Joseph K. Spiers (born 1937) is an aerospace engineer and retired United States Air Force general, reaching the rank of major general during his military career. Spiers was born in 1937, in Tarboro, North Carolina. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from North Carolina State University (where he was initiated into Phi Kappa Tau fraternity) and a Master of Science degree in aerospace engineering through the U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology program at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in 1967. He completed Squadron Officer School in 1964, Air Command and Staff College in 1973, and the Air War College in 1976.