The Royal Academy of Engineering is the UK national academy in the field of engineering. Its purpose is to bring together the most successful and talented engineers to advance and promote excellence in engineering.^[1][2]

Each year about 50 new fellows are admitted to the academy, after evaluation by the membership committee and election by existing fellows. Engineers who have achieved international distinction in their field, and who are not British citizens or residents, are elected and named as International Fellow and are entitled to use FREng after their names.^[1]

Recently elected international fellows are shown below.

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  John Hennessy FREng, ex-President of Stanford University; Pioneer of RISC
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  Steven Chu FREng, Nobel Prize in Physics, Stanford University
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  Frances Arnold FREng, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Caltech
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  John Cioffi FREng,
  Pioneer of ADSL & VDSL, Stanford University
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  Robert Langer FREng, Biotech Pioneer, M.I.T.
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  William Baker FREng, Engineering the Burj Khalifa
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  Andrew Viterbi FREng, Creator of Viterbi algorithm, Qualcomm
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  Shuji Nakamura FREng Nobel Prize in Physics, UCSB

More information Year, Name ...

Year	Name	Organization	Country
2023[3][4]	Nadine Aubry Pavel Cheben Dennis Ganendra Georgios Giannakis Marlene Kanga Wolfgang Marquardt Richard Miller Viola Vogel	National Academy of Engineering National Research Council MINCONSULT SDN BHD University of Minnesota iOmniscient Pty Ltd Forschungszentrum Jülich Olin College of Engineering ETH Zürich	USA Canada Malaysia USA Australia Germany USA Switzerland
2022[5]	Grazia Vittadini Kinam Kim Chennupati Jagadish Andrea Goldsmith Rebecca Enonchong Guangwen Xu Mallikarjun Tatipamula	Rolls-Royce Samsung Electronics Australian National University Princeton University Appstech Shenyang University of Chemical Technology Ericsson USA	Italy Korea Australia USA USA China USA
2021[6]	Cato T. Laurencin Alfonso Hing Wan Ngan Nabeel Agha Riza Aleida Rios	University of Connecticut University of Hong Kong University College Cork BP	USA Hong Kong Ireland USA
2020[7]	Pan Hui Asad M. Madni Kunasingham Sittampalam	University of Helsinki University of California, Los Angeles HSS Engineers Berhad	Finland USA Malaysia
2019[8]	Shuji Nakamura Jeom Kee Paik Chai Keong Toh Jianping Wu	U C Santa Barbara University College London Gerson Lehrman Group Tsinghua University	USA Korea Singapore China
2018[9]	Frances Arnold Harry Shum Zhenya Liu Ji Zhou	California Institute of Technology Microsoft State Grid Corporation of China Chinese Academy of Engineering	USA USA China China
2017[10]	John L. Hennessy[11] Chad Holliday	Stanford University Royal Dutch Shell plc	USA USA
2016[12]	Charbel Farhat Dinesh Verma	Stanford University IBM	USA USA
2015[13]	Manfred Morari Robert Care Scott W. Sloan	ETH Zurich Arup Australasia University of Newcastle, Australia	USA Australia Australia
2014[14]	William F. Baker Thomas O'Rourke Rick Rashid Andrew Viterbi Tieniu Tan Jianyun Zhang Teck Seng Low	Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Cornell University Microsoft Corporation University of Southern California Chinese Academy of Sciences Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute National Research Foundation	USA USA USA USA China China Singapore
2013[15]	Khalid A. Al-Falih Hans-Jörg Bullinger Ursula Burns Carlos Ghosn Patrick Prendergast	Saudi Aramco Fraunhofer Society of Applied Research Xerox Corporation Nissan and Renault University of Dublin	Saudi Arabia Germany USA Brazil Ireland
2012[16]	Tony Gibbs Shirley Ann Jackson Allyson Lawless Michel Virlogeux	Council of Caribbean Engineering Institutions Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Allyson Lawless and Associates Consultant structural engineer	Ireland USA South Africa France
2011[17]	Steven Chu Antonio Gens Anne Lauvergeon Jinghai Li Yiu-Wing Mai Jie Zhang	United States Department of Energy Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Areva Chinese Academy of Sciences University of Sydney Shanghai Jiao Tong University	USA Spain France China Australia China
2010[18]	Howard J. Bruschi Robert Langer Greg Lewin Kerry Rowe Charles M. Vest Alan Eli Willner	Westinghouse Electric Company Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sapphire Global Pty Ltd Queen's University National Academy of Engineering University of Southern California	USA USA Australia Canada USA USA
2009[19]	John Cioffi Vincent Poor Seeram Ramakrishna	ASSIA, Inc. Princeton University National University of Singapore	USA USA Singapore

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