Eli Fromm (born 7 May 1939)^[1] is professor emeritus and Electrical and Computer Engineering Leroy A. Brothers Professor^[2] in the College of Engineering at Drexel University.

Dr. Fromm received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Drexel in 1962, a Masters in Engineering also from Drexel in 1964, and his Ph.D. from Jefferson Medical College in 1967.^[3] He worked as in engineer in the Missile and Space Division of General Electric in 1962, then at the Applied Physics Laboratory at DuPont Company in Wilmington Delaware, 1963; he began working at Drexel as an assistant professor in 1967. In 2002 he became the first recipient of the National Academy of Engineering's Gordon Prize,^[4] considered to be one of the Nobel Prizes of Engineering^[5] — the others being the Academies Russ Prize and Draper Prize.

Professor Fromm was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering in 2004 for innovation and leadership in the development of a holistic curriculum for engineering education.^[6]