Sunday, May 16, 2021

Society of Industrial Engineers - History and Publications

Founding of the Society

The Society of Industrial Engineers, a national organization, the membership of  which is to comprise men and women who are industrial engineers, professional technical engineers, .accountants, managing executives of commercial and industrial activity, writers, educators and students, was planned in Chicago on May 26, 1917. The Society will be permanently organized in Washington, on June 15 1917, on which date the directors have been called to meet.

Charles Buxton Going, for twenty years editor of the Engineering Magazine, New York, was chosen provisional President and pro tern, chairman of the board of directors which was chosen at the session. This board, comprising 15 prominent men from various sections of the United States, the majority of whom have accepted, includes:

Charles Buxton Going, New York;
C. E. Knoeppel, industrial engineer and organization counsel, New York;
Frank B. Gilbreth, industrial engineer, Providence, B. I.;
E. 0. Shaw, vice-president The B. E. Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio;
Harrington Emerson, industrial engineer, New York;
Charles Piez, president The Link Belt Co., Chicago;
Irving A. Berndt, manager betterment department,
Joseph T. Eyerson & Son, Chicago;
G. DeA. Babcock, production manager The H. H. Franklin Manufacturing Co., Syracuse, N. T.;
Willard E. Hotchkiss, dean Northwestern University School of Commerce, Chicago;
Harry Franklin Porter, Detroit Executives' Club, Detroit, Mich.;
H. Thorpe Kessler, President Western Efficiency Society, Chicago;
Dexter Kimball, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. T.;
Morris L. Cooke, industrial engineer, Philadelphia;
C. Day, industrial engineer, Philadelphia;
Herman Schneider, school of engineering, University of Cincinnati, Ohio.

Temporary committees are now at work. Upon completion of the organization its services will at once be tendered to the government, through Howard E. Coffin, chairman of the advisory committee, Council of National Defense, and such other committees as can utilize the services of The Society of Industrial Engineers.

The temporary executive committee consists of

Irving A. Berndt, chairman ;
F. M. Simons, Jr.;
H. Thorpe Kessler;
H. A. Bose,
G. C. Dent,
Harry Franklin Porter,
C. A. Knoeppel,
Willard E. Hotchkiss,
S. T. A. Loftis and
Charles Buxton Going.

G. C. Dent is temporary secretary and H. Thorpe Kessler, treasurer.


Announcement by I. A. Berndt, Chairman, Executive Committee, SIE

The plan of organization adopted provides for a service or promotion bureau under the direction of a vice-president, and divided into two sections: (1) Advisory, and (2) Performing.

The function of this bureau is to list as soon as possible all the industrial specialists in the country who may be qualified to serve either as advisers or as actual directors of efficiency work. From these two groups of advisers and performers the society will draw those necessary to carry on whatever work may be delegated to it in connection, with perfecting preparation for war.

All men who possess qualifications that would enable them to serve in either or both of these sections are urged to get in touch with the acting secretary of the organization, G. C. Dent, 327 South La Salle Street, Chicago, as soon as possible.





Publications of Society of Industrial Engineers

1918 - Proceedings -  "Labor problems under war conditions; complete report of the proceedings of the National Conference held under the auspices of the Western Efficiency Society and the Society of Industrial Engineers, March 27, 28 and 29, 1918, Chicago"
           http://archive.org/stream/laborproblemsund00westrich/laborproblemsund00westrich_djvu.txt
           
1920 - Proceedings - Practical Application of Industrial Engineering Principles
            http://ia600408.us.archive.org/17/items/cu31924002407504/cu31924002407504.pdf

Industrial leadership; compelte report of the proceedings of the spring national convention, held under the auspices of the Society of industrial engineers at the Auditorium, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 27, 28 and 29, 1921
by Society of Industrial Engineers
https://archive.org/details/cu31924002410375

Management Engineering"  1921
https://archive.org/stream/managementengine01newyuoft/managementengine01newyuoft_djvu.txt

Hathitrust.org available books

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/ls?field1=ocr;q1=society%20of%20industrial%20engineers;a=srchls


L.W. Wallace, What Principles of Industrial Engineering Accomplish?
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo1.ark:/13960/t6pz5rf42&view=1up&seq=26

Diemer's statement
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo1.ark:/13960/t6pz5rf42&view=1up&seq=137


“INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING INSTRUCTION AT THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE” EDWARD J. KUNZE Head of Department of Industrial Engineering 

Gilbreth's comments on stop watch time study


Dr. E. Felt's Collection of IE Materials including lecture given by Dr. Felt
https://www.luc.edu/media/lucedu/archives/pdfs/felt-industrial-engineering.pdf

https://www.worldcat.org/title/society-of-industrial-engineers-bulletin/oclc/11252105

https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Society_of_Industrial_Engineers_Bulletin?id=6vDNAAAAMAAJ

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/33197199/eliot-r-peck-president-of-the-society/



Some ASME members joined with some non-ASME members to form a group-at first informal, but later formal-known as the Society to Promote the Science of Management, which, after Taylor's death in 1915, became known as the Taylor Society. This society, in 1936, merged with the Society of Industrial Engineers-a group which, in 1917, probably as a measure for helping the war effort, was formed from the Western Efficiency Society (1910-to establish the Society for (the) Advancement of Management (SAM). SAM attracted a wide spectrum of members-some with ASME's Management Division, some with the National Association of Cost Accountants, some with the National Personnel Association, some unattached-to form an overall umbrella for most of the management practitioners. SAM's interests can be readily perceived from its Glossary of Terms Used in Methods, Time Study and Wage Incentives. Among its other interests were problems relating to budgets and costing in production and distribution, performance in factories, offices, and stores, as well as operations in both profit and nonprofit institutions. 
https://www.iise.org/Details.aspx?id=2644
https://samnational.org/aboutus/history/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_for_Advancement_of_Management

Society to Promote the Science of Management

On November 7, 1912, at the Hotel Astor, the pioneers formed the Society to Promote the Science of Management. Dodge was elected president and Kent secretary. 

At the December 1915 meeting, Frederick Tay­lor, who had just died, was named “honorary member in perpetuity” of the Taylor Society – renamed in his memory. 

The Taylor Society expanded to over 100 members by World War I.  

The constitutional goals of the Taylor Society were, through research, dis­cussion, publication and other appropriate means:

To secure enlightened application of the principles of organized effort to benefit industry and society generally – labor, employer-managers and consumers, spe­cifically.
To bring about elimination of un­ necessary effort and backbreaking toil in performance of the world’s work.
To promote scientific study and teaching of principles of organized effort and their adjustment to changing conditions.
To encourage wider recognition of the value to all members of the society of ap­plying these principles.
To inspire laborers and employer managers, to adhere steadily to the highest ethical standards in a full social context.



Updated on 16 May 2021
Pub 4 October 2013

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