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.
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
- 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. aug 2011
- Roger Corman – American film producer and director
- Nancy Currie – astronaut
D
- John Dasburg – former CEO of Northwest Airlines and Burger King
- John Z. DeLorean – former General Motors executive; founder of DeLorean Motors
- W. Edwards Deming – forerunner of Total Quality Management
- Mike Duke – President and CEO of Wal-Mart Stores USA
E
- Harrington Emerson – American efficiency engineer and early management theorist
- A. K. Erlang – communications, queueing
- Michael Eskew – CEO of United Parcel Service
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
G
- Henry Gantt – inventor of the Gantt chart
- Frank Gilbreth – time and motion studies
- Lillian Gilbreth – time and motion studies
- Samuel Ginn – wireless communications pioneer; former chairman of Vodafone
- Joe Girardi – manager, Florida Marlins and New York Yankees
- 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
- Homer Hickam – NASA engineer; author of The Coalwood Way, Rocket Boys, October Sky, Torpedo Junction and Back to the Moon
- Charles O. Holliday – CEO of DuPont
- Linda Hudson – President and CEO of BAE Systems Inc.
I
- Lee Iacocca – former CEO of Chrysler
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.
- Manny Lawson – active Buffalo Bills player.
- 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 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
- A. Alan Pritsker – industrial engineer and teacher, pioneer of computer simulation languages
Q
- Jorge Quiroga – former president of Bolivia
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 technique and Poka-Yoke devices
- William H. Swanson – President and CEO of Raytheon Co.
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 – 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.
- Clinton Edgar Woods – American electrical and mechanical engineer, inventor, manufacturer of automobiles, and early management