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Doros N. Theodorou

Doros N. Theodorou (Δώρος Θεοδώρου), born 1957, is a Greek chemical engineer and professor emeritus at the National Technical University of Athens, known for molecular simulation methods predicting polymer properties.

Doros Nicolas Theodorou

Doros Nicolas Theodorou, born 1957, is a Greek chemical engineer at NTUA known for molecular simulation of polymers and election to the US National Academy of Engineering.

Douglas C. Cameron

Douglas C. Cameron is an American chemical and biological engineer and biotechnology investor, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025 and based in Erie, Colorado.

Douglas C.H. Yu

Douglas C.H. Yu, also known as Chen-Hua Yu or Doug Yu, is a Taiwanese semiconductor engineer who spent 1994 to 2025 at TSMC creating the 3DFabric advanced packaging platform.

Douglas M. Chapin

Douglas M. Chapin was an American nuclear engineer who spent five decades at MPR Associates and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2002.

Douglas W. Fuerstenau

Douglas W. Fuerstenau (born 1928) is an American mineral engineer, P. Malozemoff Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1976.

Drew Endy

Drew Endy, or Andrew David Endy, is a synthetic biologist and bioengineer at Stanford University, known for building open standards for engineering biology, above all the BioBrick standard.

Drs. Jorg Schlaich

Jörg Schlaich (1934–2021) was a German civil engineer and University of Stuttgart professor who co-founded schlaich bergermann partner, engineered the Munich Olympic Park roof, and championed the solar updraft tower.

Duane McRuer

Duane McRuer was an American control engineer who founded Systems Technology, Inc., made fly-by-wire controls practical at Northrop, and modeled the human pilot in control loops.

Dudley A. Saville

Dudley A. Saville (1933–2006) was an American chemical engineer at Princeton University who pioneered electrohydrodynamics and electric-field assembly of colloidal particles, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003.

Dudley Maurice Newitt

Dudley Maurice Newitt (1894–1980) was a British chemical engineer who led high-pressure research at Imperial College London and directed sabotage research for the Interservices Research Bureau during World War II.

Dudley S. Childress

Dudley S. Childress (1934–2014) was an American biomedical engineer at Northwestern University who pioneered prosthetics, created the first commercial proportional myoelectric prosthesis, and originated the roll-over shape concept.

Dugald Clerk

Dugald Clerk (1854–1932) was a Scottish engineer who invented the two-stroke internal-combustion engine known as the Clerk cycle and served the British Admiralty in the First World War.

Duncan S. Davies

Duncan S. Davies (1921–1987) was a British chemical industry research leader who ran ICI's corporate laboratories and served as the UK Department of Industry's Chief Scientist and Engineer.

Dushan Boroyevich

Dushan Boroyevich is a power electronics engineer born in Zagreb in 1952, a Virginia Tech professor elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2014.

Dwight C. Streit

Dwight C. Streit is an American electrical engineer at UCLA known for heterojunction transistors and millimeter-wave circuits, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2001.

Dwight F. Metzler

Dwight F. Metzler was an American sanitary engineer and Kansas health administrator who led New York's Clean Waters Program and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 1973.

E. Wenk

E. Wenk, full name Edward Wenk Jr., was an American engineer who led the strength design and testing of USS Nautilus, the first nuclear submarine.

Earl Bakken

Earl Bakken (1924–2018) was an American electrical engineer who co-founded Medtronic in Minneapolis in 1949 and built the first wearable, battery-powered, transistorized cardiac pacemaker in 1957.

Earl H. Dowell

Earl H. Dowell is an American engineer, a leading authority on aeroelasticity and structural dynamics, who joined Duke University in 1983 and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1993.

Earl Randall Parker

Earl Randall Parker (1912–1998) was an American metallurgist and UC Berkeley professor who studied the flow and fracture of metals, developed TRIP steels, and received the National Medal of Science.

Earll M. Murman

Earll M. Murman, born in 1942, is an American aerospace engineer and MIT emeritus professor known for the Murman-Cole transonic flow scheme and for co-directing MIT's Lean Aerospace Initiative.

Earnest Gloyna

Earnest Gloyna (1921–2019) was an American environmental engineer and dean of engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

Ebbe Sloth Andersen

Ebbe Sloth Andersen is a Danish bioengineer at Aarhus University known for the 2009 DNA origami box with a controllable lid and for inventing RNA origami.

Eberhardt Rechtin

Eberhardt Rechtin (1926–2006) was an American electrical engineer who directed NASA's Deep Space Network, proved the phase-locked loop optimal in noise, and founded systems architecting programs at USC.

Ed Cole

Ed Cole was an American automotive engineer and president of General Motors from 1967 to 1974, best remembered as the father of the Chevrolet small-block V8.

Ed Heinemann

Ed Heinemann (1908–1991) was an American aeronautical engineer known for the SBD Dauntless dive bomber and A-4 Skyhawk, with over 20,000 aircraft built to his designs.

Edgar A. Starke Jr.

Edgar A. Starke Jr. is an American metallurgist and University Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia, known for research on the physical metallurgy of aerospace aluminum alloys.

Edgar Bain

Edgar Collins Bain (1891–1971) was an American physical metallurgist who pioneered X-ray diffraction studies of steel and gave his name to bainite, the microstructure named for him in 1934.

Edgar G. Hertwich

Edgar G. Hertwich is an Austrian-born environmental engineer and industrial ecologist, a professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology known for his 2009 trade-linked national carbon footprint analysis.