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Henry R. Towne – American mechanical engineer and businessman, known as an early systematizer of management; John Tregoning (1840s–1920s) – American mechanical engineer; wrote the first books on factory management; Laura Tremosa – first Catalan woman to qualify as an industrial engineer; Tim Cook – CEO of Apple
Influential in establishing computer science as an independent discipline of science; coined the term software engineering. Contributed to numerical analysis, fundamentals of interpretation and translation of programming languages, systematics of program development, program transformation, and cryptology. 1953 Bellman, Richard E.
First nuclear power plant in the US 1952: Japanese engineer Jun-ichi Nishizawa invented the avalanche photodiode [20] 1953: First fully transistorized computer in the U.S. 1958: American engineer Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit (IC). 1960: American engineer Theodore Maiman develops the first laser: 1962: Nick Holonyak invented the ...
American civil engineers (5 C, 667 P, 1 F) E. American electrical engineers (2 C, 1,363 P) F. American food engineers (7 P) I. American industrial engineers (95 P) M.
Engineering Legends: Great American Civil Engineers is a 2005 book by engineer Richard Weingardt. The book features a list of 32 engineering legends from the 1700s to the present, including Fazlur Khan , Hal Iyengar , Tung-Yen Lin , Benjamin Wright , and Fred Severud .
TIME released its list of the 100 Most Influential People for 2024 on Wednesday. The annual list, which asks cultural and political icons to highlight the changemakers of the past year, features ...
19th-century American engineers (1 C, 143 P) 20th-century American engineers (2 C, 1,797 P) 21st-century American engineers (2 C, 1,178 P)
Notable best presidents include George Washington at No.2, Thomas Jefferson at No. 7, and Barack Obama at No. 12.