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Milo E. Riverso
Milo E. Riverso is an American civil engineer and construction executive, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026, who led STV Group and the New York City School Construction Authority.
Milton Brumer
Milton Brumer (1902–1999) was an American civil engineer who served as chief engineer and later president of Ammann & Whitney, responsible for major suspension bridges including the Walt Whitman and Throgs Neck.
Paul Fares Boulos
Paul Fares Boulos, also known as Paul F. Boulos, is a civil engineer born in Beirut who founded Innovyze and now chairs Aquanuity, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2014.
Pierre Charles L'Enfant
Pierre Charles L'Enfant, also known as Peter L'Enfant, was a French-born architect and engineer who served in the Continental Army and designed the 1791 plan for Washington, D.C.
R. Shankar Nair
R. Shankar Nair is a Chicago-based structural and civil engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2005 for his design of innovative bridges and building structures.
Reuben Samuels
Reuben Samuels was an American geotechnical and underground-construction engineer who spent over 30 years at Crimmins Constructors before joining Parsons Brinckerhoff in New York in 1992.
Richard J. Robbins
Richard James Robbins (1933–2019) was an American engineer who led The Robbins Company for 35 years, refined the tunnel boring machine, and held 67 patents.
Richard L. Tomasetti
Richard L. Tomasetti is an American structural engineer who co-founded Thornton Tomasetti, chaired it until 2007, and led the engineering of Taipei 101 and the Petronas Towers.
Richard Redmayne
Sir Richard Augustine Studdert Redmayne (1865–1955) was a British mining engineer, the UK's first Chief Inspector of Mines, who led the 1913 Senghenydd disaster inquiry.
Robert F. Mast
Robert F. Mast was an American structural engineer who spent fifty years at BERGER/ABAM Engineers in Washington, led precast concrete design, and died in 2020.
Robert S. O'Neil
Robert S. O'Neil (1935–2021) was an American civil engineer who served as Chief Engineer on the Washington Metrorail and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
Robert Stephenson
Robert Stephenson (1803–1859) was an English railway and civil engineer, George Stephenson's only son, chief engineer of the London and Birmingham Railway and inventor of the wrought-iron tubular bridge.
Sandford Fleming
Sandford Fleming, also known as Sir Sandford Fleming, was a Scottish-born Canadian railway engineer and Father of Standard Time who proposed worldwide time zones in 1884.
Santiago Calatrava
Santiago Calatrava Valls, born 1951, is a Spanish architect, structural engineer, and sculptor known for the Alamillo Bridge in Seville and the Oculus in New York.
SawTeen See
SawTeen See is a structural engineer known for supertall buildings, who co-founded Leslie E. Robertson Associates and led the structural design of the 679-m Merdeka 118 Tower.
Seth L. Pearlman
Seth L. Pearlman is an American geotechnical engineer who led Menard's North American ground improvement business and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024.
Thomas Telford
Thomas Telford (1757–1834) was a Scottish civil engineer who built canals, roads, and bridges across Britain and served as first President of the Institution of Civil Engineers.
Thomas Zarro Scarangello
Thomas Zarro Scarangello is an American structural engineer, chairman and CEO of Thornton Tomasetti from 2008 to 2020, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026.
W. David Goodyear
W. David Goodyear is an American consulting structural engineer specializing in long-span bridges, engineer of record for the Hoover Dam bypass bridge and chief bridge engineer at T.Y. Lin International.
William A. Clevenger
William Albert Clevenger (1919–2009) was an American geotechnical engineer who consulted on about 500 dam projects worldwide, coauthored the 1963 textbook Earth and Earth-Rock Dams, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1990.
William E. Leonhard
William E. Leonhard (1914–2008) was an American civil engineer and construction executive who retired as an Air Force brigadier general in 1964, then led Parsons Corp. for 24 years.
William Thomas Holmes
William Thomas Holmes, known as Bill Holmes, is an American structural engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017 for seismic safety work.