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List of the most influential people in Engineering,

#8101

Ai Xing

#133559

Overall Influence

1924 - 2018 (94 years)

Ai Xing was a Chinese mechanical engineer and educator who specialized in high-speed machining and tool materials. He was a longtime professor at Shandong University and its predecessor Shandong University of Technology, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

#8102

Tarek Loubani

#77507

Overall Influence

Tarek Loubani is a Canadian doctor and humanitarian. He runs the Glia Project, which seeks to provide medical supplies to impoverished locations, and developed a low-cost stethoscope in 2015. He serves as Associate Professor at the University of Western Ontario and works in emergency rooms.

#8103

N'Goné Fall

#106627

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

N'Goné Fall is a Senegalese curator, editor, and cultural policies consultant. Biography N'Goné Fall was born in 1967 in Dakar Senegal where she grew up. She graduated with honors from the École Spéciale d'Architecture in Paris and received the prize of the best 1993 graduation project under the supervision of her professor Paul Virilio, a French theoretician.

#8104

Márta Rencz

#169570

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Dr. Márta Rencz is an Electrical Engineer. She is a faculty member and former Head of Department at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics and a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

#8105

Claire E. Eyers

#93967

Overall Influence

Claire Eyers is a British biological mass spectrometrist who is professor of biological mass spectrometry at the University of Liverpool, where she heads up the Centre for Proteome Research. Her research publications list her either as Claire E Haydon or Claire E Eyers .

#8106

Valerie M. Thomas

#151801

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Valerie Margaret Thomas is an American physicist and environmental engineer, with broad research interests in environmental technology including aspects of the subject relating to materials science, energy systems, transportation and transportation energy use, and economics. She is the Anderson Interface Professor of Natural Systems at Georgia Tech, appointed jointly to the schools of industrial and systems engineering and public policy.

#8107

Ethel Finck

#77387

Overall Influence

1932 - 2003 (71 years)

Ethel Jean Finck, M.D. , was an American interventional radiologist, credited as one of three women founders of the Society of Interventional Radiology in 1973. She was also the inventor of the Finck cardiac catheter.

#8108

Hayao Miyazaki

#48706

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

is a Japanese animator, filmmaker, and manga artist. A co-founder of Studio Ghibli, he has attained international acclaim as a masterful storyteller and creator of Japanese animated feature films, and is widely regarded as one of the most accomplished filmmakers in the history of animation.

#8109

John Sexton

#102265

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

John Sexton is an American fine art photographer who specializes in black and white traditional analog photography. Life John Sexton was born in 1953. Education: Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, departmental honors, Art – Photography, Chapman University, Orange, California; Associate of Arts, with honors, Photography, Cypress College, Cypress, California

#8110

Joshua Reiss

#174596

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Joshua Reiss is a British author, academic, inventor and entrepreneur. He is best known for his work in intelligent audio technologies and his co-authorship of the book Audio Effects Theory Implementation and Application.

#8111

Boris Laschka

#153081

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (92 years)

Boris Laschka is a German fluid dynamics scientist and aeronautical engineer known for his work in unsteady aerodynamics, in applied aerodynamics, in aeroelasticity, and by his participation in the development of several experimental, civil, and military airplanes, e.g. VTOL VJ 101, Airbus A300 and A310, CN 235 and N 250 and Tornado aircraft.

#8112

Wendy Hiller

#48050

Overall Influence

1912 - 2003 (91 years)

Dame Wendy Margaret Hiller, was an English film and stage actress who enjoyed a varied acting career that spanned nearly 60 years. Writer Joel Hirschorn, in his 1984 compilation Rating the Movie Stars, described her as "a no-nonsense actress who literally took command of the screen whenever she appeared on film". Despite many notable film performances, Hiller chose to remain primarily a stage actress.

#8113

Ann Tenno

#103753

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Ann Tenno is an Estonian photographer and photo artist. Lonely Planet states that "some of the most spectacular and sensitive photographs of Estonia have been taken by Ann Tenno and published in books which best capture the spirit of Estonian nature." She is noted in particular for her town landscapes, especially photographs of the Estonian capital of Tallinn, and the churches and manor houses of Estonia.

#8114

Jacky Bowring

#144947

Overall Influence

Jacky Bowring is a New Zealand landscape architecture academic specialising in memories and memorials. She is currently a full professor at Lincoln University. Academic career After a BSc at the University of Canterbury, Bowring completed a diploma and then a PhD in landscape architecture at Lincoln University. Joining the staff, Bowring rose to full professor.

#8115

Alexandros Potamianos

#176452

Overall Influence

Alexandros Potamianos is an engineer at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2016 for his contributions to human-centered speech and multimodal signal analysis.

#8116

John D. Lawson

#93913

Overall Influence

1923 - 2008 (85 years)

John David Lawson FRS was a British engineer and physicist. Early life He was born in Coventry and educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School before going on to St John's College, Cambridge, to study for the short Mechanical Sciences degree, including a special wartime radio course. He graduated BA in 1943 and then joined the Telecommunications Research Establishment, Malvern, where he was assigned to work on microwave antenna design as part of the ongoing work on development of radar.

#8117

Hiroshi Tamura

#176496

Overall Influence

#8118

Janusz Tadeusz Cieśliński

#174275

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Janusz Tadeusz Cieśliński was born on April 15, 1954, in Słupsk, Poland. Polish full professor of Gdańsk University of Technology, research fields Mechanical Engineering, Thermodynamics. Vice-Rector for Organisation of Gdańsk University of Technology since 1 September 2016.

#8119

Prithvi Singh Kandhal

#176513

Overall Influence

Prithvi Singh Kandhal is an American civil engineer who has been recognized internationally for his work in asphalt road construction technology. Kandhal was inducted in August 2011 onto the "Wall of Honor" established at the National Center for Asphalt Technology , the largest asphalt road research center in the world. In 2012 he became an Honorary Member of the Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists .

#8120

Kyle J. Myers

#142958

Overall Influence

Kyle J. Myers is the Director of Imaging and Applied Mathematics at the Food and Drug Administration Centre for Devices and Radiological Health. She is a Fellow of the Optical Society and SPIE. Early life and education Myers was inspired to study physics by her father, who was an engineer. Myers studied physics and mathematics at Occidental College and graduated in 1980. She moved to University of Arizona for her graduate studies, and earned a PhD in optical science in 1985. She was supervised by Harrison H. Barrett. She stayed at the University of Arizona for a postdoctoral fellowship until 1...

#8121

Jiun-Huei Proty Wu

#89208

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Jiun-Huei Proty Wu is a cosmologist in Taiwan. He is currently on secondment serving as the Director of UK Office for Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan. Previously he was the Deputy Vice President for International Affairs, National Taiwan University. He is a tenured professor at Physics Department and Institute of Astrophysics, National Taiwan University, a Joint Researcher, Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica, and an adjunct professor, Institute of Physics, National Chengchi University. He also promotes telescope-DIY and 3D film making.

#8122

Kent Butler

#140002

Overall Influence

1951 - 2011 (60 years)

Kent Scott Butler was an American urban and environmental planner, and associate dean of the Community and Regional Planning program at the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture until his death on May 13, 2011.

#8123

George Fleming

#173421

Overall Influence

George Fleming is a Scottish civil engineer specialising in environmental issues. Educated at the Royal College of Science and Technology, Stanford University and the University of Strathclyde he is a doctor of philosophy. His research started with studies of the hydrology of the River Clyde that expanded to a range of subjects including, flood risk, dredging, nuclear waste management, decommissioning of North Sea platforms and contaminated land. He has written reports on flooding for the Institution of Civil Engineers and the British government. Fleming was involved in the planning stages...

#8124

Ted Landsmark

#30247

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Theodore "Ted" Carlisle Landsmark is an American educator and lawyer. Landsmark is currently distinguished professor of public policy and urban affairs and director of the Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University. His research interests include diversity in design, environmental design, design education, higher education administration, community-based economic development, public policy, historic preservation, and African American art and artisanry.

#8125

Matt Law

#176545

Overall Influence

#8126

Nancy Pollard

#96862

Overall Influence

Nancy S. Pollard is an American computer scientist, roboticist, and computer graphics researcher. She is a professor in the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute, where she heads the Foam Robotics Lab.

#8127

Ning Lu

#175862

Overall Influence

Ning Lu is an electrical engineer whose research specializes in electric power systems, and in modeling, scheduling, and controlling the load profile in smart grids, including the demand response of grid friendly household appliances, energy storage, and the integration of renewable energy sources into the grid. Educated in China and the US, she is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University.

#8128

Rizia Bardhan

#173144

Overall Influence

Rizia Bardhan is an Indian origin American biomolecular engineer who is an Associate Professor of Chemical & Biological Engineering at Iowa State University. She is Associate Editor of ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

#8129

Gail Davey

#103311

Overall Influence

Gail Davey OBE is a professor of epidemiology at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, University of Sussex, UK. Her work focuses on Neglected Tropical Diseases, particular podoconiosis. Career Davey specialises in neglected tropical diseases, especially ones that involve the skin. After taking an MBBChir degree in medicine, she trained in epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, gaining Masters and MD degrees. She then worked at the School of Public Health, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia for almost a decade, developing training programmes in public health to doctora...

#8130

Rae Zimmerman

#176598

Overall Influence

Rae Zimmerman is an American engineer, currently at New York University and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Education B.A. in chemistry from the University of California, BerkeleyMaster of City Planning from the University of PennsylvaniaPh.D. in planning from Columbia University

#8131

David Gemmell McKinlay

#154066

Overall Influence

1923 - 1997 (74 years)

Prof David Gemmell McKinlay FRSE FICE FGS was a Scottish civil engineer. He specialised in hydraulics and soil mechanics. Life He was born in Riddrie in eastern Glasgow on 23 August 1923. He was educated at Allan Glen's School in Glasgow. From 1941 to 1944 he studied Civil Engineering at Glasgow University graduating BSc and then doing further postgraduate research. This was concurrent with service in the Royal Navy in the Pacific as an Air Engineer Officer.

#8132

Caterina Scoglio

#171305

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Caterina M. Scoglio is an Italian network scientist and computer engineer, the LeRoy and Aileen Paslay Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Kansas State University, the director of the Network Science and Engineering Group in the department, and the former chair of the IEEE Control Systems Society Technical Committee on Medical and Health Care Systems.

#8133

Rodney Leon

#81547

Overall Influence

Rodney Leon is an American architect. He is the founder of Rodney Leon Architect. He is the designer of the monument The Ark of Return, and the memorial for the New York City African Burial Ground National Monument. He specializes in urban planning projects in the United States of America, and abroad, projects with cultural, residential, and religious. He is a member of The Haitian Roundtable . It is an organization of the Haitian-American professionals committed to civic engagement as well as philanthropic endeavors to benefit Haiti. It was started in 2008.

#8134

Akpofure Rim-Rukeh

#171752

Overall Influence

Akpofure Rim-Rukeh is a Nigerian professor of Microbial Corrosion and Environmental Studies who was the former deputy Vice Chancellor of Federal University of Petroleum Resources Effurun and currently the 4th substantive Vice Chancellor of same school.

#8135

Glenda Kapstein Lomboy

Glenda Kapstein Lomboy

#175811

Overall Influence

1939 - 2008 (69 years)

Glenda Inés Kapstein Lomboy is a Chilean architect who won the 2003 PLEA Lifetime Achievement Awards for "sustainable architecture and urban design." Life Glenda Inés Kapstein was born in Chile in 1939 and grew up in El Quisco in the Valparaíso Region and was inspired at an early age by the project of . She entered the University of Valparaíso in 1959 to study architecture. In 1961 and 1962, she traveled with a group of students to study in Europe and then in 1963 participated in the Seventh Congress of the International Union of Architects held in Havana. She returned to Chile and was highl...

#8136

Sheila Kennedy

#116209

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Sheila Kennedy is an American architect and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who is known for including green technology, such as flexible solar cells, into her designs. She is interested in using technology in new ways and in re-examining traditional ways of building and designing structures.

#8137

David Armstrong

#55521

Overall Influence

1954 - 2014 (60 years)

David Bradley Armstrong was an American photographer based in New York. Armstrong first exhibited his work in 1977 and had one-person shows in New York City, Boston, Berlin, Paris, Rome, Zurich, Düsseldorf, Lisbon, Munich, and Amsterdam. His work was included in numerous group museum exhibitions including Visions from America: Photographs from The Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2001 in 2003, Emotions and Relations at the Hamburger Kunsthalle in 1998, and the 1995 Whitney Biennial.

#8138

Gianni Ciofani

#140811

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (44 years)

Gianni Ciofani is an Italian scientist. He is senior researcher tenured at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia.. His research interests are mainly in the field of smart nanomaterials for nanomedicine, including the bio/non-biointeractions, and the biological processes in altered gravity conditions.

#8139

Angelo Torricelli

#175742

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Angelo Torricelli is an Italian architect. Biography Torricelli was born in Milan in 1946. He graduated from Polytechnic University of Milan's Faculty of Architecture in 1969 . Full professor in Architectural composition, he has been dean of the Faculty of Civil Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Milan from 2008 until 2015; from 2011 until 2016 he has been head of the Architecture Board of the Polytechnic University of Milan.

#8140

Takanori Shibata

#176758

Overall Influence

#8141

Andrew J. Ouderkirk

Andrew J. Ouderkirk

#176760

Overall Influence

Andrew J. Ouderkirk is a widely recognized senior scientist at 3M, an American multinational conglomerate. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2005 for the development and commercialization of multilayer polymer films with unique optical properties. He is prolific inventor listed on 308 U.S. patents as of September 29, 2020 and a principal developer of a class of highly efficient polymer-based mirrors Dr. Ouderkirk currently works for Oculus Research.

#8142

Kermit Scott

#49510

Overall Influence

1936 - 2008 (72 years)

Theodore Kermit Scott Jr. was an American counselor and professor of philosophy. Scott was a childhood friend of Muppets creator Jim Henson who was incorrectly presumed to be the namesake of Kermit the Frog.

#8143

Tong Sun

#154611

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Tong Sun is a Professor of Sensor Engineering and Director of the Research Centre for Photonics and Instrumentation at City, University of London. She was awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal in 2016 and awarded an Order of the British Empire in the 2018 Birthday Honours. In 2020 she was elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

#8144

Badreddine Assouar

#176033

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Badreddine Assouar is a physicist, currently director of research at CNRS and the University of Lorraine in France. His research focuses on metamaterials, metasurfaces, phononic crystals and SAW devices. He is an associate editor of Physical Review Applied.

#8145

Zhengqiang Li

#176797

Overall Influence

#8146

Joel Bernstein

#100088

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Joel Bernstein is a photographer, guitarist, and record producer based in Oakland, California. His photographs have appeared as the album covers for After the Gold Rush, 4 Way Street, Rita Coolidge, Wind on the Water, Running on Empty, CSN, Bob Dylan at Budokan, Rust Never Sleeps, Shadows and Light, Hard Promises and many others. His photographs have been published in Time, The New York Times, and Rolling Stone, among other publications, and there have been retrospective exhibits of his work in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and London. As a guitarist, he is most noted for support ...

#8147

Chet Moritz

#100591

Overall Influence

Chet T. Moritz is an American neural engineer, neuroscientist, physiologist, and academic researcher. He is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and holds joint appointments in the School of Medicine departments of Rehabilitation Medicine, and Physiology & Biophysics at the University of Washington.

#8148

Umut A. Gurkan

#109062

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Umut Atakan Gurkan is a Turkish–American mechanical and biomedical engineer. As the Wilbert J. Austin Professor of Engineering at Case Western Reserve University, Gurkan investigates hemoglobin, red blood cells, blood rheology and microcirculation in health and disease and with targeted therapies and gene-based cures.

#8149

Soichiro Honda

#115883

Overall Influence

1906 - 1991 (85 years)

Soichiro Honda was a Japanese engineer and industrialist. In 1948, he established Honda Motor Co., Ltd. and oversaw its expansion from a wooden shack manufacturing bicycle motors to a multinational automobile and motorcycle manufacturer.

#8150

Rufina Alamo

#175328

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Rufina G. Álamo Matesanz is a Spanish-American polymer scientist known particularly for her research on polyethylene and polypropylene and on sustainable polymers such as polyoxymethylene made from biomass. She is Simon Ostrach Professor of Engineering and distinguished research professor of chemical and biomedical engineering in the Florida A&M University – Florida State University College of Engineering.

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