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List of the most influential people in Engineering,

#3901

Lefteri H. Tsoukalas

#118068

Overall Influence

Lefteri H. Tsoukalas is a professor of engineering and founding director of the AI Systems Lab at Purdue University. He has served as head of the School of Nuclear Engineering of Purdue University and as Chairman of the United States Nuclear Engineering Department Heads Organization.

#3902

Jiun-Shyan Chen

#45765

Overall Influence

Jiun-Shyan Chen is an American engineer, currently the William Prager Chair Professor in Structural Mechanics at University of California, San Diego, and a publisher author. He is also Elected President for American Society of Civil Engineers's Engineering Mechanics Institute, as well as being a Fellow at ASCE since 2013. He was also formerly the Chancellor's Professor in Civil & Environmental Engineering at University of California, Los Angeles.

#3903

Ya-dong Jiang

#122518

Overall Influence

#3904

L. Jay Guo

#122529

Overall Influence

#3905

George Edwards

#17369

Overall Influence

1908 - 2003 (95 years)

Sir George Robert Freeman Edwards , was a British aircraft designer and industrialist. Early life George Edwards was born in 1902 at Highams Park, on the north side of London, England. He attended Walthamstow Technical Institute Engineering and Trade School, after which he took an engineering course at the University of London and in 1926 acquired a Batchelor of Science degree.

#3906

Hak Yong Kim

#122559

Overall Influence

#3907

Fumio Koyama

#122567

Overall Influence

#3908

Franciszek Maurer

#89387

Overall Influence

1918 - 2010 (92 years)

Franciszek Maurer was a Polish architect, artist, and professor at the . Early life Maurer was born in Łącko near Nowy Sącz in southern part of Poland. At that time this part of Poland belonged to Austro-Hungarian Empire. Four days later Poland gained independence. After graduating from Tadeusz Kościuszko Gymnasium in Lwów in 1938, he started his studies at University of Lwów, Department of Architecture. He continued studies during Soviet and German occupation and received master's degree in 1943. During the occupation he participated in Polish underground resistance movement Armia Krajowa.

#3909

Bengt U. Ö. Sonnerup

#122585

Overall Influence

#3910

Peter A. Troch

#122596

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

#3911

Raimond L. Winslow

#110175

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Raimond L. Winslow is an American biomedical engineer and computational biologist. He enrolled at Johns Hopkins University, where he was awarded a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering in 1986. In 2003, Winslow was recognized by IBM as a winner of the IBM Life Sciences Institutes of Innovation Award.

#3912

James J. Riley

#110516

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

James Joseph Riley is an American fluid dynamicist. He is PACCAR professor of engineering in the department of mechanical engineering of the University of Washington. Riley graduated from Rockhurst University in 1965. He received a PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1972. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was also elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2014 for contributions in analysis, modeling, and computations of transitioning and turbulent...

#3913

Steven P. Tipper

#122634

Overall Influence

#3914

Chris Hendrickson

#110917

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Chris T. Hendrickson is an American environmental engineer. Hendrickson was born in Oakland, California, and earned his bachelor's and first master's degree from Stanford University in 1973. He received a Rhodes Scholarship for further study at the University of Oxford, where he obtained a second master's degree in 1975. Hendrickson completed a doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1978. He then began teaching at Carnegie Mellon University. Hendrickson was appointed Duquesne Light Company Professor of Engineering in 1996, and was named Hamerschlag University Professor in 2...

#3915

Akira Nakajima

#122648

Overall Influence

#3916

Yannis F. Dafalias

#122659

Overall Influence

#3917

Ronald William Armstrong

#122673

Overall Influence

#3918

Paul Jeremy Dean

#122676

Overall Influence

#3919

David Benaron

#31016

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

David A. Benaron is an American digital health entrepreneur, physician, and former Stanford University professor. His work in the field of medical optical imaging, digital health wearables, and predictive behavioral and health Artificial Intelligence led to the founding of multiple public companies. He is a member of SPIE , and a founding editorial board member of the Journal of Biomedical Optics.

#3920

Morris J. Birnbaum

#122692

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

#3921

Stefan Iglauer

#122724

Overall Influence

#3922

Sitaram Rao Valluri

#66502

Overall Influence

1924 - 2019 (95 years)

Sitaram Rao Valluri was an engineer and scientist noted for his work in metal fatigue. He completed his doctorate in 1954 at Caltech with a dissertation under Ernest Sechler and stayed thereafter to continue his research work. In 1963, he won the Wright Brothers Medal with George Bockrath and James Glassco for a paper on the relationship between crack propagation and fatigue in metals. He later returned to India and joined the Applied Mechanics Department of Indian Institute of Technology, Madras where he distinguished himself as a teacher, an outstanding researcher and a pre-eminent authority in the field of metal fatigue.

#3923

Joaquim R. R. A. Martins

#122787

Overall Influence

#3924

Gyula Julius Vancso

#122796

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

#3925

Alexander Raake

#95894

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Alexander Raake is a professor heading the Audiovisual Technology Group at Technische Universität Ilmenau since 2015. Biography Between 1991 and 1997, he studied electrical engineering at RWTH Aachen University and at Télécom ParisTech ; where he was a research scientist and worked on the quality of VoIP voice transmission as part of his dissertation at the Institute for Communication Acoustics of Ruhr University Bochum. In 2004 and 2005, Raake did research work in Orsay, France, where he developed methods for measuring and modeling speech intelligibility in virtual chat rooms.

#3926

Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy

#34070

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy is the Robert W. Parry Collegiate Professor of Chemistry and Biophysics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In 2018, he was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

#3927

Vincent Hayward

#103893

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Vincent Hayward, was a scientist and engineer. His reaserch focus was on touch and haptics. He was a professor at Sorbonne University, Institute of Intelligent Systems and Robotics , where since 2008 he led a team dedicated to the study of tactile perception and the development of haptic devices. In 2020, he was elected to the French Academy of sciences.

#3928

Jean Krutmann

#122897

Overall Influence

#3929

Volker Giencke

#113241

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Volker Giencke in Wolfsberg is an Austrian architect. Volker Giencke studied architecture and philosophy in Graz and Vienna. Collaborated with Merete Mattern, the landscape-architect Raimund Herms and Günther Domenig. Opened Giencke & Company architectural office in Graz in 1981, as well as offices in Seville in 1990 and Riga in 2004.

#3930

Irene C. Peden

#67037

Overall Influence

1925 - Present (101 years)

Irene Carswell Peden is an American engineer who has contributed much to the field of electrical engineering. She is known for being the first American woman scientist to live and work in the interior of the Antarctic, where she developed new methods to analyze the deep glacial ice by studying the effect it has on radio waves.

#3931

Adi Ben-Israel

#94360

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (93 years)

Adi Ben-Israel is a mathematician and an engineer, working in applied mathematics, optimization, statistics, operations research and other areas. He is a Professor of Operations Research at Rutgers University, New Jersey.

#3932

Douglas C Bauer

#122937

Overall Influence

#3933

Sergio Ulgiati

#122957

Overall Influence

#3934

César Pelli

#82306

Overall Influence

1926 - 2019 (93 years)

César Pelli was an Argentine-American architect who designed some of the world's tallest buildings and other major urban landmarks. Two of his most notable buildings are the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur and the World Financial Center in New York City. The American Institute of Architects named him one of the ten most influential living American architects in 1991 and awarded him the AIA Gold Medal in 1995. In 2008, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat presented him with The Lynn S. Beedle Lifetime Achievement Award.

#3935

Huai‐guo Xue

#123003

Overall Influence

#3936

William Uttal

#47227

Overall Influence

1931 - 2017 (86 years)

William Reichenstein Uttal was an American psychologist and engineer known for his criticism of cognitive neuroscience, and for his advocacy for distributed neural processing. In Uttal's obituary in the American Journal of Psychology, Stanley Coren wrote that "His distinguished academic career is difficult to classify, but his specialty probably should be put under the heading "cognitive science"."

#3937

Giorgio Carta

#110275

Overall Influence

Giorgio Carta is an Italian chemical engineer. Carta completed a bachelor's of science degree in chemical engineering at the University of Cagliari in 1980, then pursued doctoral study in the subject at the University of Delaware. Upon obtaining his PhD in 1984, Carta joined the University of Virginia faculty, where he was later named Lawrence R. Quarles Professor of Chemical Engineering. He became a member of the organizing committee for the PREP International Symposium, Exhibition and Workshops on Preparative and Process Chromatography, Ion Exchange, Adsorption Processes and Related Separation Techniques in 1997, and has chaired or co-chaired the body since 2009.

#3938

Andrei V. Alexandrov

#123021

Overall Influence

#3939

Rajesh Rajamani

#123029

Overall Influence

#3940

Richard Arthur Bolt

#123030

Overall Influence

#3941

Henk Wymeersch

#123038

Overall Influence

#3942

Brett Eugene Quincy Bouma

#123044

Overall Influence

#3943

Peter Johnson

#74222

Overall Influence

1923 - 2003 (80 years)

Peter Richard Norman Johnson served with the Royal Australian Air Force during World War II and was a distinguished architect in his native Australia. Early life Johnson was born in Armadale, Victoria to Frank and Marian Johnson and later attended Bellevue Hill Public School and Sydney Boys High School. He spent one year studying engineering at Sydney Technical College before joining the Royal Australian Air Force. At the outbreak of war, he was sent to Canada for training. After completing his training, Flight Lieutenant Johnson arrived in England and spent his leave at Stonewall, Kent. It was here he met Jane Meade-Waldo who he married on 24 March 1944.

#3944

Yiguang Ju

#123082

Overall Influence

#3945

Anne Whiston Spirn

#73353

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Anne Whiston Spirn is an American landscape architect, photographer and author. Her work promotes community-oriented spaces that are functional, sustainable, meaningful, and artful. Spirn is Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning of the MIT School of Architecture and Planning. She is the 2001 winner of the International Cosmos Prize.

#3946

Sabir Ali Shehzad

#123097

Overall Influence

#3947

Joseph V. Hollweg

#123102

Overall Influence

#3948

Binoy Kumar Saikia

#67035

Overall Influence

Binoy Kumar Saikia is a Principal Scientist at North East Institute of Science and Technology, Jorhat , Assam, India. He is also the Group Leader of the Coal and Energy Research Group in the Materials Science and Technology Division of NEIST. His research interests span energy and environment in general and in particular chemistry and technology of coal, carbon and nano-materials, atmospheric aerosols, and air pollution. He has developed and patented, both in India and the US, a technology for the production of blue-fluorescent carbon quantum dots from Indian coal.

#3949

Dipankar Banerjee

#63300

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Dipankar Banerjee is an Indian physical metallurgist, materials engineer and a former chief controller of R&D at the Defence Research and Development Organization . Known for his studies on titanium alloys, Banerjee is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies namely Indian Academy of Sciences, Indian National Science Academy and National Academy of Sciences, India as well as the Indian National Academy of Engineering. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bha...

#3950

Harvey Locke

#27643

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Harvey Locke is a Canadian conservationist, writer, and photographer. He is a recognized global leader in the field of parks, wilderness, wildlife and large landscape conservation. He is a founder of the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative, with the goal to create a continuous corridor for wildlife from Yellowstone National Park in the United States to the Yukon in Northern Canada. In 2017, Locke was appointed chair of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas Beyond the Aichi Targets Task Force, with the goal of ensuring the new global conservation targets set at the next Conferen...

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