National Academy of Engineering Members
| Name | Year Elected | Primary Section | Election Citation |
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John D. Anderson, Jr. |
2010 | Aerospace | For aerospace engineering and history textbooks and for contributions to hypersonic gas dynamics. |
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David Atlas |
1986 | Special Fields & Interdisciplinary | For contributions, inventions, leadership, and public service in the application of radar and electromagnetic engineering to meteorology. |
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Ivo M. Babuska |
2005 | Mechanical | For contributions to the theory and implementation of finite element methods for computer-based engineering analysis and design. |
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Gregory B. Baecher |
2006 | Civil | For the development, explication, and implementation of probabilistic- and reliability-based approaches to geotechnical and water-resources engineering. |
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William J. Bailey |
1990 | died prior to selection of section | For major contributions to the field of engineered polymers including development of strain free adhesives, biodegradable polymers and thermally stable ladder polymers. |
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Howard R. Baum |
2000 | Mechanical | For developing and implementing broadly applicable analytical models and numerical tools for understanding and mitgating fire phenomena. |
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Robert D. Briskman |
2014 | Electronics, Communication and Information Systems | For achievements in satellite communications, culminating in Sirius XM Radio. |
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Antonio J. Busalacchi |
2016 | Special Fields & Interdisciplinary | For understanding of tropical oceans in coupled climate systems via remotely sensed observations and for international leadership of climate prediction/projection research. |
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James W. Dally |
1984 | Mechanical Electronics, Communications and Information | For his significant contributions to dynamic photoelasticity, stress wave propagation, and fracture mechanics. |
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George E. Dieter |
1993 | Materials | For contributions to engineering education in the areas of materials design and processing. |
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Millard S. Firebaugh |
2000 | Special Fields and Interdisciplinary | For innovation and U.S. Navy leadership in submarine design, propulsion, and construction. |
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Howard Frank |
2002 | Computer Science and Engineering | For contributions to the design and analysis of computer communication networks. |
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Gerald E. Galloway, Jr. |
2004 | Civil | For distinguished leadership in the management of sustainable water resources and education in environmental engineering. |
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Jacques S. Gansler |
2002 | Aerospace Industrial Manufacturing and Operational | For public and private leadership in the U.S. Department of Defense and major contributions in teaching missle guidance and control system. |
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George R. Irwin |
1977 | Mechanical | Invention of modern fracture mechanics and its innovative application to engineering design. |
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Eugenia Kalnay |
1996 | Special Fields and Interdisciplinary | For advances in understanding atmospheric dynamics, numerical modeling, and atmospheric predictability and in the quality of U.S. operational weather forecasts. |
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Joseph Kestin |
1982 | no primary section listed | Significant contributions to thermodynamics, including pioneering work in the measurement of transport properties of working substances and in the study of free-stream turbulence effects on heat transmission. |
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Helmut E. Landsberg |
1966 | no primary section listed | Applied climatology and seismology. |
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John W. Morris |
1979 | Civil | Leadership in the conduct of engineering programs of national significance. |
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Ali Mosleh |
2010 | Electric Power/Energy Systems | For contributions to the development of Bayesian methods and computational tools in probabilistic rise assessment and reliability engingeering. |
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C.D. (Dan) Mote |
1988 | Mechanical | For analysis of the mechanics of complex dynamic systems, providing results of great practical importance in vibrations and biomechanics. |
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Deb A. Niemeier |
2017 | Civil and Environmental Engineering | For developing groundbreaking tools to characterize the impact of transportation emissions on air quality and environmental justice. |
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Elaine S. Oran |
2003 | Aerospace | For unifying engineering, scientific, and mathematical disciplines into a computational methodology to solve challenging aerospace combustion problems. |
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Darryl J. Pines |
2019 | Aerospace | For inspirational leadership and contributions to engineering education excellence in the United States. |
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Eugene M. Rasmusson |
1999 | Special Fields and Interdisciplinary | For contributions to understanding climate variability and establishing the basis for practical predictions of El Nino. |
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Lyle H. Schwartz |
1994 | Materials | For leadership in materials research and in coordinating industry and government collaboration in materials engineering. |
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Shan-fu Shen |
1985 | Mechanical | For fundamental contributions to aerodynamics and non-Newtonian fluid mechanics. |
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Ben A. Shneiderman |
2010 | Computer Science and Engineering | For research, software development, and scholarly texts concerning human-computer interaction and information visualization. |
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John B. Slaughter |
1982 | Electronics, Communication & Information Systems | Contribution to the design of digital, sampled-data control systems, and leadership in shaping national engineering science policy and in fostering increased participation of minorities in engineering. |
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Katepalli R. Sreenivasan |
1999 | Mechanical | For the application of modern non-linear dynamics to turbulent flows. |
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G.W. (Pete) Stewart |
2004 | Computer Science and Engineering | For the development of numerical algorithms and software widely used in engineering computation. |
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Stephen M. Trimberger |
2016 | Computer Science and Engineering | For contributions to architectures and programming tools for field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). |
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Alvin W. Trivelpiece |
1993 | Electric Power/Energy Systems | For technical contributions to magnetic fusion energy and for leadership in energy research and development. |
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Richard N. Wright |
2003 | Civil | For sustained leadership in building researching, for the development of standards, and for representing the U.S. building industry and research community worldwide. |