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List of the most influential people in Engineering,

#4101

Rehana Sadiq

#125447

Overall Influence

#4102

Lan Tan

#125475

Overall Influence

#4103

John Power Kane

#125488

Overall Influence

#4104

Randy Larry Haupt

#125490

Overall Influence

#4105

Dennis Edward Grady

#125507

Overall Influence

#4106

Lutgarde Raskin

#89551

Overall Influence

Lutgarde Raskin is a Belgian-American scientist and Professor of Environmental Engineering. She is best known for her studies of microbial ecology in engineered water systems for sewage treatment and drinking water production.

#4107

Zhong Xunzheng

#105865

Overall Influence

1929 - 2023 (94 years)

Zhong Xunzheng was a Chinese architect, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Biography Zhong was born in Wugang County , Hunan, on 9 July 1929. In 1948, he enrolled at National Central University, and graduated from Nanjing University in 1952.

#4108

Andrew J. Davison

#125575

Overall Influence

#4109

Fangxing (fran) Li

#125601

Overall Influence

#4110

Priscilla Nelson

#107775

Overall Influence

Priscilla Nelson was the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs of New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, New Jersey from May 2005 to November 2008. She is currently the Department Head and Professor, Department of Mining Engineering, Colorado School of Mines.

#4111

Minoru Taya

#125612

Overall Influence

#4112

Carla Chiasserini

#103200

Overall Influence

Carla Fabiana Chiasserini is an Italian communications engineer specializing in wireless networks, edge computing, and power management for networked devices. She is a professor in the Electronics and Telecommunications Department at the Polytechnic University of Turin.

#4113

Edward Sövik

#60611

Overall Influence

1918 - 2014 (96 years)

Edward Anders Sövik, also Sovik, was an American architect and author. His most influential book, Architecture for Worship, covered the modern period in church architecture. Early life Sövik was born in 1918 in Henan province, China, a child of missionaries. After 17 years in China, Edward moved to the United States with his older sister and twin brother to attend college at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. Professor Arnold Flaten influenced Edward to study art; Flaten had designed the Art Barn on campus. Sövik graduated in 1939. Edward moved to New York City to study painting at th...

#4114

Ignacio J. Pérez Arriaga

Ignacio J. Pérez Arriaga

#98157

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Ignacio J. Pérez Arriaga is a Spanish professor of Engineering, Economics and Regulation of the Electric Power Sector, currently at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , the ICAI School of Engineering , Florence School of Regulation and African School of Regulation. He is a life member of the Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain. He has been a major contributor across the spectrum of electric power systems, from system dynamic analysis, monitoring and diagnosis at the start of his academic career, to economic and regulatory analysis.

#4115

Andrew Yeh-ching Nee

#125626

Overall Influence

#4116

V. Mohan Malhotra

#125629

Overall Influence

#4117

Silas Lwakabamba

Silas Lwakabamba

#66903

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Silas Lwakabamba is a Rwandan professor of Tanzanian origin who has served as the Minister of Education of Rwanda since July 2014 until June 24, 2015. Background Silas Lwakabamba was born and educated in Tanzania. He went to the University of Leeds in England where he studied engineering, graduating with a BSc in 1971 and a PhD in 1975. He subsequently returned to Tanzania where he joined the staff of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Dar es Salaam. He attained his professorship in 1981, and later became Dean of the faculty. In 1997, Silas Lwakabamba became the founding Rector o...

#4118

Venkatesh K. R. Kodur

Venkatesh K. R. Kodur

#90057

Overall Influence

Venkatesh Kumar R Kodur is a scientist and university professor, currently at Michigan State University. He was born in Kodur village in Karnataka India, received his bachelor's degree in Civil engineering from the University Visveswaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore, India, in 1984. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Queen's University at Kingston, Canada, in 1988 and 1992, respectively. Following a brief stint as a Post-doctoral Fellow at Royal Military College, Kingston, Canada, he joined the National Research Council , where as senior scientist, he carried out extensive research in structural fire safety field.

#4119

Franco Borsi

#96007

Overall Influence

1925 - 2008 (83 years)

Franco Borsi was an Italian architect and architectural historian. He was professor of history of architecture at the University of Florence, and wrote on Giovanni Michelucci, Leon Battista Alberti, Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Donato Bramante.

#4120

Michael Jörg Mihatsch

#125662

Overall Influence

#4121

Yasuo Tano

#125690

Overall Influence

#4122

Nancy D. Erbe

#16412

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Nancy Diane Erbe is an American negotiation, conflict resolution and peacebuilding professor at California State University, Dominguez Hills . Over the course of her career, she has collaborated with a wide spectrum of individuals and groups representing more than 80 countries, from colleagues and associates to clients and students, on these issues. She is a Fulbright Scholar, Senior Specialist in Peace and Conflict Resolution, and a Fulbright Distinguished Chair . She has received four Fulbright Honors to date including two in the same year which is extremely rare. She is the recipient of the Presidential Outstanding Professor Award-2015.

#4123

Carlijn Bouten

#114527

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Carlijn V.C. Bouten is a Dutch professor of Cell-Matrix Interactions at the department of Biomedical Engineering of Eindhoven University of Technology since 2010. She specializes in tissue engineering.

#4124

Karl Linn

#53436

Overall Influence

1923 - 2005 (82 years)

Karl Linn was an American landscape architect, psychologist, educator, and community activist, best known for inspiring and guiding the creation of "neighborhood commons" on vacant lots in East Coast inner cities during the 1960s through 1980s. Employing a strategy he called "urban barnraising," he engaged neighborhood residents, volunteer professionals, students, youth teams, social activists, and community gardeners in envisioning, designing, and constructing instant, temporary, and permanent gathering spaces in neighborhoods, on college campuses, and at sites of major conferences and events.

#4125

Richard Alan Wolf

#125767

Overall Influence

#4126

Ronnie Fass

#125778

Overall Influence

#4127

Milton S. F. Curry

Milton S. F. Curry

#97393

Overall Influence

Milton S. F. Curry is an American professor of architecture who became Dean of the USC School of Architecture at the University of Southern California on July 1, 2017. Curry joined USC after serving as Associate Dean for academic affairs and strategic initiatives of the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.

#4128

Ori Gersht

#70516

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Ori Gersht is an Israeli fine art photographer. He is a professor of photography at the University for the Creative Arts in Rochester, Kent, England. Biography Ori Gersht was born in Tel Aviv. He graduated in Photography, Film and Video from University of Westminster, London and studied for an M.A. in Photography from the Royal College of Art, London.

#4129

Martha Q Lacy

#125816

Overall Influence

#4130

Dan Wei. Wang

#125825

Overall Influence

#4131

Milica Radisic

#113951

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Milica Radisic is a Serbian Canadian tissue engineer, academic and researcher. She is a professor at the University of Toronto’s Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, and the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry. She co-founded TARA Biosystems and is a senior scientist at the Toronto General Hospital Research Institute.

#4132

Aviva Gileadi

#89448

Overall Influence

1917 - 2001 (84 years)

Aviva E. Gileadi was an Israeli nuclear scientist, a professor at the Israel Institute of Technology in the department of Nuclear Engineering. She was a specialist in the use of Nuclear reactors for energy production and Desalination. She was the first woman in the Western Bloc to receive a license for the operation of a nuclear reactor and the only one with such a license in 1963.

#4133

Chris Van Hoof

#116905

Overall Influence

Chris Van Hoof is a full professor at KU Leuven’s Faculty of Engineering Science, Vice-President Connected Health Solutions and Fellow at IMEC, and general manager of OnePlanet Research Center. Van Hoof has published over 600 papers in journals, conference proceedings and has given over 100 invited talks. His research has resulted in five startups, of which four are healthcare-related.

#4134

David Faiman

#24120

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

David Faiman is a British and Israeli physicist. Background Faiman was educated at Willesden County Grammar School and the University of London, and received his Ph.D from the University of Illinois in 1969. After post-doctoral appointments in Oxford and CERN he arrived in Israel in September 1973, to take up an appointment in theoretical physics at the Weizmann Institute of Science. However, as a result of the energy crisis that followed the Yom Kippur War, he re-directed his research interests from elementary particles into solar energy. In 1976 he was recruited by Amos Richmond to assist i...

#4135

Kazimierz Czarnecki

#75198

Overall Influence

1916 - 2005 (89 years)

Kazimierz R. Czarnecki was an aeronautics engineer who worked for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, and later, for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Bibliography Kazimierz R. Czarnecki was born in 1916 in Poland , to a Polish family. He had immigrated to the United States in an unknown year. He graduated in 1939 from the University of Alabama. He started working with the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics that same year and remained through the renaming to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration until his retirement in 1978 from a position as Senior Aeronautical Research Engineer.

#4136

Sharon Johnston

#95206

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Sharon Johnston is an American architect and architecture critic. She is a founding partner of the firm Johnston Marklee & Associates based in Los Angeles. Johnston has taught at a number of universities including Harvard Graduate School of Design, Princeton University, the University of California, Los Angeles, and has held the Cullinan Chair at Rice University and the Frank Gehry International Chair at the University of Toronto. In 2015, Johnston was named a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects for her contributions to the field.

#4137

David. Y. H. Pui

#125981

Overall Influence

#4138

Barna Szabó

#82829

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Barna A. Szabó is a Hungarian-American engineer and educator, noted for his contributions on the finite element method, particularly the conception and implementation of the p- and hp-versions of the Finite Element Method. He is a founding member and fellow of the United States Association for Computational Mechanics, an external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and fellow of the St. Louis Academy of Sciences.

#4139

Hamidou Tembine

#90894

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (44 years)

Hamidou Tembine is a French game theorist and researcher specializing in evolutionary games and co-opetitive mean-field-type games. He has been a Global Network Assistant Professor at New York University. He has been also the principal investigator and director of the Game Theory and Learning Laboratory at New York University.

#4140

Rick Hendrick

#44156

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Joseph Riddick "Rick" Hendrick III , nicknamed "Mr. H", is an American businessman. He is best known as the owner of the NASCAR team Hendrick Motorsports. He is also a co-owner of JR Motorsports and founder of the Hendrick Automotive Group, a network of over 100 car dealerships.

#4141

Kim Fleischer Michaelsen

#126064

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

#4142

Irwin Nazareth

#126074

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

#4143

Lee Ratner

#126087

Overall Influence

#4144

Melba Crawford

#106003

Overall Influence

Melba M. Crawford is the Associate Dean of Engineering for Research and a professor of agronomy, Civil Engineering, and Electrical & Computer Engineering at Purdue University. As the Nancy Uridil and Francis Bossu Professor in Civil Engineering, her specialty is Geomatics Engineering.

#4145

Jennifer Dionne

#89981

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (45 years)

Jennifer Dionne is an American scientist and pioneer of nanophotonics. She is currently senior associate vice provost of research platforms at Stanford University, a Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator, and an associate professor of materials science and engineering and by courtesy, of radiology. She serves as director of the Department of Energy's "Photonics at Thermodynamic Limits" Energy Frontier Research Center , which strives to create thermodynamic engines driven by light, and she leads the "Extreme Scale Characterization" efforts of the DOE's Q-NEXT Quantum Science Center. She is also an associate editor of the ACS journal Nano Letters.

#4146

Ys S. Yang

#126141

Overall Influence

#4147

Andrew David Mcculloch

#126158

Overall Influence

#4148

Jessy W. Grizzle

#122882

Overall Influence

Jessy W. Grizzle is an American engineer and Elmer G. Gilbert Distinguished University Professor of Engineering at the University of Michigan. He is also the Jerry W. and Carol L. Levin Professor of Engineering.

#4149

Constance J. Chang-hasnain

#126199

Overall Influence

#4150

Liu Xianjue

#101898

Overall Influence

1931 - 2019 (88 years)

Liu Xianjue was a Chinese architectural historian and educator. He studied under all "Four Modern Masters in Architecture" of China and taught at Southeast University for more than 50 years. He advocated for the protection of architectural heritage in Nanjing and advised the government of Macau in its successful application for World Heritage status for the Historic Centre of Macau.

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