Engineers and materials scientists

Edgar M. Cortright

Edgar M. Cortright (1923–2014) was an American aerospace engineer and NASA manager who established the first U.S. meteorological satellite and space probe programs and supervised Viking 1's landing on Mars.

Edgar Meyhöfer

Edgar Meyhöfer is a German mechanical and biomedical engineer and professor at the University of Michigan who measured the force of a single kinesin motor protein and nanoscale heat flow.

Eduard Pestel

Eduard Pestel (1914–1988) was a German engineer and physicist, professor of mechanics and rector at Hannover, co-founder of the Club of Rome, and Lower Saxony's science minister from 1977 to 1981.

Eduardo D. Glandt

Eduardo D. Glandt is a chemical engineer and Professor Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, who served as dean of its engineering school from 1999 to 2015.

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Edvard Rusjan

Edvard Rusjan (1886–1911) was a Slovenian aircraft constructor and aviator who made the first powered flight in Slovenia, near Gorizia, in 1909, flying his biplane EDA I.

Edward A. Botchwey III

Edward A. Botchwey III is an American biomedical engineer, associate professor at Georgia Tech and Emory, known for biomaterials that reprogram immune responses and for the 2009 PECASE award.

Edward A. Hiler

Edward A. Hiler is an American agricultural engineer and university administrator who led Texas A&M's agriculture program, researched irrigation scheduling, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

Edward A. Miller

Edward A. Miller was an American mechanical engineer who led General Electric's Corona project, producing the first object recovered from orbit, and won the 2005 Draper Prize.

Edward A. Murphy, Jr.

Edward A. Murphy, Jr. (1918–1989) was an American Air Force engineer whose name is traditionally tied to Murphy's Law through a 1949 rocket-sled test at Edwards Air Force Base.

Edward C. Jordan

Edward C. Jordan was an electrical engineer who led antenna and radio direction finding research at the University of Illinois and headed its electrical engineering department for twenty-five years.

Edward Curtis Wells

Edward Curtis Wells (1910–1986) was an American aeronautical engineer and Boeing executive, chief engineer and senior vice president, who helped design the B-17, B-29, B-47, 707, and 747 airliners and bombers.

Edward Cussler

Edward Cussler, born 1940, is an American chemical engineer at the University of Minnesota known for diffusion and membrane separations and for the textbook Diffusion: Mass Transfer in Fluid Systems.

Edward E. David Jr.

Edward E. David Jr. was an American electrical engineer who served as President Nixon's Science Adviser from 1970 to 1973 and led Bell Labs research.

Edward E. Horton

Edward E. Horton (1927–2015) was an American offshore structures engineer who invented the tension leg platform and the spar, the dominant deepwater oil production platforms.

Edward Exum Hood Jr.

Edward Exum Hood Jr. is an aerospace engineer elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1989 and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Edward F. Crawley

Edward F. Crawley is an American aerospace engineer and Ford Professor at MIT known for structural dynamics and for leading the international CDIO engineering education reform.

Edward G. Bowen

Edward George "Ted" Bowen (1911-1991) was a Welsh-born Australian radiophysicist who helped develop radar in World War II and led CSIRO's Division of Radiophysics from 1946 to 1971.

Edward J. Cording

Edward J. Cording is an American geotechnical engineer and professor emeritus at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988 for underground construction research.

Edward Joseph Davison

Edward Joseph Davison is a Canadian control systems engineer at the University of Toronto known for decentralized and robust control, elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2010.

Edward Kimbark

Edward Kimbark was an American electrical power engineer known for his work on power system stability and HVDC transmission, and for standard textbooks in both fields.

Edward L. Cochrane

Edward L. Cochrane (1892–1959) was an American naval architect and Vice-Admiral credited with the designs of modern American submarines and new battleships, cruisers, carriers, and destroyers, and later Dean of Engineering at MIT.

Edward L. Wilson

Edward L. Wilson is an American structural engineer and Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley, known for developing the finite element method and creating the SAP and ETABS structural analysis software.

Edward Lawry Norton

Edward Lawry Norton (1898–1983) was an American electrical engineer at Bell Telephone Laboratories known for Norton's theorem, which he stated in a 1926 internal memorandum and never published.

Edward T. Samulski

Edward T. Samulski is an American chemist and materials scientist known for research on liquid crystals and polymers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Edward W. Price

Edward Warren Price (1920–2012) was an American aerospace engineer best known for developing the T-burner, the standard laboratory method for measuring solid propellant combustion response.

Edward Wenk Jr.

Edward Wenk Jr. (1920–2012) was an American civil and ocean engineer, professor at the University of Washington, and science-policy adviser to Congress and three presidents.

Edward Weston (American electrical engineer and inventor)

Edward Weston was an American electrical engineer and inventor, born in England in 1850, who held 334 U.S. patents and founded the AIEE, predecessor of the IEEE.

Edward Wilson Merrill

Edward Wilson Merrill (1923–2020) was an American chemical engineer and rheologist at MIT who helped found biomaterials and bioengineering, proposing polyethylene oxide as a biomaterial.

Edwin Albert Link

Edwin Albert Link (1904–1981) was an American inventor who created the Link Trainer flight simulator used to train over 500,000 World War II pilots, then designed deep-sea submersibles.