Duke Members of the National Academy of Engineering

Ana Barros

Professor Emeritus of Civil and Environmental Engineering

For contributions to understanding and prediction of precipitation dynamics and flood hazards in mountainous terrains

Vahid Tarokh

Rhodes Family Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering

For contributions to space-time coding and its applications to multi-antenna wireless communications

Blake S. Wilson, '74, '15

Adjunct Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Consulting Professor in Biomedical Engineering
Scholar in Residence

For engineering development of the cochlear implant that bestows hearing to individuals with profound deafness

William A. Hawkins III, '76

For leadership in biomedical engineering and translational medicine

Kristina Johnson

Dean of Engineering, 1999-2007

For development and deployment of liquid crystal on silicon display technologies, the basis for high speed optoelectronic 3D imaging

Jennifer West

Fitzpatrick Family University Professor of Engineering, 2012-2021

For developments in photothermal and theranostic therapies and bioabsorbed scaffolds for tissue regeneration

Ingrid Daubechies

James B. Duke Professor of Mathematics
Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering

For contributions to the mathematics and applications of wavelets

Mark R. Wiesner

James B. Duke Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering

For contributions to membrane technologies for water treatment and understanding of environmental behavior and risk of nanomaterials

M. Katherine Banks, '89

For contributions to phytoremediation of petroleum contamination, and for leadership in engineering education

Fred Lee, '72, '74

For contributions to high-frequency power conversion and systems integration technologies, education, industry alliances, and technology transfer

Frank L. Bowman, '66, '03

For leadership in the design of nuclear-reactor propulsion plants to support the power requirements of evolving combat systems

Robert L. Cook, '73

For building the motion picture industry's standard rendering tool

J. Turner Whitted, '69, '70

For contributions to computer graphics, notably recursive raytracing

Robert Calderbank

Charles S. Sydnor Professor of Computer Science
Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering

For leadership in communications research, from advances in algebraic coding theory to signal processing for wire-line and wireless modems

Edmund M. Clarke, Jr. '68

For contributions to the formal verification of hardware and software correctness

He died December 22, 2020 at age 75. A remembrance from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette »

Douglas M. Chapin, '62

For improvements in reliability and the prevention and mitigation of core damage accidents in nuclear reactors worldwide

Joseph A. Yura, '59

For research and educational contributions on bracing and stability for steel structures

Theodore C. Kennedy, '52

For leadership and innovation in advancing the nation's construction industry

He died May 8, 2012 at age 81. A memorial tribute by Earl H. Dowell »

Robert M. Koerner, '68

For design and use of geosynthetics in the constructed environment

He died on December 1, 2019, a day before his 86th birthday. A memoriam published by the Koerner Family Foundation »

Charles H. Townes, '37, '66

For development of the maser and laser

He died on January 27, 2015, at age 99. A remembrance from The Optical Society (OSA) »

Henry Petroski

Aleksandar S. Vesic Distinguished Professor Emeritus

For books, articles, and lectures on engineering and the profession that have reached and influenced a wide range of audiences

John H. Gibbons, '54, '97

For leadership in a broad spectrum of initiatives toward the development and communication of national policies for technological issues

He died July 17, 2015 at age 86. A memorial tribute published by the NAE »

Charles B. Duke, '59

For providing the theoretical foundations for developments in xerography

He died on June 28, 2019 at age 81. A remembrance in Physics Today »

Earl H. Dowell

William Holland Hall Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Dean of Engineering, 1983-1999

For contributions to aeroelasticity and structural dynamics, which provide continuing insights into the behavior of complex structural systems

Robert E. Fischell, '51

For pioneering contributions to satellite altitude control and for leadership and innovation in bringing aerospace technology to implantable biomedical devices

Walter L. Brown, '53

For the discovery of semiconductor surface channels crucial in field-effect transistors, and for contributions to ion beam uses in semiconductor diagnostics and processing

He died Oct. 29, 2017, at age 93. A remembrance in Physics Today »

Robert Plonsey

Pfizer-Pratt University Professor Emeritus

For the application of electromagnetic field theory to biology, and for distinguished leadership in the emerging profession of biomedical engineering

He died March 14, 2015, at age 90. A remembrance by Duke colleagues »

Lewis M. Branscomb, '45, '71

For leadership in advancing national and international science and technology