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List of the most influential people in Engineering,

#2451

Laurence D. Marks

#80107

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Laurence Daniel Marks is an American professor of materials science and engineering at Northwestern University. He has contributed to the study of nanoparticles and worked in the fields of electron microscopy, diffraction, and crystallography.

#2452

Georg E. Schulz

#97181

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (85 years)

#2453

Teri W. Odom

#57876

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (49 years)

Teri W. Odom is an American chemist and materials scientist. She is the chair of the chemistry department, the Joan Husting Madden and William H. Madden, Jr. Professor of Chemistry, and a professor of materials science and engineering at Northwestern University. She is affiliated with the university's International Institute for Nanotechnology, Chemistry of Life Processes Institute, Northwestern Initiative for Manufacturing Science and Innovation, Interdisciplinary Biological Sciences Graduate Program, and department of applied physics.

#2454

Margaret Bullock

#96073

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (91 years)

Margaret Irene Bullock AM FTSE is a former Professor in physiotherapy at the University of Queensland and pioneer in the field of ergonomics. Early life Margaret Irene Roberts was born on 24 March 1933 in Brisbane, Queensland. She attended Brisbane Girls Grammar School. Margaret enrolled in the University of Queensland in 1951, becoming one of the first two students to graduate with a B.App.Sc in physiotherapy and occupational therapy in 1955.

#2455

Torsten Söderström

#97210

Overall Influence

#2456

John C Byrd

#97246

Overall Influence

#2457

Guillermo Ameer

#60206

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Guillermo Antonio Ameer is the Daniel Hale Williams Professor of biomedical engineering at the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science and Surgery at the Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern University and is a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, Biomedical Engineering Society, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Materials Research Society, and American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is an engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur.

#2458

Ajayan Vinu

#60604

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (48 years)

Ajayan Vinu is a material scientist. He is currently the Global Innovation Chair Professor for Advanced Nanomaterials and the director of Global Innovative Centre for Advanced Nanomaterials , The University of Newcastle since October 2017 which houses more than 60 researchers including PhD students and staff. Before moving to the University of Newcastle, he was a professor of Nanomaterials at the University of South Australia from 2015-2017. and also worked at the University of Queensland as a Professor and ARC Future Fellow from 2011-2015. He is well known in the field of mesoporous carbon ni...

#2459

Magdalena Jetelová

#68681

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Magdalena Jetelová is a Czech installation artist and land artist, who has achieved international acclaim. Known mainly for her environmental installation works, Jetelová combines light, architecture, photography, sculpture, and installation to explore the relationship between humans, objects, and space. Her work has been exhibited in various prominent galleries internationally such as Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Tate Gallery London, Museum of Modern Art, 21er Haus, and the Martin-Gropius-Bau. Her work is also in the collection of Hirschorn Museum, the Centre Pompidou, and the Muse...

#2460

Kenneth M. Kent

#97323

Overall Influence

#2461

Eckart Meiburg

#66528

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Eckart Heinz Meiburg is a German-American professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research focuses on using computational fluid dynamics to study phenomena including sediment transport in gravity and turbidity currents, double diffusive instabilities, and particle-laden flows.

#2462

Fumitada Itakura

#8377

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Fumitada Itakura is a Japanese scientist. He did pioneering work in statistical signal processing, and its application to speech analysis, synthesis and coding, including the development of the linear predictive coding and line spectral pairs methods.

#2463

Luis M. Proenza

#58621

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Luis Mariano Proenza is an American academic, and the former president of The University of Akron. He was a member of two advisory committees to US presidents. Biography Proenza holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from Emory University , a master's degree in psychology from Ohio State University and a doctorate in neurobiology from the University of Minnesota .

#2464

Malcolm D. Shuster

#37316

Overall Influence

1943 - 2012 (69 years)

Malcolm D. Shuster was an American physicist and aerospace engineer, whose work contributed significantly to spacecraft attitude determination. In 1977 he joined the Attitude Systems Operation of the Computer Sciences Corporation in Silver Spring, Maryland, during which time he developed the QUaternion ESTimator algorithm for static attitude determination. He later, with F. Landis Markley, helped to develop the standard implementation of the Kalman filter used in spacecraft attitude estimation. During his career, he authored roughly fifty technical papers on subjects in physics and spacecraf...

#2465

Henry G. Burger

#97460

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (91 years)

#2466

Allen B. Rosenstein

#74726

Overall Influence

1920 - 2018 (98 years)

Allen Bertram Rosenstein was an American systems engineer, Professor Emeritus of Systems Engineering at the University of California at Los Angeles , and IEEE Fellow awarded for his contributions to the "theory, design, and manufacture of power converters and for leadership and research in engineering education".

#2467

Takashi Asano

#55511

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (87 years)

Takashi Asano is a Japanese-born environmental engineer and a professor emeritus at the University of California, Asano has more than 40 years of academic and professional experience in environmental and water resources engineering, specializing in water reclamation, recycling, and reuse. During 1978–1992, he served as the water reclamation specialist for the California State Water Resources Control Board in Sacramento, during the formative years of water reclamation, recycling, and reuse. Asano has conducted water reclamation and reuse studies at the SWRCB and the University of California at...

#2468

Miguel Robles-Durán

Miguel Robles-Durán

#34632

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (49 years)

Miguel Robles-Durán is an urbanist, Associate Professor of Urbanism at The New School / Parsons The New School for Design in New York City, and co-founder of the non-profit Cohabitation Strategies, a cooperative for socio-spatial research, design and development based in Rotterdam, Netherlands, and New York City, US.

#2469

Petar Popovski

#66750

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (51 years)

Petar Popovski is an electrical engineer at Aalborg University in Denmark. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2016 for his work in network coding and multiple access methods in wireless communications. He did BSc and MSc at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje and PhD at Aalborg University.

#2470

Sandro Mussa-Ivaldi

#49425

Overall Influence

Ferdinando Mussa-Ivaldi is an Italian born professor at Northwestern University. He is known for his contributions to the fields of motor control, motor learning and computational neuroscience. Biography Sandro Mussa-Ivaldi obtained a degree in Physics from the University of Torino and a PhD in biomedical engineering from the Politecnico di Milano . He was a postdoctoral fellow and principal research scientist in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the MIT.

#2471

Kam W. Leong

#97623

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

#2472

Don Carpenter

#70132

Overall Influence

1928 - 2019 (91 years)

#2473

Craig H. Benson

#97702

Overall Influence

Craig H. Benson is an American environmental engineer. He studied civil engineering at Lehigh University and completed his master's and doctoral degrees at the University of Texas at Austin. Benson taught at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he was named Wisconsin Distinguished Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Geological Engineering. He has served as chief editor of the Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering.

#2474

Tom Bender

#60069

Overall Influence

1941 - 2020 (79 years)

Tom Bender was one of the American founders of the green architecture and sustainability movements. Life Thomas Guernsey Bender was born in 1941 in Fostoria, Ohio. He began to make his mark in the early 1970s as an educator, architect, historian of non-Western architecture, author, and strategic planner. He has since been visible also in the emerging field of sustainable economics.

#2475

Joel Sternfeld

#20705

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Joel Sternfeld is an American fine-art photographer. He is best known for his large-format color pictures of contemporary American life and identity. His work contributed to the establishment of color photography as a respected artistic medium. Furthering the tradition of roadside photography started by Walker Evans in the 1930s, Sternfeld documents people and places with unexpected excitement, despair, tenderness, and hope. Ever since the 1987 publication of his landmark “American Prospects,” Sternfeld’s work has interwoven the conceptual and political, while being steeped in history, landscape theory and his passion for the passage of the seasons.

#2476

Ernest Rabinowicz

#70848

Overall Influence

1937 - 2006 (69 years)

Ernest Rabinowicz was an American mechanical engineer. He was known for his work in tribology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology . Education Rabinowicz received his bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Cambridge in 1947. In 1950, he obtained a doctor of philosophy in physical chemistry from the University of Cambridge under the supervision of David Tabor.

#2477

Byoungho Lee

#92950

Overall Influence

1964 - 2022 (58 years)

Byoungho Lee was a South Korean scientist best known for his work on three-dimensional displays and nanophotonics. From 1994 until his death, he was on the faculty of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Seoul National University. He and his research group published more than 400 peer-reviewed international journal papers, more than 700 international conference papers, and more than 20 books and book chapters. His accumulated citations are over 23,000 and his h-index is 75. At the time of his death, he was the dean of the Engineering College of Seoul National University.

#2478

Kevin Marsh

#97411

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Kevin Marsh is a British Malariologist, academic and a researcher. He is a Professor of Tropical Medicine and Director of Africa Oxford Initiative at University of Oxford. He is also a senior advisor at African Academy of Sciences.

#2479

Thomas Bosworth

#78338

Overall Influence

1930 - Present (94 years)

Thomas L. Bosworth FAIA is an American architect and architectural educator. His best-known structures are those he designed for the Pilchuck Glass School between 1971 and 1986, but his primary focus in his thirty-five year professional career has been the design of single-family residences across the Pacific Northwest.

#2480

Lee Schruben

#77910

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Lee W. Schruben is an American educator, engineer and serves as the Professor and Past Chair, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research College of Engineering, University of California at Berkeley. He is the former Andrew Schultz, Jr. Professor , Sibley College of Engineering, Cornell University, Department of Operations Research. Professor Schruben took his Bachelor of Science at Cornell’s engineering college in 1968, his Master of Science at the University of North Carolina in 1973 and his doctorate at Yale University in 1974.

#2481

Harold P Erickson

#97997

Overall Influence

#2482

Linda Katehi

#35275

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Linda Pisti Basile Katehi-Tseregounis is a Greek-born American engineering professor and former university administrator. Katehi was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to three-dimensional integrated circuits and on-wafer packaging and to engineering education. Katehi worked as the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's provost from 2006 to 2009 and dean of engineering at Purdue University from 2002 to 2006. Beginning in 2009, she served as the sixth chancellor of the University of California, Davis.

#2483

Maurice L. Albertson

#65721

Overall Influence

1918 - 2009 (91 years)

Maurice Lee "Maury" "Quickshot" Albertson , PhD, civil engineer, a teacher of water resources management over a long career at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado and former head of the Colorado State University Research Foundation.

#2484

Fu Sheng Pan

#98020

Overall Influence

#2485

Alan N. Willson Jr.

#63612

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (85 years)

Alan N. Willson Jr. is the Distinguished Emeritus Professor and Charles P. Reames Chair of Electrical Engineering at University of California, Los Angeles, mainly, working with digital signs and systems processing, and also a published author, being held in 262 libraries, the highest held being in 252 libraries.

#2486

Peter Thrower

#75365

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (86 years)

Peter Thrower is a professor emeritus of materials science and engineering at Pennsylvania State University, and a former editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Carbon, a post he has held between 1982 and 2013. A special issue of Carbon was published in his honor in August 2012. He also edited the review journal Chemistry and Physics of Carbon from 1973 to 1998. He is a specialist on carbon in all its forms.

#2487

Alexander A. Balandin

Alexander A. Balandin

#68022

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Alexander A. Balandin is an electrical engineer, solid-state physicist, and materials scientist best known for the experimental discovery of unique thermal properties of graphene and their theoretical explanation; studies of phonons in nanostructures and low-dimensional materials, which led to the development of the field of phonon engineering; investigation of low-frequency electronic noise in materials and devices; and demonstration of the first charge-density-wave quantum devices operating at room temperature.

#2488

Normanh. Ashton

#98077

Overall Influence

#2489

Nathan Marcuvitz

Nathan Marcuvitz

#59443

Overall Influence

1913 - 2010 (97 years)

Nathan Marcuvitz was an American electrical engineer, physicist, and educator who worked in the fields of microwave and electromagnetic field theory. He was head of the experimental group of the Radiation Laboratory . He was a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He had a PhD in electrical engineering from Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn.

#2490

Peggy Deamer

#66870

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Peggy Deamer is an architect, architectural educator, and Emeritus Professor of Architecture at Yale University. Her research explores the nature of creative work, stretching from a psychoanalytic interpretation of art production and reception – initiated in the dissertation on Adrian Stokes, who was analyzed by Melanie Klein – to neo-Marxist examinations of creative labor. She is the founding member of the international advocacy group, The Architecture Lobby .

#2491

Robert Malkin

#46438

Overall Influence

Robert A. Malkin is an engineer specializing in medical instrumentation for the developing world. At Duke, Malkin is an Emeritus professor of the practice of Biomedical Engineering, professor of the practice of global health, and an affiliate of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society.

#2492

Mary Zimmerman

#8879

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Mary Zimmerman is an American theatre and opera director and playwright from Nebraska. She is an ensemble member of the Lookingglass Theatre Company, the Manilow Resident Director at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois, and also serves as the Jaharis Family Foundation Professor of Performance Studies at Northwestern University.

#2493

Jean‐pierre Kruth

#98108

Overall Influence

#2494

Francis Guillemin

#98127

Overall Influence

#2495

Kristine Ensrud

#98142

Overall Influence

#2496

Paolo Verdecchia

#98151

Overall Influence

#2497

David Marks

#55041

Overall Influence

1952 - 2017 (65 years)

David Joseph Marks was a British architect, and the designer of the London Eye, the British Airways i360 observation tower in Brighton, and the Treetop Walkway at Kew Gardens, London. David Marks was born on 15 December 1952 in Stockholm, Sweden, the son of Gunilla and Melville Marks, a journalist and film producer. Marks, a Jew, grew up in Geneva, where he attended the International School of Geneva. He moved to London in 1972, at first to study at the Kingston Polytechnic before moving to Architectural Association School of Architecture.

#2498

Leon M. Keer

#98221

Overall Influence

#2499

Hiroshi Yasuda

#49707

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Hiroshi Yasuda is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Tokyo and works as a Consultant for Nippon Telegraph and Telephone. In the sphere of international standardization, together with Leonardo Chiariglione he founded the Moving Picture Experts Group which standardized MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, better known as MP3.

#2500

Steven R. Little

Steven R. Little

#74548

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (47 years)

Steven R. Little is an American chemical engineer and pharmaceutical scientist. He currently holds the title of department chair, distinguished professor, and the William Kepler Whiteford Endowed Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering. He also holds secondary appointments in bioengineering, pharmaceutical sciences, immunology, ophthalmology and the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh.

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