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List of the most influential people in Engineering,

#2301

Paul Harry Roberts

#94136

Overall Influence

#2302

Jerome Ritz

#94158

Overall Influence

#2303

Emilia Fridman

#85037

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Emilia Fridman is an Israeli professor of Electrical Engineering in the Engineering Faculty at Tel Aviv University, specializing in control theory, time-delay and distributed parameter systems. She is an IEEE fellow for “contributions to time-delay systems and sampled-data control”.

#2304

Hatim Zaghloul

#38824

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Hatim Zaghloul Ph.D., M.Sc., B.E.E. is best known for his inventions, together with his long-time friend, Dr. Michel Fattouche of Wideband Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing , and Multi-code Direct-sequence Spread Spectrum . WOFDM is the foundation for the IEEE 802.11a/g/n technologies whereas MCDSSS helped increase the data rates of code division multiple access technologies as in the CDMA2000 standard. Currently, Dr. Zaghloul is the CEO and Chairman of Innovatian Inc., Giza, Egypt, a company specializing in building wireless data networks in unconnected countries through WiFi and blockchain.

#2305

George Hargreaves

#48669

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

George Hargreaves is a landscape architect. Under his design direction, the work of his firm has received numerous national awards and has been published and exhibited nationally and internationally. He was an artist in residence at the American Academy of Rome in 2009. Hargreaves and his firm designed numerous sites including the master plan for the Sydney 2000 Olympics, The Brightwater Waste Water Treatment Facility in Seattle, Washington, and University of Cincinnati Master Plan.

#2306

Xie Quan

#94215

Overall Influence

#2307

Suad Amiry

#57856

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Suad Amiry is a Palestinian author and architect living in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Education Her parents went from Palestine to Amman, Jordan. She was brought up there and went to Lebanon's capital of Beirut to study architecture. She studied architecture at the American University of Beirut, the University of Michigan, and the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

#2308

Kui Ren

#94269

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Kui Ren is an engineer at the State University of New York, Buffalo. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2016 for his contributions to security and privacy in cloud computing and wireless networks.

#2309

Chantal Mathieu

#94328

Overall Influence

#2310

Julie Taymor

#2096

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Julie Taymor is an American director and writer of theater, opera, and film. Her stage adaptation of The Lion King debuted in 1997 and received eleven Tony Award nominations, with Taymor receiving Tony Awards for her direction and costume design. Her film Frida, about Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, was nominated for five Academy Awards, including a Best Original Song nomination for Taymor's composition "Burn It Blue". She also directed the 2007 jukebox musical film Across the Universe, based on the music of the Beatles.

#2311

Andrew Hargadon

#30162

Overall Influence

Professor Andrew Hargadon is the Charles J. Soderquist Chair in Entrepreneurship and a professor of Technology Management at the Graduate School of Management, University Of California, Davis. Professor Hargadon is the founding director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and the Energy Efficiency Center at UC Davis. His research focuses on the effective management of innovation and entrepreneurship, particularly in the development and commercialization of sustainable technologies. Professor Hargadon is the author of How Breakthroughs Happen: The Surprising Truth About How Companies Innovate, w...

#2312

David Charles Look

#94582

Overall Influence

#2313

Hubert Aaronson

#68913

Overall Influence

1924 - 2005 (81 years)

Hubert Aaronson was an R.F. Mehl University Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Biography Hubert I. Aaronson was born on July 10, 1924, in New York City. In 1936, Aaronson moved to New Jersey and graduated high school. He graduated Carnegie Institute of Technology which is currently known as Carnegie Mellon University, majoring in engineering.

#2314

Cheryl Cohen

#40266

Overall Influence

Cheryl Cohen is a South African public health researcher who is a professor at the University of the Witwatersrand. She looks to develop evidence-based policy to reduce the burdens of respiratory diseases. During the COVID-19 pandemic. Cohen investigated the rates of COVID-19 in South Africa.

#2315

Yu Xia

#94621

Overall Influence

#2316

Elaine Oran

#77081

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Elaine Surick Oran is an American physical scientist and is considered a world authority on numerical methods for large-scale simulation of physical systems. She has pioneered computational technology to solve complex reactive flow problems, unifying concepts from science, mathematics, engineering, and computer science in a new methodology. An incredibly diverse range of phenomena can be modeled and better understood using her techniques for numerical simulation of fluid flows, ranging from the tightly grouped movements of fish in Earth's oceans to the explosions of far-flung supernovae in space.

#2317

Viktor K. Prasanna

#94634

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

#2318

Elias C. Aifantis

#62295

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Elias C. Aifantis is professor at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, professor of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at Michigan Technological University since 1982. He has held academic positions with the University of Illinois and the University of Minnesota .

#2319

Alan Wayne Partin

#94687

Overall Influence

#2320

Hussein M. Zbib

#89849

Overall Influence

1958 - 2020 (62 years)

Hussein M. Zbib was Lebanese-born American engineer. He was a professor in School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State University, where he has also served as director of the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering and director of the Computational Mechanics and Materials Laboratory. His research expertise was in the area of thermo-mechanical behavior and properties of solids. Zbib was recognized for his work on the theory of 3D dislocation dynamics and defects in metals, multi-scale modeling of metal plasticity, and strain gradient plasticity theory.

#2321

Mauricio Lasansky

Mauricio Lasansky

#16290

Overall Influence

1914 - 2012 (98 years)

Mauricio Leib Lasansky was an Argentine artist and educator known both for his advanced techniques in intaglio printmaking and for a series of 33 pencil drawings from the 1960s titled "The Nazi Drawings." Lasansky, who migrated to and became a citizen of the United States, established the school of printmaking at the University of Iowa, which offered the first Master of Fine Arts program in the field in the United States. Sotheby's identifies him as one of the fathers of modern printmaking.

#2322

Han Zhenxiang

#78689

Overall Influence

1930 - Present (94 years)

Han Zhenxiang is a Chinese electrical engineer. He served as President of Zhejiang University and of the Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering. He is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

#2323

Zhou Ji

#29270

Overall Influence

Zhou Ji is the "Changjiang Scholar" distinguished Professor, at the School of Materials Science & Engineering, of Tsinghua University, China He received a B.S. from Jilin University, Changchun in 1983, a M.S. from Changchun Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science in 1986, and a Ph.D. from Peking University, Beijing in 1991. He was then a Post-doctoral Research Fellow, at Tsinghua University, Beijing from 1991-1993, and then Research Associate, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology 1993-1995 followed by a year as Material Scientist, AEM, Inc., USA. He was appointed Associate P...

#2324

John J. Gilman

#88016

Overall Influence

1925 - 2009 (84 years)

Jack Gilman was a world-renowned material scientist in the field of mechanical properties of solids. In his lifetime he made major contributions to many areas of the field including dislocation behaviour of ceramics, disclination behaviour of polymers, and production of metal glasses.

#2325

Hiroshi Matsumoto

#43572

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

is a Japanese engineer and atmospheric scientist. He was the president of Kyoto University until August 2014, and then served as the president of RIKEN until March 2022. He is a member of the Japanese government's committee on space policy. He has a Doctorate in Engineering . He was born in Zhangjiakou, China.

#2326

Arup Chakraborty

#51514

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Arup K. Chakraborty is an American engineer, focusing in biophysics, computational modeling and infectious disease, currently the Robert T. Haslam Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and formerly the Warren and Katherine Schlinger Distinguished Professor at University of California, Berkeley.

#2327

Du Qinghua

#79618

Overall Influence

1919 - 2006 (87 years)

Du Qinghua , also known as Q.H. DU, was a Chinese physicist. He was a pioneer of aeronautic and astronautic material engineering in China. and a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Life On April 14, 1919, Du was born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. in the 1930s, Du studied in Hangzhou Middle School. In 1936, he graduated from Hangzhou High School. In 1937, Du studied at Zhejiang University. In 1940, he graduated from the Department of Mechanics, National Chiao Tung University .

#2328

Elisabeth Frink

Elisabeth Frink

#14560

Overall Influence

1930 - 1993 (63 years)

Dame Elisabeth Jean Frink was an English sculptor and printmaker. Her Times obituary noted the three essential themes in her work as "the nature of Man; the 'horseness' of horses; and the divine in human form".

#2329

Ernesto Sabato

#5394

Overall Influence

1911 - 2011 (100 years)

Ernesto Sabato was an Argentine novelist, essayist, painter, and physicist. According to the BBC he "won some of the most prestigious prizes in Hispanic literature" and "became very influential in the literary world throughout Latin America". Upon his death El País dubbed him the "last classic writer in Argentine literature".

#2330

Aisha Bowe

#38974

Overall Influence

Aisha Bowe is a Bahamian-American aerospace engineer, founder, STEM advocate, and entrepreneur. She is the founder of CEO of STEMBoard, a technology company, and LINGO, an educational tech company. Bowe is the recipient of NASA Equal Employment Opportunity Medal, US Women's Chamber of Commerce Emerging Star Award and Virginia Business magazine’s Black Business Leaders Award.

#2331

John Anderson

#49456

Overall Influence

1942 - 2012 (70 years)

John Anderson was a co-founder, a director and the chief technology officer of Intelesens Ltd. and HeartSine® Technologies Inc. Anderson formed the Northern Ireland Bio-Engineering Centre and was its first director. He was also the head of the School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Ulster , Northern Ireland. He was the head of bioengineering at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Northern Ireland, when the world's first mobile coronary care unit was launched in 1967.

#2332

K. Mani Chandy

#94881

Overall Influence

#2333

Anna Dubois

#48245

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Anna Dubois is a Swedish organizational theorist and professor of technology management and economics at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, and director of Chalmers Transport Area of Advance. She is best known for her work with Lars-Erik Gadde on case study research, boundaries of the firm, and managing suppliers interfaces.

#2334

Reza Olfati-Saber

#53197

Overall Influence

Reza Olfati-Saber is an Iranian roboticist and Assistant Professor of Engineering at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College. Olfati-Saber is an internationally renowned expert in the control and coordination of multi-robot formations. He has also worked in mobile sensor networks, and innovative educational and outreach activities in robotics for disaster management and rescue operations.

#2335

Scott C. Weaver

#94965

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Scott C. Weaver is an American virologist who is the research director of Galveston National Laboratory. External links https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7kMhCowCfg

#2336

Jyh-shing Roger Jang

#94977

Overall Influence

#2337

Tomasz Knapik

#79258

Overall Influence

1943 - 2021 (78 years)

Tomasz Knapik was a Polish film, radio and television voice-over translation artist , doctor of electrical engineering by education, lecturer at the Faculty of Transport of the Warsaw University of Technology. He was called legendary in the voice-over translation field in Poland.

#2338

Pinar Karaca-Mandic

#40410

Overall Influence

Pinar Karaca-Mandic is an American economist who is C. Arthur Williams Jr. Professor in Healthcare Risk Management and Academic Director of the Medical Industry Leadership Institute at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research . She was previously on the faculty of the University of Minnesota School of Public Health and an economist for the RAND Corporation.

#2339

Hugh Spikes

#56451

Overall Influence

Hugh Alexander Spikes is a British mechanical engineer. He is emeritus professor of tribology at Imperial College London. He is the former head of the Tribology Group at Imperial College. Tribology is the science and engineering of friction, lubrication and wear.

#2340

Chris Mack

#73216

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Chris Mack is an expert in photolithography. He received multiple undergraduate degrees from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 1982, a master of science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1989, and a PhD in chemical engineering from The University of Texas in 1998.

#2341

Allan Bradley

#95010

Overall Influence

#2342

Polina Bayvel

#44634

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Polina Leopoldovna Bayvel is a British engineer and academic. She is currently Professor of Optical Communications & Networks in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at University College London. She has made major contributions to the investigation and design of high-bandwidth multiwavelength optical networking.

#2343

David Bader

#23641

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

David A. Bader is a Distinguished Professor and Director of the Institute for Data Science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Previously, he served as the Chair of the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Computational Science & Engineering, where he was also a founding professor, and the executive director of High-Performance Computing at the Georgia Tech College of Computing. In 2007, he was named the first director of the Sony Toshiba IBM Center of Competence for the Cell Processor at Georgia Tech.

#2344

Robert Slutzky

#68815

Overall Influence

1929 - 2005 (76 years)

Robert Slutzky was an American abstract painter and architectural theorist. He was the chair of the department of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania, and a critic of the International Style. His paintings were exhibited in museums on the East Coast.

#2345

Romualdas Kasuba

#82770

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (93 years)

Romualdas Kasuba was a Lithuanian American academician and mechanical engineer. Biography Kasubas' family planned to flee Lithuania in 1940; the family was threatened with being sent to Siberia by the Soviet regime because his mother was a teacher. However, after the German invasion, Kasuba was instead put to work on a farm supplying food to the German army. Kasuba moved to Germany in 1944, and he then lived in a displaced persons camp and emigrated to the United States in 1948.

#2346

Savio L-Y Woo

#90207

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Savio L-Y Woo is an American bioengineer currently the Distinguished University Professor of Bioengineering at University of Pittsburgh. He was born in Shanghai, China, in 1942 and immigrated to the United States prior to entering university.

#2347

Donald R. F. Harleman

#83966

Overall Influence

1922 - 2005 (83 years)

Donald Robert Fergusson Harleman was an American civil engineer noted for his research of the flow of contaminants through water and harbor cleanup efforts around the world. Harleman was credited with cleanup efforts of harbors around the world: Australia, Brazil, China, India, and Mexico, among others. He advised government agencies on the Boston Harbor cleanup. Harleman was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1974 "for leadership in the development of theoretical and experimental techniques in the field of fluid mechanics". The Boston Globe called Harleman "an internationally recognized civil engineer in the field of water quality and waste treatment".

#2348

Andrew Sih

#95114

Overall Influence

#2349

Chih-Ming Ho

#81444

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Chih-Ming Ho is an engineering professor in interdisciplinary fields, which span from aerodynamics to AI-medicine[1]. He received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from National Taiwan University in 1967 and a Ph.D. in Mechanics and Material Sciences from Johns Hopkins University in 1974.

#2350

Larry Sultan

#50782

Overall Influence

1946 - 2009 (63 years)

Larry Sultan was an American photographer from the San Fernando Valley in California. He taught at the San Francisco Art Institute from 1978 to 1988 and at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco 1989 to 2009.

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