Top executive of many global corporations
Founder of company that has built 700+ water treatment plants in America
Only Purdue faculty member elected to both NAE and NAS
Recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross for heroism in World War II
The 13th president of Purdue University
Walmart’s EVP and CIO
Developer of 17M+ square feet of office space – and more
Assistant secretary of defense for acquisitions
Supplier of black granite for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Space Force’s brigadier general – overseeing 37,000 people
Leader of NASA Galileo Project’s Jupiter mission
‘The Shot Peening Maestro’
Purdue’s first female engineering graduate – in 1897
Co-founder of a company he sold for $2.1B
Co-inventor of Pfizer’s commercial drug Zmax
A pioneer of solar energy
Innovator whose inventions have improved the lives of millions worldwide
NVIDIA’s first salesperson – before it had any products
Founder of a company that creates cancer-killing radioisotopes
One of the first African American pioneering technologists in Silicon Valley
Developer of the ‘stabilized approach’ – the world standard for pilots
Purdue’s head football coach and head basketball coach – at the same time
Only woman to lead a U.S. nuclear weapons laboratory
One of Silicon Valley’s top innovators and entrepreneurs
Blind Boilermaker who was CEO of Goodwill Industries International Inc.
CTO for Hyundai’s Advanced Air Mobility venture
Prime minister of Jordan
First woman to fly to space in a commercial vehicle
A director of 80 technology companies
The U.S. Senate’s sergeant at arms
Inventor of the gamma-electric cell – and first African American PhD in nuclear engineering
Co-founder of the National Society of Black Engineers
Leader of Boeing’s 8,000+ engineers
Astronaut who orbited the Earth 161 times on Space Shuttle flights
Deputy director of DARPA’s Tactical Technology Office
Created the most frequently manufactured device in history
Worldwide Engineering and Manufacturing Leader at John Deere
Principal designer of AT&T’s first CMOS microprocessor
The brains behind the memristor
Chair and CEO of a Fortune 500 company
Chairman and CEO of a public company with 53,000 employees
One of the top venture capitalists in America
Creator of wearable sensing technology
Director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center
Inventor of the June Oven and many Apple innovations
Recipient of a National Medal of Technology and Innovation
Leader of Boeing 747 development
Pioneer in digital camera image processing
Purdue Engineering’s first female electrical engineering graduate
50th prime minister of Egypt
Google VP for worldwide operations
Youngest Purdue Engineering graduate – at 16
Inventor of the first electronic TV receiver and founder of Indiana’s first TV station
Inventor of biomedical devices used on hundreds of thousands of patients
Intel’s EVP and chief global operations officer
Executive director of the Air Force Research Laboratory – with $4.4B budget
A founder of the Society of Black Engineers at Purdue
Virgin Galactic’s VP of government affairs and research operations
Engineer, U.S. Army officer, medical doctor, judge, and skydiver
Builder of one of the largest African American-owned companies in America
Blue Origin’s VP of mission and flight operations
First woman to be CEO of two Fortune 500 companies
Director of Engineering at NASA’s Johnson Space Center
One of America’s top experts in stormwater management
Purdue’s first aviator – and an advisor to the Wright brothers
‘Father of the 737’
Director of global vehicle engineering at Ford Motor Company
Inventor of world’s ‘whitest paint’ – one of Time’s Best Inventions of 2023
Co-founder of Aruba Networks – which he sold for $3B
Inventor of the Costas loop and Costas array
‘The most influential person when it comes to US space flight’
EVP and CFO of Campbell Soup Company
First woman named a senior fellow at Rolls-Royce
Designer and developer of a mobile app acquired by LinkedIn
Chairman and CEO of America’s largest steel manufacturer
Inventor of technology critical to national and global security
Inspirational trailblazer and mentor for minority Engineers for more than 30 years
Engineering pioneer at Purdue and Harvard
NASA’s chief technologist – overseeing $1B+ in investments
Advisor to Italy on stabilizing the ‘leaning’ Tower of Pisa
Founder and CEO of Tellabs
U.S. commissioner of patents and trademarks
U.S. Department of Defense’s director of space policy
CEO of multiple businesses, small and large
Co-founder of a $10B public company
First female president of the American Society of Civil Engineers
Funder of the public launch of Netflix
CEO of Boeing’s Phantom Works
Holder of 88 U.S. patents – with inventions including ‘reflective traffic eyes’
One of the greatest all-around college athletes
Principal director of space
Inventor of the Banbury Mixer
Pioneer in developing the electronic organ and electronic piano
CEO of the United Space Alliance
‘Father of the Science of Seeing’
Leader of the world’s second-largest manufacturer of micro motors
President of Raytheon’s Space and Airborne Systems – with 13,000 employees
Launcher of 50 companies
Pioneer in landing on an aircraft carrier
Xerox record holder for U.S. patents
Academy Award winner
U.S. Air Force’s ‘Father of Lasers’
President and CEO of a nearly $5B global company
Chairman and CEO of two $40B companies
Group president of Kimberly-Clark North America
Chief engineer for the Hoover Dam
Inventor of the globally ubiquitous barcode
World record setter for flying an airplane at 126,200 feet above Earth
One of the ‘50 Most Important Women in Science’
Last to walk on the moon
Top executive for some of the world’s top brands
Creator of one of Time’s Best Inventions of 2023
Contributor to many of Silicon Valley’s biggest success stories
Winner of a Nobel Prize in Physics
Leader of Boeing’s 787-10 Dreamliner creation
‘Father of Radio Broadcasting’
First female chief scientist of the U.S. Air Force
Second only to Thomas Edison in U.S. patents
Deputy manager of America’s Space Shuttle program
Development lead for NASA’s hypersonic and transatmospheric flight
Pilot on the first flight of America’s B-1 bomber
Founder of one of America’s largest homebuilders
CEO and chairman of Texas Instruments
Vice commander of the U.S. Naval Forces Central Command
One of the most powerful people in the U.S. wireless industry
Key contributor to development of Segway PT and Tesla’s Model 3
Creator of collaborative software known as the Wiki
Second American in space
America’s ‘First Lady of Engineering’
Global pioneer in digital protection
Developer of bright-red LED brake lights
President of the Seattle Mariners for 28 years
Chairman and CEO of UPS
Creator of the world’s first artificial kidney
Manager of more than one-third of the world’s securities
Highest-ranking woman in the FBI
Structural design engineer for the Golden Gate Bridge
Leader of the team that invented Kevlar
Inventor of fiberglass
Designer of World War II fighter planes
Chairman of a world leader in digital display technology
America’s ‘Queen of the Air’
Originator of the word ‘electronics’
Apple’s VP of operations
CEO of the largest fast-food chain in the world
First to walk on the moon
Inventor of the soft-serve ice cream machine
Winner of 8 individual Olympic gold medals
