The following is a partial list of Purdue University faculty, including current, former, emeritus, and deceased faculty, and administrators at Purdue University.
Notable faculty
Agriculture
Ralph Merrill Caldwell – Plant breeder
Gebisa Ejeta – Professor of Agronomy, winner of World Food Prize
Philip E. Nelson – food scientist, winner of the World Food Prize
Engineering and technology
Rakesh Agrawal (Professor of Chemical Engineering) – a winner of National Medal of Technology Arden L. Bement Jr. (Professor of Nuclear Engineering) – Director of the National Science Foundation, former Director of NIST Lonnie D. Bentley – professor of computer and information technology Sabine Brunswicker – associate professor and director of Research Center for Open Digital Innovation (RCODI) Jean-Lou Chameau (Professor of Civil Engineering) – President of California Institute of Technology Clarence L. "Ben" Coates (Head of the School of Electrical Engineering) – computer scientist and engineer known for his work on waveform recognition devices, circuit gates and accumulators Supriyo Datta (Professor of Electrical Engineering) – researcher of nanoelectronics Rui de Figueiredo (Professor of Electrical Engineering) Charles Alton Ellis (Professor of Structural Engineering) – designer of the Golden Gate Bridge Reginald Fessenden (Professor of Electrical Engineering) – first wireless voice transmission W. Kent Fuchs (Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering) – Provost of Cornell University R. Edwin Garcia (Professor of Materials Engineering) - researcher and author Leslie Geddes (Showalter Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biomedical Engineering) – National Medal of Technology recipient Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr. (lecturer) – industrial engineer Lillian Gilbreth (Professor of Industrial Engineering) – efficiency expert, first female member of U.S. National Academy of Engineering F.W. Hutchinson – engineer and researcher of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning Kathleen Howell - astrodynamist known for deep space spacecraft mission design using halo orbits Frank P. Incropera (Professor of Mechanical Engineering) – ISI highly cited researcher on heat transfer Leah Jamieson (Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Dean of Engineering) – a winner of Gordon Prize Avinash Kak (Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering) – researcher of information processing Rangasami L. Kashyap (Professor of Electrical Engineering) – applied mathematician Linda Katehi (Professor of Electrical Engineering and Dean of Engineering) – Chancellor of University of California, Davis Daniel B. Luten (Instructor in architectural and sanitary engineering) – bridge builder who patented the Luten arch Robert E. Machol (Professor of Electrical Engineering) – early writer on systems engineering Shimon Y. Nof (Professor of Industrial Engineering) Nicholas A. Peppas (Professor of Chemical Engineering) – biochemist and engineer best known for his research in hydrogels for drug delivery R. Byron Pipes (Professor of Engineering) – former President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute A. Alan Pritsker (Professor of Industrial Engineering) – pioneer in simulation modeling, creator of GERT and SLAM programs Vladimir Shalaev (Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and of Biomedical Engineering) – researcher of metamaterials, transformation optics, nanophotonics and plasmonics R. Norris Shreve (Professor of Chemical Engineering) Shu Shien-Siu (Professor of Engineering Science) Mete Sozen (Professor of Structural Engineering) Rusi Taleyarkhan (Professor of Nuclear Engineering) Yeram S. Touloukian (Professor of Mechanical Engineering) – founder of the Thermophysical Properties Research Center Raymond Viskanta – ISI Highly Cited researcher in the field of heat transfer Steve Wereley (Professor of Mechanical Engineering) – co-inventor of micro-particle image velocimetry Jerry Woodall (Professor of Electrical Engineering) – inventor of first commercially viable red LEDs, a winner of National Medal of Technology Henry T. Yang (Professor of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering and Dean of Engineering) – Chancellor of the University of California, Santa Barbara