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*
1992: Richard Tapia, Computational and Applied Mathematics
1998: David Hellums, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering*
2002: Moshe Vardi, Computer Science
2005: Pol Spanos, Mechanical Engineering
2006: Menachem Elimelech, Civil and Environmental Engineering
2008: Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Bioengineering
2011: Abbas Firoozabadi, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Materials Science and Nanoengineering and Physics and Astronomy
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
2022: Richard Baraniuk, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science
2023: Karen Lozano, Materials and Mechanical Engineering
2024: James Tour, Materials and Chemical Engineering
2025: Lydia Kavraki, Computer Science
*Asterisk denotes members who are deceased.
Italics denote members who were elected before joining Rice