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This is a list of industrial engineers, people who were trained in or practiced industrial engineering.
See also Institute of Industrial Engineers.
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A
- Ray Anderson - Founder and CEO of Interface Inc. Georgia Tech
- Charles Armstrong - President of Seattle Mariners (Purdue University)
- Dominic Antonellis - President and CEO, New England Confectionery Co. (NECCO)
B
- Charles Bedaux - successful promoter and early contributor
C
- Carlos Nemer - university professor and business consultant
D
- John Dasburg - CEO, Northwest Airlines (University of Florida)
- W. Edwards Deming - Forerunner of Total Quality Management (TQC)
- Mohammad Ghassoub Droubi - Academic Quality Coordinator (University of Kalamoon)
- Mike Duke - President and CEO, Wal-Mart Stores USA (Georgia Institute of Technology)
E
- John Edwardson - CEO, CDW Computer Centers Inc. (Purdue University)
- A. K. Erlang - communications, queueing
- Michael Eskew - CEO, United Parcel Service (Purdue University)
- Rick English - English Pool Consulting (Rutgers University)
F
- Joe Forehand - CEO, Accenture
- Karsten Fuhst - Dipl.-Ing. (FH) - Inventor of a downhole crusher
- Henry Ford - founder of the Ford Motor Company. Revolutionized industrial production by being the first to apply assembly line manufacturing to a production process.
- Engin Beken - Vienna University of Technology
G
- Henry Gantt - inventor of the Gantt chart
- Frank Gilbreth - Cheaper by the Dozen
- Lillian Gilbreth - time and motion studies (University of California, Berkeley)
- Charles Gordon - co-owner of Tri-City Beverages and inventor of "Dr. Enuf" beverage (University of Vermont)
- John Grado - Retired Chairman and CEO of Technographics, Inc. (Virginia Tech)
- Jack Guynn - President of the Federal Reserve Bank-Atlanta (Virginia Tech)
H
- Homer Hickam - NASA Engineer, Author of The Coalwood Way, Rocket Boys, October Sky, Torpedo Junction and Back to the Moon (Virginia Tech)
- Charles O. (Chad) Holliday - CEO, DuPont
I
- Lee Iacocca - former CEO - Chrysler (Lehigh University)
J
K
- Robert S. Kaplan - Professor of Cost Accounting, Harvard University
- Edward J. Kearney, P.E. - President, Management Engineering (Northeastern University, Boston)
- Robert Kidder - CEO, Borden Chemical Inc. (University of Michigan)
- Dick Kovacevich - CEO, Wells Fargo
L
- Tom Landry - former Dallas Cowboys Coach (University of Houston)
- Carl Lindenmeyer - pioneer in advanced work measurement and inventor of Computer-Aided Work Sampling with Excel (CAWS/E) and Computer-Integrated Time Study (CITS), professor emeritus Clemson University
- Mattias Lindh - Automation engineer, Sweden.
M
- Jim McCaslin - President and CEO, Harley-Davidson Motor Co.
- William H. McCumber, P.E. - Fellow of INCOSE, President of EagleRidge Technologies, Professor of Practice at the University of Maryland University College (UMUC), retired from IBM Federal Systems and Loral/Lockheed; deceased 2003.
N
Navid Paya
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
- Andrew Patti - President and COO, Dial Corp. (Rutgers)
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R
S
- Jacob Samuda, the "first Jewish Engineer", credited with devising the atmospheric railway whilst working for Samuda Brothers.
- 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.
T
- Mah Bow Tan
- Frederick Winslow Taylor - Scientific management
Umair Ahmed, Concordia University
V
W
- Boon Wan
- Edward Whitacre, Jr. - Chairman and CEO of SBC
X
Y
- Philip Yeo
- Yun Jong Yong - CEO, Samsung Electronics
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