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Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: I very much agree with the U.S. philosophy with regards to school organization (i.e., a department or school? with general electrical engineering faculty, directly hosting a degree program in electrical engineering, with majors in either communications, power systems, computer engineering, and so on.? In the last few decades some departments in the U.S. have transitioned to names such as "Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering" (see e.g. http://www.ece.wisc.edu/ and https://www.ece.cornell.edu/ece, precisely the two universities where I studied in the U.S.). In Latin America, with some exceptions, it is common that each very specific program is hosted by one very specific department, thus there is one electronics engineering program linked to a department of electronics engineering and a different electrical engineering program with a department of electrical engineering. This is especially true in older, public universities.? The reason for this is petty:? resource management (i.e., handling of tuition, human resources and so on) was often done at the program level, so people preferred to have "their own turf" in the organization and this led to this kind of granularization. I do belong to a "Department of Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering" and I like it this way.? We do, however, host two differently-named undergraduate programs, called, you guessed it, Electrical Engineering and Electronics Engineering.? Nowadays many students are choosing to stay one or two more semesters and obtain the two degrees; this is possible because of the curricular design that we have in place. In the U.S., some of the first Electrical Engineering programs were created inside Physics departments and only later were the corresponding departments created. carlos.