Flashcards: American industrial engineers

Edwin Ruud (9 June 1854 – 9 December 1932) was a Norwegian mechanical engineer and inventor who immigrated to the United States where he designed, sold, and popularized the tankless-water heater.

Morris Llewellyn Cooke (May 11, 1872 – March 5, 1960) was an American engineer, best known for his work on Scientific Management and Rural Electrification.

Hugo Diemer (1870–1937) was an American engineer, management consultant, and professor at the Penn State University, who in 1910 published the first industrial engineering textbook: Factory Organization and Administration.

Charles Edward(C.E.) Knoeppel (15 April 1881 – 29 November 1936) was an American organizational theorist and consultant, who was among the foremost writers on management techniques early 20th century.

Alphonse Chapanis (March 17, 1917 – October 4, 2002) was a pioneer in the field of industrial design, and is widely considered one of the fathers of ergonomics or human factors - the science of ensuring that design takes account of human characteristics.

Asa Smallidge Knowles (January 15, 1909 – August 11, 1990) was the ninth President of the University of Toledo and the third President of Northeastern University.

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Joseph Wickham Roe (1871 - 1960) was an American engineer and Professor of Industrial Engineering at the New York University, known for his seminal work on machine tools and machine tool builders history.

John Herbert Van Deventer (April 24, 1881 – March 5, 1956) was an American engineer, inventor, trade journal editor, and writer on engineering, management, and accounting.

Joseph Moses Juran (December 24, 1904 – February 28, 2008) was a Romanian-born American engineer and management consultant.

Kenneth Hopper (formally known as Robert D. Kenneth Hopper), a Scots engineer and now a US citizen, has made a lifelong study of different national manufacturing cultures.

E. Burton Swanson (born ca 1940) is an American computer scientist, and Professor Emeritus of Information Systems at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

Brett A. Peters is an American industrial engineer and the current dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.

Mary Katherine Vernon (born 1953) is an American computer scientist who works as a professor of computer science and industrial engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Shahid Khan (Urdu: شاہد خان‎; born July 18, 1950), also known as Shad Khan, is a Pakistani-American billionaire and business tycoon.

Carl Georg Lange Barth (February 28, 1860 – October 28, 1939) was a Norwegian-American mathematician and mechanical engineer who improved and popularized the industrial use of compound slide rules in scientific management.

Robert F. (Bob) Yonash (February 7, 1919 – April 19, 1997) was an engineer in the early days of the aircraft industry.

Robert H. Roy (21 November 1906, Baltimore, Maryland – 8 October 2000, Towson, Maryland) was an American mechanical engineer and the former Dean of Engineering Science at Johns Hopkins University.

John Whiteside Parsons (born Marvel Whiteside Parsons; October 2, 1914 – June 17, 1952), better known as Jack Parsons, was an American rocket engineer and rocket propulsion researcher, chemist, and Thelemite occultist.

Myron T. Tribus (October 30, 1921 – August 31, 2016) is an American organizational theorist, who was the director of the Center for Advanced Engineering Study at MIT from 1974 to 1986.

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Clarence Bertrand Thompson (1882 - 1969) was an American business academic, chemist, business consultant and Unitarian minister.

John Carl "Jack" Scarbath (born August 12, 1930 in Baltimore, Maryland) is a former professional American football quarterback in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins and Pittsburgh Steelers.