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José María Córdova International Airport

José María Córdova International Airport (Aeropuerto Internacional José María Córdova) is Colombia's second largest airport, serving Medellín from Rionegro, Antioquia, and handling over 13.6 million passengers in 2025.

José Martí International Airport

José Martí International Airport, also called Aeropuerto José Martí, is Cuba's main and busiest airport, about 20 kilometers southwest of Havana and a hub for Cubana de Aviación.

José Miguel Aguilera Radic

José Miguel Aguilera Radic is a Chilean food engineer at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, known for establishing food microstructure as a foundation of food processing.

José N. Reyes Jr.

José N. Reyes Jr. is a nuclear engineer who co-founded NuScale Power and co-designed its passively cooled small modular reactor, after teaching at Oregon State University.

José Salvador Alvarenga

José Salvador Alvarenga is a Salvadoran fisherman who survived 438 days adrift in the Pacific Ocean before washing ashore in the Marshall Islands in 2014.

Josef Ganz

Josef Ganz (Joseph Ganz, 1898–1967) was a German-Jewish automotive engineer and journalist who designed the Standard Superior and influenced the Volkswagen Beetle, before fleeing Nazi persecution to Australia.

Josef Kittler

Josef Kittler is a British pattern recognition and computer vision researcher at the University of Surrey, best known for the 1998 paper "On combining classifiers" and for serving as IAPR President from 1994 to 1996.

Josef Kozeny

Josef Kozeny (1889–1967) was an Austrian hydraulic engineer and physicist whose 1927 permeability formula, modified by Carman, became the widely used Kozeny–Carman equation for flow through porous media.

Josef Singer

Josef Singer (יוסף זינגר; 1923–2009) was an Israeli aeronautical engineer known for research on the buckling of thin-walled structures and president of the Technion from 1982 to 1986.

Josef Steinberger

Josef Steinberger is a computer scientist in natural language processing at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, working on text summarization, sentiment analysis, and coreference resolution.

Josefa Joaquina Sánchez Bastidas power station

The Josefa Joaquina Sánchez Bastidas power station, also known as Planta Tacoa or the Ricardo Zuloaga plant, is a Venezuelan thermal power plant at Catia La Mar near Caracas.

Josep Tarradellas Barcelona–El Prat Airport

Josep Tarradellas Barcelona–El Prat Airport, also known as El Prat Airport, is Barcelona's main airport, the second largest in Spain, with code BCN and about 55 million passengers.

Joseph A. Pask

Joseph A. Pask (1913–2003) was an American ceramic engineer and emeritus professor at UC Berkeley who built its ceramic engineering program and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1975.

Joseph A. Walker

Joseph A. Walker, full name Joseph Albert Walker (1921–1966), was an American NASA research pilot who twice flew the X-15 above 100 kilometers, becoming the first person in space twice.

Joseph A. Yura

Joseph A. Yura is an American structural engineer and University of Texas at Austin professor elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2000 for his work on bracing and stability.

Joseph Adam Pask

Joseph Adam Pask (1913–2003) was an American ceramic engineer and emeritus professor at UC Berkeley who built its ceramic engineering program and was known for work on glass-metal bonding, sintering, and mullite ceramics.

Joseph B. Powell

Joseph B. Powell is an American chemical engineer, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2021, who leads the University of Houston Energy Transition Institute.

Joseph B. Reagan

Joseph B. Reagan (1934–2011) was an American space scientist and aerospace executive who spent his career at Lockheed, building instruments for more than 20 satellite payloads.

Joseph Bazalgette

Sir Joseph William Bazalgette (1819–1891) was an English civil engineer who, as chief engineer of London's Metropolitan Board of Works, built the sewers and Thames embankments that ended the city's cholera epidemics.

Joseph C. Logue

Joseph C. Logue was an American electronics engineer at IBM who directed transistor circuit development from 1952 to 1959, enabling machines like the IBM 1401.

Joseph E. Burke

Joseph Eldrid Burke (1914–2000) was an American metallurgist who helped build the first plutonium-processing facility at Los Alamos and later led the General Electric ceramics group that developed Lucalox.

Joseph E. Greene

Joseph E. Greene (1944–2022) was an American materials scientist and University of Illinois professor elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003 for work on epitaxial thin films.

Joseph E. Jakes

Joseph E. Jakes is an American research materials engineer at the USDA Forest Service Forest Products Laboratory in Madison, Wisconsin, who won a 2012 Presidential Early Career Award.

Joseph Eldrid Burke

Joseph Eldrid Burke (1914–2000) was an American metallurgist who helped build the first plutonium-processing facility at Los Alamos and led the General Electric ceramics group that developed Lucalox alumina for sodium lamps.

Joseph Emmett Shepherd

Joseph Emmett Shepherd is a Caltech professor emeritus of aeronautics and mechanical engineering who studies detonation waves and explosion hazards, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026.

Joseph F. Traub

Joseph F. Traub (1932–2015) was an American computer scientist who founded Columbia's computer science department, headed Carnegie Mellon's, created information-based complexity, and developed the Jenkins-Traub algorithm.

Joseph Feinstein

Joseph Feinstein (born 1925) is an American electrical engineer and physicist known for pioneering work on traveling wave tubes and magnetrons, and a 1965 standard text.

Joseph Francis Shea

Joseph Francis Shea (1926–1999) was an American aerospace engineer and NASA manager who directed the studies fixing lunar orbit rendezvous for Apollo and ran the Apollo Spacecraft Program Office.

Joseph Frederick Engelberger

Joseph Frederick Engelberger (1925–2015) was an American engineer and entrepreneur known as the father of robotics; his Unimate robot entered a General Motors plant in 1961.

Joseph G. Jacangelo

Joseph G. Jacangelo is an American environmental engineer, vice president and director of research at Stantec and adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins, working on water and wastewater treatment.