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List of the most influential people in Engineering,

#7551

Claudio Bellini

Claudio Bellini

#138832

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Claudio Bellini is an Italian-born architect and designer based in Milan. He runs an architecture and design practice, CLAUDIO BELLINI.Bellini, a well-known speaker who has spent many years lecturing at universities, serves as the creative director for a number of major multinational businesses.

#7552

Rhonda Franklin

#106500

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Rhonda Franklin is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Minnesota. She is a microwave and radio frequency engineer whose research focuses on microelectronic mechanical structures in radio and microwave applications. She has won several awards, including the 1998 NSF Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the 2013 Sara Evans Leadership Award, the 2017 John Tate Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising, and the 2018 Minnesota African American Heritage Calendar Award for her contributions to higher education.

#7553

Frank Thomas

#16068

Overall Influence

1912 - 2004 (92 years)

Franklin Rosborough Thomas was an American animator and pianist. He was one of Walt Disney's leading team of animators known as the Nine Old Men. Biography Thomas was born on September 5, 1912, in Santa Monica, California, to Frank Thomas, a teacher, and Ina Gregg. He had two older brothers, Lawrence and Welburne. He grew up in Fresno. Frank Thomas attended Stanford University, where he was a member of Theta Delta Chi fraternity and worked on campus humor magazine The Stanford Chaparral with Ollie Johnston. After graduating from Stanford in 1933, he attended Chouinard Art Institute, then joined The Walt Disney Company on September 24, 1934, as employee number 224.

#7554

John Fothergill

#78193

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

John Fothergill is pro-vice-chancellor of City University London. He was formerly head of engineering, dean of science and pro-vice-chancellor at the University of Leicester. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, the IEE, and the Institute of Physics.

#7555

Mark Horstemeyer

#110767

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Mark F. Horstemeyer is the Dean of the School of Engineering at Liberty University. He was the Giles Distinguished Professor at Mississippi State University and professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Mississippi State University , holding a Chair position for the Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems in Computational Solid Mechanics; he was also the Chief Technical Officer for CAVS. Before coming to MSU, he worked for Sandia National Laboratories for fifteen years in the area of multiscale modeling for design.

#7556

Norman Einspruch

#75851

Overall Influence

Norman G. Einspruch is a professor and dean emeritus at the University of Miami College of Engineering. He attended Rice University, the University of Colorado, and Brown University in the 1950s. He was the dean of the University of Miami College of Engineering from 1977 to 1990. He is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

#7557

Peter Kamnitzer

#105646

Overall Influence

1921 - 1998 (77 years)

Peter Kamnitzer was a German-born American architect. Born in Germany, he emigrated first to Israel and secondly to the United States, where he settled in Los Angeles, California. He was a professor of architecture at the University of California, Los Angeles . With NASA and General Electric, he invented a graphic design tool used to predict what impact buildings would have on environments. He was a proponent of adding greenery and leisurely facilities to apartment complexes. He designed many residential buildings in Downtown Los Angeles, including public housing.

#7558

Guan De

#128701

Overall Influence

1932 - 2018 (86 years)

Guan De was a Chinese aeroelasticity engineer and aircraft designer. He participated in the design and development of the Shenyang JJ-1 jet trainer and the Shenyang J-8 and J8-II interceptors. He served as Chief Engineer and Vice President of Shenyang Aircraft Corporation, Deputy Director of the Civil Aviation Administration of China, and professor of Beihang University. He was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

#7559

Ambuj Sagar

#134041

Overall Influence

Ambuj D. Sagar is the Vipula and Mahesh Chaturvedi Professor of Policy Studies at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. As of October 2022, he has been appointed as the deputy director at IIT Delhi. His interests broadly lie in science and technology policy, environmental policy, and development policy, with a particular focus on the interactions between technology and society. While his current research focuses mainly on energy innovation and climate policy, he also studies, more broadly, various facets of technology innovation, environmental policy politics and processes, and engineerin...

#7560

David Stahl

#121283

Overall Influence

David A. Stahl is an American scientist and Professor of Environmental Engineering. He is best known for the application of molecular microbial ecology to environmental engineering. Biography Stahl received his B.S. in microbiology from the University of Washington, cum laude, in 1971. He earned his M.S. and his Ph.D. in microbiology at the University of Illinois in 1975 and 1978, respectively. From 1978 to 1980, he completed postdoctoral training at the National Jewish Hospital and Research Center, where he was a Senior Research Associate from 1980 to 1984. From 1984 to 1994, he was on the faculty of the University of Illinois.

#7561

K. T. Chau

#105905

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Kam Tim Chau is an engineering educator. He is an adjunct professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and was the Chair Professor in Geotechnical Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and was the former President of the Hong Kong Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. He authored three text books in geomechanics and engineering mathematics entitled "Analytic Methods in Geomechanics" published by CRC Press, "Theory of Differential Equations in Engineering and Mechanics" published by CRC Press, and "Applications of Differential Equations in Engineering and Mechanics...

#7562

Richard E. Morgan

#29745

Overall Influence

1937 - 2014 (77 years)

Richard Ernest Morgan was a conservative author, contributing editor of City Journal, and the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Government at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, United States. His areas of academic interest included the history, law and politics of the First Amendment. At the time of his death, Morgan was one of the leading conservatives of his generation.

#7563

Patrick J. Lynett

#168540

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Patrick J. Lynett is an American coastal engineer and Shea Chair Professor in the Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Southern California. He works in the area of coastal impacts due to extreme natural events.

#7564

Ettore Sottsass

Ettore Sottsass

#117623

Overall Influence

1917 - 2007 (90 years)

Ettore Sottsass was a 20th-century Italian architect, noted for also designing furniture, jewellery, glass, lighting, home and office wares, as well as numerous buildings and interiors — often defined by bold colours.

#7565

Salah Benlabed

#138561

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Salah Benlabed is an Algerian architect, academic, novelist and poet. Formerly a professor of architecture at the University of Algiers, he has been based in Montreal for more than a decade. He has designed numerous architectural projects in both Algeria and Quebec, including the CCE towers in downtown Montreal.

#7566

Ifedayo Oladapo

#76741

Overall Influence

1932 - 2010 (78 years)

Ifedayo Olawole Oladapo, OON, FICE, NNOM, was a Nigerian academic and professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Lagos. Early life Ifedayo was born in Ondo City and had his early education at Government College, Ibadan. He attended the University College Ibadan in 1954 and graduated with honors and afterwards earned a B.Sc. in civil engineering from the University of St. Andrews, graduating with First Class honours in 1959. He earned a Ph.D. in structural engineering from the University of Cambridge in 1962.

#7567

Phil Moorby

#26236

Overall Influence

2000 - 2022 (22 years)

Phil Moorby was a British engineer and computer scientist. Moorby was born and brought up in Birmingham, England, and studied Mathematics at Southampton University, England. Moorby received his master's degree in computer science from Manchester University, England, in 1974. He moved to the United States in 1983.

#7568

Russell Johnson

#102456

Overall Influence

1923 - 2007 (84 years)

Frederick Russell Johnson was an architect and acoustical expert. Johnson was the founder of Artec Consultants Incorporated in 1970. Nicknamed the "guardian of the ear" by Jean Nouvel in 1998 and an "acoustic guru" by others, Johnson was best known for works that included technical designs for the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, Texas, Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York, New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Centre in the Square in Canada, Pikes Peak Center in Colorado, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts in Canada and the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in Florida.

#7569

Juan Sobrino

#163433

Overall Influence

Juan Sobrino is a civil engineer, known internationally for designing more than 400 bridges, introduction of advanced materials in bridges and innovative bridge designs. He is the founder of Pedelta, an international structural engineering firm.

#7570

Carmen Córdova

#120610

Overall Influence

1929 - 2011 (82 years)

Carmen Córdova was an Argentine architect who was part of the . In 1994 she became the first woman dean of the at the University of Buenos Aires. In 2004, she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Fondo Nacional de las Artes.

#7571

Ingeborg Sølvberg

#123704

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Ingeborg Sølvberg is a Norwegian engineer. Career Graduating from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1966, Sølvberg was assigned to the Computing Center at the Norwegian Institute of Technology, and was responsible for the design and implementation of the library information system BIBSYS. The BIBSYS project started in February 1972, and Sølvberg was project leader from 1972 to 1986. As of 2005, 112 libraries were connected to the BIBSYS database.

#7572

Dai Fudong

#126671

Overall Influence

1928 - 2018 (90 years)

Dai Fudong was a Chinese architect. He was a lifelong professor of Tongji University and the founding director of the university's Institute of High-tech Building Technology. He was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1999. He emphasized the use of local and natural materials in his designs, and summarized his design philosophy as "modern bones, traditional soul, and natural clothing". Over a career spanning more than 50 years, Dai and his wife Wu Lusheng designed about 100 projects together.

#7573

Massoud Amin

#107176

Overall Influence

Massoud Amin is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States. He holds the Honeywell/H.W. Sweatt Chair in Technological Leadership, and is the Director of the Technological Leadership Institute in Twin Cities. He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2016 for leadership in smart grids and security of critical infrastructures. He is also a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

#7574

David H. Staelin

#162638

Overall Influence

1938 - 2011 (73 years)

David Hudson Staelin was an American astronomer, engineer, and entrepreneur. He co-discovered the Crab nebula pulsar in 1968, and was Principal Investigator for earth-remote-sensing satellite instruments. He was a co-founder of Environmental Research and Technology, Inc. and the founding chairman of PictureTel Corp., one of the first videoconferencing firms.

#7575

Khai Ngo

#145842

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Khai D. T. Ngo is a Professor of electrical and computer engineering at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2015 for his contributions to the unified synthesis and modeling of switched-mode converters.

#7576

David J. Love

#101805

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (47 years)

David J. Love is an American professor of engineering at Purdue University. He completed his B.S. and M.S. degrees, both in electrical engineering, at the University of Texas at Austin in 2000 and 2002, respectively. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from UT Austin in 2004 under the supervision of Robert W. Heath Jr. Love was appointed as an assistant professor at Purdue University in 2004. In 2009, he was promoted to associate professor, and in 2013, he was made full professor. In 2012, he was recognized as a University Faculty Scholar at Purdue. In 2018, he was named a Reilly P...

#7577

Oliver Bauchau

#98331

Overall Influence

Olivier Bauchau is an American aerospace engineer, the Igor Sikorsky Distinguished Professor in Rotorcraft at University of Maryland, College Park, and a published author. he is a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, American Society of Mechanical Engineers and American Helicopter Society.

#7578

Paul S. Cederna

#139228

Overall Influence

Paul S. Cederna is an American plastic surgeon who is Robert Oneal Professor of Plastic Surgery, Chief of the Section of Plastic Surgery, and Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan.

#7579

Shaista Wahab

#57493

Overall Influence

Shaista Wahab has written Dari language books. Her book A Brief History of Afghanistan was published in 2007. Wahab was a librarian and professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha where she coordinated the Arthur Paul Afghanistan Collection in the Dr. C.C. and Mabel L. Criss Library Archives & Special Collections. An oral history specialist, she served as a consultant to the Afghanistan Unveiled film project by Independent Lens, which was later picked up by PBS.

#7580

Lev Dodin

#18153

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Lev Abramovich Dodin is a modern Russian theater director, the leader of Saint Petersburg Maly Drama Theater. Biography Lev Dodin was born in Novokuznetsk in 1944. He first experienced theatrical production as a child at the Theater of Youth Creativity directed by Matvey Dubrovin. Studied at Leningrad State Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinema under Boris Sohn and Georgy Tovstonogov which he graduated in 1966.

#7581

Mireille Broucke

#148626

Overall Influence

Mireille Esther Broucke is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Toronto, interested in control theory, mathematical systems theory, and swarm robotics. Broucke did her undergraduate studies at the University of Texas at Austin, where her father Roger A. Broucke, an immigrant from Belgium, was a professor of aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics. She graduated in 1984, with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. She went on to graduate study in electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, earning a m...

#7582

Shinzaburo Takeda

#80830

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Shinzaburo Takeda is a Japanese-Mexican painter and printmaker. He is considered one of Oaxaca's most important artists. Takeda has lived in Mexico for over fifty years and trained several generations of Mexican artists, many of them indigenous Zapotecs and Mixtecs.

#7583

Ken Winters

#168039

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Ken C. Winters is an American psychologist known for his research on addictive behaviors such as problem gambling. He is a senior scientist at the Oregon Research Institute , a consultant for the National American Indian & Alaska Native Addiction Technology Transfer Center, and a Research Associate Professor for the Office of Research and Economic Development at Florida International University. He previously served as a tenured professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Minnesota, as a Senior Scientist with the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based Treatment Research Institute, and an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Psychology at the University of Minnesota.

#7584

Claude Berrou

#168788

Overall Influence

#7585

Robert Frank

#29313

Overall Influence

1924 - 2019 (95 years)

Robert Frank was a Swiss American photographer and documentary filmmaker. His most notable work, the 1958 book titled The Americans, earned Frank comparisons to a modern-day de Tocqueville for his fresh and nuanced outsider's view of American society. Critic Sean O'Hagan, writing in The Guardian in 2014, said The Americans "changed the nature of photography, what it could say and how it could say it. [ ... ] it remains perhaps the most influential photography book of the 20th century." Frank later expanded into film and video and experimented with manipulating photographs and photomontage.

#7586

Shelly Peyton

#90373

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Shelly R. Peyton is an American chemical engineer who is the Armstrong Professional Development Professor in the Department of CHemical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research considers the development of biomaterials to investigate metastatic cancer and potential new therapies.

#7587

Bernardo Calderón Cabrera

#168883

Overall Influence

1922 - 2003 (81 years)

Bernardo Calderón Cabrera was a Mexican architect. Biography Calderón studied at the Escuela Nacional de Arquitectura of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México from 1940 to 1945, where he later taught from 1947 to May 2003. In 1980 he graduated as Master of Architecture.

#7588

David Sedlak

#131811

Overall Influence

David L. Sedlak is an American environmental engineer and currently the Plato Malozemoff Professor at University of California, Berkeley. He was previously Editor-in-Chief of American Chemical Society's ES&T and ES&T Letters. His research interests are chemical contaminants and water resources. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2016 for contributions to environmental aqueous chemistry, especially in the areas of water reuse, water contaminants, and urban water infrastructure.

#7589

Andrea Baschirotto

#168904

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Andrea Baschirotto is a full professor at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy and a Director of the Microelectronics Group. In 2014 Andrea Baschirotto was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers "for contributions to analog filters."

#7590

Susan Albin

#112941

Overall Influence

Susan Lee Albin is an American industrial engineer known for her research in quality engineering, queueing theory, and industrial process monitoring. She is a professor of industrial engineering at Rutgers University, the former president of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, and the former editor-in-chief of IIE Transactions , the flagship journal of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers.

#7591

Jeffrey H. Collins

#124335

Overall Influence

1930 - 2015 (85 years)

Jeff Collins was a British electrical engineer who directed and researched experimental physics, robotics, microelectronics, communications technologies and parallel computing. Moving between academia, commercial and military research throughout his diverse career, he proved to be an enthusiastic leader demonstrated in his numerous directorships, successful fund-raising and his recreational interests of sports. Institutions he worked for included Automation & Robotics Research Institute at the University of Texas at Arlington, Rockwell International, University of Edinburgh, University of Gla...

#7592

Mahesh Bhatt

#25068

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Mahesh Bhatt is an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter known for his works in Hindi cinema. A stand-out film from his earlier period is Saaransh , screened at the 14th Moscow International Film Festival. It became India's official entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for that year. The 1986 film Naam was his first piece of commercial cinema. In 1987, he turned producer with the film Kabzaa under the banner, "Vishesh Films", with his brother Mukesh Bhatt.

#7593

Sheizaf Rafaeli

Sheizaf Rafaeli

#23217

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Sheizaf Rafaeli is an Israeli researcher, scholar of computer-mediated communication and newspaper columnist. He is professor and dean at the School of Management Haifa GSB, University of Haifa Israel and additionally director of the Center for Internet Research Center for Internet Research and the Games for Managers Project. In the 1980s and 1990s he served as head of the Information Systems area at the Graduate School of business in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a senior research fellow at the Samuel Neaman Institute for National Policy, Technion.

#7594

Alan Arthur Wells

#130912

Overall Influence

1924 - 2005 (81 years)

Alan Arthur Wells was a British structural engineer. Early life He was born in Goff's Oak, Hertfordshire to Arthur John Wells, a British Oxygen Company engineer and educated at the City of London School as a day boy. He left school in 1940 to become an apprentice fitter and studied for a London University external degree via day release and weekend classes. He was awarded an intermediate B.Sc. in 1941 at the age of 17. After two years at Nottingham University College he was awarded an honours degree in Engineering, 2nd Class.

#7595

Georges El Fakhri

#168952

Overall Influence

Georges El Fakhri from the Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2016 for contributions to biological imaging.

#7596

Jean-François Molinari

#157901

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Jean-François Molinari is a French-Swiss engineer and scientist specialised in the numerical modeling of the mechanics of materials and structures. He is a full professor and the director of the Computational Solid Mechanics Laboratory at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne .

#7597

Sam Y. Zamrik

#150785

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (94 years)

Sam Yusuf Zamrik is a Syrian/American mechanical and consulting engineer, and Emeritus Professor at Pennsylvania State University and expert in the field of high pressure technology, and fracture mechanics. He is more generally known as former president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2007-08.

#7598

Julie Ivy

#56543

Overall Influence

Julie Simmons Ivy is the department chair of and professor in the department of industrial and operations engineering at the University of Michigan. Her research involves health care statistics and the application of systems engineering to health care and to other social services including food bank distribution systems.

#7599

Aimy Bazylak

#163541

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (46 years)

Aimy Ming Jii Bazylak is a Canadian professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Toronto, where she holds a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Thermofluidics for Clean Energy. Her research involves microfluidics, nanofluidics, and their applications in fuel cell design and in carbon sequestration.

#7600

Javier Gil Sevillano

#168987

Overall Influence

Javier Gil Sevillano is the current professor of materials engineering at the Tecnun School of Engineering of the University of Navarra in Spain, and head of the Materials Department at CEIT Research Institute.

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