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Lists of individual engineers by discipline include: List of aerospace engineers; List of canal engineers; List of chemical engineers; List of civil engineers; List of combat engineering corps; List of electrical engineers; List of environmental engineers; List of genetic engineers; List of industrial engineers; List of mechanical engineers
Oliver Heaviside (1850–1925), electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist who developed the transmission line theory and vectorized Maxwell's equations, among many other things. [19] Christopher Hinton (1901–1983), chief engineer at ICI who worked on the first nuclear power plant, Calder Hall [20]
J.E. Gordon (1913–1998) – engineering author and developer of composite materials; George B. Grant (1849–1917) – worked on improved calculators and gear industry pioneer; Nigel Gresley (1876–1941) – steam locomotive engineer, developed Gresley conjugated valve gear
This list of engineering awards is an index to articles about notable awards for achievements in engineering. It includes aerospace engineering , chemical engineering , civil engineering , electrical engineering , electronic engineering , structural engineering and systems science awards.
Carl Georg Barth – Norwegian-American mathematician and mechanical engineer who improved and popularized the industrial use of compound slide rules; Leslie Benmark – known for work in engineering education, specifically accreditation; Karen Bursic – American professor and undergraduate program director at University of Pittsburgh
German engineer Konrad Zuse developed the first programmable computer in Berlin. 1944: Scottish Engineer John Logie Baird developed the first color picture tube. 1945: Transatlantic telephone cable: 1947: American engineers John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain together with their group leader William Shockley invented the transistor. 1948
Amos Edward Joel Jr. (1918–2008) U.S. – electrical engineer, known for several contributions and over seventy patents related to telecommunications switching systems; Carl Edvard Johansson (1864–1943), Sweden – Gauge blocks; Johan Petter Johansson (1853–1943), Sweden – Pipe wrench and adjustable spanner
Harry H. Goode (1909–1960), American computer engineer and systems engineer; professor at University of Michigan; until his death he was president of the National Joint Computer Committee (NJCC); with Robert Engel Machol, he wrote the famous System Engineering Handbook