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David J. Srolovitz

David J. Srolovitz, also cited as D. J. Srolovitz, is an American materials theorist and Dean of Engineering at the University of Hong Kong, known for the MacPherson–Srolovitz relation.

David Japikse

David Japikse is an American mechanical engineer specializing in turbomachinery who founded Concepts NREC in 1980 and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

David Jenkins (environmental engineer)

David Jenkins (1935–2021) was a British-born environmental engineer and UC Berkeley professor elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2001 for his research on biological wastewater treatment.

David Jiles

David C. Jiles is an engineer and physicist in applied magnetism, best known for the Jiles–Atherton model of ferromagnetic hysteresis, and a professor at Iowa State University.

David Joseph Srolovitz

David Joseph Srolovitz is a computational materials scientist and Dean of Engineering at the University of Hong Kong, elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2015.

David Juncker

David Juncker is a Swiss-trained biomedical engineer, professor and chair of biomedical engineering at McGill University, known for microfluidics, diagnostic chips, and the nELISA protein-profiling platform.

David K. Barton

David K. Barton (1927–2023) was an American radar systems engineer who led development of the AN/FPS-16 monopulse instrumentation radar and the AN/FPS-49 Ballistic Missile Early Warning System radar.

David K. Matlock

David K. Matlock is an American metallurgical engineer at the Colorado School of Mines, a National Academy of Engineering member known for advanced high-strength steels.

David Kirk (scientist)

David Kirk is a computer scientist who served as NVIDIA's chief scientist from 1997 to 2009, leading the development of GPU computing and high-performance PC graphics.

David Kisailus

David Kisailus is an American materials scientist and professor at UC Irvine who studies biomineralized composites and is known for his 2020 Nature study of the diabolical ironclad beetle.

David L. Donoho

David L. Donoho, also known as David Donoho, is an American statistician at Stanford University known for compressed sensing and wavelet denoising, and winner of the 2013 Shaw Prize and 2018 Gauss Prize.

David L. Kaplan

David L. Kaplan, born 1953, is an American biomaterials scientist at Tufts University known for developing silk fibroin as a biomaterial for implants, drug delivery, and tissue engineering.

David L. Morse

David L. Morse is an American materials scientist who joined Corning in 1976 and served as its executive vice president and chief technology officer from 2012 to 2022.

David L. Sedlak

David L. Sedlak is an environmental chemist and Plato Malozemoff Distinguished Professor of civil engineering at UC Berkeley, known for research on water reuse, PFAS, and treatment wetlands.

David M. Ford

David M. Ford is an American chemical engineer whose research spans statistical thermodynamics, molecular simulation, and membrane separations; he received the PECASE award at Texas A&M.

David M. Kelley

David M. Kelley, born in 1951, is an American engineer and Stanford professor who founded the design consultancy IDEO and Stanford's d.school, and led design of the first Apple Computer mouse.

David M. Maddox

David M. Maddox was a United States Army four-star general and operations research researcher who led the post-Cold War drawdown of U.S. Army Europe from 1992 to 1994.

David Messerschmitt

David Messerschmitt, born 1945, is an American electrical engineer and Roger A. Strauch Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley who won the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal in 1999.

David Middleton (physicist)

David Middleton (1920–2008) was an American physicist who founded statistical communication theory, developed the matched filter, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1998.

David Mitlin

David Mitlin is an engineering professor at the University of Texas at Austin known for supercapacitor electrodes made from hemp waste and sodium battery anodes.

David N. Seidman

David N. Seidman is an American materials scientist, Walter P. Murphy Professor Emeritus at Northwestern, known for atomic-scale characterization of metals and alloys by atom-probe tomography.

David Okrent

David Okrent (1922–2012) was an American nuclear engineer and physicist, a UCLA professor and pioneer of fast reactor safety and probabilistic risk assessment elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1974.

David P. Arnold

David P. Arnold is a University of Florida electrical engineer working on magnetic microsystems, MEMS sensors, and miniaturized power systems; he received a PECASE award in 2008.

David P. Billington

David P. Billington (1927–2018) was an American engineer and historian of engineering who taught at Princeton for fifty years and originated the discipline of structural art.

David Parrillo

David Parrillo is an American chemical engineer at Dow who led development of the POWERHOUSE Solar Shingle and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023.

David Roger Jones Owen

David Roger Jones Owen (1942–2020) was a Welsh computational mechanician at Swansea University known for finite and discrete element methods, who founded Rockfield Software and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2009.

David S. Lewis

David S. Lewis (1917–2003) was an American aeronautical engineer and aerospace executive who led McDonnell Aircraft, McDonnell Douglas, and General Dynamics, directing the F-4 Phantom II and F-16 programs.

David S. Potter

David S. Potter, born 1925, was an American physicist in underwater acoustics who served as Under Secretary of the Navy and later as a General Motors vice president.

David Scott Sholl

David Scott Sholl is an American chemical engineer known for computational modeling of chemical separations and carbon dioxide capture, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024.

David Tai Leong

David Tai Leong (David T. Leong) is a chemical and biomolecular engineer at the National University of Singapore who works at the interface of nanotechnology and biology.