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George Ashley Campbell
George Ashley Campbell (1870–1954) was an American electrical engineer at Bell Telephone Laboratories whose loading coil made economical long-distance telephony possible and whose electric wave filter underlies frequency-division multiplexing.
George C. Maling Jr.
George C. Maling Jr. (1931–2022) was an American noise control engineer at IBM who shaped noise measurement for computers, led INCE/USA, and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 1998.
George Clement Dacey
George Clement Dacey (1921–2010) was an American engineer and physicist who helped build the first working field-effect transistor at Bell Labs and later led Sandia National Laboratories.
George E. Dieter
George E. Dieter was an American mechanical metallurgist and educator who was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1993 for his work in materials design.
George E. Keller II
George E. Keller II (1933–2019) was an American chemical engineer at Union Carbide, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988 for novel separation processes.
George E. Solomon
George E. Solomon was an American aerospace engineer at TRW who led design of the Atlas ICBM reentry vehicle and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1967.
George Edwards (aircraft designer)
Sir George Robert Edwards (1908–2003) was a British aircraft designer and industrialist who led Vickers and chaired the British Aircraft Corporation, directing the Viscount and VC10 airliners.
George F. Sowers
George F. Sowers was an American geotechnical engineer, Regents Professor at Georgia Tech and consultant at Law Engineering, known for his textbook Introductory Soil Mechanics and Foundations and work on dams and sinkholes.
George Fillmore Swain
George Fillmore Swain (1857–1931) was an American civil engineer who headed civil engineering at MIT and held the Gordon McKay Professorship at Harvard from 1909 to 1929.
George H. Heilmeier
George H. Heilmeier was an American electrical engineer who demonstrated the first working liquid crystal display at RCA Laboratories, and later directed DARPA and led Bellcore.
George Herrmann
George Herrmann (1921–2007) was an applied mechanician and Stanford professor known for work on deformable solids and for founding the International Journal of Solids and Structures.
George Hockham
George Alfred Hockham (1938–2013) was a British electronics engineer who, with Charles Kao, co-authored the 1966 paper founding optical fiber communication, supplying the waveguide theory and fiber-dimension calculations.
George I. Haddad
George I. Haddad is an electrical engineer at the University of Michigan known for microwave electronics research and election to the National Academy of Engineering in 1994.
George J. Dvorak
George J. Dvorak was a Czech-born American researcher in the mechanics of materials, known for transformation field analysis of composites and his career at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
George J. Hirasaki
George J. Hirasaki (born 1939) is an American chemical and petroleum engineer, a Rice University professor who spent 26 years at Shell before joining the faculty in 1993.
George J. Pappas
George J. Pappas is an American control theorist and computer scientist, the UPS Foundation Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, known for hybrid systems and cyber-physical safety verification.
George J. Schroepfer
George J. Schroepfer was an American civil and sanitary engineer who led the Minneapolis–St. Paul Sanitary District and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1981.
George L. Stegemeier
George L. Stegemeier is an American petroleum engineer whose scaled steam-drive models underpinned Shell's heavy-oil production in California, and who was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2001.
George L. Turin
George Lewis Turin (1930–2014) was an American electrical engineer who joined UC Berkeley in 1960, chaired its EECS department, and did pioneering work on urban radio multipath.
George Leitmann
George Leitmann (1925–2025) was an Austrian-born American control theorist and professor of engineering science at UC Berkeley, known for pioneering guaranteed control of uncertain systems and dynamic game theory.
George Low
George Low was an Austrian-born American aerospace engineer who managed the Apollo program after the 1967 fire, then served as NASA Deputy Administrator and RPI president.
George M. C. Fisher
George M. C. Fisher is an American engineer who served as President and CEO of Motorola from 1988 to 1993 and as CEO of Eastman Kodak from 1993 to 1999.
George Malliaras
George Malliaras is a materials scientist in organic electronics and bioelectronics, Prince Philip Professor of Technology at Cambridge since 2017 and a Royal Society Fellow elected in 2024.
George Mueller (electrical engineer)
George Mueller (1918–2015) was an American electrical engineer who, as NASA's associate administrator for Manned Space Flight from 1963 to 1969, directed Gemini and Apollo to the Moon landing.
George N. Hatsopoulos
George N. Hatsopoulos (1927–2018) was a Greek-born American mechanical engineer who founded Thermo Electron Corporation, grew it to over 24,000 employees, and reshaped the teaching of thermodynamics at MIT.
George Owen Squier
George Owen Squier was a U.S. Army major general and inventor who invented telephone carrier multiplexing in 1910, became the first airplane passenger in 1908, and founded Muzak.
George R. Irwin
George R. Irwin (1907–1998) was an American physicist at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory whose stress intensity factor made him the father of fracture mechanics.
George Rankine Irwin
George Rankine Irwin (1907–1998) was an American physicist known as the father of fracture mechanics, who identified the stress intensity factor at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.
George S. Schairer
George S. Schairer was an American aerodynamicist who led Boeing's aerodynamics from 1939 and pushed the swept wing into the B-47, the pattern for Boeing's jetliners.
George Sachs (German metallurgist)
George Sachs (1896–1960) was a German mechanical metallurgist, born in Moscow, who developed the iso-stress polycrystal model and the boring-out method for measuring residual stresses in tubes and bars.