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List of the most influential people in Engineering,

#4951

Barry L. Nelson

#136675

Overall Influence

#4952

H. J. Matzke

#136681

Overall Influence

#4953

Thomas Sayers Ellis

#55164

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Thomas Sayers Ellis is an American poet, photographer and band leader. He previously taught as an associate professor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Bennington College in Vermont, and also at Sarah Lawrence College until 2012.

#4954

Gary Lynn Messing

#136711

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#4955

Sebastian Prof. Dr. Engell

#136734

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#4956

Christopher John Harris

#136790

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#4957

Hermann Pundt

#124748

Overall Influence

1928 - 2000 (72 years)

Hermann Johannes Gustav Pundt was a leading architectural historian and Professor in the University of Washington Department of Architecture. Pundt was born and raised in Berlin, Germany. In 1944, at age 16, he began service as a Naval Cadet. He fought in the defense of Berlin against the Russian army in 1945. After his capture by the Russians, he escaped from a P.O.W. camp the following December. Pundt came to the United States in 1951. He was drafted to serve in the Korean War with an aerial intelligence unit of the U.S. Marine Corps. He was naturalized as a U.S. citizen in 1954.

#4958

Robert Campbell Aitken

#55030

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Robert Campbell Aitken is a Canadian electrical engineer. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2013 "for contributions to testing and diagnosis of integrated circuits." He has applied for forty-eight patents since 2007, mostly in conjunction with other ARM inventors.

#4959

Chunxiao Jiang

#136806

Overall Influence

#4960

Dirk L. Brutsaert

#136839

Overall Influence

#4961

Ellis Meng

#113130

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Ellis Meng is the Shelly and Ofer Nemirovsky Chair of Convergent Biosciences and Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California, where she also serves as the Vice Dean of Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Meng is highly decorated in the development of novel micro- and nanotechnologies for biomedical applications. In 2009, Meng was named on MIT Technology Review's "Innovators Under 35" List for her work on micropumps that deliver drugs preventing blindness, and she was listed on...

#4962

Ramesh Chandra Gupta

#136859

Overall Influence

#4963

Don Millard

#105838

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Don Millard is a Program Director at the National Science Foundation . Prior to joining NSF, he was a faculty member at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the originator of the Mobile Studio Project. In 1999 he started thinking about a way to enable students to perform experiments anytime, anyplace—specifically those that use an oscilloscope, function generator, digital control, and some form of power supply. He started the Mobile Studio project by looking at commercially available solutions, which were prohibitively expensive; while choosing to involve students in bringing the project's vision to reality.

#4964

Daved H. Fremont

#97462

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Daved H. Fremont is a professor at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis with dual appointments in the Departments of Pathology and Immunology/Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics. He is currently director of the Computational and Molecular Biophysics Program. Fremont is also a principal investigator in the Center for Structural Genomics of Infectious Disease and his laboratory has deposited structures of proteins from several major human pathogens to the protein data bank .

#4965

Maurice Georges Bellanger

#136911

Overall Influence

#4966

David G. Lloyd

#136945

Overall Influence

#4967

Joseph Mitola

#136966

Overall Influence

#4968

Christos Masouros

#136998

Overall Influence

#4969

Ashutosh Tiwari

#137016

Overall Influence

#4970

Eugenie L. Birch

#85251

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Eugenie L. Birch is an American scholar and city planner specializing in international and domestic planning history and urban revitalization. Academic posts Birch is the Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research and Education and the Chair of the Graduate Group in City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also the Co-Director of the Penn Institute for Urban Research and co-editor, University of Pennsylvania's City in the 21st Century series.

#4971

Alois Machatschek

#119286

Overall Influence

1928 - 2014 (86 years)

Alois Machatschek was an Austrian architect, architectural historian, university professor and architectural preservationist. Life Machatschek, the son of a builder, studied architecture at the Vienna College of Technology and then worked for Karl Holey as an assistant at the Institute for Architecture and Architectural Drawing. In 1961, he completed a doctorate. Among his early work was participation in the design of the Arthur-Schnitzler-Hof Gemeindebau in Döbling. In the 1960s, Machatschek devoted himself mainly to Mediterranean architectural history and received his habilitation for a wor...

#4972

Anand Raghunathan

#137030

Overall Influence

#4973

Michael Whelan

#69336

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (95 years)

Michael John Whelan HonFRMS FRS FInstP is a British scientist. Education and Career Whelan completed his PhD at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge under the supervision of Peter Hirsch. He held research posts at the University of Cambridge until 1966 when he moved to the University of Oxford. As of 2011, Whelan is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Materials at the University of Oxford, England, and an Emeritus Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford.

#4974

William D. Rawlinson

#137042

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#4975

Stephen D. Senturia

#137046

Overall Influence

#4976

William G. Dyer

#55137

Overall Influence

1925 - 1997 (72 years)

William Gibb Dyer was an American educator who served as the fourth Dean of the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University . He received a B.A. from BYU in 1950, followed by a M.A. from the same institution two years later. In 1955 he earned a Ph.D. in Social psychology from the University of Wisconsin.

#4977

Andreas Öchsner

#130651

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Andreas Öchsner is a professor, head of discipline, in mechanical engineering at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia. He is a conjoint Professor of the Centre for Mass and Thermal Transport in Engineering Materials at the University of Newcastle . He is the author and co-author of over 150 refereed journal papers, over 70 conference papers and 15 book-chapters in the area of advanced materials and structures. Furthermore, he is the author and co-author of five books and 13 research monographs.

#4978

Pietro Attilio Tonali

#137153

Overall Influence

#4979

Paul Proost

#137157

Overall Influence

#4980

Siddhartha S. Srinivasa

#137159

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#4981

Genrikh Abaev

#90193

Overall Influence

1932 - 2014 (82 years)

Genrikh Nikolaevich Abaev was a professor, Doctor of Engineering Sciences, Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering at Polotsk State University, Belarus. Early life and education Abaev was born in 1932, in Baku. Having finished his secondary education in Baku, he entered Azerbaijan State Oil and Industrial University . Later he continued his career working as a professor at the following institutes: Azerbaijan Oil Refining Scientific Research Institute, All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Polefins , Scientific Research Institute , All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Polymers , Bioengineering Research Institute of the Russian Federation .

#4982

Zhou Cheng Wang

#137169

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#4983

Wolfgang Arlt

#95417

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Wolfgang Arlt is a German thermodynamicist. Until his retirement in 2018, he was professor at the TU Berlin and since 2004 at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Life After studying chemistry with a focus on physical chemistry at the University of Dortmund, he became a research assistant for Ulfert Onken at the same university in 1976 in the field of chemical engineering. During his doctorate, he helped set up the Dortmund Data Bank. After completing his doctorate as Dr.-Ing. In 1981 he moved to Bayer, where he worked on thermal separation processes. In 1987 he switched to p...

#4984

Robert Hecht-Nielsen

#63893

Overall Influence

1947 - 2019 (72 years)

Robert Hecht-Nielsen was an American computer scientist, neuroscientist, entrepreneur and professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, San Diego. He co-founded HNC Software Inc. in 1986 which went on to develop the pervasive card fraud detection system, Falcon®. He became a vice president of R&D at Fair Isaac Corporation when it acquired the company in 2002.

#4985

Wayne Powell

#137194

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#4986

Marija D. Ilić

#137210

Overall Influence

#4987

Roger M. Macfarlane

#137224

Overall Influence

#4988

Chieh-Su Hsu

#137236

Overall Influence

1922 - 2014 (92 years)

Chieh-Su Hsu was a Chinese-born American engineer. Hsu was born in Beijing on 27 May 1922, as one of six siblings, including four brothers. The family moved to Suzhou, where they remained until the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War. In 1937, Hsu and his older brother moved to Chongqing, and Hsu enrolled at the Chongqing Institute of Technology. Upon graduating in 1945, Hsu served one year in the National Revolutionary Army, then worked at Shanghai Naval Dockyard and Engineering Works from 1946 to 1947. He left for Stanford University in the United States after becoming one of sixty students to win a nationwide contest for a scholarship.

#4989

Howard D. Eberhart

#137244

Overall Influence

1906 - 1993 (87 years)

Howard Davis Eberhart was an American engineer noted for his design of artificial limbs and other prosthetic devices. Professor Eberhart was chairman of the Department of Civil Engineering at University of California, Berkeley and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. The University of California called Eberhart "one of UC Berkeley's most highly respected and acclaimed teachers in civil engineering, and a pioneer of research in artificial limbs". In 1977 Howard was elected to the National Academy of Engineering "for pioneering studies of human locomotion, application of structur...

#4990

Panos Papalambros

#123611

Overall Influence

Panos Papalambros is a Greek American academic best known for his work on design optimization of products and complex systems, and for his leadership in advancing transformative engineering design research and education, including establishing Design Science as a rigorous scientific discipline. He is a Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he has been recognized as the James B. Angell Distinguished University Professor Emeritus and the Donald C. Graham Professor Emeritus of Engineering. He also served as Professor of Architecture and Urba...

#4991

Niels Kuster

#122037

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Niels Kuster is a Swiss electrical engineer and Professor. The focus of his research is on the electromagnetic near field, basics for assessing/using the interaction of electromagnetic fields with organisms, and physiological simulations as part of biophysics.

#4992

Andrew K. Poznanski

#137293

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#4993

E. Shechtman

#137302

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#4994

Thomas Voets

#137311

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#4995

Tal Arbel

#101259

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Tal Arbel is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at McGill University who specialises in computer vision. She is interested in the application of artificial intelligence in healthcare. Early life and education Arbel was born in Montreal. Arbel's father was an electrical engineer. As a child Arbel was given a TRS-80 computer, which she used to play video games like pong. Alongside her computer, Arbel's father encouraged her to play with model planes and Lego. She studied science at CEGEP, before joining McGill University for her undergraduate degree in electrical engineering. She completed her Bachelor's , Master's and PhD at McGill University.

#4996

William Paul Fife

William Paul Fife

#54013

Overall Influence

1917 - 2008 (91 years)

Colonel William Paul Fife USAF was a United States Air Force officer that first proved the feasibility for U.S. Air Force Security Service airborne Communications Intelligence collection and Fife is considered the "Father of Airborne Intercept". Fife was also a hyperbaric medicine specialist who was known for his pioneering research on pressurized environments ranging from high altitude to underwater habitats. Fife was a Professor Emeritus at Texas A&M University.

#4997

Nadine Barrie Smith

#101391

Overall Influence

1962 - 2010 (48 years)

Nadine Barrie Smith was an American biomedical researcher in the field of therapeutic ultrasound and non-invasive drug delivery. She was also an educator and mentor, especially to women students. Personal life Smith was born in Chicago, Illinois to Jean and Barron Smith. The family has deep roots in Japan , associated with the Sekiguchi and Asaki clans. She has two sisters, Arnette Bosch and Jolene Smith. She graduated from Chicago’s Lane Tech High School in 1980. She was married to Andrew Webb in New Zealand. Outside of her scientific career, she was an accomplished sports photographer, equestrian, and mountaineer.

#4998

Stephen B. Wicker

#137415

Overall Influence

#4999

Alexey Stakhov

#70752

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Alexey Petrovich Stakhov is a Ukrainian mathematician, inventor and engineer, who has made contributions to the theory of Fibonacci numbers and the "Golden Section" and their applications in computer science and measurement theory and technology. Doctor of computer science , professor . Author of over 500 publications, 14 books and 65 international patents.

#5000

Robert Joseph Taylor

#137430

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