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Eugene D. Shchukin

Eugene D. Shchukin, born in Moscow in 1928, is a Russian surface scientist known for work on how surfactants govern the strength and fracture of solids.

Eugene E. Covert

Eugene E. Covert (1926–2015) was an American aerodynamicist who devised the first practical wind-tunnel magnetic-suspension system, headed MIT's aeronautics department, and served as US Air Force chief scientist.

Eugene E. Haller

Eugene E. Haller (1943–2018) was a Swiss-born materials scientist at UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab whose ultrapure germanium crystals enabled gamma-ray, far-infrared, and dark-matter detectors.

Eugene J. Peltier

Eugene Joseph Peltier (1910–2004) was an American civil engineer and US Navy rear admiral who served as chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks from 1957 to 1962.

Eugene Kaspersky

Eugene Kaspersky, also known as Yevgeny Valentinovich Kaspersky, is a Russian cybersecurity entrepreneur born in 1965 who founded Kaspersky, a leading antivirus and cybersecurity company, and serves as its chief executive officer and majority owner.

Eugene P. Wilkinson

Eugene P. Wilkinson (1918–2013), known as Dennis, was a US Navy vice admiral who commanded USS Nautilus, the first nuclear submarine, and USS Long Beach, the first nuclear surface ship.

Eugene R. McGrath

Eugene R. McGrath (born 1942) is an American utility engineer who joined Consolidated Edison in 1963 and served as its chairman and CEO from 1997 to 2005.

Eugene S. Meieran

Eugene S. Meieran is an American semiconductor manufacturing engineer who spent 36 years at Intel and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1998.

Eugene Sevin

Eugene Sevin (born 1928) is an American civil and structural engineer known for work on shock and vibration isolation and blast-resistant design, including the 1971 monograph Optimum Shock and Vibration Isolation.

Eugene Stoner

Eugene Morrison Stoner (1922–1997) was an American firearms designer who created the ArmaLite AR-15, adopted by the US military as the M16, and the modular Stoner 63 weapon system.

Eugène Viollet-le-Duc

Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, 1814–1879) was a French Gothic Revival architect and theorist who led the restorations of Notre-Dame de Paris and the Cité de Carcassonne.

Eugenio Culurciello

Eugenio Culurciello is an Italian-trained American electrical and biomedical engineer, a Purdue University professor who designs low-power integrated circuits for biomedical instrumentation and artificial neural networks in hardware.

Euler method

The Euler method (also called the forward Euler method) is the simplest numerical method for solving ordinary differential equations, stepping along tangent lines; it is first order and rarely used in practice.

Euler's critical load

Euler's critical load, also called Euler buckling load, is the axial compressive load at which an ideal elastic column buckles, derived by Leonhard Euler in 1744.

Eulerian method (fluid dynamics)

The Eulerian method is a fluid simulation approach that solves the equations of flow on a fixed spatial grid, storing velocity and density at fixed points in space.

Eupalinos (Εὐπαλίνος)

Eupalinos (Εὐπαλίνος) of Megara, son of Naustrophus, 6th-century BC Greek engineer named by Herodotus as designer of the Tunnel of Eupalinos on Samos, an aqueduct tunnel about 1,036 m long dug from both ends under Polycrates, meeting with only 64 cm error.

EUR-pallet

The EUR-pallet, also called the EPAL-pallet, is a standardized wooden pallet measuring 800 × 1,200 mm, introduced by European railways in 1961 for exchange freight.

Eurasia Tunnel

The Eurasia Tunnel (Avrasya Tüneli) is a 5.4 km double-deck toll road tunnel beneath the Bosphorus in Istanbul, connecting Kazlıçeşme on the European side with Göztepe on the Asian side.

Eurasian Land Bridge

The Eurasian Land Bridge, or Eurasian Land Bridge Economic Corridor, is a rail freight route between China and Europe along about 12,000 km of railroad, chiefly the Trans-Siberian Railway through Russia and Belarus.

Eurasian Resources Group

Eurasian Resources Group (ERG) is a diversified metals and mining group headquartered in Luxembourg with major operations in Kazakhstan and Africa, listed in London as ENRC from 2007 to 2013.

euRathlon

euRathlon was a European Commission-funded outdoor robotics competition, held from 2013 to 2015, testing robot autonomy in mock disaster scenarios inspired by the 2011 Fukushima accident.

Euratom

Euratom, formally the European Atomic Energy Community, is a legal entity established by the Treaty of Rome in 1957 to coordinate peaceful nuclear energy use in Europe.

EURC

EURC (Euro Coin) is a euro-denominated stablecoin issued by Circle, pegged 1:1 to the euro, launched in June 2022 and issued under the EU MiCA regulation by Circle SAS in France since July 2024.

Eureka Forbes

Eureka Forbes Limited is an Indian health and hygiene company headquartered in Mumbai, best known for its Aquaguard water purifiers and its vacuum cleaners, founded in 1982.

EUREKA Prometheus Project

The EUREKA Prometheus Project was a European cooperative research program in intelligent vehicles and automated driving, initiated by Daimler-Benz in 1986 and run mainly from 1987 to 1994.

Eureka Tower

Eureka Tower is a 297.3-meter residential skyscraper in the Southbank precinct of Melbourne, Australia, completed in 2006 by Fender Katsalidis and once the world's tallest residential building.

Euro container

A Euro container, also called a Eurobox or small load carrier (KLT), is a stackable plastic box built to fit the Euro pallet in logistics and warehousing.

Euro NCAP

Euro NCAP, or the European New Car Assessment Programme, is an independent safety program that crash-tests new passenger cars sold in Europe and publishes ratings on a zero-to-five-star scale.

Euro-Office

Euro-Office is an open-source, self-hostable document server for collaborative editing of documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and PDFs, forked from ONLYOFFICE and announced in March 2026 by a coalition of European companies, including Nextcloud and IONOS.

EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg

EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg, or EuroAirport, is a binational airport serving Basel, Mulhouse, and Freiburg, built on French territory and operated jointly by France and Switzerland.