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Ellen Ochoa
Ellen Lauri Ochoa, born 1958, is an American engineer and NASA astronaut who became the first Hispanic woman in space in 1993 and later directed the Johnson Space Center.
Elliot Moore II
Elliot Moore II is an American electrical and computer engineer and associate professor at Georgia Tech whose voice signal processing research targets depression, aphasia, and Alzheimer's disease.
Elmer Ambrose Sperry
Elmer Ambrose Sperry (1860–1930) was an American inventor and engineer who founded the Sperry Gyroscope Company and pioneered the gyrocompass, ship stabilizers, and automatic pilots.
Emanuel Tutuc
Emanuel Tutuc is an electrical engineer and professor at the University of Texas at Austin, known for work on graphene, twisted moiré materials, and semiconductor nanowire devices.
Émile Baudot
Émile Baudot, born Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot, was a French telegraph engineer whose 1874 printing telegraph used a five-unit code that supplanted Morse code; the baud is named for him.
Eric A. Walker
Eric A. Walker (1910–1995) was an English-born American electrical engineer, president of Penn State from 1956 to 1970, and a founding member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Eric Ash
Eric Ash, born Ulrich Albert Asch, was a German-born British electrical engineer who pioneered surface acoustic wave devices and served as Rector of Imperial College London from 1985 to 1993.
Eric Avram Udren
Eric Avram Udren is an American electric power engineer, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2019, who helped develop digital protective relaying and the IEC 61850 substation standard.
Eric Fossum
Eric Fossum is an American engineer who invented the CMOS active pixel image sensor, the camera-on-a-chip in nearly every smartphone, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the early 1990s.
Eric Laithwaite
Eric Laithwaite (1921–1997) was a British electrical engineer who made the linear induction motor practical, then damaged his career by claiming gyroscopes violate energy conservation.
Eric Pop
Eric Pop is an electrical engineer and Pease-Ye Professor at Stanford, known for energy-efficient nanoelectronics research on carbon nanotubes, graphene, and low-current phase-change memory, and elected an IEEE Fellow in 2021.
Erich Bloch
Erich Bloch (1925–2016) was a German-born American electrical engineer who managed IBM's Stretch supercomputer and System/360, then directed the National Science Foundation from 1984 to 1990.
Erich Spitz
Erich Spitz (Эрих Шпиц) is a Czech-born French physicist, born in Brno in 1931, who with J.C. Simon at CSF realized single-mode propagation would benefit optical fiber communication.
Ernst Alexanderson
Ernst Alexanderson, born Ernst Frederik Werner Alexanderson, was a Swedish-born American electrical engineer at General Electric whose high-frequency alternator made radio transmission practical; he held over 300 US patents.
Ernst Guillemin
Ernst Adolph Guillemin (1898–1970) was an American electrical engineer and educator at MIT, generally considered the founding father of circuit theory education and author of six sole-authored textbooks.
Ernst Weber (electrical engineer)
Ernst Weber (1901–1996) was an Austrian-born American electrical engineer who founded Polytechnic's Microwave Research Institute and served as the first president of the IEEE in 1963.
Eugene C. Starr
Eugene C. Starr, also known as Eugene Carl Starr, was an American electrical engineer at the Bonneville Power Administration whose 1942 series-capacitor work let power travel four times farther.
Eugene S. Meieran
Eugene S. Meieran is an American semiconductor manufacturing engineer who spent 36 years at Intel and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1998.
F. Paul de Mello
F. Paul de Mello (1927–2022) was an American electrical engineer, born in Goa, India, who specialized in power system dynamics and was a cofounder of Power Technologies, Inc.
Fawwaz T. Ulaby
Fawwaz T. Ulaby is an electrical engineer known for microwave remote sensing, a University of Michigan professor emeritus elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1995.
Felix F. Wu
Felix F. Wu, also known as Felix Fulih Wu, is an electrical engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026 for power system stability methods.
Felix Pollaczek
Félix Pollaczek (1892–1981) was an Austrian-French engineer and mathematician, a pioneer of queueing and teletraffic theory best known for the Pollaczek–Khinchine formula, derived in 1930.
Fengnian Xia
Fengnian Xia is a Yale University professor of electrical engineering known for his 2014 rediscovery of black phosphorus as a two-dimensional semiconductor and a PECASE award.
Frank J. Sprague
Frank J. Sprague (Frank Julian Sprague) was an American electrical engineer, called the father of electric traction, who built the first large electric street railway in Richmond, Virginia.
Frank S. Barnes
Frank S. Barnes is an American electrical engineer and Distinguished Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2001.
Franklin S. Cooper
Franklin Seaney Cooper (1908–1999) was an American speech scientist who built the Pattern Playback, the first practical speech synthesizer, and led Haskins Laboratories for decades.
Franky So
Franky So is an electrical engineer and Walter and Ida Freeman Distinguished Professor at North Carolina State University who spent fourteen years in industrial OLED research at Motorola and OSRAM.
František Křižík
František Křižík (1847–1941) was a Czech electrotechnical engineer and industrialist called the Czech Edison, who lit the 1891 Prague Jubilee Exhibition and electrified the Tábor–Bechyně railway.
Frederick Anthony Kish Jr.
Frederick Anthony Kish Jr., known as Fred Kish, is an American electrical engineer at North Carolina State University who developed high-efficiency LEDs and commercial photonic integrated circuits.
Frederick H. Dill
Frederick H. "Rick" Dill is an American electrical engineer and IBM researcher known for founding the scientific modeling of photolithography, the Dill Parameters, and video RAM.