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Engineers in and from California — including subcategories of specialty engineering occupations (e.g. civil engineers, electrical engineers, mechanical engineers
Elbert Dysart Botts (January 2, 1893 – April 10, 1962) was the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) engineer credited with overseeing the research that led to the development of Botts' dots and possibly the epoxy used to attach them to the road.
Joseph Baermann Strauss (January 9, 1870 – May 16, 1938) was a German-American structural engineer who revolutionized the design of bascule bridges. He was the chief engineer of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California.
North Star House (Grass Valley, California), 1907.Photo by Arthur De Wint Foote. Arthur De Wint Foote (1849–1933) was an American civil engineer and mining engineer who impacted the development of the American West with his innovative engineering works and entrepreneurial ventures.
O'Day H. Short (died January 22, 1946) was an African American refrigerator engineer who broke the color barrier in Fontana, California after buying land and constructing a house south of Base Line Road. [1] [2] [3] Short contacted the FBI and the black press after receiving a warning of imminent violence from vigilantes. [1]
Jack McKee, former faculty; engineer; Professor of Environmental Engineering; leading researcher in fields of water quality and waste treatment, including water quality criteria, sewage disinfection, membrane filtration and analysis, and wastewater disposal and reclamation; member of National Academy of Engineering [131]
Robert Joseph Parks was born on 1 April 1922 in Los Angeles, California and grew up in Glendale and Balboa Island. [1] His father was petroleum engineer Joseph Burton Parks, his mother was Ruth (Feltz) Parks, and his brother was Jerome W. Parks.
While in school, Colmenares worked for Xerox, Chevron, and the California Department of Water Resources.Upon graduation from Stanford, Colmenares continued a career with Chevron, starting as a field construction engineer and later working in Colorado and Texas before returning to California to head a major environmental cleanup at the Chevron El Segundo plant. [7]