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.

See also: Institute of Industrial Engineers

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
• Bopaya Bidanda - Department Chair, Ernest E. Roth Professor of Industrial Engineering Department of Industrial Engineering University of Pittsburgh

C

• Roger Corman - American film Producer and Director (Stanford University)
• Nancy Currie - Astronaut
• Timothy D. Cook - Chief Executive Officer, Apple Inc. (Auburn University) aug 2011
• Paul H. Cohen - Edgar S. Woolard Distinguished Professor and Head Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering North Carolina State University
• Yuval Cohen - P. hD. in Industrial Engeeniring, Department Head, The Open University of Israel

D

• John Dasburg - Former CEO of Northwest Airlines and Burger King (University of Florida)
• 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)
• Ezey M. DarEl - Professor of IE at the Technion

E

• A. K. Erlang - communications, queueing (University of Copenhagen)
• Michael Eskew - CEO, United Parcel Service (Purdue University)

F

• 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 and former chairman Vodafone (Auburn University)
• Joe Girardi - manager, Florida Marlins and New York Yankees (Northwestern University)
• Eliyahu M. Goldratt - inventor of the Theory of Constraints

H

• Joe Hardy - Founder and CEO of 84 Lumber, (University of Pittsburgh)
• Niko Heath - Founder of NAH Engineering, University of Minnesota
• 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)

I

• Lee Iacocca - former CEO - Chrysler (Lehigh University)
• Jonathan Ive - Senior Vice President - Apple Inc. (Newcastle Polytechnic)

K

• Dick Kovacevich - CEO, Wells Fargo
• Shlomo Klein - B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from the Tel-Aviv Univursity

L

• Tom Landry - former Dallas Cowboys Coach (University of Houston)
• Manny Lawson - active San Francisco 49ers Player (North Carolina State University)

M

• 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

N

• Hussein Naseraldin - a lecturer at the ORT Braude College of Engineering.

O

• Taiichi Ohno - Father of the Toyota Production System, also known as Just In Time.

P

• 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)

Q

• Jorge Quiroga - Former president of Bolivia. (Texas A&M University)

R

• Glenn Renwick - CEO of Progressive Corporation (University of Florida)
• Jacob Rubinovitz - Developer of instructional Computer Integrated Manufacturing and robotics lab at the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management of the Technion.

S

• 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)
• Masoud Seyedi Researcher of Manufacturing Systems Optimization at UNITEN and Creator of Meta heuristic Models for reliable Design of Control Charts Triple-M Square

T

• Frederick Winslow Taylor leader of the Efficiency Movement and a champion of standardisation and division of tasks.

W

• Erin Wallace - Senior Vice President of Operations Integration/line of Business, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts (University of Florida)
• Edward Whitacre, Jr. - Chairman of General Motors, Former Chairman and CEO of AT&T Inc. (Texas Tech University)
• Dr. Richard A. Wysk - Dopaco Distinguished Professor Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering North Carolina State University