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Andrew P. Sage (1933–2014), School of Information Technology and Engineering, George Mason University; recipient of the 2000 Simon Ramo Medal for outstanding contributions to the field of systems engineering; [1] series editor of a textbook series on systems engineering and management for John Wiley & Son [2]
Derek Hitchins (born 1935) British systems engineer and was professor in engineering management, in command & control and in systems science at the Cranfield University, Bedfordshire, England. John Henry Holland (1929–2015) American pioneer in complex system and nonlinear science. He is known as the father of genetic algorithms.
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 ...
All training was conducted using the Russian language, and consisted of learning all Mir space station systems (life support/electrical/ communication/attitude control/computer systems), simulator training, Soyuz launch/return vehicle operations, and spacewalk water tank training. He also trained as chief scientist to conduct the entire United ...
Blake Wayne Van Leer, (1953), Commander and Captain in the U.S. Navy. Lead SeaBee program and lead the nuclear research and power unit at McMurdo Station during Operation Deep Freeze . Peter D. Vroom (1862), Inspector General of the U.S. Army [ 13 ] [ 14 ]
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 ...
Robert F. Boruch, Professor of Education and Statistics with the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education; Richard Bronson, professor emeritus of mathematics at Fairleigh Dickinson University; Morgan Brooks, inventor, engineer, and academic; William W. Destler, B.S. 1968, former president of Rochester Institute of Technology
Nathan J. Lindsay (1976, M.S. Systems Management) – major general in the Air Force [87] Jerry M. Linenger (1988, M.S. Systems Management) – captain in the Navy Medical Corps, and NASA astronaut [88] James A. Lovell (1961, Aviation Safety School) – NASA astronaut and captain in the Navy, most famous as commander of Apollo 13 mission [89]