Thomas E. Stelson, who was vice president for Research at Georgia Tech from 1974 to 1988, simultaneously served as interim director for GTRI from 1975 to 1976.
Georgia Tech chemistry professor Wyatt C. Whitley served as EES director from 1963 to 1968.

Herschel Cudd, director of EES, 1952-1953.
One of the founders of Scientific Atlanta, Gerald Rosselot was EES director from 1941 to 1952.
Paul Kenneth Calaway, born March 31, 1910, in Bethesda, Arkansas, was director of the Georgia Tech EES from 1954 to 1957.
Harold Alan Bunger, born in 1896 in Eaton, Ohio, had been named head of Georgia Tech's Department of Chemical Engineering when he became acting director of EES from 1940 until his death in August 1941.
Bunger, involved with the genesis of the EES, worked with its researchers and others from the Tennessee Valley Authority to create an industrial process for the economical production of flax.