List of systems engineers

A

• James S. Albus, American engineer, founder of NIST Intelligent Systems Division
• Genrich Altshuller, Russian engineer; inventor of TRIZ, Theory of Inventive Problem Solving
• Arnaldo Maria Angelini, Italian engineer; Professor of Electrotechnics at the Sapienza University of Rome
• Fred Ascani, American Major General, "father of systems engineering at Wright Field"

B

• Dave Bennett
• Benjamin Blanchard, Virginia Polytechnic Institute; SE educator; author of texts on systems engineering and related disciplines
• Wernher von Braun, chief architect of the Saturn V launch vehicle

C

• Peter Checkland, British management scientist and emeritus professor of Systems at Lancaster University; developer of soft systems methodology, a methodology based on a way of systems thinking
• Boris Chertok, Rocket Space Corporation "Energy", Moscow, Russia; 2004 Simon Ramo Medal winner for significant contributions to systems engineering and technical leadership of control systems design for the orbiting space station Mir
• Harold Chestnut, American electrical engineer and systems engineer; first president of the International Federation of Automatic Control
• John R. Clymer, researcher, practitioner, and teacher in the field of systems engineering; INCOSE Fellow; expert in conceiving, engineering, and demonstrating computeraided design tools for context-sensitive, self-adaptive systems
• Mary (Missy) Cummings, Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; one of the first female fighter pilots in the U.S. Navy

F

• Wolt Fabrycky, Virginia Polytechnic Institute; SE educator; author of texts on systems engineering and related disciplines
• Irmgard Flügge-Lotz, Stanford University, developed discontinuous automatic control and laid the foundation for automatic on-off aircraft control in jets
• Kevin Forsberg
• Jacque Fresco, project director at The Venus Project

G

• Tom Gilb, American systems engineer; inventor of Planguage and Evolutionary Project Management
• Harry H. Goode, American computer engineer and systems engineer; professor at University of Michigan; until his death he was president of the National Joint Computer Committee (NJCC); with Robert Engel Machol, he wrote the famous System Engineering Handbook
• William Gosling, British electrical engineer, Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Bath, and pioneer of system design in electrical engineering

H

• Arthur David Hall III, American electrical engineer; worked at Bell Labs; one of the founders of the IEEE; was among the first general systems theorists; wrote A Methodology of Systems Engineering from 1962
• David Heebner, consultant; recipient of 2003 Simon Ramo Medal for leadership in introducing towed line array sonar systems for long range detection of submarines
• Derek Hitchins, British systems engineer; professor in engineering management, in command & control and in systems science at the Cranfield University, Bedfordshire, England
• Peggy Hodges OBE FRAeS FIMA, British engineer who worked on guided missile technology at GEC Marconi.

I

• Junichi Iijima, Japanese computer scientist; professor of the Department of Industrial Management and Engineering at the Tokyo Institute of Technology

J

• Gwilym Jenkins, British statistician and systems engineer; professor of Systems Engineering at Lancaster University; best known for the Box–Jenkins methodology for fitting time series models
• Clarence "Kelly" Johnson, American aircraft engineer and aeronautical innovator; worked for Lockheed for more than four decades, playing a leading role in the design of over 40 aircraft, and acquiring a reputation as one of the most talented and prolific aircraft design engineers of the 20th century

K

• Rudolf Emil Kálmán, American-Hungarian mathematical system theorist; an electrical engineer by training
• George Klir, Czech-American computer scientist and professor of systems sciences at the Center for Intelligent Systems at the Binghamton University in New York; author of several texts on systems, including Architecture of Systems Problem Solving
• Sergei Pavlovich Korolev, Russian rocket and space systems designer beating the Americans during the Cold War times "space race" by Sputnik and putting the first man in space ; his rocket and capsule designs are in principle still in use for supplying the International Space Station
• Kurt Kosanke, German engineer, retired IBM manager, director of the AMICE Consortium and consultant; known for his work in the field of enterprise engineering, enterprise integration and CIMOSA
• Kitaw Ejigu, Ethiopian American scientist who worked for NASA as Chief of Spacecraft and Satellite Systems; engineer known for his work on design of space shuttles and spacecraft and made a great influence in NASA

L

• Robert J. Lano, systems engineer at TRW corporation; originator of the N² chart
• Donald J. Leonard, American engineer, AT&T executive, received the 1996 IEEE Simon Ramo Medal
• Donald H. Liles, American systems engineer; Emeritus Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington

M

• Robert Engel Machol, early American systems engineer
• Richard J. Mayer, American engineer, developer of IDEF family of modeling languages
• John S. Mayo, American engineer; seventh president of Bell Labs
• Harold Mooz, INCOSE systems engineering pioneer ; author of Visualizing Project Management and Communicating Project Management ; contributing author to The Wiley Guide to Managing Projects ; recipient of the CIA Seal Medallion
• Philip M'Pherson, British systems engineer; founder of the Department of Systems Science at City University
• George Mueller, American engineer; associate administrator of NASA during Apollo Program; pioneer of the "all-up" testing concept

N

• James G. Nell, American engineer; principal investigator of the Manufacturing Enterprise Integration Project at the National Institute of Standards and Technology ; known for his work on enterprise integration

O

• Hermann Oberth, Romanian/German space pioneer; derived basic rocket equations and described in principle all features of rockets and space stations still valid today; author of Die Rakete zu den Planetenraeumen and Wege zur Raumschiffahrt ; mentor of Wernher von Braun
• Tuncer Őren, Turkish/Canadian systems engineer; professor emeritus of Computer Science at the School of Information Technology and Engineering of the University of Ottawa

P

• Bradford Parkinson, American professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Stanford University; recipient of the Simon Ramo Medal for leading the concept development of GPS
• Samuel C. Phillips, USAF general; Director of NASA's Apollo Manned Lunar Landing Program

R

• Simon Ramo, American physicist, engineer, and business leader; led development of microwave and missile technology; sometimes known as the "father of the ICBM"
• Eberhardt Rechtin, American systems engineer and respected authority in aerospace systems and systems architecture
• Allen B. Rosenstein, American systems engineer and Professor of Systems Engineering at the University of California at Los Angeles

S

• Andrew P. Sage, School of Information Technology and Engineering, George Mason University; recipient of the 2000 Simon Ramo Medal for outstanding contributions to the field of systems engineering; series editor of a textbook series on systems engineering and management for John Wiley & Son
• Robert Seamans, NASA Deputy Administrator and MIT professor
• Joseph Francis Shea, systems engineer on the Titan I ballistic missile; head of the Apollo Spacecraft Program Office
• Nikolai Sheremetevsky, Advisor to Director, All Russia Institute for Electromechanics; recipient of the 2004 Simon Ramo Medal for significant contributions to systems engineering and technical leadership of control systems design for the orbiting space station Mir
• Neil Siegel, Vice-President and Chief Engineer of the Northrop Grumman Corporation; lead systems engineer for many US Army systems; member of the US National Academy of Engineering; Fellow of the IEEE; recipient of the Simon Ramo Medal in 2011 for his work on the US Army's digital battlefield system
• William W. Simmons, American physicist and development of electro-optical devices
• Edward Sussengeth, American engineer, developer of APL programming language and multiple IBM computer systems
• Alistair Sutcliffe, British engineer; professor at University of Manchester

T

• Arnold Tustin, British engineer; Professor of Engineering at the University of Birmingham and at Imperial College London; made important contributions to the development of control engineering and its application to electrical machines

W

• John N. Warfield, American electrical engineering and systems scientist; member of the Academic Committee of the International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics
• Kevin Warwick, Deputy Vice-Chancellor at Coventry University; previously Professor of Cybernetics at the University of Reading; best known for his implant research linking humans and technology as a system
• Brian Wilson, British systems scientist and honorary professor at Cardiff University; known for his development of soft systems methodology and enterprise modelling
• A. Wayne Wymore, American mathematician and systems engineer; founder and first Chairman of Systems and Industrial Engineering Department at the University of Arizona; one of the first Fellows of International Council on Systems Engineering