Eminent Members
Eta Kappa Nu established the Eminent Member recognition in 1950 as the society's highest membership classification. It is to be conferred upon those select few whose attainments and contributions to society through leadership in the fields of electrical and computer engineering have resulted in significant benefits to humankind. Since 1950, only 116 individuals have been selected to receive this honor.
| 2007 | Gordon E. Moore |
| Gordon Bell | |
| Wallace S. Read | |
| 2006 | Abe M. Zarem |
| Jack Kilby | |
| Harry W. Mergler | |
| Tsuneo Nakahara | |
| Andrew Viterbi | |
| 2005 | Joseph Bordogna |
| Owen K. Garriott | |
| Bernard M. Gordon | |
| Steven Sample | |
| 2004 | Henry Bachman |
| Walter Jeremiah Sanders | |
| Arthur Stern | |
| 2003 | Donald R. Scifres |
| Irwin M. Jacobs | |
| Jerome J. Suran | |
| 2002 | Amar G. Bose |
| J. Fred Bucy | |
| Andrew Sage | |
| Richard J. Gowen | |
| Eberhardt Rechtin | |
| 2001 | Norman R. Augustine |
| Charles Concordia | |
| Edward E. David, Jr. | |
| Roland W. Schmitt | |
| Mischa Schwartz | |
| John Brooks Slaughter | |
| James L. Flanagan | |
| Malcolm R. Currie | |
| Donald O. Pederson | |
| John R. Pierce | |
| 2000 | Robert A. Frosch |
| Wilson Greatbatch | |
| Leo L. Beranek | |
| George H. Heilmeier | |
| John R. Whinnery | |
| Thelma Estrin | |
| Ivan A. Getting | |
| Charles H. Townes | |
| 1999 | Gene Amdahl |
| William Hewlett | |
| C. Lester Hogan | |
| Jacob Rabinow | |
| 1998 | Nick Holonyak, Jr. |
| 1993 | Berthold Sheffield |
| Robert W. Lucky | |
| 1987 | William E. Murray |
| 1986 | Marcus Dodson |
| 1985 | Donald Christiansen |
| 1984 | Larry Dwon |
| Howard Sheppard | |
| S. Reid Warren | |
| Edward A. Erdelyi | |
| 1976 | Eric T. B. Gross |
| 1974 | Edward C. Jordan |
| 1970 | E. I. Kanouse |
| 1969 | Emanuel R. Piore |
| Patrick E. Haggerty | |
| Walker Lee Cisler | |
| 1968 | William H. Pickering |
| Harold E. Edgerton | |
| 1967 | George H. Brown |
| 1966 | Simon Ramo |
| Winston E. Kock | |
| 1965 | Donald G. Fink |
| 1964 | Lee A. Dubridge |
| Julius A. Stratton | |
| 1963 | Gordon S. Brown |
| William L. Everitt | |
| 1962 | John Bardeen |
| Lloyd V. Berkner | |
| Edward M. Purcell | |
| Jerome B. Wiesner | |
| Ernst Weber | |
| 1961 | Arthur D. Moore |
| John L. Burns | |
| James Hillier | |
| Charles F. Wagner | |
| 1960 | Philip L. Alger |
| Chauncey Starr | |
| 1958 | Donald A. Quarles |
| C. F. Hood | |
| 1956 | William D. Coolidge |
| Harry Nyquist | |
| Leon N. Brillouin | |
| John Howard Dellinger | |
| William B. Kouwenhoven | |
| 1955 | Ernst F. W. Alexanderson |
| Alfred N. Goldsmith | |
| Harold S. Osborne | |
| Harry A. Winne | |
| John B. Whitehead | |
| Harold H. Beverage | |
| Leslie Newman McClellen | |
| 1954 | Walter R. G. Baker |
| Mervin J. Kelly | |
| Reinhold Rudenberg | |
| J. B. Black | |
| A. A. Potter | |
| Ellery B. Paine | |
| Everett S. Lee | |
| 1953 | Edward C. Molina |
| Harold Pender | |
| Charles A. Powel | |
| Philip Sporn | |
| 1952 | Lee DeForest |
| 1951 | Frederick E. Terman |
| Joseph Slepian | |
| Karl B. McEachron | |
| S. H. Mortenson | |
| William H. Timbie | |
| 1950 | Vannevar Bush |
| Royal W. Sorensen | |
| Vladimir K. Zworykin |