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List of industrial engineers

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This is a list of notable industrial engineers, people who were trained in or practiced industrial engineering who have established prominence in their profession.

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  • 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)
  • 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)

    • 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)
  • 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

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