The national government deployed the research and development of atomic and hydrogen bombs. The Department of Electrical Engineering together with Department of Engineering Physics and Department of Radio Engineering made positive contribution to the development of related new majors. It established two teaching and research groups: automation & telemechanics and operational research, took charge of the teaching task of main specialized courses in the computer major, and participated in the preparations for establishment of the Institute of Computing Technology (ICT), CAS. Under the guidance of Mr. Qian Xuesen, the Department of Electrical Engineering started the major of “Operational Research” to recruit two classes of students, and opened the tutorial class of Automation with 90 students.