Engineers and materials scientists

Maynard Pennell

Maynard Pennell (1910–1994) was an American aeronautical engineer and Boeing executive who helped develop the B-29, B-52, 707, and 727, and managed Boeing's supersonic transport program in the 1960s.

Md Golam Kibria is a Bangladeshi-born materials and electrochemistry scientist and associate professor at the University of Calgary, known for work on CO2 conversion, water splitting, and sustainable fuels.

Meagan S. Mauter

Meagan S. Mauter is an American environmental engineer at Stanford who works on water treatment and desalination, directing WE3Lab and the National Alliance for Water Innovation.

Meenesh R. Singh

Meenesh R. Singh is a chemical engineer and full professor at the University of Illinois Chicago, working on carbon capture and solar-energy conversion, with a joint appointment at Argonne National Laboratory.

Megan O'Rourke

Megan O'Rourke is an American agroecologist who studies how farmland biodiversity, landscape management, and pest control affect crop production, and received the PECASE award, honored at the White House in 2019.

Mehdi Hatamian

Mehdi Hatamian is an Iranian-American electrical engineer and Distinguished University Professor at Florida International University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2016 for integrated circuits for video and communications.

Mehmet Toner

Mehmet Toner, born 1958 in Istanbul, is a Turkish-American bioengineer at Harvard and Mass General known for microfluidic chips that isolate circulating tumor cells from blood.

Meilin Liu

Meilin Liu (刘美林) is a materials scientist at Georgia Tech, a Regents' Professor known for fuel cell and battery research, 33 U.S. patents, and co-founding PolyPlus Battery.

Meimei Li

Meimei Li is a materials physicist at Argonne National Laboratory who leads its Nuclear Materials Group and received a 2012 PECASE award for nuclear reactor materials research.

Melissa E. Orme

Melissa E. Orme is an aerospace engineer and Boeing vice president, a pioneer in metal additive manufacturing elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024.

Melissa Teague

Melissa Teague is an American nuclear materials scientist who performed the first 3-D characterizations of irradiated high burn-up mixed oxide fuel, earning a 2013 PECASE award.

Melody Swartz

Melody Swartz is a bioengineer and William B. Ogden Professor at the University of Chicago who studies how lymphatic vessels regulate immunity, informing cancer immunotherapy approaches.

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Melville Eastham

Melville Eastham (1885–1964) was an American electrical engineer who founded the General Radio Company, built instruments that standardized radio-frequency measurement, and led the MIT Radiation Laboratory group that developed LORAN.

Melvin Baron

Melvin Baron (1927–1997) was an American civil and structural engineer, partner and board chairman of Weidlinger Associates, known for shock and vibration of immersed shells and blast-resistant design.

Melvin F. Kanninen

Melvin F. Kanninen is a mechanical engineer known for developing elastic-plastic fracture mechanics and applying it to nuclear reactor piping and gas pipelines; he co-authored the textbook Advanced Fracture Mechanics in 1985.

Menachem Elimelech

Menachem Elimelech is an environmental engineer known for pioneering membrane technologies for seawater desalination and wastewater reuse; he was Yale's first engineering Sterling Professor before joining Rice University in 2025.

Meni Wanunu

Meni Wanunu is a physicist and bioengineer at Northeastern University who directs the Nanoscale Biophysics Laboratory and develops solid-state nanopore sensors for single-molecule DNA, RNA, and protein analysis.

Meredith Gourdine

Meredith Gourdine was an American engineer and physicist who pioneered electrogasdynamics, converting ionized gas flow into electricity, and won Olympic long jump silver in 1952.

Merrill Skolnik

Merrill Skolnik (1927–2022) was an American radar researcher who led the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's Radar Division for over 30 years and wrote Introduction to Radar Systems.

Merton C. Flemings

Merton C. Flemings, born in 1929, is an American metallurgist and MIT professor emeritus who co-invented semi-solid metal processing, wrote Solidification Processing, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1976.

Mete Sözen

Mete Avni Sözen (1930–2018) was a Turkish-born American structural engineer at Purdue University who built one of the first earthquake simulators and pioneered drift-based seismic design of concrete buildings.

Metin Sitti

Metin Sitti, born 1970 in Kırşehir, Turkey, is a Turkish roboticist known for small-scale soft robots and physical intelligence, and President of Koç University since 2023.

Meyer J. Benzakein

Meyer J. Benzakein, known as Mike Benzakein, was an Egyptian-born American aerospace engineer who led development of GE's CFM56 and GE90 engines and later taught at Ohio State.

Michael Athans

Michael Athans, born Michael Athanassiades, was a Greek-born control engineer and longtime MIT professor who helped shape modern control theory, multivariable control system design, and robust control.

Michael Celia

Michael Celia is an American environmental engineer who spent 36 years on the Princeton faculty, known for groundwater modeling and research on carbon dioxide storage in deep aquifers.

Michael D. Bartlett

Michael D. Bartlett is a mechanical engineer and Associate Professor at Virginia Tech who works on soft materials, switchable adhesives, liquid metal composites, and soft robotics.

Michael D. Griffin

Michael D. Griffin is an American aerospace engineer who served as NASA's 11th Administrator from 2005 to 2009 and later as Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering.

Michael D. McGehee

Michael D. McGehee is an American materials scientist who has been a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder since 2018, working on perovskite solar cells and dynamic windows.

Michael De Volder

Michaël De Volder is a Belgian materials engineer, professor at the University of Cambridge since 2013, known for carbon nanotube manufacturing and lithium-ion battery materials, and co-founder of Echion Technologies.