>>16646810
>What is it actually about?
Everything electricity is sort of a meme answer, but its true. It goes from stuff like circuit designs and embedded systems, to RF shenanigans and signal processing. Very broad field with a million and one niche specialties. The IEEE has several societies which sort of describe different missions, picrel.
>What are the main motivations to study it?
It's really cool, and the work is fun.