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Jack E. Cermak
Jack E. Cermak, also known as Jack Edward Cermak, was an American civil engineer at Colorado State University known as the father of wind engineering.
Jack H. Wernick
Jack H. Wernick (Jack Harry Wernick, 1923–2006) was an American materials scientist who led device-materials research at Bell Laboratories and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 1979.
Jack H. Westbrook
Jack H. Westbrook, born Jack Hall Westbrook in 1924, is an American metallurgist at General Electric known for early work on intermetallic compounds and for computerized materials property databases.
Jack J. Jiang
Jack J. Jiang is a laryngologist and voice scientist who is a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and received the Presidential Early Career Award in 2001.
Jack Keller
Jack Keller (1928–2013) was an American irrigation and water resources engineer who taught at Utah State University, co-founded Keller-Bliesner Engineering in Logan, Utah, and consulted in more than 60 countries.
Jack Kuehler
Jack Kuehler (1932–2008) was an American electrical engineer who joined IBM in 1958, rose to president and vice chairman, and became the highest-ranking technologist in IBM's history.
Jack L. Kerrebrock
Jack Leo Kerrebrock (1928–2019) was an American aeronautical engineer who founded MIT's Space Propulsion Laboratory, headed its aero-astro department, wrote Aircraft Engines and Gas Turbines, and served NASA.
Jack N. Nielsen
Jack N. Nielsen (Jack Norman Nielsen) was an American aerodynamicist known as "the father of missile aerodynamics", who worked at NACA, NASA Ames, and his own firm.
Jack Northrop
Jack Northrop, born John Knudsen Northrop (1895 to 1981), was an American aircraft designer and founder of the Northrop Corporation, known for the Lockheed Vega's monocoque fuselage and his flying-wing aircraft.
Jack Wolf
Jack Keil Wolf (1935–2011) was an American information and coding theorist known for the Slepian–Wolf theorem and for bringing maximum likelihood detection to magnetic data storage.
Jackie Yi-Ru Ying
Jackie Yi-Ru Ying, also published as Jackie Y. Ying, is a nanotechnologist who founded Singapore's Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology and won the Mustafa Prize.
Jacob H. Douma
Jacob H. Douma (Jacob Henrick Douma) was an American hydraulic engineer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1971.
Jacob L. Jones
Jacob L. Jones is an American materials scientist at North Carolina State University known for X-ray and neutron scattering studies of piezoelectric and ferroelectric materials.
Jacob Millman
Jacob Millman (1911–1991) was a Russia-born American electrical engineer and Columbia University professor whose eight McGraw-Hill textbooks shaped electronics teaching and whose name survives in Millman's theorem.
Jacob P. Den Hartog
Jacob P. Den Hartog (1901–1989) was a Dutch-American mechanical engineer whose 1934 textbook Mechanical Vibrations became the classic vibration text, and whose absorber theory underlies tuned mass dampers.
Jacob Pieter Den Hartog
Jacob Pieter Den Hartog (1901–1989) was a Dutch-American mechanical engineer, MIT professor, and author of Mechanical Vibrations (1934), whose damped vibration absorber theory underlies tuned mass dampers.
Jacob Rabinow
Jacob Rabinow (1910–1999) was a Ukrainian-born American electrical engineer at the National Bureau of Standards who held about 230 U.S. patents, including the magnetic particle clutch and a letter-sorting machine.
Jacob T. Robinson
Jacob T. Robinson is an American neuroengineer, professor at Rice University, and co-founder and CEO of Motif Neurotech, which builds a therapeutic brain-computer interface for depression.
Jacob Wernli Schaefer
Jacob Wernli Schaefer (1919–2002) was an American engineer and guided-missile pioneer at Bell Laboratories who proposed the antiaircraft missile system from which the Nike air-defense family evolved.
Jacob Wolfowitz
Jacob Wolfowitz (1910–1981) was an American statistician and information theorist, born in Warsaw, known for the Wald–Wolfowitz runs test and the monograph Coding Theorems of Information Theory.
Jacob Ziv
Jacob Ziv (1931–2023) was an Israeli information theorist and Technion professor who created the Lempel–Ziv compression algorithms behind gzip and GIF, and in 2021 became the first Israeli to receive the IEEE Medal of Honor.
Jacopo Buongiorno
Jacopo Buongiorno is an MIT nuclear engineer known for research on reactor safety and boiling heat transfer, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024.
Jacques Gansler
Jacques "Jack" Gansler (1934–2018) was an American defense acquisition official and academic who served as the Pentagon's chief weapons buyer from 1997 to 2001, then taught at the University of Maryland.
Jacques I. Pankove
Jacques I. Pankove, also known as Jacques Isaac Pankove, was an American electrical engineer who led the RCA team that made the first gallium nitride blue LED in 1971.
Jacques Isaac Pankove
Jacques Isaac Pankove (1922–2016) was an American electrical engineer who led the RCA Laboratories team that built the first gallium nitride blue LEDs in 1971.
Jacques Peters
Jacques Péters (1923–2018) was a Belgian mechanical engineer and Catholic priest, professor of production engineering at KU Leuven, elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 1977.
Jae Sung Son
Jae Sung Son (손재성) is a South Korean materials scientist and professor at POSTECH, known for 3D printing thermoelectric materials that convert heat into electricity.
Jae Yeong Park
Jae Yeong Park (박재영) is a South Korean electronic engineer and professor at Kwangwoon University known for MEMS, wearable biosensors, energy harvesting, and leading 11 international sensor standards.
Jae‐Hong Kim
Jae-Hong Kim is an environmental engineer and Henry P. Becton Sr. Professor at Yale University, known for developing nanomaterials and single-atom catalysts for advanced oxidation water treatment.
Jaeyun Kim
Jaeyun Kim (김재윤) is a South Korean materials chemist, professor of chemical engineering at Sungkyunkwan University since 2012, whose research develops material platforms for vaccines and immunotherapy against cancer.