List of mechanical engineers

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This is a list of mechanical engineers, people who were trained in or practiced mechanical engineering, nuclear engineering, etc..

See also List of engineers for links to other engineering professions.

Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

[edit] A

• Hamidreza Alemohammad

long name

[edit] B

• Samuel Bentham - naval machinery
• Karl Benz - automobiles
• Henry Bessemer - steel
• Pierre Bezier - mechanical
• Joseph Bombardier - snowmobile
• Abraham Louis Breguet - watchmaking
• Louis Charles Breguet - aviation
• Isambard Kingdom Brunel

[edit] C

• Alexander Calder - mobiles
• Michael Carroll, EIT - RTKL
• Jimmy Carter
• Adrian Chernoff - automobiles and consumer products: GM Autonomy, GM Hy-wire, Rubber Bandits
• Zerah Colburn (locomotive designer) Locomotive Engineer
• Jacques-Yves Cousteau - underwater apparatus
• David Crick - royal doulton enthusiast

[edit] D

• George W. DeGroft III - RTKL
• Rudolf Diesel - inventor of the Diesel engine
• Keith Duckworth - designer of the Cosworth DFV
• Mohammad Durali

[edit] E

• John Ericsson - Inventor of Ship Propeller[[1]]
• Richard M. Ertel - RTKL [[2]]

[edit] F

• Woodie Flowers
• Henry Ford - automobiles
• Yuan-Cheng Fung - Biomechanics

[edit] G

• Emile Gagnan - underwater apparatus
• Henry Laurence Gantt - Gantt chart
• John Josiah Guest - iron production
• Roy Lloyd Griffith - tanning beds/skin rejuvenation devices
• Jaime Garcia - MCIP Oil Control Valve Delphi

[edit] H

• Beulah Louise Henry - nicknamed lady Edison
• Hero of Alexandria - ancient
• Alfred Hitchcock - filmmaker
• August Horch - automobiles

[edit] I

[edit] J

• Joseph Jaggers - won lavishly at Monte Carlo
• James Lathrop Meriam - coastguard come textbook author

[edit] K

• Alan Kulwicki - 1992 NASCAR Champion

[edit] L

• Frederick Lanchester - automobiles and aviation
• Leonardo Da Vinci - perhaps the greatest engineer

[edit] M

• Elijah McCoy
• Andrew Meikle - threshing machine and windmill sails
• James Morgan - Applied Materials CEO
• Thomas Midgley, Jr. - He developed tetra-ethyl lead (TEL) and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)

[edit] N

• Frederick Nelson- Professor at Tufts University
• Bill Nye

Dr Ramzi Kaiache Professor

[edit] O

• George Pavlou - automotive journalist, technical editor
• Ferdinand Porsche - automobile

• Jerold Herbert Parrott - Commercial and Industrial HVAC, Fire Protection and Plumbing Engineer (all mechanical disciplines) Parrott Engineering; Palm beach County, Florida

[edit] R

• William John Macquorn Rankine - Steam engine, fatigue
• Richard Roberts- machine tool and machinery maker.
• Alfred H. Rzeppa - constant-velocity joint

[edit] S

• Igor Sikorsky - Inventor of the single-rotor Helicopter
• George Stephenson - Railway Engineer and Founder of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
• Robert Stephenson - Railway Engineer
• John H. Sununu - Presidential Chief of Staff
• Dr. Victor Szebehely- Aerospace Engineering & Celestial Mechanics
• Sunil Nagtilak - Automobile Engineering

[edit] T

Frederick Winslow Taylor - Scientific management

• Stephen Timoshenko (1878–1972), Ukrainian engineer and reputed father of modern engineering mechanics a major branch of Mechanical Engineering.
• David C. Tootle, PE - aka Data Center Dave - RTKL

[edit] U

[edit] V

• Boris Vian - writer

[edit] W

• Eli Whitney - cotton gin, interchangeable parts
• Joseph Whitworth - mechanical
• Ludwig Wittgenstein - aerospace engineer turned philosopher
• James Watt - Scottish inventor of the Watt steam engine that fundamentaly changed the Industrial Revolution and considered by many in the discipline as the father of mechanical engineering.

[edit] X

[edit] Y

[edit] Z

[zahid]: power station engineer

[edit] Reference