Engineers and materials scientists

Venkatraman Gopalan

Venkatraman Gopalan is a materials scientist and Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and of Physics at Pennsylvania State University, working on ferroelectric and nonlinear optical materials.

Venugopal Veeravalli

Venugopal V. Veeravalli is an American electrical engineer and the Henry Magnuski Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, working on statistical inference, machine learning, and wireless communications.

Vern W. Weekman Jr.

Vern W. Weekman Jr. is an American chemical engineer at Mobil and Princeton, known for the standard kinetic models of catalytic cracking used in petroleum refining.

Vernon L. Chartier

Vernon L. Chartier is an American electrical engineer at Bonneville Power Administration known for his 1981 formulas predicting audible noise from high-voltage AC and DC lines.

Vernon L. Snoeyink

Vernon L. Snoeyink is an American environmental engineer who spent his career at the University of Illinois, studying activated-carbon adsorption and corrosion control in drinking water.

Vicki L. Colvin

Vicki L. Colvin is an American chemist whose quantum dot work laid the foundation for quantum dot televisions; she is dean of engineering at LSU.

Victor F. B. de Mello

Victor F. B. de Mello, born Victor Froilano Bachmann de Mello, was a Brazilian geotechnical engineer who designed embankment dams and led the ISSMGE from 1981 to 1985.

Victor H. Rumsey

Victor H. Rumsey (1919–2015) was an English-born electrical engineer who formulated the frequency-independent antenna principle and the reaction concept, and directed antenna laboratories at Ohio State, Illinois, and UC San Diego.

Viggo Tvergaard

Viggo Tvergaard, born 1943 in Odense, Denmark, is a Danish solid mechanician and professor emeritus at the Technical University of Denmark, known for the Gurson-Tvergaard-Needleman ductile fracture model.

Vigor Yang

Vigor Yang (杨威迦) is an aerospace engineer at Georgia Tech known for work on combustion physics and propulsion, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2015.

Vijay K. Dhir

Vijay K. Dhir is a UCLA mechanical engineer known for boiling heat transfer research, who led UCLA's engineering school as dean from 2003 to 2016.

Vijay Kumar (roboticist)

Vijay Kumar, born 1962 in Patna, India, is a roboticist and dean of engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, known for agile quadrotors and robot swarms.

Vijay Vittal

Vijay Vittal is an electrical engineer and Regents Professor at Arizona State University known for power system stability research and his 2004 election to the National Academy of Engineering.

Vikram Shyam

Vikram Shyam is an American aerospace engineer at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland who works on turbine aerodynamics and film cooling, leads the center's bioinspiration efforts, and received a Presidential Early Career Award.

Viktor Kaplan

Viktor Kaplan (1876–1934) was an Austrian engineer, born in Mürzzuschlag and based in Brno, who invented the Kaplan turbine, an adjustable-blade water turbine that generates roughly 10% of global hydropower.

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Vinayak P. Dravid

Vinayak P. Dravid is a materials scientist and electron microscopist who is the Abraham Harris Professor of Materials Science at Northwestern University and founding director of the NUANCE Center.

Vinod K. Sahney

Vinod K. Sahney is an American industrial engineer who applied systems engineering to health care quality and patient safety, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003.

Virginia A. Davis

Virginia A. Davis is an American chemical engineer and Breeden Professor at Auburn University who studies how nanomaterials such as carbon nanotubes and MXenes assemble into useful materials.

Virginia C. Sulzberger

Virginia C. Sulzberger is an American electrical engineer who spent 20 years as Director-Engineering at NERC, leading the first North American bulk transmission planning standards approved in 1997.

Virginia Norwood

Virginia Norwood (1927–2023) was an American aerospace engineer and physicist, called the "Mother of Landsat" for designing the Multispectral Scanner flown on Landsat 1, the first satellite to study Earth's surface, launched in 1972.

Virginia Sampaio Teixeira Ciminelli

Virginia Sampaio Teixeira Ciminelli is a Brazilian chemical and metallurgical engineer, Full Professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais and a foreign member of the US National Academy of Engineering.

Vitelmo V. Bertero

Vitelmo Victorio Bertero (1923–2016) was an Argentine-born earthquake engineer and University of California, Berkeley professor known for research on structural response to strong ground motion.

Vito A. Vanoni

Vito A. Vanoni (1904–1999) was an American civil engineer and hydraulician, Professor of Hydraulics at Caltech, known for his 1940s suspended-sediment experiments and for editing ASCE's Sedimentation Engineering manual.

Vitold Belevitch

Vitold Belevitch (1921–1999) was a Belgian electrical engineer of Russian origin who introduced the scattering matrix in his 1945 thesis, wrote Classical Network Theory, and led early Belgian computing.

Vladimir Blasko

Vladimir Blasko is a power-electronics engineer and National Academy of Engineering member elected in 2023, known for regenerative motor drives that return braking energy to the grid.

Vladimir Bulovic

Vladimir Bulović is an MIT electrical engineer working on organic and nanostructured optoelectronics, founding director of MIT.nano, and founder of QD Vision, Kateeva, and Ubiquitous Energy.

Vladimir Haensel

Vladimir Haensel, a German-born American chemical engineer, invented Platforming, a platinum-catalyzed process for reforming gasoline, and received multiple honors, including the National Medal of Science.

Vladimir K. Zworykin

Vladimir K. Zworykin was a Russian-born American engineer who developed the iconoscope camera tube and kinescope display tube, the basis of electronic television, at RCA.

Vladimir Solodovnikov

Vladimir Viktorovich Solodovnikov (1910–1991) was a Soviet scientist in automatic control who founded Bauman's automatic control department and edited the 1954 standard Soviet text on control theory.