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 Leslie Benmark – known for work in engineering education, specifically accreditation Karen Bursic – American professor and undergraduate program director at University of Pittsburgh
C Alexander Hamilton Church – English efficiency engineer, accountant and early writer on accountancy and management Richard W. Conway – Emerson Electric Company Professor of Manufacturing Management, Emeritus, at Cornell University Tim 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) 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 Adel Fakeih – Saudi Arabian politician Giacomo Ferrari – Italian politician and mayor of Parma 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 Carlos Ghosn – former CEO of Nissan, Mitsubishi, Renault
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)
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 Lars Lallerstedt – pioneer of Swedish industrial design. 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 William L. Maxwell – Andrew Schultz Jr. Emeritus Professor of Industrial Engineering at Cornell University Lydia Meredith – CEO of the Renaissance Learning Center Francesco Merloni – Italian industrialist and politician 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 Jorge Serrano – former president of Guatemala 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
See also Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers
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