Election to National Academy of Engineering (NAE) membership is one of the highest professional honors accorded an engineer. Members have distinguished themselves in business and academic management, in technical positions, as university faculty, and as leaders in government and private engineering organizations.
Nominations are restricted to members
National Academy of Engineering
1979: Anetsis Veletsos, Civil and Environmental Engineering
1989: Ronald Nordgren, Civil and Environmental Engineering
1991: George Hirasaki, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
1992: Richard Tapia, Computational and Applied Mathematics
1997: Robert Bixby, Computational and Applied Mathematics
1998: David Hellums, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
2002: Moshe Vardi, Computer Science
2005: Pol Spanos, Mechanical Engineering
2008: Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Bioengineering
2012: Antonios Mikos, Bioengineering
2014: Naomi Halas, Materials Engineering
2018: Pedro Alvarez, Civil and Environmental Engineering
2020: Gene Frantz, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Reginald DesRoches, Civil and Environmental Engineering
2021: Richard Baraniuk, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science
2024: James Tour, Chemistry, Materials Science and Engineering