Science and Engineering
- Thomas Hall (1893) - Inventor of the four-valve steam engine (patents #584,023, #979,002, #1,013,549, #1,050,213)
- John B. MacHarg (1893) - Inventor of lantern slide mounting apparatus sold to Eastman Kodak (patents #2,153,149, #2,256,399)
- Eads Johnson (1899) - Marine engineer, naval architect, and diesel power pioneer with numerous patents
- John V. Miller (1899) - Brother-in-law and personal aide of Thomas Edison; member of Yale senior society Wolf's Head
- Alan MacDonald (1905) - Designed the first American concrete ship in 1917-1918
- Ralph E. Chapman (1911) - Inventor of underwater welding torch (patents #1,286,227, #1,324,337, #1,687,081)
- Oswald C. Brewster (1918) - Manhattan Project engineer
- Robley C. Williams (1931) - First President of the Biophysical Society (1958–1960); developed process for coating mirrors by evaporation in a vacuum
- Wilbur R. LePage (1933) - Electrical engineering pioneer and educator; helped develop the proximity fuze in World War II
- LaRoy B. Thompson (1942) - Physically assembled the first atomic bomb dropped at Bikini Island in 1946 and made practice run in B-29 bomber
- Robert L. Trimpi (1948) - Noted NASA Langley Research Center engineer on Project Mercury, Viking program, Apollo program, and Space Shuttle program; inventor of the wind tunnel capable of simulating atmospheric re-entry conditions for spacecraft
- Thomas J. Kelly (1951) - Chief engineer of the Apollo Lunar Module; NASA Director of Space Programs (1972–1976)
- Peter T. Schurman (1952) - Holder of more than 50 patents in plastics machinery and packaging; inventor of the double-wall carrying case; founder of the Plastic Forming Co.; grandson of Jacob Gould Schurman, Cornell University's third president and U.S. Ambassador to China and Germany
- Donald P. Greenberg (1955) - Visual graphics pioneer; founding director of the National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center for Computer Graphics and Scientific Visualization; Professor of Computer Graphics at Cornell University; recipient of Steven Anson Coons Award
- Tyrone D. Taborn (1981) - CEO of Career Communications Group; editor-in-Chief and publisher of US Black Engineer & Information Technology; named one of the "50 Most Important African-Americans in Technology" (2002); founder of Black Family Technology Week, La Familia Technology Awareness Week, and the Native American Technology Awareness Project
- Regina Clewlow (2001) - Founder and Executive Director of Engineers for a Sustainable World
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