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Narain G. Hingorani

Narain G. Hingorani is an electrical engineer who originated FACTS and Custom Power in power electronics and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Natalie Artzi

Natalie Artzi is a biomaterials scientist working on hydrogels, structural nanomedicines, and immune engineering for cancer therapy at Harvard Medical School and the Wyss Institute.

Natalie Stingelin

Natalie Stingelin, who also publishes as Natalie Stingelin-Stutzmann, is a materials scientist in organic electronics and chair of Materials Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech since 2022.

Nathalie Tufenkji

Nathalie Tufenkji is an environmental engineer and professor of chemical engineering at McGill University in Montreal, known for research on microplastics, urban runoff, and water treatment.

Nathan E. Promisel

Nathan E. Promisel (1908–2005) was an American metallurgical engineer known as the "father of titanium" who served as chief materials scientist of the Naval Air Systems Command from 1940 to 1966.

Nathan Lazarus

Nathan Lazarus is an electrical engineer and University of Delaware associate professor who spent a decade at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and received a 2017 PECASE award.

Nathan M. Newmark

Nathan M. Newmark (1910–1981) was an American structural engineer at the University of Illinois who created the Newmark method and received the 1968 National Medal of Science.

Nathaniel B. Nichols

Nathaniel B. Nichols (1914–1997) was an American control engineer who created the Nichols chart, co-created the Ziegler–Nichols PID tuning rules, and co-wrote Theory of Servomechanisms.

Neal Amundson

Neal Amundson (1916–2011) was an American chemical engineer who headed the University of Minnesota department from 1949 to 1974, transforming chemical engineering into a mathematically grounded science.

Ned Mohan

Ned Mohan, born Narendra Mohan, was an Indian-born American electrical engineer who taught power electronics at the University of Minnesota for 48 years and wrote widely used textbooks.

Neil Armstrong

Neil Armstrong was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who, as commander of Apollo 11 in 1969, became the first person to walk on the Moon.

Neil Dasgupta

Neil P. Dasgupta is a mechanical engineer and professor at the University of Michigan known for battery research, including 2025 work enabling lithium-ion EV batteries to charge 500% faster at sub-zero temperatures.

Neil E. Todreas

Neil E. Todreas is an emeritus MIT professor of nuclear engineering, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988, known for reactor thermal hydraulics and the textbook Nuclear Systems.

Neil P. King

Neil P. King is a biochemist and protein designer, Associate Professor at the University of Washington, whose computationally designed nanoparticle vaccine was approved in 2022 as SKYCovione.

Neil Siegel

Neil Gilbert Siegel is an American systems engineer who led the U.S. Army's first digital battlefield system and won the 2023 National Medal of Technology and Innovation.

Neil Sloane

Neil Sloane, born in 1939, is a Welsh-born mathematician and coding theorist best known as the creator of the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS).

Nelson Martins

Nelson Martins is a Brazilian electric power systems engineer who spent his 41-year career at CEPEL in Rio de Janeiro and created the stability-analysis software PacDyn.

Nenad Miljkovic

Nenad Miljkovic is a mechanical engineer who heads Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, working on phase-change heat transfer and nanostructured surfaces.

Neri Merhav

Neri Merhav (נרי מרחב) is an Israeli information theorist and Technion professor known for universal prediction, mismatched decoding, and links between information theory and statistical physics.

Nesbitt Hagood

Nesbitt W. Hagood IV is an American aeronautical engineer and former MIT professor who founded the Active Materials and Structures Laboratory and later the display company Pixtronix, acquired by Qualcomm.

Neville G. W. Cook

Neville G. W. Cook (1938–1998) was a South African-born rock mechanics engineer who held a chair at UC Berkeley and pioneered research on rockbursts and mine safety.

Niall Mac Dowell

Niall Mac Dowell is Professor of Future Energy Systems at Imperial College London, where he models carbon capture, storage, and removal, and advised the UK government on net zero.

Nianqiang Wu

Nianqiang Wu, known as Nick Wu, is a materials scientist working on photocatalysis, plasmonics, biosensors, and fuel cells; he joined UMass Amherst in 2020 after fifteen years at West Virginia University.

Nicholas A. Melosh

Nicholas A. Melosh is a materials scientist and professor at Stanford University who directs the Nanofabrication Center and is known for diamondoid electron-emission research and nanostraws that deliver molecules into cells.

Nicholas Glavin

Nicholas Glavin is a materials scientist and Senior Materials Engineer at the Air Force Research Laboratory, known for 2D materials research and the 2025 PECASE award.

Nicholas J. Garber

Nicholas J. Garber is a traffic engineer and National Academy of Engineering member who co-authored the textbook Traffic & Highway Engineering and held professorships at Virginia and Central Florida.

Nicholas J. Grant

Nicholas J. Grant (1915–2004) was an American metallurgist and MIT professor known for high-temperature alloys and rapid solidification processing, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1980.

Nicholas Kotov

Nicholas A. Kotov is an American materials scientist and chemical engineer at the University of Michigan known for biomimetic nanostructures, self-assembled nanocomposites, and chiral nanomaterials.

Nicholas L. Abbott

Nicholas L. Abbott is an American chemical engineer, the Tisch University Professor at Cornell University since 2018, known for liquid-crystal sensors and self-assembly directed by topological defects.

Nicholas Rott

Nicholas Rott, born Miklós Rott in Budapest in 1917, was a Hungarian-born aerodynamicist who developed thermoacoustics, taught at ETH Zurich, Cornell, and UCLA, and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 1993.