List of industrial engineers

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This is a list of industrial engineers, people who were trained in or practiced industrial engineering.

Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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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)

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B

Charles Bedaux - successful promoter and early contributor

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C

Carlos Nemer - university professor and business consultant

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D

John Dasburg - CEO, Northwest Airlines (University of Florida)
W. Edwards Deming - Forerunner of Total Quality Management (TQC)
Mohammad Ghassoub Droubi - Academic Quality Coordinator ([mdroubi@yahoo.com University of Kalamoon])
Mike Duke - President and CEO, Wal-Mart Stores USA (Georgia Institute of Technology)

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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)

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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.

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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)

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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

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I

Lee Iacocca - former CEO - Chrysler (Lehigh University)

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J

Joseph M. Juran - Six Sigma

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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

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L

Tom Landry - former Dallas Cowboys Coach (University of Houston)
Mattias Lindh - Automation engineer, Sweden.

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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.

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N

Navid Paya

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O

Taiichi Ohno - Father of the Toyota Production System, also known as Just In Time.

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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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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.

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