| Jakob Ackeret | Aerodynamics | | 1920 | 1930 | Robert Dubs (grad student), Aurel Boreslav Stodola (research assistant) |
| Panajotis Agathoklis | Electronics and Electrical Engineering | | | 1980 | Mohamed A. Mansour (grad student) |
| Aytaç Alparslan | Computational electromagnetics and optics | Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering | | 2013 | Christian Hafner (grad student) |
| Matthias W. Amrein | Chemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering | | | 1989 | Hans J. Moor (grad student), Heinrich Rohrer (grad student) |
| Goran Andersson | | | | | |
| Daniel Attinger | Mechanical Engineering | Mechanical Engineering | 1997 | 2001 | Dimos Poulikakos (grad student) |
| Heinrich Baggenstos | | | | | |
| Ernst Baumann | Electrical engineering | | | | |
| Sven H. Behrens | Chemical Engineering | | | | Michal Borkovec (grad student) |
| Ivan Biaggio | Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Optics Physics, Materials Science Engineering | | | 1992 | Peter Günter (grad student) |
| Raymond L. Bisplinghoff | | | | 1957 | Manfred Rauscher (grad student) |
| Laurits Bjerrum | foundation engineering, soil mechanics | | | 1954 | Eugen Meyer-Peter (grad student) |
| Hans K. Böhni | | | | 1967 | Willfried Epprecht (grad student) |
| Colombo R. Bolognesi | Millimiter-Wave Electronics | | | | |
| Fritz E. Borgnis | | | | | |
| Francesco Borrelli | Mechanical Engineering | | | 2002 | Manfred Morari (grad student) |
| John Russell Bourne | Chemical engineering | | | | |
| Antonio J. Conejo | Electricity Markets, Electric Energy Systems, Optimization under Uncertainty, Complementarity Modeling, Large-Scale Optimization | | | | Goran Andersson (grad student) |
| Michael C. Dodd | | | | 2008 | René P. Schwarzenbach (grad student) |
| Robert Dubs | Hydraulic engineering | | | | |
| Gustav Eichelberg | | | | 1922 | Ernst Meissner (grad student), Aurel Boreslav Stodola (grad student) |
| Herbert H. Einstein | underground construction, rock mechanics and engineering geology | | | 1966 | Gerold Schnitter (grad student) |
| Hans Albert Einstein | Hydraulic engineering | | | 1936 | Eugen Meyer-Peter (grad student), George Pólya (grad student) |
| Willfried Epprecht | | | | 1946 | Paul Niggli (grad student) |
| Jérôme Faist | | | | | Federico Capasso (post-doc) |
| Henry Favre | | | | 1929 | Franz Tank (grad student) |
| Godi Fischer | Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Design and Decorative Arts | | | 1985 | George Moschytz (grad student) |
| Eduard Gerecke | Electrical engineering | | | | |
| Martin Haenggi | Electronics and Electrical Engineering | | | 1999 | George Moschytz (grad student) |
| Christian Hafner | Computational electromagnetics, numerical optimization | Department of Electrical Engineering | | 1980 | Heinrich Baggenstos (grad student) |
| Hendrik Heinz | Civil Engineering | | | 2003 | Ulrich W. Suter (grad student) |
| George Herrmann | Applied Mechanics | | | 1950 | Henry Favre (grad student) |
| Nicholas John Hoff | | | | 1928 | Aurel Boreslav Stodola (research assistant) |
| Norbert Ibl | metallurgy, chemcial engineering | | | | Gottfried Trümpler (grad student) |
| Hugo Kasper | Geodesy | | | | |
| M Reza Kholghy | | | | | |
| Dieter Landolt | corrosion, surface treatments | Chemical Engineering | 1961 | 1965 | Norbert Ibl (grad student) |
| Peter E. Leuthold | | | | 1967 | Fritz E. Borgnis (grad student) |
| Maria Lukatskaya | energy | | | | |
| Ricardo Maia Avelino | Structural Engineering | | | | |
| Mohamed A. Mansour | Automatic Control | | | 1966 | Eduard Gerecke (grad student) |
| Eugen Erwin Meyer | | | 1892 | 1893 | Aurel Boreslav Stodola (post-doc) |
| Eugen Meyer-Peter | Hydraulic engineering | | | | |
| Jan Michael Minkowski | quantum optics, information theory | | | 1949 | Paul Scherrer (research assistant), Wolfgang Ernst Pauli (research assistant) |
| Dirk Mohr | | | | | |
| Manfred Morari | | | | | |
| George Moschytz | | | | 1962 | Heinrich Emil Weber (grad student) |
| Rolf H. Müller | | | | 1956 | Gottfried Trümpler (grad student) |
| Peter Felix Niederer | biomechanics and medical optics | | | 1972 | Hans Ziegler (grad student) |
| Lukas Novotny | Photonics | | | 1996 | Christian Hafner (grad student) |
| Dani Or | mass and energy transport in porous media | | | | |
| Rahmi Ozisik | Materials Science Engineering, General Biophysics | | 2000 | 2001 | Ulrich W. Suter (post-doc) |
| Kimberly Parker | | | 2016 | 2017 | Kristopher McNeill (post-doc) |
| Albert Pfluger | | Mathematics | | 1935 | George Pólya (grad student) |
| George Pólya | | | | | |
| Dimos Poulikakos | | | | | |
| Manfred Rauscher | | | | | |
| Martin Reinhard | Environmental Engineering, Civil Engineering, Chemical Engineering | | | | Werner Stumm (grad student) |
| Franz Reuleaux | | | | 1853 | Carl Ludwig Moll (collaborator) |
| Bixio E. Rimoldi | | | | 1988 | Peter E. Leuthold (grad student) |
| Nicholas Rott | fluid dynamics | | | 1945 | Jakob Ackeret (grad student) |
| Joseph R. Samaniuk | Chemical Engineering | Department of Materials | | | Jan Vermant (post-doc) |
| Patrik Schmuki | | | | 1992 | Hans K. Böhni (grad student) |
| Tapio Schneider | Atmosphere and climate dynamics | | | | |
| Gerold Schnitter | Hydraulics, Hydraulic engineering, Geotechnical engineering | | | | |
| Fritz Schultz-Grunow | | Mechanical Engineering | | | Mauritz tenBosch (grad student) |
| Yoan C. Simon | Polymer Chemistry | | | | |
| Bozidar Stojadinovic | Civil Engineering, Architectural Engineering | | | | |
| Thomas Tancogne-Dejean | | | | | |
| Mauritz tenBosch | | | | | |
| Gottfried Trümpler | | | | 1915 | Adolf Emil Baur (grad student) |
| Jan Vermant | | | | | |
| Viola Vogel | Biomedical Engineering, Cell Biology | | | | |
| Urs von Stockar | | | | 1973 | John Russell Bourne (grad student) |
| Heinrich Emil Weber | | | 1929 | 1930 | Ernst Meissner (research assistant) |
| Harold Christian Weber | Chemical Engineering, Industrial chemistry, Thermodynamics | | | 1934 | August Guyer (grad student) |
| Hans Ziegler | structural and dynamical stability | | | 1938 | Ernst Meissner (grad student) |