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James J. Carberry
James J. Carberry (1925–2000) was an American chemical engineer who taught at Notre Dame for 40 years and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989.
James J. De Yoreo
James J. De Yoreo is an American crystal growth scientist, a Battelle Fellow at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2022.
James J. Mikulski
James J. Mikulski is an American electrical engineer who led development of Motorola's DynaTAC hand-held cellular telephone system and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997.
James J. Solberg
James J. Solberg is an American industrial engineer and Professor Emeritus at Purdue University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989 for his work on manufacturing systems.
James K. Mitchell
James Kenneth Mitchell (1930–2023) was an American geotechnical engineer who led NASA's Apollo lunar soil mechanics investigations, advanced the study of soil behavior, and taught at Berkeley and Virginia Tech.
James L. Kirtley Jr.
James L. Kirtley Jr. is an American electrical engineer and MIT professor specializing in electric machinery and power systems, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2007.
James LeBeau
James LeBeau is an American materials scientist and professor at MIT who develops quantitative scanning transmission electron microscopy methods, and received a 2017 PECASE award.
James M. Douglas
James M. Douglas (1933–2017) was an American chemical engineer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst who developed the hierarchical decision procedure for conceptual process design and wrote Conceptual Design of Chemical Processes.
James M. Duncan
James M. Duncan, also known as James Michael Duncan, was an American geotechnical engineer and Virginia Tech professor elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1985.
James M. Symons
James M. Symons is an American environmental engineer known for research on disinfection by-products in drinking water and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1994.
James M. Tien
James M. Tien (born 1945) is an American systems engineer and academic, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2001 and known for service systems engineering.
James Massey
James Massey (1934–2013) was an American information theorist and cryptographer, a pioneer of digital communications known for the Berlekamp–Massey algorithm and the IDEA cipher, developed at ETH Zurich.
James Morley Anderson
James Morley Anderson is an American biomaterials scientist and emeritus professor at Case Western Reserve University who established the mechanistic framework for the foreign body reaction to implants.
James P. Bagian
James P. Bagian is an American physician, mechanical engineer, and former NASA astronaut who flew on two Shuttle missions, investigated the Challenger accident, and built the VA's patient-safety system.
James P. Brill
James P. Brill is an American petroleum engineer at the University of Tulsa, a National Academy of Engineering member known for research on multiphase flow in pipes.
James P. Gould
James P. Gould was an American geotechnical engineer, a principal at Mueser Rutledge Consulting Engineers in New York and principal author of the Navy design manual NAVFAC DM-7.
James P. Schmiedeler
James P. Schmiedeler is an American mechanical engineer who studies human movement to design legged robots, lower-limb prostheses, and rehabilitation devices, and received a 2006 Presidential Early Career Award.
James R. Biard
James R. Biard, known as Bob Biard, was an American electrical engineer at Texas Instruments who invented the first GaAs infrared LED, the optical isolator, and the MOS read-only memory.
James R. Fair
James R. Fair (1920–2010) was an American chemical engineer known for distillation and mass-transfer technology, who worked at Monsanto and later taught at the University of Texas at Austin.
James R. Johnson
James R. Johnson (died 2019) was an American ceramic engineer who spent 23 years at 3M and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1972.
James R. Swartz
James R. Swartz is an American biochemical engineer and James H. Clark Professor at Stanford who pioneered cell-free protein synthesis and co-founded biotech companies including Sutro Biopharma.
James R. Wait
James R. Wait (1924–1998) was a Canadian electrical engineer whose waveguide theory of very-low-frequency radio propagation between the earth and the ionosphere framed long-distance VLF and ELF communication.
James Rondinelli
James Rondinelli is a computational materials scientist who is Walter Dill Scott Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University and received a PECASE award in 2016.
James Rufus McDonald
James Rufus McDonald, known as Jim McDonald, is a Scottish electrical power engineer who has served as Principal of the University of Strathclyde since 2009.
James Shelby Thorp
James Shelby Thorp (1937–2018) was an American electrical engineer and a principal contributor to the phasor measurement unit, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1996.
James U Lemke
James U Lemke was an American engineer and physicist in magnetic recording, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988, who later founded Achates Power.
James W. Mar
James W. Mar (1920–2017) was an American aeronautical engineer and MIT professor who served as Chief Scientist of the US Air Force from 1970 to 1972.
James W. Mayer
James W. Mayer (1930–2013) was an American physicist who pioneered ion implantation and Rutherford backscattering spectrometry for semiconductors, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1984.
James W. Plummer
James W. Plummer (1920–2013) was an American aerospace engineer who managed Lockheed's Corona reconnaissance satellite program and served as Director of the National Reconnaissance Office from 1973 to 1976.
James W. Westwater
James W. Westwater (1919–2006) was an American chemical engineer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who filmed bubble growth through a microscope, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1974.