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List of the most influential people in Engineering,

#7501

Campbell D. Carter

#167765

Overall Influence

#7502

Tingyue Gu

#167766

Overall Influence

#7503

Enrique Vivoni

#148367

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Enrique R. Vivoni is a Puerto Rican scientist and engineer specializing in hydrology who studies the interactions of water throughout the atmosphere, biosphere, and lithosphere. His research is focused on the southwestern United States and Mexico for the purpose of improving water management in urban and rural settings.

#7504

Lars Gunnarsen

#157131

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Lars Gunnarsen is a Danish professor in construction at Aalborg University where he conducts research in indoor climate and ventilation. Lars Gunnarsen is a much cited and often used expert in topics on everyday-life because his research centers on how to achieve and maintain a safe and healthy environment at home. His research has also shown that use of natural materials in construction might indirectly increase the risk of chemicals being used. Lars Gunnarsen has also pointed on the need of attention on healthy indoor climate as a future driver for innovation and new markets in the building ...

#7505

Roger Sanders

#61239

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Roger Cobban Sanders is an American doctor specializing in Ultrasound and Radiology. Originally from the United Kingdom, he obtained a degree in physiology at Oxford University, from the Oxford Clinical Medical School. In 1970 Sanders traveled to the United States to begin a one-year teaching position at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. During this time the University was presented a bistable ultrasound system, at the time the only one in Maryland, which Sanders was asked to oversee and use. Eventually he became professor of Radiology, Urology, Obstetric, and Gynecology, as well as director of Ultrasound at the University.

#7506

Ljiljana Trajković

#152190

Overall Influence

Ljiljana Trajković is Professor with the School of Engineering Science, Simon Fraser University in Canada. She graduated from University of Pristina in 1974, got her master's degrees in electrical engineering and computer engineering from Syracuse University and PhD in electrical engineering from University of California, Los Angeles in 1986.

#7507

Steen Lichtenberg

#103749

Overall Influence

1930 - Present (96 years)

Steen Lichtenberg is a Danish engineer, Emeritus Professor of Project and Construction Management at the Technical University of Denmark, author and management consultant. He is known from his 1978 textbook on new project management, which a standard reference work in Scandinavia. He is also known as former president of the International Project Management Association.

#7508

Huang Wenhu

#156112

Overall Influence

1926 - 2022 (96 years)

Huang Wenhu was a Chinese engineer and university administrator who served as president of Harbin Institute of Technology from 1983 to 1985. He was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

#7509

Ching-Lai Sheng

#96059

Overall Influence

1919 - 2018 (99 years)

Dr Sheng Ching-lai or Sheng Qinglai was a Chinese-born Taiwanese electrical engineer, computer scientist, and philosopher. He served at the president of the National Chiao Tung University from 1972 to 1978.

#7510

David G Beer

#167846

Overall Influence

#7511

Martin Greven

#127199

Overall Influence

Martin Greven is a Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota, specializing in experimental condensed matter physics. He is the Director of the University of Minnesota Center for Quantum Materials. His research group investigates quantum many-body phenomena in correlated-electron materials with spectroscopic, transport and other experimental methods.

#7512

Randall Berry

#131591

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Randall Berry is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2014 for contributions to resource allocation and interference management in wireless networks.

#7513

George Anselevicius

#94902

Overall Influence

1923 - 2008 (85 years)

George Anselevicius was a Lithuanian-born American architect. A native of Lithuania born in 1923, Anselevicius moved to England in 1938 to further his education. Anselevicius completed his degree at the School of Architecture in Leeds in 1946, and settled in the United States in 1947. He worked as a designer for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in Chicago, as well as Minoru Yamasaki in Detroit. Anselevicius began teaching at the IIT Institute of Design in 1949. He remained on the faculty for three years, then returned to architectural practice. In 1957, Anselevicius accepted an assistant professorship at Washington University in St.

#7514

Nándor Wagner

#53204

Overall Influence

1922 - 1997 (75 years)

Nándor Wagner was a Hungarian artist and sculptor. He was the son of a dentist, and was born in Oradea , Romania. Wagner studied at the Budapest Art Academy before and after World War II. He had three art periods as living in Hungary , Sweden and Japan respectively. He became well known for his novel cast stainless steel sculptures made in Sweden and Japan.

#7515

Isaac Odame

#66632

Overall Influence

Isaac Odame is a Ghanaian academic and physician who specialises in sickle cell disease. He is a professor of Hematology and Oncology at the Paediatrics department of the University of Toronto. He holds the Alexandra Yeo Chair in Hematology at the University of Toronto. He is the Director of the Hematology Division of the university's Department of Medicine. He is a staff physician of The Hospital for Sick Children, where he serves as the medical director of the Global Sickle Cell Disease Network located at the Centre for Global Child Health. He is a founder of the Global Sickle Cell Disease ...

#7516

Paul Worsey

#133111

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Paul N. Worsey is an emeritus professor and well-known mining and explosives expert and researcher at the Missouri University of Science and Technology . Outside of teaching, research, and writing in his field, he is noted for creating and hosting the University's annual "Explosives Camp" for 16- and 17-year-old aspiring mining engineers. Since 2008, Worsey has been one of the host experts on the Discovery Channel documentary series, The Detonators.

#7517

Jian Chu

#167978

Overall Influence

#7518

Jennifer Mueller

#68346

Overall Influence

Jennifer L. Mueller is an applied mathematician and biomedical engineer whose research concerns inverse problems and their applications, particularly to problems in medical imaging related to electrical impedance tomography. She is a professor of mathematics at Colorado State University, where she also holds a joint appointment in the school of biomedical engineering and the department of electrical and computer engineering.

#7519

Alicia El Haj

#140748

Overall Influence

Alicia El Haj is a Professor and the Interdisciplinary Chair of Cell Engineering at the School of Chemical Engineering and the Healthcare Technologies Institute at the Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Birmingham. She is the President of the UK Bioengineering Society and Director of MICA Biosystems. She is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. She was president of the European Council of the International Society for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine .

#7520

John G. Bollinger

#153453

Overall Influence

Dr. John G. Bollinger is the Dean Emeritus, College of Engineering & Professor Emeritus of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Education BS, Mechanical Engineering , UW-MadisonMS, Mechanical Engineering , Cornell University College of EngineeringPhD, Mechanical Engineering , UW-Madison

#7521

LaToya Ruby Frazier

LaToya Ruby Frazier

#49248

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (44 years)

LaToya Ruby Frazier is an American artist and professor of photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Early life From Braddock, Pennsylvania, Frazier began photographing her family and hometown at the age of 16, revising the social documentary traditional of Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange to imagine documentation from within and by the community, and collaboration between the photographer and her subjects. Inspired by Gordon Parks, who promoted the camera as a weapon for social justice, Frazier uses her tight focus to make apparent the impact of systemic problems, from racism...

#7522

Malgorzata Marek-Sadowska

#162964

Overall Influence

Malgorzata Marek-Sadowska is a Polish-American electronics engineer known for her research in VLSI circuit design. She is a professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, a member of the university's Institute for Energy Efficiency, and the director of the VLSI CAD Lab at the university.

#7523

David Serero

#93572

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

David Serero is a multi award winning French architect who has had many international projects in France, United States and Italy. Biography Serero was born in 1974 in Grenoble. He graduated with a Master in Architecture and Urban planning from Columbia University and with an Architecture Degree from Ecole d’architecture Paris-Villemin. He lives and works in Paris and in New York.

#7524

Adrianus de Hoop

#120227

Overall Influence

1927 - Present (99 years)

Adrianus Teunis de Hoop is a Dutch electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist, and professor emeritus at Delft University of Technology. De Hoop's research interests are in the broad area of wavefield modeling in acoustics, electromagnetics, and elastodynamics. Other research includes a method for computing pulsed electromagnetic fields in strongly heterogeneous media with applications to integrated circuits, and a methodology for time-domain pulsed-field antenna analysis, design, and optimization for mobile communication and radar applications.

#7525

Albert F. Case Jr.

#86897

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Albert F. Case Jr. is an American software engineer and one of the leaders in the development of computer-aided software engineering technologies and system development methodologies. Biography Case is a graduate of the State University of New York at Buffalo. He began his software development career in 1972 and worked in a variety of IT-related capacities, including director of Management Information Systems for Ryder System and co-founder of Maximus Systems, Inc., developers of the Maximus code generator. In 1982, Case joined start-up Nastec Corporation, a Southfield, Mich. based software development company.

#7526

Natalya Sats

#32749

Overall Influence

1903 - 1993 (90 years)

Natalya Il'inichna Sats was a Russian stage director who ran theaters for children for many years, including the Moscow Musical Theater for Children, now named after her. In 1937, she fell victim to Soviet repressions, but was rehabilitated in 1953. She was a recipient of the USSR State Prize, People's Artist of the USSR award, Lenin Prize, Hero of Socialist Labor medal, and the Lenin Komsomol Prize.

#7527

Roselyn J. Eisenberg

#130909

Overall Influence

Roselyn J. Eisenberg is a professor at The University of Pennsylvania and a member of the University's School of Veterinary Medicine and School of Dental Medicine. The majority of Eisenberg's research is focused on the herpes simplex virus and the poxvirus and how they enter into susceptible cells. She also studies glycoproteins, vaccines, virology and microbiology.

#7528

Emmet Gowin

#39020

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Emmet Gowin is an American photographer. He first gained attention in the 1970s with his intimate portraits of his wife, Edith, and her family. Later he turned his attention to the landscapes of the American West, taking aerial photographs of places that had been changed by humans or nature, including the Hanford Site, Mount St. Helens, and the Nevada Test Site. Gowin taught at Princeton University for more than 35 years.

#7529

Sten Luthander

#147629

Overall Influence

1905 - 2000 (95 years)

Sten Åke Birger Luthander was a Swedish professor in aeronautics. Education and career After studying at KTH Royal Institute of Technology 1925–1930, he was employed as an assistant to Ivar Malmer in aeronautical engineering and strength theory at KTH. He was head of department at the National Aeronautical Research Institute in 1940, and was appointed professor of aeronautical engineering at KTH in 1944. He was head of Saab AB's research department in Linköping 1947–1949. Retired from KTH 1972. In 1961 he started the consulting company LUTAB .

#7530

Vishal Monga

#145147

Overall Influence

Vishal Monga is an Indian American electrical engineer, researcher and academic. He is a professor of Electrical Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. Monga's research and educational activity lies in the area of optimization-based methods for computational imaging, image analysis and radar signal processing. He has published over 100 research papers and holds 45 patents. He is the author of the edited volume: Handbook of Convex Optimization Methods in Imaging Science.

#7531

Robert Piotrowski

#157265

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Robert Piotrowski is an architect. He leads Ecker Architekten, an Architecture and Interior Design practice based in Buchen, Germany. Piotrowski's projects include the Corporate Headquarters for Holly Hunt, LTD in Chicago, the town halls in Seckach and in Rosenberg, a community center in Zimmern, the Sparkasse in Hettingen, and The House Dandelion Clock, a kindergarten for physically and mentally handicapped children in Buchen.

#7532

Mohammed Naseer Khan

#120363

Overall Influence

1941 - 2006 (65 years)

Mohammed Naseer Khan was a Pakistani physicist and academic administrator, the former Rector of the Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology and Vice-Chancellor of Bahauddin Zakariya University. He also served as a special advisor to the government for education, Federal Minister, Grade MP-1.

#7533

John Breslin

#70012

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

John Breslin is an Irish engineer and full professor at the University of Galway. He is co-founder of the Irish websites boards.ie and adverts.ie. He co-authored the Irish bestselling book Old Ireland in Colour in 2020, Old Ireland in Colour 2 in 2021, and Old Ireland in Colour 3 in 2023.

#7534

Bart Deplancke

#95060

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Bart Deplancke is a Belgian bio-engineer and researcher. He is a full professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, where he leads the laboratory of systems biology and genetics. Career Deplancke studied biochemical engineering at Ghent University and graduated with a Master of Science in 1998. In 2002, he obtained a PhD in immunobiology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for his studies on intestinal host-microbe interactions and innate immunity. He then pursued postdoctoral studies in the laboratories of Marc Vidal and Marian Walhout , where he developed a high-th...

#7535

Dionisios Vlachos

#89214

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Dionisios G. Vlachos is an American chemical engineer, the Allan & Myra Ferguson Endowed Chair Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware and director of the Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation, a U.S. Department of Energy - Energy Frontiers Research Center. Throughout his career at University of Delaware and the University of Minnesota, he has advanced the study of catalysts and reaction engineering including catalytic applications in biomass utilization, alkane conversion and zeolites. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and rec...

#7536

Mao Junfa

#147651

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Mao Junfa is a Chinese engineer and academic. He is a professor of engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University . Mao received his BS from the National University of Defense Technology in 1985, and went on to the Chinese Academy of Science's Shanghai Institute of Nuclear Research for his MS and SJTU for his PhD . He undertook postdoctoral work at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the University of California, Berkeley before returning to SJTU to join the faculty. He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2012 "for contributions to interconnects an...

#7537

Agostino Monorchio

#168198

Overall Influence

Agostino Monorchio is an electrical engineer at the University of Pisa, Italy. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2012 for his contributions to computational electromagnetics and for his work on frequency selective surfaces in metamaterials.

#7538

Brian O'Brien

#88122

Overall Influence

1934 - 2020 (86 years)

Brian John O'Brien was an Australian physicist and space scientist. He is best known for his "research into lunar dust and the challenges it presents for exploration of the Moon." He "highlighted how hazardous it was for astronauts and their equipment." Five experiments designed by him were placed on the Moon by the Apollo 11 Mission. One measured radiation, the others were concerned with Moon dust.

#7539

Karla Miller

#133858

Overall Influence

Karla Loreen Miller is an American neuroscientist and professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Oxford. Her research investigates the development of neuroimaging techniques, with a particular focus on Magnetic Resonance Imaging , neuroimaging, diffusion MRI and functional magnetic resonance imaging. She was elected a Fellow of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine in 2016.

#7540

Pinshane Huang

#133143

Overall Influence

1986 - Present (40 years)

Pinshane Yeh Huang is an Associate Professor of Materials Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. She develops transmission electron microscopy to investigate two-dimensional materials. During her PhD she discovered the thinnest piece of glass in the world, which was included in the Guinness World Records. Huang was awarded the 2019 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

#7541

Anthony Adamson

#112646

Overall Influence

1906 - 2002 (96 years)

Anthony Patrick Cawthra Adamson was a Canadian architect, author, teacher, and municipal politician. He was a descendant of Joseph Cawthra through his mother. Born in Toronto, Ontario to Colonel Agar Adamson and Mabel Cawthra, he grew up in Port Credit, Ontario on the family estate, before reading Architecture at the University of Cambridge and at the University of London.

#7542

Wu Zhiqiang

#156022

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Wu Zhiqiang is a Chinese engineer who is a counsellor for Shanghai Municipal Government, a former vice president of Tongji University, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Biography Wu was born in Shanghai, on 1 August 1960. He received his Bachelor of Engineering degree and Master of Engineering degree from Tongji University in 1982 and 1982, respectively. After graduating in 1985, he stayed at the university and worked as an instructor. In April 1988, he pursued advanced studies in Germany, earning Doctor of Engineering degree from the Technical University of Berlin in 1994.

#7543

Greg Jones

#68285

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (44 years)

Greg Jones is an American former collegiate wrestler. At West Virginia University, Jones won three NCAA Division 1 wrestling titles. Shortly after his 5-3 decision of Cornell's Tyler Baier in the 184 pound finals, Jones was named the 2005 tournament's Most Outstanding Wrestler. In addition to his title in 2005, Jones won the 184 pound title in 2004 and the 174 pound title as a freshman in 2002. As of 2023, Jones serves as the head wrestling coach at MMA gym Kill Cliff FC in Deerfield Beach FL.

#7544

Jeffrey Siewerdsen

#94004

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Jeffrey Harold Siewerdsen is an American physicist and biomedical engineer who is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, Radiology, and Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University. He is Co-Director of the Carnegie Center for Surgical Innovation at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and is a member of the Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare. He is among the original inventors of cone-beam CT-guided radiotherapy as well as weight-bearing cone-beam CT for musculoskeletal radiology and orthopedic surgery. His work also includes the early development of flat-panel detectors on mobile C-arms for intraoperative cone-beam CT in image-guided surgery.

#7545

Selim Al Deen

#20640

Overall Influence

1949 - 2008 (59 years)

Mohammad Mainuddin Ahmed was a Bangladeshi playwright and theatre artist. He was the founder chairperson of the Department of Drama and Dramatics at Jahangirnagar University. He was awarded Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1984 and Ekushey Padak in 2007 by the Government of Bangladesh for his contribution to theatre and won the Independence Award in 2023 for his contribution to the field of literature.

#7546

Sangeeta Mehta

#168295

Overall Influence

#7547

Samuel L. Manzello

#155344

Overall Influence

Samuel L. Manzello is a technical advisor at Reax Engineering. He has worked on microgravity droplet combustion, droplet-surface interaction, soot formation in well-stirred reactor/plug flow reactor, fire-structure interaction, and structure vulnerabilities in wildland-urban interface fires.

#7548

James E. Cofer

#24269

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

James Erwin Cofer, Sr. , is a former president of both Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri, and the University of Louisiana at Monroe, Louisiana. He served as the tenth president of Missouri State University and eight years previously at the University of Louisiana at Monroe. His tenure at Missouri State came during a difficult economic period. According to Missouri State's official account of his presidency, Cofer "opened up the budget process, balanced the budget without cutting the academic departments even in light of the state appropriation reductions, gave equity raises to 40 percent of the faculty and started the process of raising the pay grades and salaries for staff.

#7549

Emmanuel Gonzalez

#74974

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (44 years)

Emmanuel A. Gonzalez is a Filipino educator and engineer. He became the Existing Installation Business Director at Jardine Schindler Elevator Corporation in 2015, a joint venture between Jardine Matheson and Schindler Group, until he moved to Holland, Ohio in the United States as the Reliability Manager for the Existing Installation Department of Schindler Elevator Corporation in 2017. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers through the IEEE Toledo Section, a member of the Society of Maintenance and Reliability Professionals , and an associate member of the National Research Council of the Philippines under the Department of Science and Technology .

#7550

Anna Fox

#84418

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Anna Fox is a British documentary photographer, known for a "combative, highly charged use of flash and colour". In 2019 she was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society. Career and work Fox completed her degree in Photography at West Surrey College of Art and Design in Farnham, Surrey in 1986 under tutors Martin Parr, Paul Graham and Karen Knorr.

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