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Emilio Rosenblueth

Emilio Rosenblueth (1926–1994) was a Mexican earthquake engineer who applied probability theory to seismic design, co-authored Fundamentals of Earthquake Engineering, and created the Rosenblueth Rule.

Emily A. Grubert

Emily A. Grubert is an American civil engineer and environmental sociologist who studies justice-centered decarbonization of the US energy system, known for her 2020 Science paper on fossil plant retirements.

Emily Pilloton-Lam

Emily Pilloton-Lam is an American architectural designer, builder, educator, and author who founded Project H Design and Girls Garage, where young people build full-scale community projects.

Emma Hart (computer scientist)

Emma Hart is an English computer scientist and Professor at Edinburgh Napier University, known for evolutionary robotics, especially jointly evolving a robot's body and controller.

Emma Nehrenheim

Emma Nehrenheim is an environmental engineer who led battery recycling at Northvolt and, since May 2025, has been managing director of the European Battery Alliance (EBA250).

Emmanuel Defaÿ

Emmanuel Defaÿ, also published as Emmanuel Defay, is a materials scientist who heads the Smart Materials Unit at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, working on piezoelectric thin films.

Emmanuel Delamarche

Emmanuel Delamarche, born 1966, is a French-born Swiss-based microfluidics and biosensors researcher, now a Senior Manager at Spiden AG, who led the Precision Diagnostics group at IBM Research – Zurich.

Emmanuel P. Giannelis

Emmanuel P. Giannelis, also published as E. P. Giannelis, is a materials scientist who is the Walter R. Read Professor of Engineering at Cornell University, known for pioneering polymer nanocomposites.

Enayet Chowdhury

Md. Enayet Chowdhury is a Bangladeshi hydrology researcher and educator at BUET's Institute of Water and Flood Management who runs a popular Bangla explainer YouTube channel.

Eneas D. Kane

Eneas D. Kane (1917–2013) was an American mechanical engineer who served as chief engineer of the Manhattan Project's Beta Project and later led Chevron Research as president.

Eno Ebong

Eno Ebong is an American biomedical engineer at Northeastern University who studies how mechanical forces affect blood vessel cells, and received the 2025 PECASE award.

Enrico Traversa

Enrico Traversa, born in Rome in 1959, is an Italian materials chemist and professor at the University of Rome Tor Vergata known for fuel cell research.

Enyuan Hu

Enyuan Hu is a battery chemist at Brookhaven National Laboratory who studies lithium metal, lithium sulfur, and solid-state batteries using synchrotron x-ray and neutron scattering.

Ephraim M. Sparrow

Ephraim M. Sparrow (1928–2019) was an American mechanical engineer in heat transfer and fluid mechanics who spent six decades on the University of Minnesota faculty.

Erastus H. Lee

Erastus H. Lee (1916–2006) was a British-born mechanician who taught at Brown, Stanford, and Rensselaer, known for plasticity and viscoelasticity research, including Lee's decomposition, and elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

Eric A. Swanson

Eric A. Swanson, born 1960 in Quincy, Massachusetts, is an American engineer who co-invented optical coherence tomography with James Fujimoto and David Huang, winning the 2023 Lasker Award.

Eric A. Walker

Eric A. Walker (1910–1995) was an English-born American electrical engineer, president of Penn State from 1956 to 1970, and a founding member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Eric Ash

Eric Ash, born Ulrich Albert Asch, was a German-born British electrical engineer who pioneered surface acoustic wave devices and served as Rector of Imperial College London from 1985 to 1993.

Eric Avram Udren

Eric Avram Udren is an American electric power engineer, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2019, who helped develop digital protective relaying and the IEC 61850 substation standard.

Eric Brewer (computer scientist)

Eric Brewer is an American computer scientist and UC Berkeley professor who joined Google as a vice president in 2012, known for originating the CAP theorem and co-founding Inktomi.

Eric Duoss

Eric Duoss is an American materials scientist who directs the Center for Engineered Materials and Manufacturing at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and received a PECASE award.

Eric E. Fullerton

Eric E. Fullerton is an American experimental physicist and materials scientist, a Distinguished Professor at UC San Diego who invented high-density magnetic recording media for hard disk drives.

Eric Fossum

Eric Fossum is an American engineer who invented the CMOS active pixel image sensor, the camera-on-a-chip in nearly every smartphone, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the early 1990s.

Eric Harold Mansfield

Eric Harold Mansfield (1923–2016) was a British aeronautical structural engineer at the Royal Aircraft Establishment Farnborough, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1971.

Eric Henriot Ducharme

Eric Henriot Ducharme is an aeronautical engineer who retired in 2021 as chief engineer at GE Aviation after leading the GE90 program and certification of the LEAP, Passport, and GE9X engines.

Eric Laithwaite

Eric Laithwaite (1921–1997) was a British electrical engineer who made the linear induction motor practical, then damaged his career by claiming gyroscopes violate energy conservation.

Eric Poe Xing

Eric Poe Xing, who publishes as Eric P. Xing, is a machine learning researcher and the first president of MBZUAI in Abu Dhabi since 2021.

Eric Pop

Eric Pop is an electrical engineer and Pease-Ye Professor at Stanford, known for energy-efficient nanoelectronics research on carbon nanotubes, graphene, and low-current phase-change memory, and elected an IEEE Fellow in 2021.

Eric Schmidt

Eric Schmidt, born Eric Emerson Schmidt, is an American computer scientist and technology executive who served as Google's CEO from 2001 to 2011 and later as Alphabet's executive chairman.

Eric Toberer

Eric Toberer is an American materials scientist and professor of physics at the Colorado School of Mines who researches thermoelectric materials and received the PECASE in 2016.