Adrian Bejan is a Romanian-American professor who has made contributions to modern thermodynamics and developed his constructal law. He is J. A. Jones Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Duke University and author of the books Design in Nature,The Physics of Life,Freedom and Evolution and Time And Beauty. He is an Honorary Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Medal and the ASME Medal.
Pradeep Kumar Khosla is an Indian-American computer scientist and university administrator. He is the current chancellor of the University of California,San Diego since August 1,2012.
Subra Suresh is an Indian-born American engineer,materials scientist,and academic leader. He is currently Professor at Large at Brown University and Vannevar Bush Professor of Engineering Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was Dean of the School of Engineering at MIT from 2007 to 2010 before being appointed as Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) by Barack Obama,where he served from 2010 to 2013. He was the president of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) from 2013 to 2017. Between 2018 and 2022,he was the fourth President of Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU),where he was also the inaugural Distinguished University Professor.
Masayoshi Tomizuka is a professor in Control Theory in Department of Mechanical Engineering,University of California,Berkeley. He holds the Cheryl and John Neerhout,Jr.,Distinguished Professorship Chair. Tomizuka received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering from Keio University,Tokyo,Japan in 1968 and 1970,and his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in February 1974. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2022.
Sheri D. Sheppard is the Burton J. and Deedee McMurtry University Fellow in Undergraduate Education;Associate Vice Provost of Graduate Education;and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Curriculum,Mechanical Engineering,Stanford University. She focuses her teaching on engineering design for undergraduate and graduate students. In November 2014,the Carnegie Foundation bestowed on her the U.S. Professor of the Year award.
Jean Zu is a Chinese-Canadian engineer and elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Since 2017,she has served as the dean of the Charles V. Schaefer,Jr. School of Engineering &Science at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken,New Jersey.
Leroy Stevenson (Skipp) Fletcher is an American mechanical and aerospace engineer,and college dean,who served as the 104th president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1985–86,and was recipient of the 2002 ASME Medal.
Deb Chachra is a materials scientist and a professor at Olin College. She specialises in biological materials and infrastructure. She is interested in innovations in engineering education and was one of the founding members of the materials faculty at Olin.
Natalie Dana Enright Jerger is an American computer scientist known for research in computer science including computer architecture and interconnection networks.
Craig Alexander Simmons is a Canadian mechanobiologist and professor at the University of Toronto. He received a master's degree in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Toronto. Simmons contributes to the fields of mechanobiology,stem cells,microfluidics and tissue engineering.
Andrew G. Alleyne is the Dean of the College of Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota. He was previously the Ralph M. and Catherine V. Fisher Professor in Engineering and Director of the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center on Power Optimization of Electro Thermal Systems at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His work considers decision making in complex physical systems. He is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers,Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers,and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Elizabeth A. Croft is a Canadian roboticist known for her work on human–robot interaction. She is the vice president and provost of the University of Victoria.
Marcia Kilchenman O'Malley is an American mechanical engineer,the Thomas Michael Panos Family Professor in Mechanical Engineering and associate dean for research and innovation for the George R. Brown School of Engineering at Rice University. Her research concerns "systems for enhancing the human sensorimotor control system",including work on exoskeletons,neuroprosthetics,haptic technology,and brain–computer interfaces.
Michele J. Grimm is a British-American biomechanical engineer. She took on the role of Dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University at Albany in 2022. She was previously the Wielenga Creative Engineering Endowed Professor of mechanical engineering and biomedical engineering at Michigan State University. Her research concerns the biomechanics of injury,particularly injuries in newborn children to the brachial plexus,a part of the nervous system connecting it to the upper body.
Susan Finger is an American engineer whose research involves engineering design and additive manufacturing for mechanical engineering,bioengineering,and building engineering. She is a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University,where she is also associate dean for the Integrative Design,Arts and Technology Network,and is affiliated with the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems and the School of Architecture.
Gregory Scott Chirikjian is an American roboticist and applied mathematician,primarily working in the field of kinematics,motion planning,computer vision,group theory applications in engineering,and the mechanics of macromolecules. He currently serves as the head and professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Delaware. He is known for his theoretical contributions to the kinematics of hyper-redundant robots and stochastic methods on Lie groups.
Richard H. Gallagher was an American civil and aerospace engineer,researcher and president of Clarkson University from 1988 to 1995.
Maria Chiu-Yee Yang is an American mechanical engineer with research fields in engineering design. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,she serves as the Associate Dean of the MIT School of Engineering,as the Kendall Rohsenow Professor,as director of the MIT D-Lab,and as associate director of the MIT Morningside Academy for Design.
Christine Qiong Wu is a retired Chinese and Canadian mechanical engineer whose research focused on the mechanics of moving vehicles,walking robots,and walking people. She is a lung cancer survivor,and in her retirement has worked as a lung cancer patient research advocate.
Gamal Refai-Ahmed is an Egyptian-Canadian-American engineer and technical executive known for his substantial contributions to thermal management,silicon architecture,and advanced packaging technologies. His work has had a significant impact on high-performance computing (HPC),artificial intelligence (AI),and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). Refai Ahmed currently resides in the United States.
