Committee on Electrical Engineering of the Polish Academy of Sciences

The discipline of electrical engineering emerged from a series of physicochemical studies initiated by the discoveries of scientists such as A. Volta, A.M. Ampère, M. Faraday, G.R. Kirchhoff, G.S. Ohm, J.C. Maxwell, as well as the inventions of T.A. Edison, G. Bell and others, which were developed over two hundred years ago.

The Committee on Electrical Engineering of the Polish Academy of Sciences was first established in December 1952, seven months after the creation of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

The Committee’s activities cover electrical power supply systems, lighting systems, drive systems, heating and transport systems, and industrial uses of electricity, including in transport, agriculture, construction and municipal services. The main areas of the Committee’s work include electrical power engineering, electrical engineering materials and technologies, metrology, machines, transformers, electrical apparatus and equipment, power electronics, electric drives and traction, lighting technology and electricity generation systems, including electric cells.