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An Enduring Quest: The Story of Purdue Industrial Engineers
Ferd Leimkuhler
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Description for An Enduring Quest: The Story of Purdue Industrial Engineers
Paperback. Describes how industrial engineering evolved by developing methods and principles for the planning, design, and control of production and service systems. This book focuses on the growth of the discipline at Purdue University where it helped shape the university itself and made substantial contributions to the industrialization of America. Num Pages: 225 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: TBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 152 x 228 x 18. Weight in Grams: 499.
The process of industrialization that began over two hundred years ago is continuing to change the way people work and live and doing it very rapidly in places like China and India. At the forefront of this movement is the profession of industrial engineering that develops and applies the technology that drives industrialization. What began in factories and helped build today's global industries is also used to plan many of the commercial and social services that are part of everyday life. This book describes how industrial engineering evolved over the past two centuries developing methods and principles for the planning, ... Read more
The process of industrialization that began over two hundred years ago is continuing to change the way people work and live and doing it very rapidly in places like China and India. At the forefront of this movement is the profession of industrial engineering that develops and applies the technology that drives industrialization. What began in factories and helped build today's global industries is also used to plan many of the commercial and social services that are part of everyday life. This book describes how industrial engineering evolved over the past two centuries developing methods and principles for the planning, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
290
Place of Publication
West Lafayette, United States
ISBN
9781557535443
SKU
V9781557535443
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-34
About Ferd Leimkuhler
Dr. Leimkuhler was on the faculty of the School of Industrial Engineering (IE) during much of the time when the events described in the book took place, and he personally knew many of the people portrayed. He was educated at Loyola College and The Johns Hopkins University and worked for the DuPont Company before coming to Purdue in 1961. He ... Read more
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