The First Industrial Engineering Program in the World at The Pennsylvania State University

 

 

The oldest Industrial Engineering Department in the world - Penn State IE was formed  by Hugo Diemer in 1909

Hugo Diemer was an alumnus of Ohio State He had established a pioneering program of engineering management at the University of Kansas  He became the head of mechanical engineering of Penn State in 1907. Diemer had worked both as a teacher and as a consultant to private industry. He prepared a proposal for blending the principles of scientific management espoused by Frederick Taylor with those of engineering education. Dean Jackson recognized the merit of the proposal, with the trustees' concurrence, implemented a two-year course in industrial engineering within the Department of Mechanical Engineering. By 1909, this course had become so popular that a four-year curriculum was developed. Shortly thereafter, the Department of Industrial Engineering was formed with Diemer as head [1]. This department absorbed the two-year mechanic arts course and became the first department of its kind in the nation.

 

 

1. http://www.me.psu.edu/History/chapter2.html

 

Some Interesting Books on Industrial Engineering

 

Gilbreth, Frank, Motion Study, NY, D. Van Nostrand Co., 1911.

 

Going, Charles Buxton. Principles of Industrial Engineering, NY: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1911.

 

Taylor, Frederick W., The Principles of Scientific Management, NY, Harper and Bros., 1911 and 1923.

 

Gilbreth, Frank & Lillian, Fatigue Study, NY, Sturgis & Walton Co., 1916. Revised Edition, The MacMillan Co., 1920. [Reprint, Hive Publishing, 1973]

 

Gilbreth, Frank & Lillian, Applied Motion Study, NY, Sturgis & Walton Co., 1917.

 

Gilbreth, Frank & Lillian, Time and Motion Study As Fundamental Factors in Planning and Control, New Jersey, The Mountainside Press, 1921. [booklet]

 

Haber, Samuel. Efficiency and Uplift: Scientific Management in the Progressive Era 1890-1920, Chicago & London, The Univ. of Chicago Press, 1964.

 

Vernon Horace Middleton, Industrial Fatigue and Efficiency, first printing 1921. NY, Arno Press, 1977.

Tichauer, E.R., The Biomechanical Basis of Ergonomics: Anatomy Applied to the Design of Work Situations, NY, John Wiley & Sons, 1978

Emerson, Howard P. & Naehring, Douglas. The Origins of Industrial Engineering Norcross, GA: Industrial Engineering and Management Press (IIE) 1988

Rabinbach, Anson. The Human Motor Energy, Fatigue and the Origins of Modernity , Berkeley, Los Angeles: Univ. of Calif. Press, 1990.