- Seth Lloyd
Seth Lloyd is a Professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. He refers to himself as a "quantum mechanic". Lloyd was born on August 2, 1960, received his AB from Harvard College in 1982, his Math.Cert. and M.Phil. from Cambridge University in 1983 and 1984, and his Ph.D. from Rockefeller University in 1988 (advisor Heinz Pagels) for a thesis entitled "Black Holes, Demons, and the Loss of Coherence: How complex systems get information, …
- Adrian Bejan
Adrian Bejan, Ph.D. (MIT, 1975) is a Romanian-born American professor of mechanical engineering and inventor of the constructal theory of global optimization under local constraints. He is J. A. Jones Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Duke University.
- John Perry
John Perry (1850-1920) was a pioneering engineer from Ireland. He was born on February 14 1850 at Garvagh, County Londonderry, the second son of Samuel Perry and a Scottish-born wife. He worked as Lord Kelvin's assistant at the University of Glasgow, and later became professor of mechanical engineering at Finsbury Technical College. Perry was a colleague of William Edward Ayrton and John Milne at the Imperial College of Engineering in Tokyo, 1875-79.
- Michael Porter
Michael Eugene Porter is an American academic focused on management and economics. He has made important contributions to strategic management and strategy theory, Porter's main academic objectives focus on how a firm or a region can build a competitive advantage and develop competitive strategy. Porter's strategic system consists primarily of: * 5 forces analysis * strategic groups (also called strategic sets) * the value chain * the generic strategies of cost leadership, …
- Chang-Lin Tien
Chang-lin Tien, as the 8th Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley (1990–97), was the first Asian American and Chinese American to head a major U.S. university. Born in Wuhan, mainland China, Tien and his family fled to Taiwan in 1949 at the end of the Chinese Civil War. He earned a BS in mechanical engineering from the National Taiwan University in 1955 and went on to a fellowship at the University of Louisville in 1956, …
- George Stephenson
George Stephenson was an English mechanical engineer who designed the famous and historically important steam locomotive named "Rocket" and is known as the "Father of Railways". The Victorians considered him a great example of diligent application and thirst for improvement, with self-help advocate Samuel Smiles particularly praising his achievements. His rail gauge of 4 ft 8½ in (1435 mm), sometimes called "Stephenson gauge", is the world's standard gauge.
- Jerry S. Rawls
Jerry Rawls was born in Houston. He spent his early years growing up in Texas. An enterprising kid, he took up jobs to earn pocket money, and even became a part of a Junior achievement organization where they made soap and sold it to supermarkets. Jerry Rawls currently serves as Finisar Corporation's President & Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors since March 1989. Finisar was started by Jerry Rawls and Frank H. Levinson in the year 1988.
- Parviz Moin
Parviz Moin is the Franklin P. and Caroline M. Johnson Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. He received his Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1974, his Masters degree in Mathematics and his Masters and Ph.D degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford in 1978. He held the posts of National Research Council Fellow, Staff Scientist and Senior Staff Scientist at NASA Ames Research Center Research Center.
- Metin Sitti
Metin Sitti is an assistant Professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Institute in Carnegie Mellon University. He is interested in Micro/Nanorobotics, nanomanufacturing, MEMS/NEMS, biomimetic micro/nanosystems, directed self-assembly, bionanotechnology, haptic interfaces, and tele-robotics. He conducted the Micromechanical Flying Insect Project.
- Willis Carrier
Willis Haviland Carrier was an engineer and inventor, and is known as the man who invented modern air conditioning.
- Al-Jazari
Ibn Ismail Ibn al-Razzaz Al-Jazari I (1136-1206) was an important Arab Muslim scholar, inventor, and mechanical engineer during the Islamic Golden Age (Middle Ages). Al-Jazari was named after the area in which he was born, Al-Jazira - the traditional Arabic name for what is now northern Iraq and northeastern Syria, between the Tigris and the Euphrates, corresponding to Mesopotamia. Like his father before him, he served as a chief engineer to the Ortukids, …
- Sanjay Sarma
Sanjay Sarma (born May 1968) is an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the technology visonary credited with developing many standards and technologies that form the foundation of the commercial RFID industry. Prof. Sarma and Dr. David Brock began work on RFID in 1996. In 1999 he co-founded the Auto-ID center at MIT together with Prof. Sunny Siu, Dr. David Brock in order to make the vision of standards based RFID, …
- James Tour
James Tour is a synthetic organic chemist, specializing in nanotechnology. He is well-known for his work in molecular electronics and molecular switching molecules. He has also been involved in other work, such as the creation of a nanocar and NanoKids, an interactive learning DVD to teach children fundamentals of chemistry and physics. Dr. Tour was also a founder of the Molecular Electronics Corporation. He holds joint appointments in the departments of chemistry, …
- George David
George David is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of United Technologies Corporation. David was elected UTC’s President in 1992 and Chief Executive Officer in 1994. He joined UTC’s Otis Elevator subsidiary in 1975 and became its President in 1986. David was born 1942 in Pennsylvania. His mother's name was Margaret; his father, Charles Wendell was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and one of America's first Rhodes scholars.
- Bill Gross
Bill Gross serves as the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Idealab which he founded in March 1996. While at Idealab, Bill has started many successful businesses including Overture Services, Cars Direct / Internet Brands, Picasa, and Energy Innovations.
- Jorge Cham
Jorge Cham (born May 1976) is a Chinese-Panamanian post-doc best known for his popular newspaper and web comic strip Piled Higher and Deeper (PhD Comics). He first started drawing PhD Comics as a grad student at Stanford University, and has since been syndicated in several university newspapers and in three published book collections. Jorge Cham received his Bachelor's degree from Georgia Tech, and earned a PhD in mechanical engineering from Stanford.
- Franklin Chang-Diaz
Franklin Chang-Diaz is both an astronaut and the director of the Advanced Space Propulsion Laboratory at NASA Johnson Space Center. Logging seven shuttle missions from 1986 to 2002, Chang-Diaz is tied with astronaut Jerry Lynn Ross for the honor of most missions flown by any astronaut in the world. Chang-Diaz has performed three space walks, visited two different space stations (Mir and the International Space Station), and helped deploy the Galileo spacecraft.
- Karl Iagnemma
Karl Iagnemma (* 19 October 1972) is an US-american writer and research scientist. He was born and grew up in Shelby Township, a Suburb of Detroit. He studied mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan and graduated as a PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Karl Iagnemma is the author of several scientific publications in the field of robotics. Besides his research he is also known through his short stories on inter-human romantic relations.
- Billy Lane
William David (Billy) Lane (born February 6, 1970 in Miami, Florida) builds custom motorcycles (choppers) and is the owner of Choppers Inc. in Melbourne, Florida. He has become well known due to his appearances in numerous shows on the Discovery Channel, mainly Biker Build-Off. He holds seven US patents on motorcycle parts and accessories. Lane has authored two books, an autobiography, "Billy Lane's Chop Fiction: It's not a Motorcycle, Baby, It's a Chopper" (2004, …
- John Fox
John Fox (June 30, 1835 - January 17, 1914) was a nineteenth century politician, mechanic and merchant from New York. Born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, Fox immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1840, settling in New York City, New York. He attended public schools as a child, engaged in mechanical pursuits and was employed as a master block maker in the Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1857.
- David Kirk
Dr David Kirk Ph.D. is NVIDIA's Chief Scientist. From June 1996 to January 1997, Dr. Kirk was a software and technical management consultant. From 1993 to 1996, Dr. Kirk was Chief Scientist and Head of Technology for Crystal Dynamics, a video game manufacturing company. From 1989 to 1991, Dr. Kirk was an engineer for Apollo Systems Division of Hewlett-Packard. Dr.
- Jan Davis
Nancy Jan Davis (born November 1, 1953) is an American astronaut and the current director of the Safety and Mission Assurance directorate at Marshall Space Flight Center. She was born in Cocoa Beach, Florida, but considers Huntsville, Alabama, to be her hometown. She enjoys flying, ice skating, snow skiing, water sports, and needlework. She graduated from Huntsville High School in 1971, …
- Robert Henry Thurston
Robert Henry Thurston was the first professor of mechanical engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology (in 1871). There he established Stevens’ mechanical engineering curriculum. Historians credit Thurston with establishing the first US mechanical engineering laboratory for conducting funded research at an academic institution for higher learning. He was the first president (1880-82) of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
- Mehmet Toner
Mehmet Toner is Professor of Surgery (Biomedical Engineering) at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and is the founding director of the NIH BioMEMS Resource Center. Dr. Toner was born in Istanbul, Turkey in July 1958. Dr. Toner received a Bachelor of Science degree from Istanbul Technical University in 1983 and an M.S. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1985, both in Mechanical Engineering.
- Woodie C. Flowers
Woodie C. Flowers is a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His specialty areas are engineering design and product development, he holds the Pappalardo Professorship and is a MacVicar Faculty Fellow. He gained his B.S. at Louisiana Polytechnic University in 1966 and added a M.S., a M.E., and a Ph.D., all from MIT between 1968 and 1972. He was made an Assistant Professor at MIT in 1972 and a professor in 1988.
- Sam Michael
Sam Michael is technical director of WilliamsF1, a Formula One constructor. He was born on April 29, 1971 in Western Australia and grew up in Canberra. After studying Mechanical Engineering at the University of New South Wales with a thesis on data acquisition systems for racing cars, he worked with the Formula Holden team. The team owner, Gregg Siddle, employed him on a part-time basis so that Michael could continue his studies.
- Thomas Midgley Jr.
Thomas Midgley, Jr., was an American mechanical engineer turned chemist. He developed both the tetra-ethyl lead (TEL) additive to gasoline and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), and held over a hundred patents. While lauded at the time for his discoveries, today his legacy is seen as far more mixed considering the serious negative environmental impacts of these innovations.
- Alan Wood
Alan Wood was born (on March 20 1947) and brought up in Sheffield where he was educated at King Edward VII School (photo). In 1965 he won an Open Scholarship to Manchester University and graduated in 1968 with a First Class Honours Degree in Mechanical Engineering. He began his career as an Engineering Management Trainee with Unilever on Merseyside.
- Ming Hsieh
Ming Hsieh is a billionaire Chinese American entrepreneur and philanthropist and the founder of AMAZ technology in 1987 and Cogent Systems in 1990. According to "Forbes" magazine, his estimated net worth exceeds $1.6 billion, ranking him the 198th richest person in America and 562nd among The World's Richest People In 2006. Born to Baoyan and Sun Hsieh, Ming Hsieh's family originated in Guangzhou (Canton), he was raised in Shenyang, …
- Jeroen van der Veer
</gallery>;Jeroen van der Veer (born October 27, 1947 in Utrecht, Netherlands) is the CEO of oil company Royal Dutch Shell. Van der Veer joined Shell in 1971 where he worked in manufacturing and marketing in the Netherlands, Curaçao and the United Kingdom. Van der Veer graduated in 1971 from Delft University with a MSc in mechanical engineering and went on to earn a MSc in economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam.
- Valery Fabrikant
Valery Fabrikant (born 1940 in Minsk, USSR), is a former associate professor of mechanical engineering at Concordia University. He was the gunman in the school massacre referred to as the Concordia University massacre in which he killed four colleagues. Born in the Soviet Union to a Jewish family, he immigrated to Canada in 1979 and began teaching at Concordia in 1980.
- Ursula Burns
Ursula M. Burns (New York, New York, September 20, 1958 -) currently serves as president of Xerox Corporation, named to the position in March 2007. She previously served as president of the company's Business Group Operations and as a corporate senior vice president Burns joined Xerox in 1980 as a mechanical engineering summer intern. She subsequently held several positions in engineering, including product development and planning.
- Shaka Hislop
Neil Shaka Hislop (born 22 February 1969) is a professional football goalkeeper, currently playing for FC Dallas and the Trinidad and Tobago national football team.
- Syed Haris Ahmed
Syed Haris Ahmed, a resident of Atlanta, Georgia, was arrested by the FBI on March 23<sup>rd</sup>, 2006. A mechanical engineering student at Georgia Tech, Ahmed emigrated from Pakistan to the United States with his family in 1997 at the age of 12 and subsequently became a U.S. citizen in 2003. His father, Syed Riaz Ahmed, is a faculty-member of North Georgia College and Georgia State University.
- Ahmad Y Hassan
Ahmad Y Hassan Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur: Historian of Islamic and Arabic science and technology. Educated in Jerusalem, Cairo and London with a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from University College, London. He was Dean of Engineering and later President of the University of Aleppo where he founded the Institute for the History of Arabic Science (IHAS) and was its first director.
- Scott Bailey
Scott Bailey (born December 16, 1978 in Florissant, Missouri) is an American actor. He plays Roman Martin on the MyNetworkTV limited-run serial "Saints & Sinners". Bailey played the role of Sandy Foster on the CBS soap opera "Guiding Light" from August 2003 until he announced he would not renew his contract with the show and the character was killed off in March 2006. He also had a brief run on the MTV series Undressed, …
- Tim Sweeney
Tim Sweeney is a computer game programmer and the founder of Epic Games, previously known as Epic MegaGames. He established Epic as a shareware company while he was a student majoring in mechanical engineering at the University of Maryland. Sweeney revealed that he had been interested in game development and computer programming since he was 10 years old. Tim finally started to make games, right out of his parents' basement where he lived.
- Ferdinand Redtenbacher
Ferdinand Jakob Redtenbacher is considered as the founder of science-based mechanical engineering.
- Mario Theissen
Mario Theissen is the boss of BMW Motorsport - and the newest Formula 1 team principal. The German car manufacturer has announced its purchase of Sauber and the aim is to create a new manufacturer team in the sport. To take BMW to the World Championship. Theissen is a man with ambition but the one thing that is never lacking in the sport is ambition. The hard thing is to do the job and win. Buying Sauber makes a lot of sense to BMW but not to many others in F1 circles.
- Kim Vicente
Kim Vicente is a professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto. He is researcher, teacher, and author in the field of human factors. He is best known for his two books: "The Human Factor" and "Cognitive Work Analysis".