# List of industrial engineers

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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## 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
* Tim Cook – CEO of Apple

## 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