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List of the most influential people in Engineering,

#2951

Wright Morris

#17611

Overall Influence

1910 - 1998 (88 years)

Wright Marion Morris was an American novelist, photographer, and essayist. He is known for his portrayals of the people and artifacts of the Great Plains in words and pictures, as well as for experimenting with narrative forms.

#2952

David J. Torgerson

#106677

Overall Influence

#2953

Philip LF Liu

#102243

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Philip Li-Fan Liu is an American engineer, currently the Class of 1912 Professor at Cornell University, the Kwoh-Ting Lee Chair Professorship Chair Professor at National Central University and also a Distinguished Professor at National University of Singapore.

#2954

Horst H. Berger

#60756

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (91 years)

Horst H. Berger is a German electrical engineer noted for his contributions to semiconductor technologies for integrated circuits. Berger was born in Liegnitz , Lower Silesia, and received the Vordiplom. from the Technische Hochschule of Dresden, then worked at the IBM Laboratories in Böblingen. Afterwards he became a researcher and teacher at the Technical University of Berlin.

#2955

Syed Jafar

#83016

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Syed Ali Jafar is an Indian-American electrical engineer and computer scientist. He works at the University of California, Irvine, and has previously worked at Lucent Bell Labs, Qualcomm and Hughes Software Systems. His research interests include multi-user information theory, wireless communications and network coding. He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2014 "for contributions to analyzing the capacity of wireless communication networks" and won the Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists in 2015 "for his discoveries in interference alignment in wir...

#2956

Martin Skitmore

#106728

Overall Influence

#2957

Vishal. M. Patel

#106742

Overall Influence

#2958

Per-Simon Kildal

#95120

Overall Influence

1951 - 2016 (65 years)

Per-Simon Kildal was professor of antenna systems at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, IEEE fellow and the winner of Distinguished Achievement Award of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society in 2011. Kildal had contributed to design of reflector antennas for radio astronomy worldwide, most notably the Gregorian reflector of Arecibo Observatory which was installed in 1997. Apart from reflector antennas, he had made contributions to wideband radiotelescope feeds, Over-The-Air measurements of the antennas and metamaterial applications.

#2959

Juan José Díaz Infante Núñez

#54194

Overall Influence

1936 - 2012 (76 years)

Juan José Díaz Infante Núñez was a Mexican architect and industrial designer. His architectural works included urban planning projects, malls, bus stations, hotels, cinemas, sports facilities, schools, public, industrial and administration buildings, particularly in Mexico, but also in other countries.

#2960

Victor B. Lawrence

#60614

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Victor B. Lawrence is a Ghanaian-American engineer credited with seminal contributions in digital signal processing for multimedia communications. During his 30-plus-year tenure at Bell Laboratories, Dr. Lawrence made extensive and fundamental personal contributions to voice, data, audio and video communications. He led numerous projects that significantly improved or enhanced every phase in the evolution of early low-speed and today's high-speed data communications. He is a Research Professor and Director of the Center for Intelligent Networked Systems at Stevens Institute of Technology, where he also served as Associate Dean.

#2961

Giorgio Ceragioli

Giorgio Ceragioli

#48732

Overall Influence

1930 - 2008 (78 years)

Giorgio Ceragioli was an Italian engineer, professor and a leader in the pro-Third World movement in Italy. Biography Giorgio Ceragioli was born in Torino the 24 June 1930. His grandfather was a well known Italian artist also named Giorgio and his father Mario worked as engineer for Torino's municipality. He studied civil engineering at the local university where, after a period of independent professional work as engineer, he became professor of Technology of Architecture. In his youth he volunteered for the local branch of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul. Later he became a leader of th...

#2962

Peter A. Vanrolleghem

#106855

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

#2963

Martha Salcudean

#71331

Overall Influence

1934 - 2019 (85 years)

Martha Sălcudean was an internationally recognised expert in computational fluid dynamics. She was Canada's first female head of a university engineering department. Salcudean was born in 1934 in Cluj, Romania, into a Jewish family. She survived the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and decades living under totalitarian regimes before she moved to Canada in 1976. Salcudean was a recipient of several provincial and national engineering awards in Canada.

#2964

Musa Konsulova

#93036

Overall Influence

1921 - 2019 (98 years)

Musa Borysivna Konsulova was Ukrainian architect and researcher of architecture. Early life and education Musa Konsulova was born on 20 July 1921 in Romanivka village, now Kostiantynivsky district of Donetsk region, Ukraine. In her youth, Konsulova studied music professionally. In 1946, she graduated from Moscow Architectural Institute.

#2965

Abdulmotaleb El Saddik

#47963

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Abdulmotaleb El Saddik is a Lebanese–Canadian computer engineer and scientist, currently a Distinguished University Professor at University of Ottawa, a published author and motivator . He is the Director of Multimedia Communications Research Laboratory since 2002. He is a member of the Engineering Institute of Canada, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Canadian Academy of Engineering and Association for Computing Machinery.

#2966

Mark Alan Hewitt

#67800

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Mark Alan Hewitt is an American architect, preservationist and architectural historian, known for his work on architectural history and the history of architectural drawing "as a medium of thought."

#2967

Gerd Hirzinger

#106921

Overall Influence

#2968

Peter C. Ford

#106923

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

#2969

Genpei Akasegawa

Genpei Akasegawa

#27675

Overall Influence

1937 - 2014 (77 years)

Genpei Akasegawa was a pseudonym of Japanese artist Katsuhiko Akasegawa, born March 27, 1937 – October 26, 2014 in Yokohama. He used another pseudonym, Katsuhiko Otsuji, for literary works. A member of the influential artist groups Neo-Dada Organizers and Hi-Red Center, Akasegawa went on to maintain a multi-disciplinary practice throughout his career as an individual artist. He has had retrospective exhibitions at the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Chiba City Museum, and Oita City Museum. His work is in the permanent collection at Museum of Modern Art in New York. Artist Nam June P...

#2970

Csaba Pal Kovesdy

#106928

Overall Influence

#2971

Fatih Porikli

#106945

Overall Influence

Fatih Porikli is an engineer at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2014 for his contributions to computer vision and video surveillance. Porikli is currently working as a Chief Scientist at Global Technologies Lab at Huawei, and as a professor at Australian National University.

#2972

Branislav Notaros

#77067

Overall Influence

Branislav Notaros is an electrical engineer from Colorado State University in Fort Collins. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2016 for his contributions to higher order methods in computational electromagnetics.

#2973

Fengqi You

#75400

Overall Influence

1983 - Present (41 years)

Fengqi You is a professor and holds the Roxanne E. and Michael J. Zak Chair at Cornell University in the United States. His research focuses on systems engineering and data science. According to Google Scholar, his h-index is 80.

#2974

Zhu Han

#86317

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Zhu Han is a John and Rebecca Moores Professor of electrical engineering at the University of Houston. He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2014 for contributions to resource allocation and security in wireless communications.

#2975

Friz Freleng

#2306

Overall Influence

1906 - 1995 (89 years)

Isadore "Friz" Freleng , credited as I. Freleng early in his career, was an American animator, cartoonist, director, producer, and composer known for his work at Warner Bros. Cartoons on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. In total he created more than 300 cartoons.

#2976

Ursula Franklin

Ursula Franklin

#24032

Overall Influence

1921 - 2016 (95 years)

Ursula Martius Franklin was a Canadian metallurgist, research physicist, author, and educator who taught at the University of Toronto for more than 40 years. Franklin is best known for her writings on the political and social effects of technology. She was the author of The Real World of Technology, which is based on her 1989 Massey Lectures; The Ursula Franklin Reader: Pacifism as a Map, a collection of her papers, interviews, and talks; and Ursula Franklin Speaks: Thoughts and Afterthoughts, containing 22 of her speeches and five interviews between 1986 and 2012. Franklin was a practising Quaker and actively worked on behalf of pacifist and feminist causes.

#2977

Morgan "Bill" Evans

#75732

Overall Influence

1910 - 2002 (92 years)

Morgan "Bill" Evans was a horticulturalist who guided the landscape design of Disney theme parks for half a century. He most notably transformed the landscape of of forest in Anaheim, California to create Disneyland.

#2978

Kouhei Ohnishi

#107053

Overall Influence

#2979

Katharina Sieverding

Katharina Sieverding

#28012

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Katharina Sieverding is a German photographer known for her self-portraiture. Sieverding lives and works in Berlin and Düsseldorf. She is a professor emeritus at the University of the Arts, Berlin.

#2980

Scott L. Delp*

#107089

Overall Influence

#2981

İbrahim Kavrakoğlu

#85377

Overall Influence

1941 - 2016 (75 years)

İbrahim Kavrakoğlu was a Turkish engineer, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Industrial Engineering, Dean of the School of Engineering and Provost of Boğaziçi University. Biography Ibrahim Kavrakoglu completed his doctorate at University of London after undergraduate studies Robert College in Istanbul. He returned to his alma mater as a professor. In the ensuing years, he served as Chairman of the Department of Industrial Engineering, Dean of the School of Engineering and Provost of Boğaziçi University.

#2982

Catherine Cooke

#66202

Overall Influence

1942 - 2004 (62 years)

Catherine Anne Chichester-Cooke , known as Catherine Cooke, was a British architect and a Russian scholar of international renown. She was lecturer in design at the Open University and also lectured and taught at the Department of Architecture at the University of Cambridge.

#2983

Robert O'Handley

#107129

Overall Influence

1942 - 2013 (71 years)

Robert O'Handley was a professor and research scientist in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received an MS and PhD at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering. O'Handley authored many books.

#2984

Franz Hlawatsch

#100589

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Franz Hlawatsch is an Austrian Professor of electrical and electronic engineering at the Vienna University of Technology, Austria. Early life and career Hlawatsch was educated at the Vienna University of Technology from which he obtained various degrees in engineering in 1983, 1988, and 1996 respectively. From 1983 to 1988 he worked as a consultant for Schrack AG, and from 1984 to 1985 for the AKG GesmbH. From 1991 to 1992 he was an Erwin Schrödinger Fellow and because of it, he spent a year in Rhode Island, United States at the Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of Rhode Island.

#2985

Visakan Kadirkamanathan

#95673

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Visakan Kadirkamanathan is a professor of Signal and Information Processing at the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering at the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. He is director of the Rolls-Royce supported University Technology Centre in Control, Monitoring and Systems Engineering and is a founding member of the University Centre for Signal Processing and Complex Systems. From April 2009 to August 2014, he was Head of the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering. He is known for his contribution to the field of statistical signal processing applied to system identification, signal estimation, and fault detection.

#2986

Marek Dzida

#101330

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Marek Władysław Dzida is a Polish professor of Gdańsk University of Technology. His fields of interest are Mechanical Engineering and Operation, and Power Engineering. Education Dzida is a graduate of the Institute of Shipbuilding at Gdańsk University of Technology . Since 1978 he has been working at Faculty of Ocean Engineering and Ship Technology at GUT. In 1983 he received the title of Doctor of Technical Sciences, and in 2000 – the title of Doctor with habilitation. He is currently employed as associate professor at GUT.

#2987

Joyce Wong

#100342

Overall Influence

Joyce Y. Wong is an American engineer who is Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering at Boston University. Her research develops novel biomaterials for the early detection treatment of disease. Wong is the Inaugural Director of the Provost's Initiative to promote gender equality and inclusion in STEM at all levels: Advance, Recruit, Retain and Organize Women in STEM. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and Biomedical Engineering Society.

#2988

Paul Newman

#68802

Overall Influence

Paul Michael Newman is a British engineer and academic, the BP Professor of Information Engineering at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Keble College, Oxford. He is head of the Oxford Mobile Robotics Group and CTO at Oxa.

#2989

Walter Lynn

#91015

Overall Influence

1928 - 2011 (83 years)

Walter Lynn was a distinguished professor at Cornell University for most of his academic career. As a civil engineer he was interested in water-quality issues, he was at the forefront of environmental studies. According to one obituary, he coined the term "sustainability."

#2990

Rolf Pfeifer

#14717

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Rolf Pfeifer is a former professor of computer science at the Department of Informatics University of Zurich, and director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, where he retired from in 2014. Currently he is a specially appointed professor at Osaka University, and a visiting professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

#2991

Daniel Roos

#74826

Overall Influence

Daniel Roos is an American engineer, focusing on the technology and policy of transportation systems, and currently the Japan Steel Industry Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Systems Emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

#2992

Ngalula Mubenga

Ngalula Mubenga

#87623

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Ngalula Sandrine Mubenga is a Congolese engineer, a professor of electrical engineering technology, an entrepreneur, a philanthropist, and a government official leading electrification initiatives in the Democratic Republic of the Congo . Her accomplishments as a professor at the University of Toledo are detailed at www.DrMubenga.com. Research interests include renewable energy, solar power, electric vehicles, and battery management. Entrepreneurial credits include founding the SMIN Power Group LLC. The company specializes in the design and installation of renewable energy devices, with a pr...

#2993

Yuwen Zhang

#59593

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Yuwen Zhang is an American professor of mechanical engineering who is well known for his contributions to phase change heat transfer. He is presently a Curators' Distinguished Professor and Huber and Helen Croft Chair in Engineering in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri.

#2994

Donald J. Grace

Donald J. Grace

#103239

Overall Influence

1926 - 2007 (81 years)

Donald J. Grace was an American Electrical Engineer. Grace was the longest-serving director of the Georgia Tech Research Institute, holding the position from 1976 to 1992. Career Grace spent most of his early career at Stanford University, where he earned his PhD in electrical engineering in 1962 and was given a joint appointment to the electrical engineering faculty and the Systems and Techniques Laboratory. He rose quickly to become director of the lab and Associate Dean of Engineering at Stanford under Joseph M. Pettit.

#2995

John T. Lyle

#63928

Overall Influence

1934 - 1998 (64 years)

John T. Lyle was a professor of landscape architecture at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona ; the Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies at Cal Poly Pomona and the Lyle plaza at the entrance to Adam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies at Oberlin College are named after him.

#2996

Laura Gagliardi

#66649

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Laura Gagliardi is an Italian theoretical and computational chemist and Richard and Kathy Leventhal Professor of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago. She is known for her work on the development of electronic structure methods and their use for understanding complex chemical systems.

#2997

William Alington

#39845

Overall Influence

1929 - Present (95 years)

William Hildebrand Alington is a New Zealand modernist architect, whose work has been awarded nationally, and recognised internationally. He was the husband of New Zealand historian Margaret Alington.

#2998

Dimitra Simeonidou

#58418

Overall Influence

Dimitra E. Simeonidou is a Professor of High Performance Networks at the University of Bristol. She works on the development of telecommunications networks, including 5G, and is a specialist in smart city infrastructures.

#2999

Andreas Lendlein

#107449

Overall Influence

#3000

Emmanuel Pratt

#40902

Overall Influence

Emmanuel Pratt is an American Urban Designer. In 2009 he co-founded the Sweet Water Foundation, which practices "Regenerative Neighborhood Development" on the South Side of Chicago. The foundation is centered around bringing inter-generational members of the community together for education and to work on urban agriculture and reclaiming abandoned properties and transforming them into productive landscapes.

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