7 Best Engineers in India to Remember on Engineers Day

September 15 is World Engineers Day, a day devoted to recognizing the contributions of engineers. Engineers create and design complex systems, structures, and materials while taking into account practicality, regulation, safety, and cost considerations in order to meet functional objectives. Engineer word derived from the Latin words 'ingeniare' (meaning 'to create or generate') and 'ingenium' (meaning 'cleverness'). The Engineer's Day celebration honours the great work engineers do and inspires them to keep improving.

Here is the list of the 7 Most Celebrated Indian Engineers, hope these amazing personalities will motivate you to achieve your goals.

Engineer’s Day: Significance, Theme, Facts, Quotes and Wishes

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1. Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya
2. Satish Dhawan
3. APJ Abdul Kalam
4. E. Sreedharan
5. Nagavara Ramaroa Narayana Murthy
6. Verghese Kurien
7. Man Mohan Sharma

He began his formal education in Bangalore, earned a BSc from the University of Madras, and later completed a DCE (Diploma in Civil Engineering) at the University of Bombay, which is connected to the third-oldest engineering college in Asia, College of Engineering, Pune. In 1955, he was awarded the Bharat Ratan, India's highest distinction.

For his contributions to the common welfare, King George V honoured him as a Knight Commander of the British Indian Empire (KCIE). In honour of him, India, Sri Lanka, and Tanzania observe September 15 as Engineers' Day.

Visvesvaraya held the positions of Chief Engineer for the Krishna Raja Sagara Dam in the north-western suburb of Mysuru City, Laxmi Talav Dam close to Kolhapur in south-west Maharashtra, and one of the Chief Engineers for the flood protection system for the city of Hyderabad.

Satish Dhawan, who was raised in the United States after receiving his education in India, was born in Srinagar. Dhawan oversaw the successful and in-house development of the Indian space program and was one of the most renowned researchers on the subject of turbulence and boundary layers.

Satish Dhawan earned a Master of Science in aerospace engineering from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and a degree in aeronautical engineering from the California Institute of Technology. He then completed a double PhD in mathematics and aerospace engineering under the guidance of his advisor Hans W Liepmann in 1951.

Kalam worked as a scientist and science administrator for the following four decades, primarily at the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and the Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO). He was heavily involved in both India's efforts to develop military missiles and its civilian space program.

As a result of his efforts to advance the technology of ballistic missiles and launch vehicles, he was known as the Missile Man of India. A crucial organizational, technical, and political role was also played by him in India's 1998 Pokhran-II nuclear testing, the country's first since its initial nuclear test in 1974.

In 2002, Kalam was elected to become India's 11th president. He was widely regarded as the "People's President" and, after serving one term, went back to his civilian career in education, literature, and public service. Several significant honours, including the Bharat Ratan, India's highest civilian award, were bestowed upon him.

On July 27, 2015, Kalam, who was 83 years old, collapsed and passed away while giving a lecture at the Indian Institute of Management Shillong. At the funeral service held in his hometown of Rameswaram, which was attended by thousands, including national dignitaries, he was buried with full state honours.

Sreedharan is known as the Metro Man and has received numerous honours, including the Padma Shri from the Indian government in 2001, the Padma Vibhushan in 2008, the Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur from France in 2005, and the title of one of Asia's Heroes from Time magazine in 2003.

Sreedharan was appointed to the High-Level Advisory Group on Sustainable Transport (HLAG-ST) at United Nation by former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in 2015. He is a representative on the board of the Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine. He briefly participated in the Bharatiya Janata Party's national executive council, however, he later decided to end his political career in December 2021.

Shidlaghatta, Karnataka, was the birthplace and upbringing of Narayana Murthy. He earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the National Institute of Engineering at the University of Mysore and a master's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.

Prior to founding Infosys, Murthy had positions as a principal systems programmer at the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad and Patni Computer Systems in Pune (Maharashtra). He founded Infosys in 1981 and served as its CEO and chairman from that year till 2002. He resigned from the board in 2011 and was named chairman emeritus.

Murthy was ranked by Fortune magazine as one of the top 12 business leaders of all time. Because of his involvement in outsourcing in India, Time magazine and CNBC have referred to him as the "father of the Indian IT sector." Murthy has received the Padma Shri and Padma Vibhushan awards.

He enrolled in Loyola College at the age of 14, earned a physics degree in 1940, and a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the College of Engineering, Guindy, which at the time was a division of the University of Madras, in 1943.

Using a variety of "top-down" and "bottom-up" strategies, he invented the Anand model of dairy cooperatives, which was later replicated across the country. Under this system, no milk from a farmer was turned down, and consumers paid dairy farmers between 70 and 80 percent of the price for milk and milk products in cash. As the dairy owners, the dairy farmers were in charge of the marketing, sourcing, and processing of milk and milk products.

In India, cow milk was in short supply, therefore Amul invented a way to make milk powder using buffalo milk instead of cow. Kurien also worked to make India self-sufficient in edible oils and waged war on the "oil monarchs," who employed dishonest and violent means to maintain control over the oilseed market.

Engineer’s Day: Significance, Theme, Facts, Quotes and Wishes

Man Mohan Sharma graduated with a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering from UDCT in 1958 before going on to earn an MSc (Tech) in 1960. In 1964, he graduated from Cambridge University with a PhD in chemical engineering.

He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of the UK in 1990, making him the first engineer from India to do so. By the Indian government, he received the Padma Bhushan and the Padma Vibhushan. Additionally, he received the Royal Society's, Leverhulme Medal.