Department of Electrical Engineering is a part of Aligarh Muslim University. The department of Electrical Engineering was established in 1935 with an intake of 20 students and first graduate program started in 1940. A new phase of major developments in the department started during third five-year plan when the intake was raised to 90. A postgraduate course in "Instrumentation and Control", the first postgraduate course in the Faculty of Engineering & Technology, was sanctioned and started in 1964 with an intake of 10 students.

The first Ph.D. in the Faculty of Engineering & Technology, Aligarh Muslim University was produced by this department in 1977. Since then the total number of Ph.D. produced by the EED has gone to twenty-two. A total of fourteen research scholars is pursuing studies for the award of Ph.D degree. Further, the Faculty members of the EED have till date, published more than 800 research papers. The EED has organized several short-term training programs and national level seminars/conferences for young engineers, academicians, and scientists.