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Electrical engineering iceberg is an iceberg chart topic. On r/IcebergCharts, the highest-scoring available chart on it, "Electrical Engineering Iceberg", was posted by u/TheLaughingMew on 2 April 2026 and had about 15 upvotes when it was collected.[1] A text version, "Electrical Engineering Iceberg" by itsnoteeiswear, is hosted on IcebergThreads, where it had 608 views as of 29 October 2026.[2]

Entries reflect the chart authors' choices and are not verified fact.

"Electrical Engineering Iceberg" by u/TheLaughingMew (2 April 2026)

Tiers[edit]

Tiers and entries from the IcebergThreads version[2]. Notes after a dash are shortened from the author's explanations.

Freshman[edit]

  • Ohm's Law
  • Ground
  • AC vs. DC
  • Short/Open circuit
  • Resistor/Capacitor/Inductor
  • Series vs. Parallel Connections
  • Fuses and Circuit Breakers
  • LEDs
  • Arduino
  • Kirchhoff's Current/Voltage Laws
  • Nodal/Mesh Analysis
  • Delta/Wye Transform
  • You can get high from the solder smell
  • Hydraulic analogy
  • Magic Smoke
  • Resistor cube
  • Infinite resistor problem
  • Right hand rule gymnastics
  • Tellegen’s Theorem
  • Internal Resistance

Sophomore[edit]

  • Duality
  • Maxwell's equations
  • Diodes (Zener, Schottky)
  • BJTs and MOSFETS
  • Op-Amps
  • Logic Gates
  • Differential Equations (LRC)
  • Transformers
  • Reactive Power
  • Three Phase Power
  • Mains hum pickup (The oscilloscope is lying)
  • Bridge Balancing
  • Millman's Theorem
  • Reciprocity Theorem
  • Active and Passive Filters (Low-pass, High-pass, Band-pass)
  • P/N Theory
  • Gibbs Phenomenon
  • Ground loops
  • Mason’s Gain Formula
  • Two Capacitor Paradox
  • Total Internal Reflection

Junior[edit]

  • Laplace Transforms
  • Fourier Series and Fourier Transforms
  • Nyquist-Shannon Sampling Theorem
  • Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) / Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC)
  • Parasitic Capacitance and Inductance
  • Impedance Matching
  • Scattering Parameters (S-Parameters)
  • Cut-set and Tie-set Matrices
  • Modified Nodal Analysis
  • Peltier Effect
  • Hall Effect
  • Sziklai Pair
  • The Skin Effect & Copper Roughness
  • Shot Noise
  • Johnson-Nyquist Noise
  • Halt and Catch Fire
  • Hardware Description Languages (Verilog, VHDL)
  • Communication Protocols (UART, I2C, SPI)
  • Ziegler-Nichols
  • Symmetrical Components
  • Galvanic Skin Response
  • Thiele-Small Parameters

Senior[edit]

  • Tin Whiskers & The Galaxy IV Satellite
  • MONIAC (The Water Computer)
  • "Ground" is a Lie
  • The Smith Chart
  • Core Rope Memory (Weaving Software)
  • Origins of the 555 Timer
  • Zobel Network Design (Image Impedance)
  • Accidental Antennas
  • The "Dead Bug" Prototype
  • Bartlett’s Bisection Theorem
  • Ferranti Effect
  • Whistler (Radio)
  • Widlar Current Mirror
  • Non-Minimum Phase
  • Single-Wire Earth Return (SWER)
  • Latch-Ups
  • Metastability
  • Substitution Theorem
  • Bit flips from cosmic rays
  • Dijkstra/A on PCBs
  • Duck curve
  • Hodgkin-Huxley Model
  • Head-Related Transfer Functions

Master's Student[edit]

  • The "Black Magic" of RF Design
  • EEs invented AI
  • Extra Element Theorem
  • The FR-4 Fiberglass Weave Effect
  • Electromigration
  • Via stubs
  • The Nullor (Nullator-Norator Model)
  • The Adjoint Network Method
  • Rosen’s Star-Mesh Transformation
  • Everything is a 50-Ohm Transmission Line
  • Chua's Circuit
  • The Multipactor Effect
  • Jefimenko's Equations
  • The Goubau Line
  • The Einstein–de Haas Effect
  • Magic Tee & Rat-Race Coupler
  • YIG Sphere
  • Gunn Diode
  • Ferroresonance in Electricity Networks
  • Quadrature Booster
  • Compensation Theorem
  • Bode's Sensitivity Integral
  • H-infinity Loop-Shaping
  • The Viterbi Algorithm
  • Evanescent Waves
  • Geomagnetically Induced Currents
  • Four-Wave Mixing
  • EUV Lithography Mirror Alignment

PhD Student[edit]

  • Memistor
  • The Mark I Perceptron (1958)
  • Harmonic Stability
  • Heaviside’s Operational Calculus
  • Diakoptics
  • Setun Computer
  • Explosively Pumped Flux Compression Generator (EPFCG)
  • Vircator (Virtual Cathode Oscillator)
  • The Luxemburg–Gorky Effect
  • Snivet
  • Johnsen–Rahbek Effect
  • The Abraham–Minkowski Controversy
  • The Kondo Effect
  • Cat's-Whisker Detector
  • Delay-Line Memory
  • One-Instruction Set Computer (OISC)
  • Stochastic Computing
  • Therac-25 Race Condition
  • Maxwell’s Original 20 Equations
  • Photonic Bandgap Materials
  • Sliding Mode Control
  • Dirty Paper Coding
  • Corona discharge
  • BAN Channel Modeling
  • Slow Light
  • Thermoacoustic Refrigeration
  • Hot Carrier Injection

Tenured[edit]

  • Memristor
  • Bob Pease's Breadboards
  • The "More Magic" Switch
  • Philbrick K2-W
  • Poynting Vector Paradox
  • Barkhausen Effect
  • Optical Rectennas (Nantennas)
  • Casimir Effect Stiction in MEMS
  • Phantom Circuits
  • Dark Silicon
  • Negative Group Delay
  • Sneak Circuit Analysis
  • Non-Foster Circuits
  • Teflon Standoffs / Air Wiring
  • Avalanche Pulse Generators
  • Phoebus Cartel
  • HIDDEN_SSID / Government Backdoors in Silicon
  • Hardware trojans
  • Acid Decapsulation
  • Focused Ion Beam (FIB) Circuit Editing
  • Braess's Paradox
  • Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion (SPDC)
  • Kolmogorov Complexity
  • Zeno Behavior in Hybrid Systems
  • Optogenetics Circuit Equivalents
  • Random Telegraph Signal

IEEE Fellow[edit]

  • Heaviside's Missing Fourth Volume
  • Liénard–Wiechert Potentials
  • Abraham-Lorentz Force Paradox
  • Spark-Gap Transmitters communicating with the dead
  • Van Eck Phreaking
  • The Biefeld-Brown Effect
  • Time-Reversal Mirrors
  • Landauer's Principle
  • The Frey Effect
  • Project Sanguine / ELF Transmission
  • Duga Radar
  • Magnetic Monopoles
  • The Hutchison Effect
  • The Hum
  • The Great Seal Bug (The Thing)
  • Project MKUltra’s "Voice-to-Skull" (V2K) Technology
  • Row hammer
  • The Bekenstein Bound
  • Fractional-Order Control
  • Sonoluminescence

Professor Emeritus[edit]

  • Aharonov-Bohm Effect
  • Maxwell’s "Aether" Gears
  • Tesla's Earth Resonance
  • Advanced Retarded Potentials
  • Zero-Point Energy Suppression
  • Rydberg Atom Receivers
  • Point-Contact Transistor "Magic"
  • Project Rainbow
  • The Dielectric Void
  • The Saturn-Moon Matrix
  • Wheeler-Feynman Absorber Theory
  • Weber Electrodynamics
  • Electrons aren't real
  • The One-Electron Universe
  • Oliver Heaviside's Granite Furniture
  • Bremermann's Limit
  • Topological Photonics

See also[edit]

Sources[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ u/TheLaughingMew. Electrical Engineering Iceberg. Reddit (r/IcebergCharts). 2 April 2026. Retrieved 29 October 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 itsnoteeiswear. Electrical Engineering Iceberg. IcebergThreads. 2 April 2026. Retrieved 29 October 2026.
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