Famous Engineers & Innovators
This NASA astronaut and engineer became the first Black astronaut to live on the International Space Station for a long-duration mission.
Victor Glover
What Marvel superhero is an engineer who builds the Iron Man suit?
Tony Stark
What spacecraft first landed humans on the Moon?
Apollo 11
What semiconductor company became the first to reach a $3 trillion market value during the AI boom driven by its GPUs?
NVIDIA
What engineering field designs prosthetic limbs, artificial organs, and medical imaging devices?
Biomedical engineering
This inventor and electrical engineer helped develop alternating current power systems and has a unit named after him.
Nikola Tesla
In The Martian, what type of engineer is Mark Watney?
Mechanical Engineer (also Botanist) (astrobotany?)
What telescope launched in 2021 as the successor to Hubble?
James Webb Space Telescope
What company pioneered commercial jetliners like the 747?
Boeing
What material is stronger than steel and only one atom thick?
Graphene
This hidden Black female NASA engineer calculated orbital trajectories for Project Mercury and Apollo missions, later inspiring the film Hidden Figures.
Katherine Johnson
What TV show features Howard Wolowitz, an aerospace engineer?
The Big Bang Theory
What Mars rover carried the Ingenuity helicopter?
Perseverance
What company makes SolidWorks CAD software?
Dassault Systèmes
What technology allows objects to be built layer-by-layer from digital models?
3D printing
This civil engineer designed the Eiffel Tower.
Gustave Eiffel
What fictional engineer says, “I’m giving her all she’s got, Captain!”?
Scotty
What company first successfully landed and reused an orbital-class rocket booster?
SpaceX
What company makes SolidWorks CAD software?
Dassault Systèmes
What type of battery chemistry dominates electric vehicles today?
Lithium-ion
This computer scientist and engineer is known as the “father of the Internet.”
Vint Cerf
What video game franchise centers around engineers building portals with physics-based mechanics?
Portal
NASA calls the seven minutes during a Mars landing, when communication delays prevent human control, what dramatic phrase?
“Seven Minutes of Terror”
What company became famous for GPUs powering modern AI systems?
NVIDIA
What engineering breakthrough achieved a net-positive energy result in 2022?
Nuclear fusion