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WTSN 112 Midterm
System Science and Industrial Engineering
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Engineering
Undergraduate 1
03/13/2011

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Adam Smith
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1776
-Publishes "The Wealth of Nations"
-Father of industrial Engineering
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Henri Fayol
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1880
-Develops general theory of business administration
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The first doctoral degree in industrial engineering is awarded by
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Cornell in 1930s
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The Gantt chart , which is a type of bar chart that illustrates a project schedule , as developed around the years
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1910-1915
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The first power loom, a mechanized loom powered by a line shaft, was designed in 1784 by
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Edmund Cartwright
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One of the first engineers to see management as a new social role for engineers and that the development of management techniques was important for the development of the engineering profession.
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Henry R Towne
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Conveyor-belt assembly for automobile production begins. It includes continuous-feed plate glass and high-speed metalwork. What year was this?
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1908
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In the 1950s and on he taught top management how to improve design (and thus service), product quality, testing and sales in Japan.
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W. Edwards Deming
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He was an early advocate of scientific management a pioneer of motion study, but is perhaps best known as the father and central figure in the book Cheaper by the Dozen.
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Frank Gilbreth
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In 1884 Pyrex was invented by Carl Zeiss in Jena Germany; later improved by this company in 1916.
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Corning
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The coining of the term „ergonomics „ (or human factors) is widely attributed to a British psychologist. Who is he and when did he introduce this term?
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Hywel Murrell (1949)
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In what year is the world‟s first fully automatic production line for transistors designed by IBM engineers in Poughkeepsie, NY? It produces and tests 1,800 individual transistors an hour.
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1960
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Through-hole technology is introduced in the electronics industry in what year?
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1961
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