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Vladana Likar-Smiljanić ( Serbian Cyrillic: Владана Ликар-Смиљанић; born 18 July 1943 in Belgrade) is a Serbian engineer, educator and book illustrator and writer. In the former Yugoslavia, Likar-Smiljanić illustrated children's books, of which hundreds of thousands of copies were sold. Her books were sold also in Spain ...
Charles Proteus Steinmetz (born Karl August Rudolph Steinmetz; April 9, 1865 – October 26, 1923) was an American mathematician and electrical engineer and professor at Union College. He fostered the development of alternating current that made possible the expansion of the electric power industry in the United States, formulating mathematical ...
Occupation (s) Engineer and Inventor. Employer. Walt Disney Imagineering. Lanny Smoot (born December 13, 1955 [ 1]) is an American electrical engineer, inventor, scientist, and theatrical technology creator. With over 100 patents, he is Disney's most prolific inventor [ 2] and one of the most prolific Black inventors in American history. [ 3]
Swiss electrical engineer working in radio-wave research. First female STEM professor in Switzerland. Edward E. Hammer: Spiral compact fluorescent lamp: Naomi Halas: Nanophotonics Roger F. Harrington: Computational electromagnetics, method of moments (MoM) Ralph Hartley: Electronics Caroline Haslett: Founder of The Woman Engineer: Oliver Heaviside
Edith Clarke (February 10, 1883 – October 29, 1959) was an American electrical engineer. She was the first woman to be professionally employed as an electrical engineer in the United States, [1] and the first female professor of electrical engineering in the country. [2] She was the first woman to deliver a paper at the American Institute of ...
Lynn Ann Conway (January 2, 1938 – June 9, 2024) was an American computer scientist, electrical engineer, and transgender activist.. Conway worked at IBM in the 1960s and invented generalized dynamic instruction handling, a key advance used in out-of-order execution, used by most modern computer processors to improve performance.
Jesse Eugene Russell (born April 26, 1948) is an American inventor. He was trained as an electrical engineer at Tennessee State University and Stanford University, and worked in the field of wireless communication for over 20 years. He holds patents and continues to invent and innovate in the emerging area of next generation broadband wireless ...
Electrical engineering – field of engineering that generally deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century after commercialization of the electric telegraph and electrical power supply. It now covers a range of subtopics ...