetics, neurophysiology, or machine learning, two advanced undergraduate subjects, and two elective subjects from an extensive set of possibilities.