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Captain James Buchanan Eads (May 23, 1820 – March 8, 1887) was a world-renowned [1] American civil engineer and inventor, holding more than 50 patents. [2]Eads' great Mississippi River Bridge at St. Louis was designated a National Historic Landmark by the Department of the Interior in 1964 and on October 21, 1974 was listed as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American ...
Captain; topographical engineer; worked with Robert E. Lee to survey the border between Ohio and Michigan in 1835 [4] Andrew A. Humphreys: 1831 Major general; American Civil War; topographical and hydrological surveyor of the Mississippi River Delta; Chief of Engineers (1866–1875); an incorporator of the United States National Academy of ...
Asst. Professor of Engineering at the Military Academy. Highest graduating score in USMA history, and famous for graduating one slot ahead of Robert E. Lee, who had the second highest score in USMA history. 1830 Alexander J. Swift Captain served in the Corps of Engineers, died after he became sick during the Siege of Veracruz 1847 1831
Captain Tomb's experience as a marine educator and administrator made Captain Tomb the academy's choice as the first superintendent of the United States Merchant Marine Academy in 1942. Arriving at Kings Point by boat from Fort Schuyler on April 15, 1942, at the age of 66, he immediately tackled the crucial task of overseeing the physical ...
William L. Maxwell – Andrew Schultz Jr. Emeritus Professor of Industrial Engineering at Cornell University; Lydia Meredith – CEO of the Renaissance Learning Center; Francesco Merloni – Italian industrialist and politician; Captain Henry Metcalfe – American Army ordnance officer, inventor and early organizational theorist
Director of the Engineering Research Institute at the University of Michigan: Richard J. Grosh (1971–1976) Dean of the School of Engineering at Purdue University: George M. Low, 1948 (1976–1984) Deputy administrator of NASA: Daniel Berg (1984–1985) (acting) (1985–1987) Vice-President and Provost of RPI Stanley I. Landgraf, 1946 (1988 ...
This office defines policy and guidance, and it plans direction for the organizations within the Corps. The Chief of Engineers is currently a lieutenant general billet but in the past has been held by field grade officers as low as major. Civilian oversight of the Chief of Engineers is provided by the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works).
Edward Lucien Toppins (June 12, 1915 – December 10, 1946) was a U.S. Army Air Force officer, commanding officer of the 602nd Air Engineering Squadron, and a celebrated African-American World War II fighter pilot within the 332nd Fighter Group's 99th Fighter Squadron, best known as the Tuskegee Airmen, "Red Tails," or “Schwartze Vogelmenschen” ("Black Birdmen") among enemy German pilots.