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.
A
- Bud Adams - oil tycoon and owner of the Tennessee Titans.
- Ravindra K. Ahuja - editor of journals Operations Research, Transportation Science, and Networks
- Horace Lucian Arnold - American engineer, inventor, engineering journalist, and early 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
- Timothy D. Cook - Chief Executive Officer of Apple Inc. (Auburn University) aug 2011
- Roger Corman - American film producer and director (Stanford University)
- Nancy Currie - astronaut
D
- John Dasburg - former CEO of Northwest Airlines and Burger King (University of Florida)[1]
- John Z. DeLorean - former General Motors executive; founder of DeLorean Motors
- W. Edwards Deming - forerunner of Total Quality Management (TQC)
- Mike Duke - President and CEO of 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 of 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; former chairman of 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 of DuPont (University of Tennessee)
- Linda Hudson - President and CEO of BAE Systems Inc. (University of Florida)[1]
I
- Lee Iacocca - former CEO of Chrysler (Lehigh University)
K
- Shahid Khan - owner of automotive parts manufacturer Flex-N-Gate and the Jacksonville Jaguars
- Charles Edward Knoeppel - American organizational theorist, consultant, and early management author
- Dick Kovacevich - CEO of Wells Fargo
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
- Lydia Meredith - CEO of the Renaissance Learning Center
- Captain Henry Metcalfe - American Army ordnance officer, inventor and early organizational theorist
- Edwin Moses - world record hurdler
- John Muir - founder of Sierra Club
- Alphonse Munchen - Luxembourgian engineer and Mayor of Luxembourg City
- Richard Muther - consultant; author of several influential books on plant layout and material handling
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 of the 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 of 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 the 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 of 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 an early systematizer of management
- John Tregoning (1840s-1920s) - American mechanical engineer; wrote the first books on factory management
- Laura Tremosa - first Catalan woman to qualify as an industrial engineer
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
References
- 1 2 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-06-02. Retrieved 2010-08-16.
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-12-02. Retrieved 2011-02-04.
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