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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 Douglas

Elliot P. Douglas is an American materials scientist and engineering-education researcher at the University of Florida, honored with a 1997 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Elliot L. Chaikof

Elliot L. Chaikof is an American vascular surgeon and bioengineer serving as Surgeon-in-Chief at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Johnson and Johnson Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School.

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.

Elliott Hawkes

Elliott Hawkes is a roboticist and Associate Professor at UC Santa Barbara. His work focuses on bio-inspired robots, such as vine robots and a record-setting jumping robot.

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.

Elmer G. Gilbert

Elmer G. Gilbert (Elmer Grant Gilbert, 1930–2019) was an American control theorist and aerospace engineer at the University of Michigan, known for the Gilbert realization and the reference governor.

Elmer L. Gaden

Elmer L. Gaden (1923–2012) was an American biochemical engineer called the father of biochemical engineering, whose oxygen-transfer research enabled large-scale antibiotic production and who founded Biotechnology and Bioengineering.

Elsa Olivetti

Elsa A. Olivetti is a materials scientist and professor at MIT who models the cost and environmental impact of materials, including metals recycling and lithium-ion battery supply chains.

Elsa Reichmanis

Elsa Reichmanis is an Australian-born chemical engineer who developed the chemically amplified photoresists that made deep-ultraviolet lithography workable in silicon chip manufacturing, winning the 2001 Perkin Medal.

Emanuel Michael Sachs

Emanuel Michael "Ely" Sachs is an American mechanical engineer and MIT professor who invented binder-jet 3D printing in the 1980s and co-founded 1366 Technologies and Desktop Metal.

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.

Emilia Fridman

Emilia Fridman is a control engineer, Full Professor in Electrical Engineering at Tel Aviv University since 1993, known for the time-delay approach to sampled-data control.

Emiliana Fabbri

Emiliana Fabbri is an Italian materials scientist who has worked at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland since 2012, studying metal oxides for fuel cells and water splitting.

Emilio Palomares

Emilio Palomares, in full Emilio J. Palomares Gil, is a Spanish chemist, born in València in 1974, who leads the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia as director.

Emilio Rosenblueth

Emilio Rosenblueth (1926–1994) was a Mexican earthquake engineer who applied probability theory to seismic design, co-authored Fundamentals of Earthquake Engineering, and created the Rosenblueth Rule.

Emily A. Grubert

Emily A. Grubert is an American civil engineer and environmental sociologist who studies justice-centered decarbonization of the US energy system, known for her 2020 Science paper on fossil plant retirements.

Emma Nehrenheim

Emma Nehrenheim is an environmental engineer who led battery recycling at Northvolt and, since May 2025, has been managing director of the European Battery Alliance (EBA250).

Emmanuel Defaÿ

Emmanuel Defaÿ, also published as Emmanuel Defay, is a materials scientist who heads the Smart Materials Unit at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, working on piezoelectric thin films.

Emmanuel Delamarche

Emmanuel Delamarche, born 1966, is a French-born Swiss-based microfluidics and biosensors researcher, now a Senior Manager at Spiden AG, who led the Precision Diagnostics group at IBM Research – Zurich.

Emmanuel P. Giannelis

Emmanuel P. Giannelis, also published as E. P. Giannelis, is a materials scientist who is the Walter R. Read Professor of Engineering at Cornell University, known for pioneering polymer nanocomposites.

Enayet Chowdhury

Md. Enayet Chowdhury is a Bangladeshi hydrology researcher and educator at BUET's Institute of Water and Flood Management who runs a popular Bangla explainer YouTube channel.

Eneas D. Kane

Eneas D. Kane (1917–2013) was an American mechanical engineer who served as chief engineer of the Manhattan Project's Beta Project and later led Chevron Research as president.

Eno Ebong

Eno Ebong is an American biomedical engineer at Northeastern University who studies how mechanical forces affect blood vessel cells, and received the 2025 PECASE award.

Enrico Traversa

Enrico Traversa, born in Rome in 1959, is an Italian materials chemist and professor at the University of Rome Tor Vergata known for fuel cell research.

Enyuan Hu

Enyuan Hu is a battery chemist at Brookhaven National Laboratory who studies lithium metal, lithium sulfur, and solid-state batteries using synchrotron x-ray and neutron scattering.

Ephraim M. Sparrow

Ephraim M. Sparrow (1928–2019) was an American mechanical engineer in heat transfer and fluid mechanics who spent six decades on the University of Minnesota faculty.

Erastus H. Lee

Erastus H. Lee (1916–2006) was a British-born mechanician who taught at Brown, Stanford, and Rensselaer, known for plasticity and viscoelasticity research, including Lee's decomposition, and elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

Eric A. Swanson

Eric A. Swanson, born 1960 in Quincy, Massachusetts, is an American engineer who co-invented optical coherence tomography with James Fujimoto and David Huang, winning the 2023 Lasker Award.