| Year | Award Recipient | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Jack S. Kilby, Illinois Alpha '47 | for invention of the integrated circuit |
| 1991 | Hans J.P. von Ohain, Ohio Eta '35 | for invention of the jet aircraft engine |
| 1995 | John R. Pierce, California Beta '33 | father of communications satellite technology |
| 1995 | Harold A. Rosen, Louisiana Beta '44 | father of communications satellite technology |
| 1997 | Vladimir Haensel, Illinois Gamma '35 | developer of platinum reforming process for cleaner burning gasoline |
| 2001 | Robert E. Kahn, New York Eta '60 | co-inventor of two protocols that enable computers to communicate with each other |
| 2001 | Leonard Kleinrock, Massachusetts Beta '62 | for creating basic principles of packet switching |
| 2002 | Robert S. Langer, New York Delta '70 | for extraordinary contributions to the bioengineering of revolutionary medical drug delivery systems |
| 2005 | Edward A. Miller, Maryland Beta '50 | for invention of reconnaissance satellite technology |
| 2005 | James W. Plummer, California Alpha '42 | for invention of reconnaissance satellite technology |
| 2008 | Rudolf Kalman, Massachusetts Beta '53 | for the development and dissmenination of the optimal digital technique (known as the Kalman Filter) that is pervasively used to control a vast array of consumer, health, commercial, and defense products |
| 2011 | Frances H. Arnold, New Jersey Delta '79 | for directed evolution, a method used worldwide for engineering novel enzymes and biocatalytic processes for pharmaceutical and chemical products |
| 2012 | George H. Heilmeier, Pennsylvania Delta '58 | for the discovery of the dynamic scattering mode (DSM) and contributions to the engineering development of the Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) |
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