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Peter Corke
1959 - Present (65 years)
Peter Corke is an Australian roboticist known for his work on Visual Servoing, field robotics, online education, the online Robot Academy and the Robotics Toolbox and Machine Vision Toolbox for MATLAB . He is currently director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Robotic Vision, and a Distinguished Professor of Robotic Vision at Queensland University of Technology. His research is concerned with robotic vision, flying robots and farming robots.
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Luigi Pascale
1923 - 2017 (94 years)
Luigi Pascale was an Italian engineer designer of light aircraft. He was the founder of the aircraft manufacturers Partenavia and Tecnam, the latter a company he started with his brother Giovanni. Biography Luigi "Gino" Pascale was born in Naples, Italy in 1923. He teamed with his brother Giovanni to design and construct several light aircraft. The first completed design was the Partenavia Astore in 1948.
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Danica Kragic
1971 - Present (53 years)
Danica Kragic is a professor of computer science from the Royal Institute of Technology , Stockholm, Sweden. She was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2016 for contributions to vision-based systems and robotic object manipulation.
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Marc A. Meyers
1946 - Present (78 years)
Marc André Meyers is an American materials scientist, engineer and Distinguished Professor at the University of California, San Diego. Meyers studies and writes about the dynamic behavior of materials, synthesis, processing, impact testing, and characterization of new materials. He also studies the properties of biological materials, and in particular the protective coverings of animals. Abalone shells, toucan beaks, the scales of exotic fish, feathers, piranha teeth, rabbit skin, boxfish, turtle and armadillo carapaces, and pangolin scales are some of the biological materials studied by his ...
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John Brooks Slaughter
1934 - Present (90 years)
John Brooks Slaughter is an American electrical engineer and former college president who served as the first African-American director of the National Science Foundation . His work focuses on development of computer algorithms for system optimization and discrete signal processing.
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Andrew M. Weiner
1958 - Present (66 years)
Andrew Marc Weiner OSA NAE NAI is an American electrical engineer, educator and researcher known for contributions to the fields of ultrafast optics and optical signal processing. He is the Scifres Family Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University.
Go to ProfileRobert Hauschild Liebeck is an American aerodynamicist, professor and aerospace engineer. Until retiring from his position as senior fellow at the Boeing Company. in 2020, he oversaw their Blended Wing Body program. He has been a member of the National Academy of Engineering since 1992, where he is an AIAA Honorary Fellow, the organization’s highest distinction. He is best known for his contributions to aircraft design and his pioneering airfoil designs known as the "Liebeck Airfoil". Since his retirement he remains active in aviation industry associations and continues to teach at UCI.
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Nei Kato
2000 - Present (24 years)
is a computer engineer at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2013 for his contributions to satellite systems and network intrusion detection. Since that year, he is also a fellow of the Vehicular Technology Society. He is also an academician of the Engineering Academy of Japan.
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Raymond Smallman
1929 - 2015 (86 years)
Raymond Edward Smallman was a British metallurgist and academic known for his research into alloys and the causes of metal fatigue. Smallman was also a significant figure at the University of Birmingham, serving as its vice-principal between 1987 and 1992 and helping to establish its reputation as a leading modern research university.
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Peter Lawrenson
1933 - 2017 (84 years)
Peter John Lawrenson, FIEE, FIEEE, FRS, FREng was an Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Leeds who pioneered and championed the development of switched reluctance drive technology. He also made significant contributions to the analysis and computation of magnetic fields and electrical machines in general, writing several notable text books along with colleagues Kenneth Binns, Martyn Harris and J. Michael Stephenson and latterly with C.W. Trowbridge.
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Carlo Weber
1934 - 2014 (80 years)
Carlo Weber was a German architect and professor, the founder and senior partner of Auer+Weber+Assoziierte. Career 1953–1961 studied and graduated at TH Stuttgart 1959–1960 Scholarship to the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris1962 graduated from TH Stuttgart1960–1965 Behnisch and Lambart, Stuttgart1965 Yamasaki+Associates, Birmingham, Michigan, USA1966–1979 Partner in Behnisch & Partner, and designed Olympiapark with Günter Behnisch and Fritz Auer in Munichsince 1980 Office Auer+Weber with Fritz Auer1985–1992 Lecturer of Stuttgart University19...
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A. Richard Newton
1951 - 2007 (56 years)
Arthur Richard Newton was the dean of the College of Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. Career Newton was educated at the University of Melbourne and received a BE in 1973 and MEng.Sci in 1975. He then went to Berkeley in 1975 to work on SPICE , a program initially developed by Larry Nagel and Donald Pederson to analyse and design complex electronic circuitry with speed and accuracy. It is claimed that nearly all electronic integrated circuits have been designed using SPICE or a derivative since the 1980s.
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Arlindo Oliveira
1963 - Present (61 years)
Arlindo Manuel Limede de Oliveira is a Portuguese academic, researcher and writer. He is author of more than 150 scientific articles and papers in conferences, and three books: Computer Architecture , The Digital Mind , and Inteligência Artificial .
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Agustín Landa Verdugo
1923 - 2009 (86 years)
Agustín Landa Verdugo was a Mexican architect and urban planner, born in Mexico City. He studied architecture in the National University of Mexico . In 1945 he established a firm with his brother Enrique, with whom he designed hundreds of public and private buildings during four decades of partnership. The firm's work distinguished itself by its modern language and the efficiency and economy of the solutions it proposed.
Go to ProfileDavid Collingwood Jiles FInstP FIEE FIET FIMA FIMMM FLSW is the Anson Marston Distinguished Professor of Engineering and holder of the Palmer Endowed Department Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University.
Go to ProfileNan Marie Jokerst is an American professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University known for her work integrating optoelectronics with semiconductor substrates in order to create portable environmental and medical sensors. She is a Fellow of the Optical Society and Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
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Alan Grodzinsky
1953 - Present (71 years)
Alan J. Grodzinsky is an American scientist and Professor of Electrical, Mechanical and Biological Engineering and Director of the Center for Biomedical Engineering at MIT. He graduated in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 1971, obtaining a doctorate three years later under the supervision of James Melcher, with a thesis on membrane electromechanics.
Go to ProfileHenry H. Radamson is a Swedish professor of microelectronics known for his contribution to semiconductor devices and his invention, Multilayered Thermistor Structure. Radamson teaches and conducts research within the field of semiconductor physics at different universities and research centers in Sweden and Mid Sweden University, Department of Electronics DesignInstitute of Microelectronics, Chinese Academy of SciencesTexas Instruments, Semiconductor Research Corporation
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Mary Blade
1913 - 1994 (81 years)
Mary Plumb Blade was an American engineer, director of the Green Camp from 1955 to 1972, and full-time professor of mechanical engineering in the engineering school of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art from 1946 to 1978.
Go to ProfileAlan E. Willner is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California. He was also president of the Optical Society in 2016. Willner is known for his research on optical fiber communications and free-space communications. Willner's doctoral advisor was Richard M. Osgood Jr.
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James Dunbar-Nasmith
1927 - Present (97 years)
Sir James Duncan Dunbar-Nasmith was a British conservation architect. James Dunbar-Nasmith was born in Devon, the son of Admiral Sir Martin Dunbar-Nasmith, and Beatrix Justina Dunbar-Dunbar-Rivers . His elder brother was Rear-Admiral David Dunbar-Nasmith, . He was educated at Lockers Park School, Winchester College and Trinity College, Cambridge.
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David Delpy
1948 - Present (76 years)
David Thomas Delpy, , is a British bioengineer, and Hamamatsu Professor of Medical Photonics, at University College London. Education Delpy was educated at Heaton Grammar School in Newcastle. He went on to study at Brunel University, graduating with a first class Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Physics. He was awarded a Doctor of Science degree by University College London in Medical physics.
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John Milsum
1924 - 2008 (84 years)
John H. Milsum was a Canadian control engineer who was Professor and first Director at the Biomedical Engineering Department of the McGill University in Montreal, and a professor at the University of British Columbia. Milsum is known for his book "Biological Control Systems Analysis" from 1966, which is a classic in the field and has been translated into many languages.
Go to ProfileJonathan F.K. Earle completed his Ph.D. at the University of Florida in 1985, and joined the faculty in the Department of Agricultural & Biological Engineering in 1987. He was appointed Assistant Dean for Student Affairs at the University of Florida College of Engineering in 1992. This position was later upgraded to Associate Dean. He remained in this position until his retirement in December, 2007. He now holds the title "Associate Dean Emeritus".
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Arden L. Bement Jr.
1932 - Present (92 years)
Arden Lee Bement Jr. is an American engineer and scientist and has served in executive positions in government, industry and academia. Bement was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1983 for contributions to the understanding of irradiation effects in nuclear materials and development of advanced materials concepts for defense applications.
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Giuseppe Caire
1965 - Present (59 years)
Giuseppe Caire is an Italian telecommunications engineer. Career Caire received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Politecnico di Torino in 1990, his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 1992, and his Ph.D. from Politecnico di Torino in 1994. He was a post-doctoral research fellow with the European Space Agency from 1994 to 1995. He has been an assistant professor in Telecommunications at the Politecnico di Torino from 1995 to 1997, an associate professor at the University of Parma from 1997 to 1998, and a full professor with the Department of Mobile Communications at the Eurecom Institute from 1998 to 2005.
Go to ProfileVictor C. Li is the James R. Rice Distinguished University Professor of Engineering and the E.B. Wylie Collegiate Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Michigan. He is also Director of the Center for Low Carbon Built Environment at the University of Michigan College of Engineering. Li led the team that developed engineered cementitious composites , popularly known as "bendable concrete." Li argues EEC can increase the durability of infrastructure and reduce its carbon footprint.
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Ponisseril Somasundaran
1939 - Present (85 years)
Ponisseril Somasundaran is an American mineral engineer of Indian origin and a LaVon Duddleson Krumb Professor of Mineral Engineering at Columbia University, New York. In 2010 the Government of India honoured him with the award of Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award, for his contributions to the fields of science and technology.
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John L. Hennessy
1952 - Present (72 years)
John Leroy Hennessy is an American computer scientist, academician and businessman who serves as chairman of Alphabet Inc. Hennessy is one of the founders of MIPS Computer Systems Inc. as well as Atheros and served as the tenth President of Stanford University. Hennessy announced that he would step down in the summer of 2016. He was succeeded as president by Marc Tessier-Lavigne. Marc Andreessen called him "the godfather of Silicon Valley."
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Haroon Ahmed
1936 - Present (88 years)
Haroon Ahmed FREng , is a British Pakistani scientist in specialising the fields of microelectronics and electrical engineering. He is Emeritus Professor of Microelectronics at the Cavendish Laboratory, the Physics Department of the University of Cambridge, Honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
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Autar Kaw
1960 - Present (64 years)
Autar Kaw is a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of South Florida. In 2012, he won the U.S Professor of the Year award from the Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. Kaw's main scholarly interests are in education research methods, open courseware development, flipped and adaptive learning, and the state and future of higher education.
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Steven J. Schloeder
1960 - Present (64 years)
Steven J. Schloeder is a theologian, architect, and author. Early life and career Steven Joseph Schloeder received the bachelor of architecture cum laude from Arizona State University in 1984. After acquiring professional registration in the State of Arizona, Schloeder received the Rotary International Graduate Scholarship and completed the Master in Architecture degree at the University of Bath, studying under Prof. Michael Brawne. His thesis, The Architecture of the Vatican Two Church, established a theory of sacramental architecture in criticism and rejection of the tenets of architectural...
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Mart Port
1922 - 2012 (90 years)
Mart Port was an Estonian architect and pedagogue. He was the head of many statutory plans during the Soviet era, including Tallinn, Tartu, Pärnu, Viljandi and Tallinn's districts Mustamäe, Väike-Õismäe and Lasnamäe.
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Wolf Dieter Prix
1942 - Present (82 years)
Wolf Dieter Prix is an Austrian architect. In 1968 he co-founded the architects' cooperative Coop Himmelbau, which has an international reputation as an important representative of deconstructivism.
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Arthur H. Lefebvre
1923 - 2003 (80 years)
Arthur Henry Lefebvre was a British scientist and an innovative leader in the science and engineering of fuel sprays and combustion in gas turbines. Career During his career he developed several innovative atomizers, including prefilming and effervescent designs for aircraft engines. Improvements in atomization greatly reduced the emissions of soot and were instrumental in increasing the reliability of the combustor that was critical to improve the engine robustness. Lefebvre was a pioneer in the development of the jet engine, and arguably one who contributed more as a researcher, designer and educator than any other, except the original inventors – Sir Frank Whittle and Hans von Ohain.
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Joan Busquets
1946 - Present (78 years)
Joan Busquets i Grau is a Spanish architect, urban planner, and educator. Busquets is the Martin Bucksbaum Professor in Practice of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He is founder of the architecture firm, BAU Barcelona. Busquets was awarded the 2011 Erasmus Prize, an annual award for exceptional contributions to European culture and society, "...in appreciation of his impressive and multifaceted oeuvre in the field of city planning."
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Kees Christiaanse
1953 - Present (71 years)
Kees Christiaanse is an architect and urban planner from the Netherlands. After working with Rem Koolhaas, he started two firms, KCAP in 1989 and Architects and Planners in 1990, where he was a partner till 2002. Christiaanse has "tackled some of the highest profile urban design schemes in the Netherlands, hosting buildings by" the finest Dutch and several international architects.
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Vadim Komkov
1919 - 2008 (89 years)
Vadim Komkov was born in Moscow, Russia, and raised in Poland after his parents died in the Bolshevik Revolution. He was a member of the Polish RAF during WWII. He was stationed at Hucknall Aerodrome, and was sent to RAF Wrexham to practice flying the Avro Lancaster and the Supermarine Spitfire. He later became a mechanical engineer in London, where he met and married his first wife Joyce Radford, of Long Eaton, England, in 1946. He received his Diplom Ingenieur from Warsaw Polytechnic in 1948. He and Joyce had their first child after the war and the family moved to emigrated to Zambia where he worked for the Rhokana Mining Company.
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Robert H. Todd
1942 - Present (82 years)
Robert H. Todd is an American engineer and Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Brigham Young University and a fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education. Todd received a bachelor's degree from California State University, Northridge and an MS from Stanford University, and holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University. In 1971, he was serving as a counselor to Bishop Henry B. Eyring in the Stanford Ward of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when Bishop Eyring was called to be the new president of Ricks College. Todd accepted an invitation to become the first professor of mechanical engineering at Ricks to have a Ph.D.
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Robert Ash
1933 - Present (91 years)
Robert Lafayette Ash is a Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and an Eminent Scholar at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. Early life and education In 1968, Ash graduated from Tulane University in New Orleans with a PhD in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and in 1963, he graduated from Kansas State University with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. Ash's father-in-law was Lewis Webb Jr., who served as the first president of Old Dominion University.
Go to ProfileMichael McAlpine is an associate professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Minnesota, where he researches 3D printing functional materials. He was formerly an assistant professor of aerospace engineering at Princeton University, where he conducted research on materials capable of generating power from human motion. He has a BS from Brown University, an MA and a Ph.D. from Harvard University, all in chemistry. In 2010 he was included in the MIT Technology Review's TR35 list.
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William Eggleston
1939 - Present (85 years)
William Eggleston is an American photographer. He is widely credited with increasing recognition for color photography as a legitimate artistic medium. Eggleston's books include William Eggleston's Guide and The Democratic Forest .
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Aydın Boysan
1921 - 2018 (97 years)
Aydın Boysan was a Turkish architect, academic, author and essayist. Life and profession Boysan was born in Istanbul; his father Esat was an accountant and his mother Nevreste was a teacher. After Pertevniyal High School he studied architecture in Academy of Fine Arts . For 54 years he served as an architect. During this period he won many architectural design competitions both at home and abroad. The total area of his building designs was about In 1954, he became the charter member of the Chamber of Architects. He also became the first secretary general of the chamber. Later he served as the representative of the chamber in Istanbul.
Go to ProfileDr. Vasant K. Prabhu is a professor in the Electrical Engineering department at the University of Texas at Arlington. He has taught at UTA since 1991. He specializes in teaching and researching digital communication systems.
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Jennifer A. Lewis
1964 - Present (60 years)
Jennifer A. Lewis is an American materials scientist and engineer, best known for her research on colloidal assembly of ceramics and 3D printing of functional, structural, and biological materials. In 2017, Lewis was elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering for the development of materials and processes for 3-dimensional direct fabrication of multifunctional structures.
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Françoise Choay
1925 - Present (99 years)
Françoise Choay is a French architectural and urban historian and theorist. Since 1973, she has been a professor at the University of Paris. She has also been a visiting professor at numerous universities in the United States, Belgium and Italy.
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