Members are elected for their achievements in engineering (see the Academy website for details and history about this award). The University has had 38 faculty elected to NAE.
| Member | Department | Year of Election |
| Graham V. Candler | Aerospace Engineering & Mechanics | 2020 |
| Emmanuel Detournay | Civil, Environmental & Geo-Engineering | 2016 |
| David Y. H. Pui | Mechanical Engineering | 2016 |
| Michael Tsapatsis | Chemical Engineering & Materials Science | 2015 |
| Ned Mohan | Electrical & Chemical Engineering | 2014 |
| Steven L. Crouch | Civil Engineering | 2013 |
| Eric W. Kaler | Chemical Engineering & Materials Science | 2010 |
| Bruce F. Wollenberg | Electrical & Computer Engineering | 2005 |
| Frank S. Bates | Chemical Engineering & Materials Science | 2002 |
| Edward L. Cussler, Jr. | Chemical Engineering & Materials Science | 2002 |
| Kenneth H. Keller | Chemical Engineering & Materials Science | 2002 |
| Christopher W. Macosko | Chemical Engineering & Materials Science | 2001 |
| Marchall I. Nathan | Electrical & Computer Engineering | 1999 |
| Subbiah Ramalingam | Mechanical Engineering | 1998 |
| Matthew V. Tirrell | Chemical Engineering & Materials Science | 1997 |
| Iwao Iwasaki | Endowed Taconite Chair, University of Minnesota Duluth | 1996 |
| Lanny D. Schmidt | Chemical Engineering & Materials Science | 1994 |
| Jerald L. Ericksen | Aerospace Engineering & Mechanics | 1993 |
| Charles Fairhurst | Civil Engineering | 1991 |
| Daniel D. Joseph | Aerospace Engineering & Mechanics | 1990 |
| H. Ted Davis | Chemical Engineering & Materials Science | 1988 |
| Benjamin Y. H. Liu | Mechanical Engineering | 1987 |
| Emil Pfender | Mechanical Engineering | 1986 |
| Ephraim M. Sparrow | Mechanical Engineering | 1986 |
| Richard J. Goldstein | Mechanical Engineering | 1985 |
| George J. Schroepfer | Civil Engineering | 1981 |
| Theodore V. Galambos | Civil Engineering | 1979 |
| Otto H. Schmitt | Electrical Engineering | 1979 |
| L. E. Scriven | Chemical Engineering & Materials Science | 1978 |
| Roger W. Staehle | Chemical Engineering & Materials Science | 1978 |
| Aldert van der Ziel | Electrical Engineering | 1978 |
| Kenneth T. Whitby | Mechanical Engineering | 1978 |
| Philip D. Hodge | Aerospace Engineering & Mechanics | 1977 |
| Rutherford Aris | Chemical Engineering & Materials Science | 1975 |
| Richard C. Jordan | Mechanical Engineering | 1975 |
| Robert Plunkett | Aerospace Engineering & Mechanics | 1974 |
| Neal R. Amundson | Chemical Engineering | 1970 |
| Ernst R. G. Eckert | Mechanical Engineering | 1970 |
| William G. Shepherd | Electrical Engineering | 1969 |