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List of the most influential people in Engineering,

#3351

Joseph M. Kahn

#113325

Overall Influence

#3352

Robert James Good

#113356

Overall Influence

#3353

Derya Akkaynak

#55268

Overall Influence

Derya Akkaynak is a Turkish mechanical engineer and oceanographer at the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute. She was a 2019 finalist for the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists. Early life and education Akkaynak is from the Aegean coast of Turkey. After completing her primary and secondary education at TED Ankara College and graduating in 1998, she studied aerospace engineering at the Middle East Technical University, where she graduated top of her class in 2003. She moved to the United States after graduating, where she earned a master's degree in Aeronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005.

#3354

Hideomil Koinuma

#113375

Overall Influence

#3355

Wolfgang Dipl Ing Fichtner

#113428

Overall Influence

#3356

Fu-rong Gao

#113450

Overall Influence

#3357

Alec Cameron

#64551

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Alexander John Cameron is an Australian engineer and university administrator, currently serving as Vice-Chancellor and President of RMIT University. Early life and education Cameron was educated at Knox Grammar School where he was school captain in Year 12.

#3358

Anil Kumar Bhowmick

#113478

Overall Influence

#3359

Manos. M. Tentzeris

#113492

Overall Influence

#3360

Devi Parikh

#113497

Overall Influence

#3361

Roy A. Jensen

#113515

Overall Influence

#3362

Ellen Kuhl

#101481

Overall Influence

Ellen Kuhl is the Walter B. Reinhold Professor in the School of Engineering and Robert Bosch Chair of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. She is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and, by courtesy, Bioengineering. Kuhl is known for her research on Living Matter Physics, the design of theoretical and computational models to simulate and predict the behavior of living systems including the human brain and the living heart.

#3363

Michiel Riedijk

#87151

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Michiel Riedijk is a Dutch architect and professor at the Technical University Delft. He is co-founder of the architecture office Neutelings Riedijk Architects in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Life and work Michiel Riedijk studied architecture at the Technical University Delft from 1983 until 1989. He worked with architect Julliette Bekkering from 1989 until 1991 and in 1992 he founded Neutelings Riedijk Architects in collaboration with Willem Jan Neutelings.

#3364

Masahiro Tatsumisago

#113573

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

#3365

Miklas Scholz

#103825

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Miklas Scholz is a professor in water resources engineering at Lund University. He holds the chair in civil engineering at University of Salford where he serves as a professor and the head of the civil engineering research group. Scholz is also a distinguished professor at Johannesburg University and the Central University of Technology.

#3366

Karen Reynolds

#83456

Overall Influence

Karen Reynolds is an Australian biomedical engineer. She is currently the Deputy Dean of Computer Science, Engineering and Mathematics at Flinders University and a Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor. Reynolds is the director of the Medical Device Research Institute and founding director of the Medical Device Partnering Program in South Australia, an organisation that facilitates collaboration between researchers, end-users and industry.

#3367

Zhi Chen

#113625

Overall Influence

#3368

Yurii Vlasov

#82589

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Yurii Vlasov is a John Bardeen Endowed Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign . Prior to joining UIUC in 2016, Vlasov held various research and managerial positions at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. In 2001-2015 he led broad company-wide efforts in integrated silicon nanophotonics and more recently in neuromorphic computing architectures.

#3369

Jacob Benesty

#113673

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

#3370

Allen C. Cheng

#113701

Overall Influence

#3371

Mark John Balas

#113707

Overall Influence

#3372

Fran Bošnjaković

#78538

Overall Influence

1902 - 1993 (91 years)

Fran Bošnjaković was a noted Croatian thermodynamicist considered to be one of the pioneers in the development of technical thermodynamics. Bošnjaković was born in Zagreb, where he was initially educated. He continued his education at the Technische Hochschule in Dresden, Germany. He obtained there a doctoral degree in engineering in 1928, and in 1931 he became a Privatdozent at the same Technical University.

#3373

Shankar Bhattacharyya

#107833

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Sankar P. Bhattacharyya , is an American engineer. He is a professor at the College of Engineering of the Texas A&M University , and is active in the field of automatic control systems. Since December 2011, he has been a foreign member of Brazilian Academy of Sciences.

#3374

Clement Richard Boland

#113846

Overall Influence

#3375

Kenneth P. Offord

#113856

Overall Influence

#3376

Yuet W Kan

#113873

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#3377

Richard Allan Schapery

#113882

Overall Influence

#3378

J. F. M. Scott

#113888

Overall Influence

#3379

Salvatore Pansino

Salvatore Pansino

#102862

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (92 years)

Salvatore Rocco Vincent Pansino is a professor of electrical engineering at Youngstown State University in Youngstown, Ohio. In 1992, he ran against Congressman Jim Traficant as the Republican candidate in Ohio's 17th congressional district, losing the race.

#3380

Ahmet Sinan Sarı

#113902

Overall Influence

#3381

Victor Giurgiutiu

#113912

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

#3382

Wiro Niessen

#110281

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Wiro J. Niessen is a Dutch scientist in biomedical image analysis and machine learning. He is full professor at both Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam and Delft University of Technology. He is founder and scientific lead of Quantib, an AI company in medical imaging. In 2015 he received the Simon Stevin Meester Award from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. From 2016 to 2019 he was president of the Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions Society. In 2017 he was elected to The Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts & Sciences. He is director of the ...

#3383

William J. Oswald

#96822

Overall Influence

1919 - 2005 (86 years)

William Joseph Oswald was an American educator, scientist, and engineer who spent his entire academic career at the University of California, Berkeley in the departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Public Health. He made foundational contributions to the fields of wastewater treatment and applied phycology, or as he called it, "algology". Throughout a career spanning more than five decades, Oswald was the primary academic advisor to more than two dozen doctoral students, sat on more than 100 additional masters and doctoral thesis committees, and taught seminal courses in applie...

#3384

George Chen

#85263

Overall Influence

George Z. Chen FRSC is professor of electrochemical technologies at the University of Nottingham. In 1996–1997, together with Derek Fray and Tom Farthing, he co-invented the FFC Cambridge process of electrochemical reduction of oxides to metals, where FFC abbreviates the last names of the inventors.

#3385

Richard Moore

#77289

Overall Influence

1923 - 2012 (89 years)

Richard Moore was an American radar engineer, Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Kansas and founder of the Radar Systems and Remote Sensing Laboratory Lab .

#3386

Daniel E. Koditschek

#113989

Overall Influence

#3387

Jamal Yagoobi

#114022

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Jamal Yagoobi is a George I. Alden Professor at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute , Worcester, Massachusetts. He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2014 for contributions to electrohydrodynamics.

#3388

Huei-yu Peng

#114032

Overall Influence

#3389

Michael M. Thackeray

#85681

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Michael Makepeace Thackeray is a South African chemist and battery materials researcher. He is mainly known for his work on electrochemically active cathode materials. In the mid-1980s he co-discovered the manganese oxide spinel family of cathodes for lithium ion batteries while working in the lab of John Goodenough at the University of Oxford. In 1998, while at Argonne National Laboratory, he led a team that first reported the NMC cathode technology. Patent protection around the concept and materials were first issued in 2005 to Argonne National Laboratory to a team with Thackeray, Khalil Amine, Jaekook Kim, and Christopher Johnson.

#3390

Maurits Allessie

#32931

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Maurits Allessie is an emeritus professor of physiology at Maastricht University. As an electrophysiologist he developed better insights in atrial fibrillation. Career Allessie was born in 1945 in Gemert, the Netherlands, and was raised in Amsterdam. He obtained his MD from the University of Amsterdam in 1974, and his PhD from Maastricht University in 1977. At age 38 he became a professor of physiology at the latter university, and seven years later he became head of the department. During his career Allessie studied heart problems.

#3391

Edward H. Sussenguth

#63251

Overall Influence

1932 - 2015 (83 years)

Edward H. Sussenguth Jr. was an American engineer and former IBM employee, known best for his work on Systems Network Architecture . He was also a contributor to the architecture of IBM's Advanced Computer System .

#3392

Hiroshi Takahashi

#43646

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Hiroshi Takahashi is a Japanese architect. Takahashi was born in Tokyo and received his graduate degree in architecture from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1978. In 1985, he joined the faculty at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. In 1988, he and Akiko Takahashi founded the firm Workstation in Yokohama. In 1991, Hiroshi Takahashi joined the faculty at Kanto Gakuin University, Nihon University and Hosei University.

#3393

Jürgen Czarske

#101075

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Jürgen W. Czarske is a German electrical engineer and a measurement system technician. He is the director of the TU Dresden Biomedical Computational Laser Systems competence center and a co-opted professor of physics.

#3394

Crispin Jenkinson

#114110

Overall Influence

#3395

Alejandro Frangi Caregnato

#111424

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Alejandro Frangi Caregnato from the University of Sheffield, UK was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2014 "for contributions to medical image analysis and image-based computational physiology." He holds Ph.D. from Image Sciences Institute, University Medical Center Utrecht and BEng in telecommunications engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia.

#3396

Tara Ruttley

#63024

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Tara Melaine Ruttley is Associate Chief Scientist for Microgravity Research at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC. Prior to this, she was Associate Program Scientist for the International Space Station at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Until 2007, she was lead hardware engineer for the ISS Health Maintenance System, leading a team of engineers whose job was to provide reliable medical equipment that kept astronauts healthy in orbit. She subsequently served as the lead hardware engineer for the ISS Human Research Facility. She served as an aquanaut on the NASA Extreme Envi...

#3397

Malcolm McCullough

#92519

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Malcolm McCullough is a professor at the University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. He has lectured widely on Urban Computing and place-based Interaction Design. Bibliography Downtime on the Microgrid, MIT Press, 2020.Ambient Commons, MIT Press, 2014.Digital Ground, MIT Press, 2004.Abstracting Craft, 1996.Digital Design Media, 1994.The Electronic Design Studio, 1990.

#3398

H. J. H. Brouwers

#114134

Overall Influence

#3399

Bodil Kjær

#95519

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (94 years)

Bodil Kjær is a Danish architect, furniture designer, professor and researcher, who has specialized in interior design and city planning. Today she is recognized above all for the flexible series of office furniture she designed in the 1960s.

#3400

Francisco Caldeira Cabral

#98212

Overall Influence

1908 - 1992 (84 years)

Francisco Caldeira Cabral GCIH • GOIP was a Portuguese landscape architect . He was an active and internationally reputed landscape architect from the 1940s to the 1980s. He was a pioneer in the practice, study and teaching of Landscape Architecture, and he was a pioneer of the Portuguese environmental movement.

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