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Drew Banin
Drew Banin, co-founder of dbt Labs (formerly Fishtown Analytics) with Tristan Handy and Connor McArthur in 2016, former Chief Product Officer until January 2022, built the first dbt prototype and studied at Drexel University.
Drew Endy
Drew Endy, or Andrew David Endy, is a synthetic biologist and bioengineer at Stanford University, known for building open standards for engineering biology, above all the BioBrick standard.
Drs. Jorg Schlaich
Jörg Schlaich (1934–2021) was a German civil engineer and University of Stuttgart professor who co-founded schlaich bergermann partner, engineered the Munich Olympic Park roof, and championed the solar updraft tower.
Duane McRuer
Duane McRuer was an American control engineer who founded Systems Technology, Inc., made fly-by-wire controls practical at Northrop, and modeled the human pilot in control loops.
Dudley A. Saville
Dudley A. Saville (1933–2006) was an American chemical engineer at Princeton University who pioneered electrohydrodynamics and electric-field assembly of colloidal particles, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003.
Dudley Maurice Newitt
Dudley Maurice Newitt (1894–1980) was a British chemical engineer who led high-pressure research at Imperial College London and directed sabotage research for the Interservices Research Bureau during World War II.
Dudley S. Childress
Dudley S. Childress (1934–2014) was an American biomedical engineer at Northwestern University who pioneered prosthetics, created the first commercial proportional myoelectric prosthesis, and originated the roll-over shape concept.
Dugald Clerk
Dugald Clerk (1854–1932) was a Scottish engineer who invented the two-stroke internal-combustion engine known as the Clerk cycle and served the British Admiralty in the First World War.
Duncan S. Davies
Duncan S. Davies (1921–1987) was a British chemical industry research leader who ran ICI's corporate laboratories and served as the UK Department of Industry's Chief Scientist and Engineer.
Durk Kingma
Durk Kingma (formal name Diederik P. Kingma), born 1983, is a Dutch computer scientist known for the Variational Autoencoder and the Adam optimizer, and an OpenAI co-founder.
Dushan Boroyevich
Dushan Boroyevich is a power electronics engineer born in Zagreb in 1952, a Virginia Tech professor elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2014.
Dwight C. Streit
Dwight C. Streit is an American electrical engineer at UCLA known for heterojunction transistors and millimeter-wave circuits, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2001.
Dwight F. Metzler
Dwight F. Metzler was an American sanitary engineer and Kansas health administrator who led New York's Clean Waters Program and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 1973.
E. Allen Emerson
E. Allen Emerson was an American computer scientist at the University of Texas at Austin who, with Edmund Clarke, originated model checking and shared the 2007 A.M. Turing Award.
E. Wenk
E. Wenk, full name Edward Wenk Jr., was an American engineer who led the strength design and testing of USS Nautilus, the first nuclear submarine.
Earl Bakken
Earl Bakken (1924–2018) was an American electrical engineer who co-founded Medtronic in Minneapolis in 1949 and built the first wearable, battery-powered, transistorized cardiac pacemaker in 1957.
Earl H. Dowell
Earl H. Dowell is an American engineer, a leading authority on aeroelasticity and structural dynamics, who joined Duke University in 1983 and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1993.
Earl Randall Parker
Earl Randall Parker (1912–1998) was an American metallurgist and UC Berkeley professor who studied the flow and fracture of metals, developed TRIP steels, and received the National Medal of Science.
Earll M. Murman
Earll M. Murman, born in 1942, is an American aerospace engineer and MIT emeritus professor known for the Murman-Cole transonic flow scheme and for co-directing MIT's Lean Aerospace Initiative.
Earnest Gloyna
Earnest Gloyna (1921–2019) was an American environmental engineer and dean of engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
Ebbe Sloth Andersen
Ebbe Sloth Andersen is a Danish bioengineer at Aarhus University known for the 2009 DNA origami box with a controllable lid and for inventing RNA origami.
Eberhardt Rechtin
Eberhardt Rechtin (1926–2006) was an American electrical engineer who directed NASA's Deep Space Network, proved the phase-locked loop optimal in noise, and founded systems architecting programs at USC.
Eckehard Schöll
Eckehard Schöll (born 1951 in Stuttgart) is a German theoretical physicist known for nonlinear dynamics and chimera states, and a professor at TU Berlin from 1989 to 2019.
Ed Cole
Ed Cole was an American automotive engineer and president of General Motors from 1967 to 1974, best remembered as the father of the Chevrolet small-block V8.
Ed Heinemann
Ed Heinemann (1908–1991) was an American aeronautical engineer known for the SBD Dauntless dive bomber and A-4 Skyhawk, with over 20,000 aircraft built to his designs.
Edgar A. Starke Jr.
Edgar A. Starke Jr. is an American metallurgist and University Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia, known for research on the physical metallurgy of aerospace aluminum alloys.
Edgar Bain
Edgar Collins Bain (1891–1971) was an American physical metallurgist who pioneered X-ray diffraction studies of steel and gave his name to bainite, the microstructure named for him in 1934.
Edgar G. Hertwich
Edgar G. Hertwich is an Austrian-born environmental engineer and industrial ecologist, a professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology known for his 2009 trade-linked national carbon footprint analysis.
Edgar M. Cortright
Edgar M. Cortright (1923–2014) was an American aerospace engineer and NASA manager who established the first U.S. meteorological satellite and space probe programs and supervised Viking 1's landing on Mars.
Edgar Meyhöfer
Edgar Meyhöfer is a German mechanical and biomedical engineer and professor at the University of Michigan who measured the force of a single kinesin motor protein and nanoscale heat flow.