MIT OpenCourseWare | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science MIT OCW Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department numerical course listing. Electrical engineering, originally taught at MIT in the Physics Department, became an independent degree program in 1882. The Department of Electrical Engineering was formed in 1902, and occupied its new home, the Lowell Building, when MIT was still located near Copley Square in Boston. The Department dedicated its present facilities in the Sherman Fairchild Electrical Engineering and Electronics complex in fall 1973, and a year later, it recognized its growing activity in computer science by changing its name to Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. The Department's activities in computer science, communications, and control moved into the architecturally un... Free open online Electrical Engineering Computer Science course materials from MIT. Lecture notes, exams, audio video lectures, textbooks by MIT professors. No registration required. andcommunicationcomputercomputersdepartmenteecselectricalelectronicsengineeringmitocwopencoursewaresciencesystems By chphillipsin school Shitwith computerelectricalengineeringmitocwschoolscienceshitby 6 users