- Henry Petroski
Henry Petroski (born 1942) is an American civil engineering professor at Duke University where he specializes in failure analysis. He is a prolific author, having written a dozen books - most notably "To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design" (1985) - including a number of titles detailing the industrial design history of common, everyday objects, such as pencils, paper clips, and silverware. - Santiago Calatrava
Santiago Calatrava is one of my favourite contemporary architects. It is not because he is Spanish, it is just because he is special. He is an architect and an engineer, what indeed influences his way of designing bridges, public spaces, and buildings. I got trapped into Calatrava's work after seeing a documentary in Spanish TV station "La2" many many years ago (I was a kid and he was beginning to be popular). - G. V. Loganathan
Gobichettypalayam Vasudevan Loganathan, known as Prof. G. V. Loganathan was an Indian-born American professor, whose most recent position was a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, part of the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech, United States. He was a victim of the Virginia Tech massacre. - John Baker
General John Stuart Baker, AC, DSM, (24 February1936 - 9 July 2007) was an Australian army general. He was Chief of the Australian Defence Force from July 1995 to July 1998. From 1992 to 1992, he was Director of the Defence Intelligence Organisation. Baker joined the Australian Army in 1954, where he graduated from the Royal Military College, Duntroon 1957, … - Carl A. Strock
Lieutenant General Carl A. Strock is a U.S. Army officer, and is currently Chief of Engineers and the Commanding General of the United States Army Corps of Engineers. He was born in Georgia and grew up in an Army family. He enlisted in the Army and received his commission as an infantry second lieutenant following graduation from Officer Candidate School in 1972. - John Rennie
John Rennie (7 June 1761 at "Phantassie", near East Linton, East Lothian, Scotland - 4 October 1821), a farmer's younger son, was a Scottish civil engineer who designed many bridges, canals, and docks. A tinkerer and model builder even as a child, he first worked as a millwright with noted mechanical engineer Andrew Meikle (inventor of the threshing machine). Rennie then attended the University of Edinburgh (1780-1783) and began work as an engineer, … - Julia Morgan
Julia Morgan was an American architect. She is best known for her work on Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California. Born in San Francisco, California, she was raised in Oakland and graduated from Oakland High School in 1890. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1894 with a degree in civil engineering. At the urging of her friend and mentor Bernard Maybeck, whom she met in her final year in undergraduate school, … - Henry Liu
Henry Liu is a retired American civil engineer and the president of Freight Pipeline Company (FPC). During Liu's earlier career he was a professor of civil engineering and the director of Capsule Pipeline Research Center, a state/industry university cooperative research center at University of Missouri–Columbia. After retirement, Liu founded FPC, the company which developed fly ash brick, a new type of building brick made from a waste by-product of coal power plants. - Hardy Cross
Hardy Cross, 1885-1959, born in Nansemond County, Virginia, was a U.S. engineer and the developer of the moment distribution method for structural calculation of large reinforced concrete buildings. The method was in general use from c.1935 until c.1960 when it was superseded by other methods. It made possible the efficient and safe design of many reinforced concrete buildings during an entire generation. - Tad Murty
Tad S. Murty(Or Murthy) is an Indian-Canadian oceanographer and expert on tsunamis. He is the former president of the Tsunami Society. He is an adjunct professor in the departments of Civil Engineering and Earth Sciences at the University of Ottawa link Murty has a a PhD in oceanography and meteorology from the University of Chicago. He is co-editor of the journal Natural Hazards with Tom Beer of CSIRO and Vladimir Schenk of the Czech Republic. - Franklin W. Olin
Franklin Walter Olin was the founder of the Olin Corporation. He was born in Woodford, Vermont into a modest family; his father built mills and waterwheels. He studied civil engineering at Cornell University, where he also played baseball; he would play as an outfielder in the American Association for two seasons. After graduating with the class of 1886, he worked in several jobs before founding a blasting powder mill construction business; his first opened in East Alton, … - John A. Roebling
John Augustus Roebling was a German-born civil engineer famous for his wire rope suspension bridge designs, in particular, the design of the Brooklyn Bridge. - Süleyman Demirel
Sami Süleyman Gündoğdu Demirel is a Turkish politician who served as prime minister seven times and was the 9th President of Turkey - David E. Goldberg
David E. Goldberg is a professor at the department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering (IESE) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is most noted for his seminal works in the field of genetic algorithms. He is the director of Illinois genetic algorithms laboratory (IlliGAL) and also the chief scientist of Nextumi Inc. He is also the author of Genetic algorithms for search, optimization, and machine learning, … - Mario Salvadori
Mario Salvadori (1907-1997) was an architect, structural engineer and professor of both civil engineering and architecture at Columbia University. During World War II he was a consultant on the Manhattan Project. He was born in Rome, Italy in 1907. He earned doctoral degrees in both civil engineering and mathematics from the University of Rome in 1930 and 1933 respectively. He spent the next five years on that university's faculty. - Gheorghe Asachi
Gheorghe Asachi or Asaki (March 1, 1788-November 12, 1869) was a Moldavian-born Romanian prose writer, poet, painter, historian, dramatist and translator. An Enlightenment-educated polymath and polyglot, he was one of the most influential people of his generation. Asachi was a respected journalist and political figure, as well as active in technical fields such as civil engineering and pedagogy, and, for long, … - Mike Lewis
Mike Lewis (born August 17, 1977) is the rhythm guitarist for the Welsh alternative metal band Lostprophets. He studied civil engineering for a year before turning to music. His mother was a shop assistant, and his father worked in management for a chemical company. Mike attended Hawthorn High School, Pontypridd, and was in the same year as Lostprophets vocalist Ian Watkins, and his favourite subjects were science and history. - Rafael L. Bras
Dr. Rafael L. Bras, P.E. is a Puerto Rican engineer and researcher who is considered one of the world's leading experts in hydro-meteorology and global warming. Born in 1950, at San Juan, Puerto Rico, he decided to become a civil engineer like his father, and enrolled in MIT, where he received a B.S. in 1972, an M.S., 1974, and an Sc.D., 1975. - Ken Whisenhunt
Kenneth "Ken" Moore Whisenhunt (born February 28, 1962 in Augusta, Georgia) is the American football head coach of the Arizona Cardinals NFL football team. - Kishor C. Mehta
Dr. Kishor C. Mehta is recognized worldwide as an authority on Wind Engineering. He is the first person from the Texas Tech University selected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering for his systematic studies of structural damage caused by windstorms and leadership in the development of structural design standards for wind loads. Dr. - Rex Tillerson
Rex W. Tillerson (born March 23, 1952 in Wichita Falls, Texas) is the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of ExxonMobil Corporation, as of January 1, 2006. After earning a B.S. from The University of Texas at Austin in civil engineering, Tillerson joined Exxon Company, U.S.A in 1975 as an engineer. He held various positions with Exxon, domestically and internationally. In 1995, he became president of Exxon Yemen Inc. and Esso Exploration and Production Khorat Inc. - Robert E. Horton
Robert Elmer Horton (May 18, 1875 - April 22, 1945) was an American ecologist and soil scientist, considered by many to be the father of modern hydrology. Born in Parma, Michigan, he earned his B.S. from Albion College in 1897. After his graduation, he went to work for his uncle, George Rafter, a prominent civil engineer. Rafter had commissioned a weir study, the results of which Horton analyzed and summarized. - John Spence
John Deane Spence (7 December 1920 - 4 March 1986) was a British Conservative Party politician. Spence was educated at Queen's University, Belfast and worked as a building and civil engineering contractor, merchant banker and farmer. Spence contested Wakefield in 1964, and Sheffield Heeley in 1966. He was Member of Parliament for Sheffield Heeley from 1970 to 1974, Thirsk and Malton from 1974 to 1983, and Ryedale from 1983 until he died in office in 1986. - Allen Cunningham
Allen Cunningham (born March 28 1977 to Dean and Joanne Cunningham in Riverside, California), United States, is a professional poker player. Cunningham studied civil engineering at UCLA before dropping out of school to play poker professionally. He began playing at 18 in Indian casinos. Cunningham plays online poker exclusively at Full Tilt Poker. Previously a Full Tilt sponsored pro, he became a full member of Team Full Tilt in October 2006. - L. T. C. Rolt
Lionel Thomas Caswall Rolt (usually abbreviated to Tom Rolt or L.T.C. Rolt) (11 February 1910-9 May 1974; his death was recorded in "The Times" No 59086, 11 May 1974) was a prolific English writer and the biographer of major civil engineering figures including Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Thomas Telford. He is also regarded as one of the pioneers of the leisure cruising industry on Britain's inland waterways, … - Cameron Mathison
Cameron Arthur Mathison (born August 25, 1969 in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada) is an <br /> Emmy-nominated actor. He is best known for playing the role of Ryan Lavery on the ABC soap opera "All My Children" - a role which he has played from 1998 to 2002, and currently since 2003. He also hosts the reality show, "I Wanna Be a Soap Star", as he has since its 2004 debut on SoapNet. At an early age, he was diagnosed with Perthes disease, … - Loammi Baldwin
Colonel Loammi Baldwin (January 10 1744-October 20 1807) was a noted American engineer, politician, and a soldier in the American Revolutionary War. His son, Loammi Baldwin, Jr., was also a well-known engineer. Baldwin is known as the Father of American Civil Engineering. He surveyed and was responsible for the construction of the Middlesex Canal; but today he is perhaps best remembered for the Baldwin apple which he developed at his farm, … - Zhan Tianyou
Zhan Tianyou (April 26,1861 - April 24,1919) (previously romanized as Jeme Tien Yow) was a distinguished Chinese railroad engineer. He was educated in the United States of America and was the Chief Engineer responsible for construction of the Imperial Peking-Kalgan Railway (Beijing to Zhangjiakou), the first railway constructed in China without foreign assistance. - Shannon Shorr
Shannon Shorr (born 1985 in Birmingham, Alabama) is a professional poker player, recently moved from Tuscaloosa, Alabama to Las Vegas, Nevada. Shorr grew up in Birmingham, where he was a baseball player at Shades Valley High School. - James Hong
James Hong is an American actor and the ex-president of the Association of Asian/Pacific American Artists (AAPAA). - Avery Brundage
Avery Brundage (September 28 1887 - May 8 1975) was an American athlete, sports official, art collector and philanthropist. He has been heavily criticized for decisions he took as a member of the United States Olympic Committee and as president of the International Olympic Committee, many of which would now be classed as racist. Born in Detroit, Brundage studied civil engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, graduating in 1909. - Tom Dooley
Tom Dooley (born September 15, 1934 in Roanoke, Virginia) was an American football official for 32 years with 14 of those years in the National Football League (NFL) from 1978 to 1992 as a line judge and referee. Dooley was assigned Super Bowl XV in 1981 as line judge. In the NFL, he wore the uniform number 6. - Lee Cheuk Yan
Lee Cheuk Yan is the General Secretary of the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions. He was born in Chaoyang, Guangdong (廣東潮陽) in 1957 and emigrated to Hong Kong in 1959. He graduated from The University of Hong Kong with a bachelor degree in civil engineering. Since his university days, he has been a labour and pro-democracy activist. During the student-led Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, … - Frank Baron
Frank Martin Baron (July 7, 1914, Chicago, Illinois - October 17, 1994) served as professor of civil engineering at University of California, Berkeley and held an international reputation as an expert in the fields of bridge and roof-structure design, and seismic and wind analysis. He was twice the recipient of the prized Leon S. Moisseiff Award issued annually by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), and among his manifold professional affiliations, … - Robert William Thomson
Robert William Thomson (1822-1873) was the Scottish inventor of the pneumatic tyre. Born in Stonehaven, Kincardineshire, Robert was the eleventh of twelve children of a local woollen mill owner. His family wished him to study for the ministry but Robert refused, one reason being his inability to master Latin. He left school at the age of 14 and went to live with an uncle in Charleston, USA, where he was apprenticed to a merchant. - Isaac Larian
Isaac Larian (born March 28 1954, Kashan, Iran) is the Chief Executive Officer of MGA Entertainment, the biggest privately owned toy company in the world. He was born in Iran to Persian Jewish parents. After graduating from CSULA in civil engineering, he started a business exporting electronic goods, and later (2000) expanded their company to include the creation, development and marketing of the Bratz doll. Two of the dolls bear the names of his children, … - David B. Ashley
David B. Ashley is the eighth and current president of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, appointed to the position on July 1, 2006. Of his initial $400,000 salary, $230,000 will be supplied by the university and $170,000 will be provided by the UNLV Foundation. Previously, he served as the founding executive vice chancellor and provost at the University of California, Merced starting in 2001 and was the dean of the College of Engineering at the Ohio State University. - Vladimir Shukhov
Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov, (February 2 1939) was a great Russian structural engineer and architect renowned for his pioneering works on new methods of analysis for structural engineering that led to breakthroughs in industrial design of hyperboloid structures, shell structures, tensile structures, oil reservoirs, pipelines, boilers, ships and barges. The world's first thermal cracking method, the Shukhov cracking process, was invented by Vladimir Shukhov (1891). - James Abourezk
James Abourezk served as the U.S. Congressman and Senator from South Dakota from 1973-1979. His memoir, Advise & Dissent: Memoirs of South Dakota and the U.S. Senate, was published in 1989. Abourezk founded the Arab- American Anti-Discrimination Committee, and he is a signer of the Call from World Cant Wait-Drive Out the Bush Regime which is holding protests in over 150 cities on October 5, 2006. - Michael P. Collins
Michael P. Collins is a structural engineer whose research is concerned with the design and evaluation of reinforced and prestressed concrete buildings, bridges, nuclear containment structures and offshore oil platforms. He received his B.E. from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand in 1964 and his Ph.D. from the University of New South Wales in Australia in 1968. He joined the University of Toronto in 1969, …
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