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Edward J. McCluskey
Edward J. McCluskey (1929–2016) was an American computer engineer and Stanford professor who created the Quine–McCluskey algorithm and served as the first president of the IEEE Computer Society.
Edward Joseph Davison
Edward Joseph Davison is a Canadian control systems engineer at the University of Toronto known for decentralized and robust control, elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2010.
Edward Kimbark
Edward Kimbark was an American electrical power engineer known for his work on power system stability and HVDC transmission, and for standard textbooks in both fields.
Edward Kohler
Edward Kohler, often published as Eddie Kohler, is an American computer scientist known for operating systems and file systems research, who received a 2006 PECASE award.
Edward L. Cochrane
Edward L. Cochrane (1892–1959) was an American naval architect and Vice-Admiral credited with the designs of modern American submarines and new battleships, cruisers, carriers, and destroyers, and later Dean of Engineering at MIT.
Edward L. Doheny
Edward Laurence Doheny was an American oil prospector and executive who drilled the first commercial oil well in Los Angeles and built the largest oil enterprise in Mexico.
Edward L. Glaser
Edward L. Glaser (1929–1990) was an American computer systems designer who helped build one of the world's first time-shared computer systems at MIT, then led computing at Case Western Reserve University.
Edward L. Wilson
Edward L. Wilson is an American structural engineer and Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley, known for developing the finite element method and creating the SAP and ETABS structural analysis software.
Edward Lawry Norton
Edward Lawry Norton (1898–1983) was an American electrical engineer at Bell Telephone Laboratories known for Norton's theorem, which he stated in a 1926 internal memorandum and never published.
Edward Leedskalnin
Edward Leedskalnin, also known as Edvards Lēdskalniņš, was a Latvian-American stonemason who single-handedly built Coral Castle, over 1,100 tons of quarried limestone, near Homestead, Florida, between 1923 and 1951.
Edward O'Hare
Edward "Butch" O'Hare was a United States Navy fighter pilot who became the Navy's first World War II ace by shooting down five Japanese bombers in 1942.
Edward Smith (sea captain)
Edward John Smith, also known as E.J. Smith, was an English sea captain of the White Star Line who died when RMS Titanic sank on her maiden voyage in 1912.
Edward Snowden
Edward Joseph Snowden, born 1983, is an American former intelligence contractor who in 2013 leaked classified NSA documents revealing secret US surveillance programs and was granted asylum in Russia.
Edward T. Samulski
Edward T. Samulski is an American chemist and materials scientist known for research on liquid crystals and polymers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Edward Thomas (locomotive)
Edward Thomas is a narrow-gauge saddle tank steam locomotive built in 1921 for the Corris Railway and running since 1952 on the Talyllyn Railway in Wales.
Edward W. Price
Edward Warren Price (1920–2012) was an American aerospace engineer best known for developing the T-burner, the standard laboratory method for measuring solid propellant combustion response.
Edward Wenk Jr.
Edward Wenk Jr. (1920–2012) was an American civil and ocean engineer, professor at the University of Washington, and science-policy adviser to Congress and three presidents.
Edward Weston (American electrical engineer and inventor)
Edward Weston was an American electrical engineer and inventor, born in England in 1850, who held 334 U.S. patents and founded the AIEE, predecessor of the IEEE.
Edward Wilson Merrill
Edward Wilson Merrill (1923–2020) was an American chemical engineer and rheologist at MIT who helped found biomaterials and bioengineering, proposing polyethylene oxide as a biomaterial.
Edwards Air Force Base
Edwards Air Force Base, formerly Muroc Air Force Base, is a United States Air Force base in California's Mojave Desert, the Air Force's principal center for flight test and evaluation.
Edwards Lifesciences
Edwards Lifesciences is an American medical device company headquartered in Irvine, California, that treats structural heart disease with transcatheter and surgical heart valves sold in over 100 countries.
Edwin Albert Link
Edwin Albert Link (1904–1981) was an American inventor who created the Link Trainer flight simulator used to train over 500,000 World War II pilots, then designed deep-sea submersibles.
Edwin Austin Gee
Edwin Austin Gee, published as Edwin A. Gee, is an American chemical engineer at International Paper elected to the National Academy of Engineering's Chemical section in 1979.
Edwin C. Kan
Edwin C. Kan, also known as Edwin Chihchuan Kan, is an American electrical engineer and Cornell professor who won a PECASE award in 2000 and studies contactless RF biosensing.
Edwin Catmull
Edwin Catmull, known as Ed Catmull, is an American computer scientist who co-founded Pixar, led Pixar and Disney Animation, and shared the 2019 Turing Award.
Edwin Chan
Edwin Chan, also known as Edwin Pak-Nin Chan, is an American materials scientist at NIST who received the 2019 PECASE for measuring soft polymer films.
Edwin Chen
Edwin Chen is an American entrepreneur and data scientist who founded the data labeling company Surge AI in 2020 without venture funding, reaching $1.2 billion in 2024 revenue.
Edwin E. Kintner
Edwin E. Kintner (1920–2010) was an American nuclear engineer and Navy captain who helped develop the USS Nautilus reactor and led the US magnetic fusion program.
Edwin Howard Armstrong
Edwin Howard Armstrong (Edwin H. Armstrong) was an American electrical engineer at Columbia University who invented FM broadcasting and the regenerative, superregenerative, and superheterodyne circuits, holding 42 patents.
Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Power Plant
The Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Power Plant, known as Plant Hatch, is a two-unit nuclear power plant near Baxley, Georgia, and the first nuclear generating station in the state.