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Essex E. Finney Jr.

Essex E. Finney Jr. is an American agricultural engineer who led the USDA's Agricultural Research Service and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1994.

Esteban A. Brignole

Esteban A. Brignole is an Argentine chemical engineer at the Universidad Nacional del Sur, known for solvent design and elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2019.

Eugen Rabkin

Eugen Rabkin, also published as E. Rabkin, is a materials scientist and professor at the Technion in Haifa, known for the ultrahigh strength of metal nanoparticles.

Eugene C. Starr

Eugene C. Starr, also known as Eugene Carl Starr, was an American electrical engineer at the Bonneville Power Administration whose 1942 series-capacitor work let power travel four times farther.

Eugene Carl Starr

Eugene Carl Starr (1901–1988) was an American electrical engineer who pioneered long-distance high-voltage power transmission, chiefly as Chief Engineer of the Bonneville Power Administration in the Pacific Northwest.

Eugène Charmat

Eugène Charmat was a French agricultural engineer and oenologist at the University of Montpellier who, between 1907 and 1909, perfected and patented the closed-tank Charmat method of sparkling wine production.

Eugene D. Shchukin

Eugene D. Shchukin, born in Moscow in 1928, is a Russian surface scientist known for work on how surfactants govern the strength and fracture of solids.

Eugene E. Covert

Eugene E. Covert (1926–2015) was an American aerodynamicist who devised the first practical wind-tunnel magnetic-suspension system, headed MIT's aeronautics department, and served as US Air Force chief scientist.

Eugene E. Haller

Eugene E. Haller (1943–2018) was a Swiss-born materials scientist at UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab whose ultrapure germanium crystals enabled gamma-ray, far-infrared, and dark-matter detectors.

Eugene P. Wilkinson

Eugene P. Wilkinson (1918–2013), known as Dennis, was a US Navy vice admiral who commanded USS Nautilus, the first nuclear submarine, and USS Long Beach, the first nuclear surface ship.

Eugene R. McGrath

Eugene R. McGrath (born 1942) is an American utility engineer who joined Consolidated Edison in 1963 and served as its chairman and CEO from 1997 to 2005.

Eugene S. Meieran

Eugene S. Meieran is an American semiconductor manufacturing engineer who spent 36 years at Intel and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1998.

Eva Lerner-Lam

Eva Lerner-Lam is an American transportation systems engineer, founder and president of Palisades Consulting Group in New Jersey, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023.

Evan Pineda

Evan Pineda is an American aerospace research engineer at NASA's Glenn Research Center who received a Presidential Early Career Award for his multiscale failure analysis code.

Evan Reed

Evan John Reed (1976–2022) was an American computational materials scientist and Stanford associate professor known for machine learning for materials discovery and shock compression research.

Evangelos Trifon Laskaris

Evangelos Trifon Laskaris is a Greek-born American mechanical engineer who designed GE's superconducting MRI magnets and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2004.

Evelyn N. Wang

Evelyn N. Wang is an American mechanical engineer at MIT known for heat-transfer research on solar energy and water purification, and director of ARPA-E from 2023 to 2025.

F. Paul de Mello

F. Paul de Mello (1927–2022) was an American electrical engineer, born in Goa, India, who specialized in power system dynamics and was a cofounder of Power Technologies, Inc.

F. Stuart Foster

F. Stuart Foster is a Canadian medical biophysicist at Sunnybrook Research Institute and the University of Toronto who pioneered ultrasound biomicroscopy, co-founded Fujifilm VisualSonics, and was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2025.

Fabien Sorin

Fabien Sorin is a materials scientist and associate professor at EPFL, where he heads the Laboratory of Photonic Materials and Fibre Devices, known for multifunctional fibers.

Fairman Rogers

Fairman Rogers (1833–1900) was an American civil engineer, educator, and philanthropist from Philadelphia who taught at the University of Pennsylvania and helped found the National Academy of Sciences in 1863.

Famulok Michael

Michael Famulok is a German biochemist and chemical biologist at the University of Bonn, professor at the LIMES Institute since 2002, known for aptamers and DNA nanomachines.

Fan-Gang Zeng

Fan-Gang Zeng is a hearing scientist and biomedical engineer at UC Irvine known for cochlear implant research and election to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023.

Fanxing Li

Fanxing Li (李凡星) is a chemical engineer and Thomas M. Clausi Distinguished Professor at North Carolina State University, known for chemical looping catalysis and CO2 capture.

Farshid Guilak

Farshid Guilak is an American biomedical engineer and mechanobiology researcher at Washington University in St. Louis who studies osteoarthritis and develops stem-cell-based regenerative therapies for damaged joints.

Fawwaz T. Ulaby

Fawwaz T. Ulaby is an electrical engineer known for microwave remote sensing, a University of Michigan professor emeritus elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1995.

Fazil Erdogan

Fazil Erdoğan (1925–2015) was a Turkish-American engineering scientist at Lehigh University and a world-leading expert on fracture mechanics, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997.

Fazıl Erdoğan

Fazıl Erdoğan (1925–2015) was a Turkish-born American mechanical engineer at Lehigh University, a foremost expert in fracture mechanics who co-authored the Paris–Erdoğan fatigue crack growth law.

Fazle Hussain

Fazle Hussain is a fluid dynamicist known for turbulence and vortex dynamics, professor at Texas Tech University since 2013 after four decades at the University of Houston.

Fazlur Khan

Fazlur Rahman Khan (ফজলুর রহমান খান) was a Bangladeshi-American structural engineer, called the father of tubular designs, whose systems made supertall skyscrapers like Chicago's Sears Tower economical.