List of industrial engineers
This is a list of notable industrial engineers, people who were trained in or practiced industrial engineering who have established prominence in their profession.
See also: Institute of Industrial Engineers
A
- Ravindra K. Ahuja - Editor of journals: Operations Research, Transportation Science, and Networks.
- Bud Adams - Oil tycoon and owner of the Tennessee Titans.
- Horace Lucian Arnold - American engineer, inventor, engineering journalist and early American writer on management.
B
- Ali Babacan - State Minister for Economy of Republic of Turkey (Middle East Technical University)
- Carl Georg Barth - Norwegian-American mathematician and mechanical engineer who improved and popularized the industrial use of compound slide rules
C
- Alexander Hamilton Church - English efficiency engineer, accountant and early writer on accountancy and management
- Roger Corman - American film Producer and Director (Stanford University)
- Nancy Currie - Astronaut
- Timothy D. Cook - Chief Executive Officer, Apple Inc. (Auburn University) aug 2011
D
- John Dasburg - Former CEO of Northwest Airlines and Burger King (University of Florida)[1]
- John Z. DeLorean - Former General Motors executive and founder of DeLorean Motors.
- W. Edwards Deming - Forerunner of Total Quality Management (TQC)
- Mike Duke - President and CEO, Wal-Mart Stores USA (Georgia Institute of Technology)
E
- Harrington Emerson - American efficiency engineer and early management theorist
- A. K. Erlang - communications, queueing (University of Copenhagen)
- Michael Eskew - CEO, United Parcel Service (Purdue University)
F
- Henry Ford - founder of the Ford Motor Company. Revolutionized industrial production by being the first to apply assembly line manufacturing to a production process.
- Joe Forehand - Chairman of the board and former CEO of Accenture (Auburn University)
G
- Henry Gantt - inventor of the Gantt chart
- Frank Gilbreth - time and motion studies
- Lillian Gilbreth - time and motion studies (University of California, Berkeley)
- Samuel Ginn - Wireless Communications Pioneer and former chairman Vodafone (Auburn University)
- Joe Girardi - manager, Florida Marlins and New York Yankees (Northwestern University)
- Eliyahu M. Goldratt - inventor of the Theory of Constraints
H
- Joe Hardy - Founder and CEO of 84 Lumber, (University of Pittsburgh)
- Homer Hickam - NASA Engineer, Author of The Coalwood Way, Rocket Boys, October Sky, Torpedo Junction and Back to the Moon (Virginia Tech)
- Charles O. Holliday - CEO, DuPont (University of Tennessee)
- Linda Hudson - President and CEO of BAE Systems Inc. (University of Florida)[1]
I
- Lee Iacocca - former CEO - Chrysler (Lehigh University)
K
- Charles Edward Knoeppel - American organizational theorist, consultant, and early management author.
- Dick Kovacevich - CEO, Wells Fargo
- Shahid Khan - owner of automotive parts manufacturer Flex-N-Gate and the Jacksonville Jaguars
L
- Tom Landry - former Dallas Cowboys Coach (University of Houston)
- Manny Lawson - active Buffalo Bills Player (North Carolina State University)[2]
- J. Slater Lewis - British engineer, inventor, business manager, and early author on management and accounting.
M
- Captain Henry Metcalfe - American Army ordnance officer, inventor and early organizational theorist.
- Edwin Moses - World record hurdler
- Alphonse Munchen - Luxembourgian engineer and Mayor of Luxembourg City
- Richard Muther - Consultant and author of several influential books on plant layout and material handling
- John Muir - Founder of Sierra Club
N
- Shimon Y. Nof - Professor of Industrial Engineering at Purdue University, creator and Head of the PRISM (Production and Robotics Software for Manufacturing and Management) lab.
O
- Taiichi Ohno - Father of the Toyota Production System, also known as Just In Time.
P
- R.K. Pachauri - Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Director, Tata Energy Research Institute
- Oscar E. Perrigo - American mechanical engineer, inventor, and early technical and management author
- Guy Primus - COO, Overbrook Entertainment. (Georgia Institute of Technology)
- A. Alan Pritsker - Industrial Engineer and teacher, pioneer of Computer Simulation Languages. (Purdue University)
Q
- Jorge Quiroga - Former president of Bolivia. (Texas A&M University)
R
- Jacob Rubinovitz - Developer of instructional Computer Integrated Manufacturing and robotics lab at the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management of the Technion.
S
- Shigeo Shingo - Creator of SMED (Single Minute Exchange of Die) technique and Poka-Yoke (fail-safe) devices.
- William H. Swanson - President and CEO, Raytheon Co. (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)
T
- Frederick Winslow Taylor - leader of the Efficiency Movement and a champion of standardisation and division of tasks.
- Henry R. Towne - American mechanical engineer and businessman, known as early systematizer of management.
- John Tregoning (1840s-1920s) - American mechanical engineer, who wrote the first books on factory management
W
- Edward Whitacre, Jr. - Chairman of General Motors, Former Chairman and CEO of AT&T Inc. (Texas Tech University)
- Clinton Edgar Woods - American electrical and mechanical engineer, inventor, manufacturer of automobiles, and early management author
References
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