List of industrial engineers
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This is a list of notable industrial engineers, people who were trained in or practiced industrial engineering who have established prominence in their profession.
See also: Institute of Industrial Engineers
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- 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
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- Roger Corman - American film Producer and Director (Stanford University)
- Nancy Currie - Astronaut
- Timothy D. Cook - Chief Executive Officer, Apple Inc. (Auburn University) aug 2011
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- John Dasburg - Former CEO of Northwest Airlines and Burger King (University of Florida)[1]
- John Z. DeLorean - Former General Motors executive and founder of DeLorean Motors.
- W. Edwards Deming - Forerunner of Total Quality Management (TQC)
- Mike Duke - President and CEO, Wal-Mart Stores USA (Georgia Institute of Technology)
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- A. K. Erlang - communications, queueing (University of Copenhagen)
- Michael Eskew - CEO, United Parcel Service (Purdue University)
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- Henry Ford - founder of the Ford Motor Company. Revolutionized industrial production by being the first to apply assembly line manufacturing to a production process.[citation needed]
- Joe Forehand- Chairman of the board and former CEO of Accenture (Auburn University)
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- 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 and former chairman Vodafone (Auburn University)
- Joe Girardi - manager, Florida Marlins and New York Yankees (Northwestern University)
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- 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, DuPont (University of Tennessee)
- Linda Hudson - President and CEO of BAE Systems Inc. (University of Florida)[2]
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- Lee Iacocca - former CEO - Chrysler (Lehigh University)
- Jonathan Ive - Senior Vice President - Apple Inc. (Newcastle Polytechnic)
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- Dick Kovacevich - CEO, Wells Fargo
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- Tom Landry - former Dallas Cowboys Coach (University of Houston)
- Manny Lawson - active San Francisco 49ers Player (North Carolina State University)[3]
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- Edwin Moses - World record hurdler
- Alphonse Munchen - Luxembourgian engineer and Mayor of Luxembourg City
- Richard Muther - Consultant and author of several influential books on plant layout and material handling
- John Muir - Founder of Sierra Club
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- Isaac Newton - University Professor (Cambridge University) Appointed warden of the London Mint in 1696, conducted a time and motion study of the minting process.
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- Taiichi Ohno - Father of the Toyota Production System, also known as Just In Time.
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- R.K. Pachauri - Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Director, Tata Energy Research Institute
- Guy Primus - COO, Overbrook Entertainment. (Georgia Institute of Technology)
- A. Alan Pritsker - Industrial Engineer and teacher, pioneer of Computer Simulation Languages. (Purdue University)
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- Jorge Quiroga - Former president of Bolivia. (Texas A&M University)
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- 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. (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)
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- Frederick Winslow Taylor leader of the Efficiency Movement and a champion of standardisation and division of tasks.
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- Erin Wallace - Senior Vice President of Operations Integration/line of Business, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts (University of Florida) [5]
- Edward Whitacre, Jr. - Chairman of General Motors, Former Chairman and CEO of AT&T
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