- Leonid Brezhnev (metallurgical) - former Premier of the Soviet Union
- Jimmy Carter (nuclear) - 39th President of the United States
- Leonardo da Vinci (mechanical/civil) - painter, sculptor, inventor
- Thomas Edison (electrical) - American inventor and movie pioneer
- Joe Flanagan (mechanical) - Senior Vice President, Global Operations, Nortel
- Herbert Hoover (mining) - 31st President of the United States
- Lee Iacocca (industrial) - former Chairman of Chrysler
- Boris Yeltsin (construction) - President of Russia
- Isabel Bayrakdarian (biomedical) - Internationally acclaimed soprano opera singer
- Armand Bombardier (mechanical) - inventor of the snowmobile
- Sir Sanford Fleming (civil) - inventor of Standard Time
- Gary Filmon (civil) - former Premier of Manitoba
- Marc Garneau (engineering physics) - Ūrst Canadian in space
- Mike Lazaridris (electrical) - President and Co-Chief Executive OfŪcer, Research in Motion
- Simon Sunatori (engineering physics) - inventor and entrepreneur. Created the MagneScribe (an auto-retractable pen) and the Magic Spicer (a self-sealing spice rack).
- Wallace Turnbull (mechanical) - inventor of the variable pitch propeller. One of Turnbull's early contributions to aviation was the construction in 1902 of the Ūrst wind tunnel in Canada, and one of the earliest in the world. At his home in Rothesay, New Brunswick, the Canadian engineer built a basic wind tunnel out of an old packing case, and used it to experiment with propellers and various types of engines.
