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Frederick Winslow Taylor (March 20, 1856 – March 21, 1915) was an American mechanical engineer.He was widely known for his methods to improve industrial efficiency. [1] He was one of the first management consultants. [2]
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; Tim Cook – CEO of Apple
Lillian Evelyn Gilbreth (née Moller; May 24, 1878 – January 2, 1972) was an American psychologist, industrial engineer, consultant, and educator who was an early pioneer in applying psychology to time-and-motion studies.
Kathryn Elizabeth Stecke is an American industrial engineer and management scientist known for her expertise in flexible manufacturing, supply chains, and seru, a Japanese production system based on using small groups of workers to assemble whole products instead of using assembly lines in which each worker handles only a small and repetitive sub-assembly task.
Thomas Midgley Jr. (May 18, 1889 – November 2, 1944) was an American mechanical and chemical engineer.He played a major role in developing leaded gasoline (tetraethyl lead) and some of the first chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), better known in the United States by the brand name Freon; both products were later banned from common use due to their harmful impact on human health and the environment.
See articles: industrial engineer and industrial engineering Pages in category "American industrial engineers" The following 95 pages are in this category, out of 95 total.
Frank Bunker Gilbreth (July 7, 1868 – June 14, 1924) was an American engineer, consultant, and author known as an early advocate of scientific management and a pioneer of time and motion study, and is perhaps best known as the father and central figure of Cheaper by the Dozen.
In September 1965 he was appointed to the Industrial Engineering faculty at Virginia Tech, where he served for 30 years. [2] There in 1968, he founded and chaired the Interdisciplinary Systems Engineering Graduate Program, served as Associate Dean of Engineering, and later became Virginia Tech's Dean of Research.