PDE's in Electrical Engineering

[Lacero]

Are PDE's used in an electrical engineering undergrad curriculum? If so, in what areas and for what.

Thank you.

 

[Lacero]

Signals? magnets? circuits?

 

[tiny iota]

I think I remember using them in some classes for electromagnetic fields & waves. I'm more of a controls/signal processing/power guy and I don't use them regularly.

 

[berkeman]

Are PDE's used in an electrical engineering undergrad curriculum? If so, in what areas and for what.

Thank you.

Yes. Maxwell's equations would be a good example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell's_equations

And vector operations like Gradient, Curl and Laplacian use partial derivatives.