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List of the most influential people in Engineering,

#3551

John Gossage

#59451

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

John Gossage is an American photographer, noted for his artist's books and other publications using his photographs to explore under-recognised elements of the urban environment such as abandoned tracts of land, debris and garbage, and graffiti, and themes of surveillance, memory and the relationship between architecture and power.

#3552

Balbir Singh Dhillon

#116537

Overall Influence

#3553

François Hild

#116553

Overall Influence

#3554

Kai Sundmacher

#116556

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

#3555

Williams C. Hutton

#116577

Overall Influence

#3556

Annmarie Adams

#80696

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Annmarie Adams is an architectural historian and university professor. She is the former Chair of the Department of Social Studies of Medicine and is the former Director of the School of Architecture at McGill University. Adams specializes in healthcare architecture and gendered space. At McGill she teaches courses in architectural history and research methods. She is the inaugural holder of the Stevenson Chair in the History and Philosophy of Science, including Medicine. She is a board member of the Society of Architectural Historians and former board member of the Vernacular Architecture Fo...

#3557

Johnny Huard

#116579

Overall Influence

#3558

Cyril Fisher

#116593

Overall Influence

#3559

Josef Singer

#43898

Overall Influence

1923 - 2009 (86 years)

Josef Singer is a former president and professor of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Biography Singer was born in Vienna. He and his family immigrated to Haifa, Israel in 1933 when he was 10 years old, and he served for three years as a pilot with Britain's Royal Air Force during World War II.

#3560

Barry Berkus

#84978

Overall Influence

1935 - 2012 (77 years)

Barry Berkus was an American architect, author and art collector. He designed more than 600,000 houses. He also helped write building codes and develop new towns in Japan. Early life Berkus was born on November 25, 1935, in Los Angeles, California. He was educated at the John Muir High School in Pasadena. He went to college at the University of California, Santa Barbara and graduated from the School of Architecture at the University of Southern California.

#3561

Lawrence S Young

#116620

Overall Influence

#3562

Yigal Elad

#116632

Overall Influence

#3563

Martin Krampen

#10411

Overall Influence

1928 - 2015 (87 years)

Martin Krampen was a leading German semiotician, semiotics Professor in Göttingen. Biography The son of a Protestant pastor, Krampen was born on March 9, 1928, in Siegen and was raised in Wuppertal. He took courses in psychology, philosophy, and theology the University of University of Tübingen and the University of Heidelberg, and studied design with a focus on painting at Accademia delle Belle Arti di Firenze. In 1953 Krampen began studying graphic design and visual communication at the Hochschule für Gestaltung. After graduating from the school with a diploma in, he went on to obtain his PhD in Visual Communications from Michigan State University in 1962.

#3564

Qing-guo Wang

#116687

Overall Influence

#3565

Leslie Jaeger

#103287

Overall Influence

1926 - 2013 (87 years)

Leslie Gordon Jaeger CM FCAE FEIC FCSCE FRSE was a distinguished British and Canadian academic and engineer. Life Jaeger was born on 28 January 1926, in Southport, England. He graduated from the University of Cambridge , and then served for two years as a lieutenant in the Royal Navy. His doctorate and DSc were then from the University of London. He was successively Director of Studies in Engineering at Magdalene College, Cambridge; Regius Professor of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh ; Professor of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics at McGill University, Canada; Dean of the Fa...

#3566

Korneel Rabaey

#116717

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

#3567

Paolo Mattavelli

#116750

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

#3568

Fadhel M. Ghannouchi

#111419

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Fadhel M. Ghannouchi is a Tunisian-Canadian electrical engineer, who conducts research in radio frequency technology and wireless communications. Education Professor Ghannouchi obtained his B.Sc. in 1983 from Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal in . He completed his M.Sc. in 1984 and Ph.D. in 1987 at the University of Montreal and became a researcher at Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal. He was appointed assistant professor there in 1990, and Associate Professor and the director of the Ampli Lab in 1994. In 1997, he became a professor in the department of Electrical Engineering and the Director of the M.Sc.

#3569

Jan P. Allebach

#110008

Overall Influence

Jan P. Allebach is an American engineer, educator and researcher known for contributions to imaging science including halftoning, digital image processing, color management, visual perception, and image quality. He is Hewlett-Packard Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University.

#3570

Milka Bliznakov

Milka Bliznakov

#79538

Overall Influence

1927 - 2010 (83 years)

Milka Tcherneva Bliznakov was a Bulgarian architect and architectural historian. She was regarded as an authority on the avant-garde and Russian Constructivism. Her work focused on the often overlooked role of women in architecture and she founded the International Archive of Women in Architecture. She was Professor Emerita of Architecture at Virginia Tech from 1974 to 1998.

#3571

Yun-hong Wang

#116816

Overall Influence

#3572

Thomas H. Lee

#105010

Overall Influence

1923 - 2001 (78 years)

Thomas H. Lee was a Chinese-American electrical engineer and writer. He worked for General Electric for 30 years, where he developed the first practical vacuum interrupter and the silicon rectifier in the 1960s. In the 1980s he served as the Philip Sporn Professor of Energy Processing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and co-chaired the MIT Sloan School's Management of Technology program. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1975 and a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2000. He was an IEEE Fellow and received the IEEE Haraden Pratt...

#3573

Rolf Apweiler

#27415

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Rolf Apweiler is a director of European Bioinformatics Institute part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory with Ewan Birney. Education Apweiler gained his PhD in biochemistry from Heidelberg University.

#3574

Ken-ichi Iga

#116851

Overall Influence

#3575

Mark Andrew Bradford

#116854

Overall Influence

#3576

David Shinar

#99473

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

David Shinar is one of the most prominent and productive researchers in the area of traffic safety, and a professor emeritus at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Biography David Shinar received his BA in psychology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1968, his MA in Experimental Psychology from Ohio State University in 1970 and his Ph.D. in Human Performance and Human Factors Engineering from Ohio State University in 1973. He was the George Shrut Professor of Human Performance Management at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, till his retirement in 2012.

#3577

Tsunenobu Kimoto

#116880

Overall Influence

#3578

Bayya Yegnanarayana

#103048

Overall Influence

Bayya Yegnanarayana is an INSA Senior Scientist at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad, Hyderabad, AP, India. He is an eminent professor and is known for his contributions in Speech Signal Processing, Artificial Neural Networks and related areas. He has guided about 30 PhD theses, 42 MS theses and 65 MTech projects, and currently guiding about 10 PhD students. He is the General Chair for the international conference, INTERSPEECH 2018, held at Hyderabad.

#3579

Yasuhiro Ishimoto

Yasuhiro Ishimoto

#44264

Overall Influence

1921 - 2012 (91 years)

was a Japanese-American photographer. His decades-long career explored expressions of modernist design in traditional architecture, the quiet anxieties of urban life in Tokyo and Chicago, and the camera's capacity to bring out the abstract in the everyday and seemingly concrete fixtures of the world around him.

#3580

Gary Hodes

#116898

Overall Influence

#3581

Herbert Hirche

#56329

Overall Influence

1910 - 2002 (92 years)

Herbert Hirche was a German architect and furniture and product designer. Herbert Hirche studied from 1930 to 1933 at the Bauhaus in Dessau and Berlin. His teachers included, Wassily Kandinsky and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. From 1934 to 1938 he worked in Mies van der Rohe's office in Berlin, until his boss emigrated to the United States. From 1939 to 1945 Hirche worked for Egon Eiermann, after 1945 for Hans Scharoun. In 1948 he was appointed Professor of Applied Arts at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee, which had only been recently founded in 1946. It was in the Soviet Occupied Zone of Berlin.

#3582

Alan Windle

#98147

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Alan Hardwick Windle FRS is a British material scientist, and Chair of Materials Science at Cambridge University. He earned a BSc from Imperial College London, and a PhD from University of Cambridge. He was a lecturer in materials science from 1975 to 1992, and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1997 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

#3583

Irith Pomeranz

#101608

Overall Influence

Irith Pomeranz is an Israeli electrical engineer known for her research in circuit testing and fault tolerance. She is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University and a Fellow of the IEEE.

#3584

Gered Mankowitz

#7436

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Gered Mankowitz is an English photographer who focused his career in the music industry. He has worked with a range of artists from The Rolling Stones to Jimi Hendrix, and in other divisions of the photography industry, including fashion, music, advertising, news, and private photography. He works from his own gallery in North London.

#3585

Behzad Baradaran

#117014

Overall Influence

#3586

David R. Snydman

#117020

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

#3587

Kenneth E. Goodson

#117056

Overall Influence

#3588

Jeffrey Grossman

#117068

Overall Influence

Jeffrey Grossman is an American engineer, the Morton and Claire Goulder and Family Professor in Environmental Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research has included the development of materials that can store solar energy chemically, and then release the energy at a later time as heat, a process for constructing electronic components out of coal, novel three-dimensional arrangements for solar panels, and studies on the use of graphene for water desalination.

#3589

Armen Der Kiureghian

#117076

Overall Influence

#3590

Miwa Yanagi

#70032

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Miwa Yanagi is a Japanese photographic artist who examines self-image and stereotypes of women in contemporary Japanese society. Yanagi was discovered by conceptual photographer Yasumasa Morimura, who noticed some of her work while borrowing her house as a set for a separate project.

#3591

Prinya Chindaprasirt

#117150

Overall Influence

#3592

Rabab Ward

#113199

Overall Influence

Rabab Kreidieh Ward is an Lebanese-Canadian electrical engineer specializing in signal processing. She is a professor emerita of electrical and computer engineering at the University of British Columbia.

#3593

Nikhil Gupta

#102657

Overall Influence

Nikhil Gupta is a materials scientist, researcher, and professor based in Brooklyn, New York. Gupta is a professor at New York University Tandon School of Engineering department of mechanical and aerospace engineering. He is an elected Fellow of ASM International and the American Society for Composites. He is one of the leading researchers on lightweight foams and has extensively worked on hollow particle filled composite materials called syntactic foams. Gupta developed a new functionally graded syntactic foam material and a method to create multifunctional syntactic foams. His team has also created an ultralight magnesium alloy syntactic foam that is able to float on water.

#3594

Per K. Enge

#115169

Overall Influence

1953 - 2018 (65 years)

Per Kristian Enge was a Norwegian-American engineer. He earned a master's degree and doctorate in engineering from the University of Illinois. Enge then began teaching at Worcester Polytechnic Institute before joining the Stanford GPS Lab. He taught at Stanford as the Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital Professor of Engineering, and later assumed the Vance D. and Arlene C. Coffman Professorship. Enge was named a fellow of the IEEE. The National Academy of Engineering granted Enge membership in 2005 "for leadership in the development of augmentations to marine and aviation g...

#3595

Novak Zuber

#117216

Overall Influence

#3596

Paulo Tabuada

#117248

Overall Influence

#3597

John B Wong

#117262

Overall Influence

#3598

Thomas L. Carroll

#117268

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

#3599

Jeffrey E. Nash

#117347

Overall Influence

#3600

Ali Morteza Samsam Bakhtiari

Ali Morteza Samsam Bakhtiari

#61045

Overall Influence

1945 - 2007 (62 years)

Ali Morteza Samsam Bakhtiari was an Iranian author and oil expert employed by the National Iranian Oil Company . He held a number of senior positions with this organization beginning in 1971. He was also an adviser to the Oil Depletion Analysis Centre.

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