NAE Member Grace Hopper,* Inventor of first compiler tools and Navy Flag Officer Leah H. Jamieson,* Professor at Purdue University, 2007 President of IEEE, and NAE Member Vladimir Karapetoff, Professor at Cornell University Mervin J. Kelly,* President of Bell Laboratories and NAS Member Leonard Kleinrock,* Professor at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Recipient of the National Medal of Science James D. Meindl,* Professor of Microelectronics at the Georgia Institute of Technology and NAE Member Vincent Poor,* Professor at Princeton University and NAE Member Eberhardt Rechtin,* Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency, Professor at the University of Southern California (USC), and NAE Member Steven Sample,* Inventor and President of the University of Southern California (USC) and the University of Buffalo (UB) Richard B. Wells, * Professor Emeritus at University of Idaho William A. Wulf,* Professor at the University of Virginia and 1996-2007 President of the NAE Astronauts Gregory Chamitoff, NASA Astronaut Owen K. Garriott,* NASA Astronaut Sandra Magnus, NASA Astronaut and Executive Director of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Carl J. Meade, NASA Astronaut Ronald M. Sega, NASA Astronaut David Wolf, NASA Astronaut References Sources Larry Dwon, History of Eta Kappa Nu, (Eta Kappa Nu Association, 1976). John F. Mason, "The Secret Society that Never Was," IEEE Spectrum, 16(9) 1979. Steve E. Watkins, "IEEE-HKN: The Electrical and Computer Engineering Honor Society," IEEE Potentials, 31(4) (2012). Gregory Swedburg, Profiles in Engineering Leadership:Eta Kappa Nu's First Century Eminent Members, (New Brunswick, NJ: IEEE History Center & Eta Kappa Nu Association, 2004) External links 1904 establishments in Illinois Engineering honor societies Former members of Association of College Honor Societies Honor societies Student organizations established in 1904