List of Eta Kappa Nu members. Eta Kappa Nu is the international honor society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). It was established in 1904 at the University of Illinois. Following is a list of Eta Kappa Nu members. 

Eminent Members are identified with an asterisk. The Eminent Member category is reserved for "those individuals, who by their technical attainments and contributions to society, have shown themselves to be outstanding leaders in an IEEE-designed field of interest, and great benefactors to society."

Academia

President 

 Steven Sample* – president of the University of Southern California and the University of Buffalo
 William E. Wickenden – president of Case School of Applied Science, now Case Western Reserve University and Assistant Vice President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company

Dean 

 Joseph Bordogna* – Director of The Moore School of Electrical Engineering, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at University of Pennsylvania, deputy director and chief operating officer National Science Foundation
 William Littell Everitt – professor, dean, and head of department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
 Moshe Kam – professor and dean of the Newark College of Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology

Professor 
 Massoud Amin – professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota
 Michael Athans – control theorist and professor emeritus in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 James R. Biard – professor of electrical engineering at Texas A&M University 
 Richard Baraniuk – professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University and the founder and director of OpenStax
 David K. Cheng – professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering of Syracuse University 
 Rory A. Cooper – professor and chair of the Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology and professor of bioengineering, physical medicine and rehabilitation, and orthopedic surgery at the University of Pittsburgh 
 Thomas H. Cormen – emeritus professor of computer science and former chairman of the Dartmouth College Department of Computer Science 
 Charles Dalziel – professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at the University of California, Berkeley 
 Ashutosh Dutta – senior scientist at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab and adjunct faculty at Johns Hopkins University 
 Bruce Eisenstein – professor, Interim Dean, and Vice Dean of the College of Engineering at Drexel University 
 Leila De Floriani – computer scientist and a professor at the University of Maryland at College Park and University of Genova 
 Jay Wright Forrester – computer engineer, management theorist, and professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
 Susan L. Graham* – professor at the University of California, Berkeley 
 Violet B. Haas – applied mathematician and professor of electrical engineering at Purdue University College of Engineering
 Ernest Lenard Hall – professor emeritus of mechanical engineering and computer science in the School of Dynamic Systems in the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Cincinnati
 Jeffrey Heer - professor at the University of Washington
 Nadia Heninger - professor at the University of California, San Diego
 Frederick Vinton Hunt – professor at Harvard University who worked in the field of acoustic engineering
 J. David Irwin – Earle C. Williams Eminent Scholar and former Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Head at Auburn University
 Leah H. Jamieson* – professor at Purdue University
 Mona Jarrahi – professor at the University of California, Los Angeles
 Vladimir Karapetoff – professor at Cornell University
 Leonard Kleinrock* – professor at University of California, Los Angeles and recipient of the National Medal of Science
 James Landay - professor at Stanford
 Wilbur R. LePage – professor and department chair of electrical and computer engineering at Syracuse University
 Azad M. Madni* – professor of astronautics, aerospace and mechanical engineering at the University of Southern California and recipient of the 2023 Gordon Prize
 James D. Meindl* – professor of microelectronics at the Georgia Institute of Technology
 Mahta Moghaddam – professor of electrical engineering at the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering
 Vincent Poor* – professor at Princeton University
 Eberhardt Rechtin* – director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency and professor at the University of Southern California 
 Amit Sahai - professor at UCLA
 Floyd Van Nest Schultz – professor of electrical engineering at the University of Tennessee and Purdue University,
 Mischa Schwartz – professor emeritus of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University
 Mohammad Shahidehpour – chairman in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Illinois Institute of Technology
 Otto J. M. Smith – professor at University of California, Berkeley
 Royal Wasson Sorensen* – inventor of the vacuum switch, professor of electrical engineering and head of the electrical engineering department at California Institute of Technology
 Harold Webb – physicist and a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
 Richard B. Wells* – professor emeritus at University of Idaho
 Wen-mei Hwu – professor in electrical and computer engineering in the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
 Everard Mott Williams – head of Carnegie Mellon University Department of Electrical Engineering
 Jerry Woodall* – professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Davis, known for his work on LEDs and semiconductors 
 William A. Wulf* – professor at the University of Virginia
 Ronald R. Yager – director of the Machine Intelligence Institute and professor of information systems at Iona College
 John Zaborszky – professor in the Department of systems science and mathematics, Washington University in St. Louis
 Charles Zukowski – professor and former chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University

Aerospace 

 Gregory Chamitoff – NASA astronaut
 Owen K. Garriott* – NASA astronaut
José M. Hernández – NASA astronaut
 William B. Lenoir – electrical engineer and NASA astronaut
 Sandra Magnus – NASA astronaut and executive director of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics 
 Carl J. Meade – NASA astronaut
 Judith Resnik – NASA astronaut who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster
 Stanley F. Schmidt – an aerospace engineer who pioneered the Schmidt-Kalman filter used in air and space navigation, most notably in Apollo spacecraft
 Ronald M. Sega – NASA astronaut
 David Wolf – NASA astronaut

Business and industry 

 Robert J. Abernethy – founder and president of American Standard Development Company and Self Storage Management Company
 Norman R. Augustine* – former chairman and CEO of the Lockheed Martin Corporation, chairman of the Review of United States Human Space Flight Plans Committee
 Henry Bachman* – former vice-president of BAE Systems and 1987 president of IEEE
 Walter Ransom Gail Baker – vice president of General Electric and director of engineering for the Radio Manufacturers Association 
 Constantine A. Balanis – professor at Arizona State University 
 Mary Barra – CEO of General Motors 
 Gordon Bell* – engineer and former manager at Digital Equipment Corporation 
 Amar Bose* – inventor, founder, and former chairman of Bose
 Dennis C. Bottorff – chairman and CEO of the First American Corporation, co-founder of Council Capital, and co-founder and the chairman of CapStar Bank.
 Francis deSouza – CEO and president of Illumina
 George H. Heilmeier* – vice president and Chief Technical Officer at Texas Instruments, Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, engineer at RCA Laboratories and United States Department of Defense, pioneering contributor to liquid crystal displays
 Lester Hogan* – CEO and chairman of Fairchild Camera & Instrument, pioneer in microwave and semiconductor technology
 Edwin J. Houston – co-founder of Thomson-Houston Electric Company, author, novelist, and college professor
 Irwin M. Jacobs* – co-founder of Qualcomm
 Paul Jacobs – former executive chairman of Qualcomm
 Ray O. Johnson – chief executive officer of Technology Innovation Institute and chief technology officer of Lockheed Martin 
 Mervin Kelly – director of research, president, and chairman of the board of directors of Bell Labs
 Bernard J. Lechner – vice president, RCA Laboratories
 Seah Moon Ming – chairman of SMRT Corporation Ltd
 Ulrich L. Rohde – partner of Rohde & Schwarz and college professor
 Alexander N. Rossolimo – corporate financial analyst and chairman of the Center for Security and Social Progress
 Henry Samueli – founder and CEO of Broadcom
 Walter Jeremiah Sanders* – co-founder and former CEO of Advanced Micro Devices 
 Elihu Thomson – co-founder of Thomson-Houston Electric Company 
 Gary L. Tooker – CEO of Motorola 
 Andrew Viterbi* – co-founder of Qualcomm Inc. and recipient of the National Medal of Science

Computer science 

 Sabeer Bhatia – founder of Hotmail
 Stephen Brobst – chief technology officer for Teradata and member of the United States President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
 Vint Cerf* – Internet pioneer, one of "the fathers of the Internet"
 David Filo – founder of Yahoo!
 George H. Goble – staff member at the Purdue University Engineering Computer Network and a 1996 Ig Nobel Prize winner
 Marcian Hoff* – one of the inventors of the microprocessor
 Ray Kurzweil* – inventor, author, and Google engineer
 Gordon E. Moore* – co-founder and former chairman of Intel
 Larry Page – founder and former CEO of Google
 Vincenzo Piuri – scientist who work in the field of information processing, with specific focus on artificial intelligence, computational intelligence, signal/image processing, biometrics, and fault-tolerant architectures
 Eric Schmidt – former executive chairman of Google
 W. David Sincoskie – installed the first Ethernet local area network at Bellcore, and helped invent voice over IP technology
 Wayne Stevens – chief architect of application development methodology for IBM's consulting group
 Steve Wallach – co-founder of Convex Computer
 Steve Wozniak* – co-founder of Apple Inc.

Electrical engineering 

 Walter R. G. Baker* – radio and television engineer and executive
 Nathan Cohn – electrical engineer known for his work in the development of automatic control techniques for interconnected electric power systems 
 Martin Cooper* – pioneer in the wireless communications industry, especially in radio spectrum management 
 Tomas Dy-Liacco – electrical engineer, researcher, and developer often referred to as the father of modern energy control centers
 Jewell James Ebers – electrical engineer at Bell Labs, remembered for the mathematical model of the bipolar junction transistor 
 Richard D. Gitlin – electrical engineer, inventor, and research executive at Bell Labs 
 Bernard M. Gordon* – "the father of high-speed analog-to-digital conversion"
 Grace Hopper* – inventor of first compiler tools and Navy Flag Officer
 Mervin J. Kelly* – president of Bell Laboratories 
 Jack Kilby* – inventor and engineer at Texas Instruments, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics and the National Medal of Science 
 Tsuneo Nakahara* – engineer at Sumitomo Electric 
 Thomas F. Quatieri – electrical engineer and senior technical staff member at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory 
 Daniel R. von Recklinghausen – chief research engineer at MIT, engineer with Fairchild Semiconductor 
 Jesse Russell – inventor who pioneered the field of digital cellular communication 
 E. Fred Schubert – electrical engineer and researcher at Bell Laboratories and founding director of the Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center 
 Louis Smullin – electrical engineer with the MIT Radiation Laboratory who was instrumental in creating the Lincoln Laboratory 
 Ernst Weber – a pioneer in microwave technologies, founder of the Weber Research Institute, first president of the IEEE, and the founder of the National Academy of Engineering

Entertainment 

 John M. Eargle – Academy Award and Grammy Award winning audio engineer and musician

Government 

 Joseph Bordogna* – deputy director and chief operating officer National Science Foundation; director of The Moore School of Electrical Engineering, and dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at University of Pennsylvania 
 Stephen Brobst – member of the United States President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and chief technology officer for Teradata 
 Gordon R. England – U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense and twice served as the U.S. Secretary of the Navy 
 George H. Heilmeier* – director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, vice president and Chief Technical Officer at Texas Instruments; engineer at RCA Laboratories and United States Department of Defense, pioneering contributor to liquid crystal displays
 John Ofori-Tenkorang – director general of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust in Ghana
 Melvin M. Weiner – founder-chairman of the Motor Vehicle Safety Group, contributing to the establishment of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Literature 

 Edwin J. Houston – author, novelist, college professor, and co-founder of Thomson-Houston Electric Company

Science and medicine 

 Michael L. Brodman – gynecologist and obstetrician, professor and chairman of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science at Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai Health System
 William E. Moerner – chemical physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2014
 Edward Weston – chemist and engineer noted for his achievements in electroplating and his development of the electrochemical cell

Sports 

 David Clark – rower who won the silver medal with the U.S. team in the men's coxless four at the 1984 Summer Olympics

References 

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