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It could be said that the modern discipline of electronics engineering was to a large extent born out of [[radio]] development and from the large amount of wartime development on defence systems and weapons. In the interwar years, the subject was known as [[radio engineering]] and it was only in the late 1950s that the term '''electronics engineering''' started to emerge.

TheIn the UK, the subject of electronics engineering became distinct from [[electrical engineering]] as a [[university]] degree subject around 1960. Persons studying electronics and related subjects like radio and telecomms prior to this time had to enrol into the [[electrical engineering]] departments of the university as no universities had departments of electronics and electrical engineering was the nearset subject with which electronics engineering could be aligned although the similarities in subjects covered (except mathematics and electromagnetism)only lasted for the first year of the 3 year course.

The name [[electrical engineering]] is still used to cover electronics engineering amongst some of the older (notably American) universities and [[electronics engineering]] graduates there are sometimes called [[electrical engineers]]. In Europe persons graduating having studied electronics engineering are know properly as electronics engineers and the term electrical engineer is reserved fro those having specialised in power and heavy current or high voltage engingeering.